The four great chinese inventions that changed the world

COMMAND AND STAFF COURSE |
THE FOUR GREAT CHINESE INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD |
Introduction To China |
|
Maj. Leon Simon |
Venezuelan National Guard |

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AIR FORCE COMMAND COLLEGE, PLA, PRC |

INDEX

| Page |
| |
INTRODUCTION……………………………………… | 03 |
The Four great Chinese inventions that changed the world………………………………………………... | 04 |The Compass………………………………….. | 06 |
The Paper……………………………………… | 09 |
The Printing Press…………………………….. | 11 |
The Gunpowder……………………………….. | 13 |
EPILOGUE……………………………………………... | 16 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY………………………………………. | 19 |


INTRODUCTION

"Tell the old stories, was Pan Gu who separated the sky of land, he transformed each part of your body in theSun and in the Moon, the stars and celestial bodies, mountains, rivers, herb, trees, wind and cloud. Humanity, modeled from mud, created Nü Wa. Then Chao Shi, head of a tribe learned to shelter from the weather with wood nests; humans learned to build houses. Suiren, fire, giver obtained you by rubbing on a stick against another, and humans learned to dominate the fire. Fu Xi, domesticatedanimals and humans learned how to hunt, fish and tame and raise beasts. Say Fu Xi also dominated the art of humans to persuade to these married. And looking the heaven and Earth was made the eight diagrams and engraving characters that the man left off account doing knots in a string." (China Legend)

The history of Chinese civilization goes back to ancient times. The Chinese territory is one of theplaces of birth of human beings and is also the birthplace of one of the world's largest civilizations. The Chinese nation created a wonderful and glorious ancient civilization in the long and complicated process of development of its history. It is in this short work, where I'll try to expose the most interesting and significant Chinese inventions that one or otherwise influenced the world.

THEFOUR GREAT CHINESE INVENTIONS
THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

During the old, the Chinese never stopped in create, modify, invent and discover things which make it possible for they to do their daily activities in a more efficient way, this combined with his love for beauty and art occupied much of their time, and allowed communities to develop social and philosophically.

By job research and patientmanaged to domesticate animals and develop crops in few early where the majority of civilizations barely lived from hunting and gathering. Learned to produce silk, and when showed it the world, this wonder by the smoothness to touch and the brightness of it or its resistance, and was its global impact, which in the West when someone wants to denote brightness properties and smoothness fine to someobject qualifies it as silky. Silk believed that you originated in a plant which is reproduced in china, until many centuries later revealed the mystery.

Making important contributions in many areas, some of these simple contributions of daily use today, as it is the handle tumbrel; and other most fundamental is the iron foundry, this was achieved around the 4th century b.c. and appeared at the endof the 14th century in Europe. Steel production was not back, in the 6th century occurred in China the ingenious invention of the co-fusion process where to enter the iron forged in thick masses of cast iron, occurs an Exchange with carbon and is steel production. As a result of these findings, the Chinese were able to build around of the 600 year of our era and the early drilling up to sevenhundred meters deep iron chains suspension bridges.

The Chinese were inventors of effective harnesses for traction on the horse, the stirrups, eventually would appear in Europe and would lead to a revolution in the art of combat in feudal society; the rudder that allowed more agile handling vessels, and even the kite, which already in very early times were complicated designs inventors.

We...