The Western World has Benefited Hugely from Chinese Inventions
It might be difficult for westerners to perceive that Chinese inventions have been responsible for some of the most important innovations to come about, but the fact is that this is completely true. The Chinese have suffered under the stereotypical belief by others that they are not technologically accomplished. Just for started however, and these are not all, the Chinese invented spaghetti, the wheelbarrow, the water powered blast furnace, kits, chopstick, paper, gunpowder the seismograph, the crossbow, a plethora of weapons and armaments including tear gas, paper money, chess, the compass..need I go on?
The four most important discoveries by the Chinese which influenced the western world to a huge degree were spaghetti, paper money, chopsticks and whiskey (joke), no they were actually gunpowder, paper and printing and the compass.
The discovery of gunpowder has left a massive impression on the world, but it was not necessarily the only armament that came from the brainstorming of the Chinese. Although gunpowder was discovered by an alchemist who was trying to create the elixir of life for a Chinese Emperor during the Tang Dynasty, it was eventually used in war during the 1281 Mongol invasion of Japan. Chinese also invented a small version of the cannon, the crossbow, cross hair sights, bombs, grenades, rocketry, and a whole cornucopia of other armaments innovations.
In 105 AD Cai Lun was responsible for the invention of paper, he was a Chinese Eunuch (please don’t make me explain what this means). And this was one of the greatest Chinese inventions. During the Battle of Talas River in 751, some Chinese paper makers were captured by the Arabs and this is how paper making came to be known to the world, by a process of enculturation.
The compass was originally used as a religious accruement; the Chinese people believed that when you built a new house, it had to be perfectly aligned with nature, so the compass was used to ensure this alignment. Obviously perfect alignment with nature must have been true north. This was a simply wooden circle, with notches carved on it, on which the monk balanced a magnetic spoon. Navigation throughout the world has been developed and dictated to by the compass.
They used anesthetics as far back as the third century and have been making use of herbal medical remedies since time immemorial. Several skulls dating back to the New Stone Age about 4 000 years ago have been found at sites in Qinghai, Henan and Heilongjiang provinces which indicates that skull operations may have taken place at this time.
The Chinese invented a lot of stuff that has an impact on our everyday life. We can go on and on but the above is probably good enough for now.
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