Each civilization that you will study in this unit made importantcontributions to history.

• The Chinese first produced gunpowder, the compass, and printed books.• Africans south of the Sahara developed new forms of music and dance.• The Japanese developed martial arts, such as judo and karate.• The Europeans took the first steps toward representative government.

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