chinese inventions
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Have your students get into small groups and guess the year in which each invention is made, like Price is Right. Keep a tally of the number right of each group, and declare a champion of the world - suitable for middle and high school.TRANSCRIPT
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Special Educational Edition!
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Come on down!!
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???? 554
Silk
China The West
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1300 BC
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???? 1600
China The West
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300 BC
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???? 1150
China The West
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105 AD
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???? 1600s
China The West
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264 AD
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???? 1589
China The West
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549 AD
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???? 1377
China The West
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700 AD
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???? 1300
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1161
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???? 1423
China The West
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1041 AD
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Zheng He
Ships were 400 feet long, 160 feet wide, and carried 18,000 men in 1430.
Santa Maria 60 years later (what year?) was 85 feet long.
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So why did they never do anything with all of this?
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Calligraphy
Believed you can read a man’s character by his calligraphy
Note the priority here – non-scientific
Standardized tests
150 million take, 300,000 pass.Tested Confucian knowledge/morals.
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They also thought there was no
external threat; the seas were safe, so
why bother.
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1. Inventors were considered low-class.2. Empire regulated invention and discovery.3. Commitment to relational thinking – Ying-Yang.
Why else???
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