The compass greatly improved a ship’s ability to navigate over long distances (“Four Great Inventions of China”). Also, the compass drastically increased sea trade and contact between cultures, ushering in the Age of Discovery (“Monumental Chinese inventions that changed the world”). This proves some would think compass over gunpowder because it improved trade and contact between cultures. Gunpowder changed the world more than the compass did because it had more successful achievements like military advancements to help build weapons like the cannon, rockets, guns, grenades, and many more.
Gunpowder is one of the monumental chinese inventions that changed the world. It changed the world by chinese militaries being able to take advantage of the weapons they had, to control their land. To this day gunpowder is still being used in modern weapons. In conclusion, gunpowder was the most known chinese invention that was ever