Ancient Chinese Inventors

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Ancient Chinese inventors have made many things we still use today. Some of those things are paper, silk, the wheelbarrow, rubber, and many more. The most important thing they have made is gunpowder. They used gunpowder in the wars just like we do today. We don’t use gunpowder as much as the Chinese did. Another one of china’s inventions were fireworks. They were first used for entertainment but then they started to use them to scare their enemies. Those were the most popular thing the chinese invented. Silk was a soft and light material much wanted by the wealthy about the world. It became so valuable that the route going from Europe to china was starting to be known as the Silk Road. The chinese learned to make it from the silk

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