About 3000 years ago, what is now known as China became the most thriving empire of the time because of the ideas and abilities that the rulers and citizens had. They became extremely successful after a man named Qin Shi Huang Di took the throne and ruled China for many years. During this period of time they mapped a route called the Silk Road. The Silk Road was created to carry the many inventions that are part of our daily lives. Many of the inventions created in china helped it to thrive and rule over many other countries efficiently.
The Silk Road was a route that was used to connect Asia with Europe through trading peacefully. It was mainly used to transport silk and spices as back then China was renowned for making silk and this is what …show more content…
No matter what the Romans tried and no matter what villages they stopped at, they could not find “The Silk People”. Because the Silk Road was stretched over a long distance of many countries, it was a very dangerous stunt to make the entire journey. Other reasons why most merchants never travelled the entire route was because of the many different terrains that ruled the Silk Road. The main terrain was desert and mountains.
The desert was one of the most dangerous places on the Silk Road because of the weather and lethal animals. Not only were there those dangers, but there was also the danger of being robbed by pirates. After many years, cities and temples started to form along the silk route despite its harsh conditions. The Silk Road was not only helpful to the Chinese for the goods and the money it delivered, but also the ideas that it brought for the Chinese such as the idea for paper and …show more content…
To this day, scientists still don’t know if he was talking about gunpowder, but it is the only known substance to match the description of “flying violently” and “three substances combined”. The next appearance came in an easier to understand form. In the Chin dynasty, Ge Hong, a scientist of the time, wrote of the powder and its ingredients containing charcoal, sulphur and potassium nitrate.
The last gunpowder appearance since projectile weapons occurred in the Tan’g dynasty when Chinese inventors figured that it could be used to project small objects. The first weapon that the army used gunpowder for was a cannon that fired small stone balls from a bamboo tube by putting gunpowder in the bottom and lighting a fuse. This is how the cannon and gun both came to be. The Chinese tried to keep their new found weapon to themselves, but eventually the Islamists and Romans had managed to figure out how to use it as a
The Silk Road was a route that was used to connect Asia with Europe through trading peacefully. It was mainly used to transport silk and spices as back then China was renowned for making silk and this is what …show more content…
No matter what the Romans tried and no matter what villages they stopped at, they could not find “The Silk People”. Because the Silk Road was stretched over a long distance of many countries, it was a very dangerous stunt to make the entire journey. Other reasons why most merchants never travelled the entire route was because of the many different terrains that ruled the Silk Road. The main terrain was desert and mountains.
The desert was one of the most dangerous places on the Silk Road because of the weather and lethal animals. Not only were there those dangers, but there was also the danger of being robbed by pirates. After many years, cities and temples started to form along the silk route despite its harsh conditions. The Silk Road was not only helpful to the Chinese for the goods and the money it delivered, but also the ideas that it brought for the Chinese such as the idea for paper and …show more content…
To this day, scientists still don’t know if he was talking about gunpowder, but it is the only known substance to match the description of “flying violently” and “three substances combined”. The next appearance came in an easier to understand form. In the Chin dynasty, Ge Hong, a scientist of the time, wrote of the powder and its ingredients containing charcoal, sulphur and potassium nitrate.
The last gunpowder appearance since projectile weapons occurred in the Tan’g dynasty when Chinese inventors figured that it could be used to project small objects. The first weapon that the army used gunpowder for was a cannon that fired small stone balls from a bamboo tube by putting gunpowder in the bottom and lighting a fuse. This is how the cannon and gun both came to be. The Chinese tried to keep their new found weapon to themselves, but eventually the Islamists and Romans had managed to figure out how to use it as a