Ancient China

Ancient China has been credited with the invention of many things. Most notable would be silk, fine China, movable types, paper, goldfish, water locks, compass, gunpowder, many others. Though not considered an invention, they were also the first users of civil service exams in the government.

Through cracks in oracle bones.

Foot binding, pologomy and much more

All the characters in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" novel. Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Shao Yung, Tsao Tsao, and the infamous but "dreadfully strong" Lu Bu. In China it is said, there was only one master of the lunar spear, and his name was Lu Bu.

In China, the term "martial arts" is largely dependent on the historical context. In ancient China, if you traveled back in time and spoke with a Chinese of that era if you said "martial arts" they would immediately think of someone skillful with a spear or sword, if you traveld to after 600 A.D., if you said "martial art" obviously they would think of the Shaolin temple, or Wudang mountain. Although Tai Chi Chuan did not yet exist just after the 600's, one thing Daoist monks WERE known for, was their skill with a sword. In fact, the skill known as "Tai Chi sword" is in fact even older, than any of the sword arts taught at Shaolin. It is the straight sword.

The sword techniques practiced in Tai Chi Chuan, are even older than Tai Chi Chuan itself, part of the reason that in China a person's training is not considered complete unless they have mastered the Tai Chi sword, if Tai Chi is what they do, is because they hold the straight sword in high reverence due to its age. If something has been around for a long time, then the Chinese respect it. There are many others, and some traditions even hold that, because his father was a warlord, and a noble, even though Kong Fu Tze, also known as Confucius, was poor and penniless, in his time in China family name had some degree of worth. Because of his background, he studied the sword art, that is why sometimes Confucius is shown wielding a sword. In addition to being a philosopher, he was also a sword master in his own right. His scholarship was so high, it out shone his martial arts. Remember that Confucius traveled the very dangerous countryside of ancient China alone; the sword, was for personal defense.

It was very expensive to many of the people there because most people were poor.

Tombs were arranged with the objects that people would need in the afterlife - weapons, ritual vessels and personal ornaments.

People in China invented a lot of board games. The most popular one today is Go. People were playing Go in China as early as 2000 BC. Othello is a simple version of Go. By medieval times, rich people played Go, while poor people played Chinese chess, which is more like the modern American game of chess. It is possible that Chinese chess was the earliest chess game; people were playing it by the 400's BC.

Yes, but I will not say why. :)

Nobles collected taxes and supervised the preperation of the king's tomb.They were the overseers of the land. They were always related to the pharaoh.

paper

they farted there

Some Chinese scholars speculate that the first version of a match was invented in the year 577 AD by impoverished court women during a military siege by the Northern Zhou and Chen, in the short lived Chinese kingdom of the Northern Qi.

There was timber shortage around this time but the women were not able to leave the city to search for it. They could otherwise not start fires for cooking or heating.

Early matches were made with sulphur and it was a primitive kind of match. However, they were so useful that the Chinese poet Tao Gu called them 'light-bringing slaves'.

Compiled in about 950 AD by T'ao Ku, a book entitled "Records of the Unworldly and the Strange" described a similar method of dipping pine sticks in sulphur to produce fire.

Such sticks were stored for later use.

"If there occurs an emergency at night it may take some time to make a light to light a lamp. But an ingenious man devised the system of impregnating little sticks of pinewood with sulphur and storing them ready for use. At the slightest touch of fire they burst into flame.

One gets a little flame like an ear of corn. This marvellous thing was formerly called a 'light-bringing slave', but afterwards when it became an article of commerce its name was changed to 'fire inch-stick'."

There is no evidence of matches in Europe before 1530. Matches could easily have been brought to Europe by one of the Europeans travelling to China at the time of Marco Polo, since we know for certain that they were being sold in the street markets of Hangzhou or in that area, in the year 1270.

The first European experiments with phosphorus of sulfur matches started in second half of 17th century.

It's important because it told the ancient Chinese which direction the earthquakes were from up to 310 miles away.

Silk making begins with the adult silk moth, which is raised solely for reproduction. Batches of moths are kept in special houses where temperature, light and air are controlled by brazier, air vents, and blinds. This is to control reproduction so that the moths in each batch will mate at the same time. Since the moths' lives are controlled so they will mate at the same time, the eggs also are produced and hatch at roughly the same time. Once the silkworms hatch from their eggs, they are kept on bamboo trays and fed fresh mulberry leaves to store fat while they mature. As the silkworms mature, they spin cocoons from a jellylike substance in their silk glands. After about a week, some cocoons are steamed or baked to kill the worms inside. Some of the cocoons are left to nurture and release moths to reproduce. The cocoons are then plunged into boiling water to unravel the silky fibers. each cocoon consists of a thread about half a mile long. Once the cocoon fibers are unraveled, several are reeled together on a spool to make a thread strong enough for spinning. The fine silk fibers are woven into different types of cloth, from filmy gauze to heavy brocades.

Apart from Geographical situation the main differences between China and Mesopotamia lay in their theory of religion, war practices,methods of agriculture and their different ideas about trading with other peoples.

They usually traded silk, jade, copper and bronze. The Chinese grew peaches though so they might have traded those too. Also the growing of peaches started to be more common along the silk road, which gives more evidence of possible trade. The Chinese did have money though. At first they used cowrie shells, then they started making metal imitations of them. Metal beads that could be stringed came next and eventually they started to make paper money. (they were the first to make paper)

only the richist ladys did.

They invented kites that we fly today （it originated from military purposes). They also discovered how to make silk. Peasants built and rebuilt the Great Wall of China which acted as a defense against other kingdoms/nations. They also invented kites that we fly today, discovered how to make silk and learned to bake strong brick to make houses also like we do today. They invented gunpowder, compass and paper. Peasants normally farm and their products (cotton, silk etc.) became their taxes. Men also took the Imperial Exam and that's how people get their jobs.

with dog and guinee pig poo

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In Ancient China, the people made their houses with mudbrick. These Houses had only one room, and had a roof made of thatch, which is from dry vegetation such as straw.

They made these houses by building up the layers of mud brick, and placing the thatch on top.

Acupuncture was important to the ancient Chinese because it was their form of medicine but with using needles that put pressure on you.

yes the Chinese were isolated from other civilizations.

in the outer district of cities

Sima Qian (c. 145 or 135 - 86 BC), formerly romanized Ssu-ma Chien, was a Chinese historian of the Han dynasty. Allow time for someone to answer next time before you slam the website

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