This episode is Sponsored by Wix! Support the Simple History channel by going to:
Papermaking, gunpowder, printing and the compass.
These four inventions have been recognised as catalysts for great civilisations.
Become a Simple History member:
Support us on Patreon:
Copyright: DO NOT translate and re-upload our content on Youtube or other social media.
SIMPLE HISTORY MERCHANDISE
Get the Simple History books on Amazon:
T-Shirts
Simple history gives you the facts, simple!
See the book collection here:
Amazon USA
Amazon UK
Credit:
Created by Daniel Turner
Narrator:
Chris Kane
Music Credit:
Shenyang Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Sources:
Ancient Chinese Inventions
By Yinke Deng
Rockets
By Joseph A. Angelo
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in …
By Tonio Andrade
China at War: An Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia
edited by Xiaobing Li
History of Papermaking in China
By Zhi Dao
Clay: The History and Evolution of Humankind’s Relationship with Earth’s Most Primal Element
Book by Suzanne Staubach
source
What are the top 4 inventions of mankind in your opinion?
you forgot the umbrella. china also invented the umbrella, even the folding design is still the same untill today
China has never had an original idea; ever.
realizing this is how early Europeans documented history after their think tanks invented all things listed. makes sense now.
it is more amazing that this intelligence comes from a million years of development and people don't even realize that the light skin has been around since the dawn of humanity. it's like we are living in some sort of super dark ages
west people use these chinese invent thing to kill chinese.sad
Because of this video, I am reminded about the Europeans who had compassioned and went against the Japanese to protect the innocent Chinese after hundred of thousands of them were killed in a city back in the day. Amazing, god loves those people!!!!
From immortality to gunpowder. God thinks the chinese are funny.