The Chinese culture has contributed many items that make our lives today easier and better. Here's a "Top 10 List" of Chinese inventions that we use all the time today.
The "Wooden Ox' (known to us as the wheelbarrow); the world's first conveyor belt (the chain pump); the Grand Canal (also called the aquatic version of the Great Wall); canal pound locks - agriculture and engineering with water are yet more areas the Chinese created useful inventions.
Games invented in ancient China:Was the game of golf was played in China before Scotland? Does the game of chess have origins in an older Chinese game of fortune telling? Were kites just used for fun with the family in ancient China or did they have a different use?
Historical Discoveries
WWII: ROSIE THE RIVETER.
Symbol Of World War II American Women Workers, On A Poster From The War Production Co-ordinating Committee.
Fine Art. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 15 Apr 2013.
An army of more than eight thousand soldiers made of terra cotta, a baked reddish clay, is buried fifteen to twenty feet beneath the earth not far from the tomb pyramid where Emperor Qin is believed to be buried along with riches of his dynasty....read on to learn more.
Putting together the clay army puzzle: an entire army of life-size terra cotta soldiers and horses, underground for more than 2,000 years - this video gives a good idea of just how big this find was.
The fur trade was one of the earliest and most important industries in North America - learn more about how traders and trappers explored much of North America in search of fur.
