Loaded with Chinese silk ... countless other inventions to their credit, the Chinese were now poised to expand their influence beyond India and Africa. Here was one of history's great turning ...

beliefs and inventions. Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world ...

China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge ... or wrote them on bamboo or wooden strips and silk fabric. These materials, however, were either too heavy or two ...