Ancient Chinese Inventions
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Ancient Chinese Inventions

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202619 min
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China has been responsible for some of our greatest inventions from paper to printing to the compass and gunpowder. These are just some of at least twenty different advances that we still use today. OK Let’s Learn! Reach out for questions, feedback and future episode suggestions: [email protected] Go to our new website- okletslearn.com Support the podcast and be named a producer of the show here at this Patreon link: www.patreon.com/okletslearn OK Let’s Learn Substack page: http...

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Welcome to the OK, Let's Learn podcast. This is a family-friendly podcast where we dive into books, stories, people, history, science, and tons of different topics. My name is Kevin O'Keefe, so today OK, let's learn about the ancient Chinese inventions. Yes, what was invented in China before anywhere else?

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else, the list is long, it's remarkable, it's unbelievable, and so many, especially the top five are so important to the development of civilizations, societies, and not only was it important way back when, but they're still around with us today and they still have a huge impact.

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So okay, let's learn. Now up front, as I mentioned, the list is so comprehensive and some of these can be argued that they happened independently elsewhere. But there's no ifs, ands, or buts in terms of the big four.

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