HIS101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Wax Tablet, Taoism, Movable Type
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China famous for cultural vibrancy, poetry, landscape, manufacture of ceramics. Separate ministries for personal, justice works, and finance. Public officials rigorously trained, famous for extent to which people from all background to rise to civil service if they worked hard enough. Adoption of new strain of rice from vietnam (lived in drought) Hyung jo had commercial activities: merchants, highly specialized, wines, spices, jewels, scroll created at the time, marco polo traveled here. China gave the world, paper, wheel barrow, magnetic compass, gun power, chain drive, moveable type printing, Sumerian culture used clay tablet c. 2000 bce. Prolemy, library of alexandria, 3rd c bce. In certain parts of the nile delta, they grew it: near a port where papyrus would be grown, ships would come in, and all the books that came in would be copied. Wax tablet, pompeii, 1st ce, wax easy, stylus. Papyrus had be in a certain area, and a certain thickness.
