The Unexpectedly Advanced Technology of Ancient China
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Published 2023-08-08
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"The Four Great Chinese Inventions - compass, gun-powder, paper, and print - are legendary. Less talked about are meritocracy and banknotes." -- Thorsten J. Pattberg
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For those crying out about papyrus... though paper, parchment and papyrus are all used to write on.... they all have different processes and there is a specific reason paper is commonly used today and not the other two.
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Do you think all of Simon’s clones know that they’re clones? Or would they all lose their mind if they realised that they were clones locked in a basement with a few writers?
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A British historian named Joseph Needham [ 1900 to 1995]. Wrote a huge coffe table book called " Science and Technology in Ancient China. ". It still might be available in print form. This book details over 50 inventions in many fields. I recommend it. It may be available at your local library.
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it occurs to me that "a BILLION cubic meters" sounds so much more impressive than "a cubic kilometre" 🤔🤷
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So “Made in China” is timeless. Nice.
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Simon forgot to mention that China also used debit vouchers and traveler's checks rather than coins or gold pieces for people who don't want to travel with large sums of money. So they already had American Express and bank ATMs before "modern financing".
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"Gaping mouths ready to catch balls"... OH MY!
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Your production team on today's releases seem to be off their usual high quality: Iraq War scenes placed in the video about WWI; mistitled chapters in this video; and mislabeled graphics (a French name next to a Han inventor circa 5rh c BC? What's up?)
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I adore videos like this. In so many ways, the East was lightyears ahead of the West. It's about time the rest of the world recognizes their achievements.
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China went from developing cutting edge tech in the ancient era to copying handbag designs in the modern era.
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Gunpowder early weapons: these are exactly the things I pictured for the first uses of weaponized gunpowder... can't be alone in that.
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Another well chosen & delivered topic.
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Ex congressman Steve King asked on live TV to name contributions of non western people(thinking there weren't any I suppose). Where to begin...
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The pronuncation of "C" in Chinese Pinyin is more like an English "T" and "S" combined if you didn't know. (Or if you speak German, it's like German alphabet "C".) Hence the old Wade-Giles romanization would spell out paper inventor's name as Tsai Lun or Ts'ai Lun.
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13:40 Here I thought paper was first created 2900 BCE in Egypt with papyrus. Turns out, Papyrus (paper plant) wasn't technically paper. What the...
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That spoon looked familiar, sort of like deja vu. Just less bent in weird directions
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Could you imagine if Simon had a photographic memory? He would be the smartest man ever with all his channels.😂
