D What are the achievements in Chinese culture?
1. Some achievements in Chinese culture include how they unified their culture by assimilation.
a. They educated them with setting up schools to teach them Confucianism.
b. Also Chinese farmers were encouraged to intermarry with local people and move there.
2. Historians made accurate recordings of the history which also helped unify Chinese culture.
a. Some historians like Sima Qian helped unify Chinese culture by making an accurate record of history in his book called Records of the Grand HIstorian.
b.Another famous book is the History of the Farmer Ban Biao, Ban Gu, and Ban Zhao.
3. Duties of women
A. Though most women were helping their families at duties at home and farming, some aristocratic women started to become educated and cultured.
B. Some practices medicine and ran small shops.
4. Chinese Inventions
A. Paper
1. Some achievements in Chinese culture include how they unified their culture by assimilation.
a. They educated them with setting up schools to teach them Confucianism.
b. Also Chinese farmers were encouraged to intermarry with local people and move there.
2. Historians made accurate recordings of the history which also helped unify Chinese culture.
a. Some historians like Sima Qian helped unify Chinese culture by making an accurate record of history in his book called Records of the Grand HIstorian.
b.Another famous book is the History of the Farmer Ban Biao, Ban Gu, and Ban Zhao.
3. Duties of women
A. Though most women were helping their families at duties at home and farming, some aristocratic women started to become educated and cultured.
B. Some practices medicine and ran small shops.
4. Chinese Inventions
A. Paper
- Chinese began to use hemp plants to make thin paper
- In A.D 105 Ts'ai Lun produced stronger paper by mixing mulberry bark and old rags with hemp fiber
- allowed horses to pull heavier loads than usual
- made it more efficient with two blades
- iron tools, wheelbarrow, began to use water mills to grind grain,gunpowder, and compass