Ancient China Research Paper

China set the foundation for advances in technology. China’s earliest and most influential developments occurred between 2640 B.C to 87 B.C. During this time the two emperors, Wudi and Shi Huangdi, led the way in advancements. The Chinese innovations have had a long lasting impact on the world’s ability to access and store information, to live healthier lives, and to bring the world closer together through trade routes. The first signs of innovations arose with the writing systems around the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. At least 4,000 years ago written Chinese took shape. The earliest known form of Chinese writing is oracle bones. Oracle bone script was a form of Chinese characters written on animal bones or turtle shells on which Shang priest wrote questions addressed to the gods or to the spirit of an ancestor. Oracle bones evolved to a writing system that includes tens of thousands of characters or written symbols. The Chinese Characters became used in an elegant art form called calligraphy. …show more content…
Emperors Wudi and Shi Huangdi brought the world closer together through trade networks. During the time periods of 141 B.C to 87 B.C, emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty furthered economic growth by improving canals and roads. Trade flourished because the new roads and canals made trading easy. Additionally, Emperor Wudi’s most notoriously known for creating the Silk Roads. The Silk Roads linked China and the west for centuries through a network of trade routes. It eventually stretched for 4,000 miles linking China to the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East. On the Silk Roads, trade flourished. Consequently, in 221 B.C, Shi Huangdi standardized weights and measures which replaced the diverse coins of the Zhou with the Qin coins. This allowed trade to be simple without the struggle of finding the same worth with all the different types of money. The developments in improving trade opened up China to the rest of the

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