China Dbq Research Paper

Burns, Sydney
Ch. 8 PW

BPQ #2- China influenced the world of the third-wave era in many ways, such as the "diffusion of its many technological innovations to peoples and places far from East Asia" (384). The techniques for producing salt, printing, papermaking, and many others spread throughout Eurasia and sometimes through the Islamic world. Other civilizations didn't just adopt these new technologies, they often "simulated new innovations in more distant lands in accordance with local needs" (386). China itself also transformed by encounters with a wider world, as they adopted a fast-ripening and drought resistant rice from Vietnam, learned to grow cotton and sugar from India, and adopted a Persian style windmill. But, "by far the most

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