Chinese invetions

By Julianna Colon
  • 2700 BCE

    Tea

    Tea
    Chinese have been drinking tea since at least 2700 B.C. For several
    thousand years, tea made by letting tea leaves steep in boiling water was drunk mostly as medicine.
  • 850 BCE

    Gun powder

    Gun powder
    The Chinese who first made gunpowder were alchemists, people who practiced a blend of science and magic known as alchemy.
  • 7 BCE

    Printing

    Printing
    In about the 7th century, the Chinese invented a technique called woodblock printing.
  • 2 BCE

    Paper

    Paper
    The earliest Chinese paper was
    probably made from hemp and then the bark of the mulberry tree.