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Chapter 8 Online Commentary

Chapter 8 titled "China and the World" was exactly that, a description of how China's influence spread throughout the world and how the world influenced China as well. After reading this chapter, I couldn't help but wonder why China never became the leader of all countries.  We look at the United States as the world power, but China definitely was the head of many "firsts" that changed the way others lived their lives.  The movable type printing press, first established by the Chinese, was given credit to Johannes Gutenberg who was probably unaware that it had already been discovered elsewhere.  We all know it now, though.  The production of salt by solar evaporation spread to Islamic countries and Europe.  Papermaking was the highlight of it all for this innovation spread to Korea, Vietnam, Japan, India, Islamic countires, Spain, France, Germany, and England.  How one country, China, altered the way of living of so much of the world is absolutely phenom...
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Chapter 5 Online Commentary

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Chapter 6 Online Commentary

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