The Silk Road and Afro-Eurasian trade
Silk Road trade: Chinese coin of the Han Empress Kuo Empires and the Silk Road Starting in the 500s BC, governments started to come together into empires. Travel got safer. [...]
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What is silk? Ancient Chinese clothing
Silkworms and silk history Silkworms make silk People make silk from the cocoons of silkworms. Have you ever seen a butterfly cocoon? It is just like that. You have to [...]
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Steel needles and sewing machines – History of clothing
Early thimble-ring from Han Dynasty China (200 BC-200 AD) During the Han Dynasty, about 200 BC, Chinese blacksmiths started to make sharp, thin steel needles (this is about 100 years [...]
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Pearl Diving – History of Pearls
A pearl inside an oyster Very early in human history, maybe around 100,000 years ago, many people lived along the coasts of Africa and lived mainly on seafood - seaweed, [...]
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Medieval and modern knitting history
Modern knitting history: Stocking frame knitting machine (1750) Knitting silk stockings In the 1500s AD, knitters in Spain and France started to produce very fine knitted silk stockings, with little tiny [...]
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History of Chinese Medicine
Chinese medicine: a Chinese village doctor treating a man by burning herbs on his back (Song Dynasty, ca. 950 AD., now in National Palace Museum, Taiwan) What's the earliest Chinese [...]
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Ancient China’s Economy and Trade
Ancient China trade: Rice paddy with a Chinese man planting rice Farming in Ancient China In China, as in West Asia, India, or Africa, most people have spent most of [...]
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Chinese Science History – Ming and Qing Dynasties
During the Ming Dynasty, not many scientists were working in China; most people who wanted to do science moved west to the big universities of Central Asia. But when Jesuit missionaries from [...]
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Opium Wars – History of China (1800s)
Opium Wars: Men smoking opium in China (late 1800s) Walpole and the Opium Wars In the late 1700s AD, the British prime minister Robert Walpole wanted to try to get [...]
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Empress Cixi – Qing Dynasty China (the 1800s)
Empress Cixi (the Empress Dowager) Cixi takes power as regent When the Xianfeng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in China died in 1861 AD, his only son was only five [...]
