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China invented compass, paper, printmaking, and gunpowder centuries earlier, but Europe used those same inventions to transform society through exploration, literacy, revolution, and conquest.
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Four Great Inventions
China invented compass, paper, printmaking, and gunpowder centuries earlier, but Europe used those same inventions to transform society through exploration, literacy, revolution, and conquest.
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"...resources allow you to make great inventions. And so the four great inventions of China are the compass, right? Paper, printmaking, and gunpowder. Okay,..."
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"It radically transformed the entire fabric of European society. And because people are now able to read and write, it gives rise to the..."
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