song dynasty

steel

• Sewing needles and nails were made from steel
• They figured out how to create steel by smelting together the carbon intermediary of wrought iron
• Steel made many products

MOVABLE TYPE PRINTING

• The world's first movable type printing technology for printing paper books was made of porcelain materials
• Movable type was never widely used in China because whole-block printing was less expensive, but when movable type reached Europe in the 15th century, it revolutionized the communication of ideas.

coal

• coal could be used as fuel
• Chinese used coal to heat furnaces to high temps
• they melted iron mixed with carbon from coal

PAPER MONEY

• when it was utilitzed by a group of rich merchants and financiers in Szechuan, the same province where the art of printing had been invente
• Used bulky metal disk placed on strings
• It was light and easy to carry, it spread quickly threw china

LAND SPACE

• Chinese artist painted land space
• They left empty spaces on purpose

MAGNETIC COMPASS

• It functions as a pointer to "magnetic north", the local magnetic meridian, because the magnetized needle at its heart aligns itself with the horizontal component of the Earth's magnetic field.
• compass also helped make bigger discoveries about magnetism and the earth's poles

PORCELAIN

• the ancient world porcelain was a necessity
• it was used to create cups, plates, and other useful item

GUN POWDER

• Song military engineers found gunpowder to be helpful in siege warfare, leading to the development of early types of rockets, cannons, bombs, and mines

TEA

• Emperor Shen Nung discovered tea when leaves from a wild tree blew into his pot of boiling water
• He was immediately interested in the pleasant scent of the resulting brew, and drank some.

WHAT I LEARNED

• I learned a lot...
• They invented steel , coal, paper money , land space , porcelain , movable type , gunpowder ,tea in more
• I got to know how some stuff was made and where it came from
• ( I wanna know did people kill for Weapons and Tea)