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... China several centuries before +1000 . When the Polo brothers first visited the court of Kublai Khan in the 1260s ... China knew the crossbow even before it was invented in the West . Writing in early -V , the Chinese general Sun Wu25 ...
... China several centuries before +1000 . When the Polo brothers first visited the court of Kublai Khan in the 1260s ... China knew the crossbow even before it was invented in the West . Writing in early -V , the Chinese general Sun Wu25 ...
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... China over 3,500 years that is not found in any other civilization for any such period . There is no such sharp distinc- tion in China between " ancient " and " modern " as we are used to in European history . Another Chinese theme is ...
... China over 3,500 years that is not found in any other civilization for any such period . There is no such sharp distinc- tion in China between " ancient " and " modern " as we are used to in European history . Another Chinese theme is ...
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... China , these inventions have sometimes taken many centuries to reach the West ; it took the wheelbarrow a thousand years . Although China has sometimes led the world in technol- ogy , she has usually lagged in pure science . One reason ...
... China , these inventions have sometimes taken many centuries to reach the West ; it took the wheelbarrow a thousand years . Although China has sometimes led the world in technol- ogy , she has usually lagged in pure science . One reason ...
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One The Coming of the Engineers | 1 |
Two The Egyptian Engineers | 18 |
Three The Mesopotamian Engineers | 46 |
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