China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, printing and the compass, which, in the words of Roger Bacon, changed the whole ...

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It took the invention of atomic weapons in the Second World War to focus scholarly minds on just where explosive arms came from, how they have succeeded in altering the boundaries of the world in ...

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In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

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From the rhythmic beats of ancient drums to the invention of the printing press ... printing press paving the way for the Reformation to gunpowder influencing global colonization.

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