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How about top four? Paper, printing, gunpowder and compass.
by unmole 9y ago
How about top four?
Paper, printing, gunpowder and compass.
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- purple-again 9y agoI downvoted the parent comment but your response is also disengenuous. Unless I’m allowed to claim credit for Rome’s victories the ‘China’ that invented those things shares nothing with the China being discussed right now.
- manjushri 9y ago>shares nothing with the China being discussed right now. Seems like apples to oranges, assuming the implied comparison is with western post-industrial age nations, which began industrializing centuries ago, as compared to decades ago with China.
- pishpash 9y agoThey share the familial authoritarianism that is the explicit governing model for every version of "China".
- dogruck 9y agoI down-voted your answer because those are only 4 ancient, general technologies. I’m sure the list is much longer than 10, that’s why I asked for the top 10. I’m talking about IP from the last, say, 20 years.