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Have your students get into small groups and guess the year in which each invention is made, like Price is Right. Keep a tally of the number right of each group, and declare a champion of the world - suitable for middle and high school.
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???? 554
Silk
China The West
1300 BC
???? 1600
China The West
300 BC
???? 1150
China The West
105 AD
???? 1600s
China The West
264 AD
???? 1589
China The West
549 AD
???? 1377
China The West
700 AD
???? 1300
1161
???? 1423
China The West
1041 AD
Zheng He
Ships were 400 feet long, 160 feet wide, and carried 18,000 men in 1430.
Santa Maria 60 years later (what year?) was 85 feet long.
So why did they never do anything with all of this?
Calligraphy
Believed you can read a man’s character by his calligraphy
Note the priority here – non-scientific
Standardized tests
150 million take, 300,000 pass.Tested Confucian knowledge/morals.
They also thought there was no
external threat; the seas were safe, so
why bother.
1. Inventors were considered low-class.2. Empire regulated invention and discovery.3. Commitment to relational thinking – Ying-Yang.
Why else???
