China & the World Economy 1.1: Historical China 2 - China's Historical Development

Question 1

What was China like 3000 years ago?

Answer 1

• Three thousand years ago China was casting bronze and other alloys, growing wheat, millet and rice, weaving silk and has a written language with thousands of characters
• Chinese technology had a significant impact on world development
• China was using advanced coke ovens and steel blast furnaces a thousand years before the Industrial Revolution in England

Question 2

Which 2 Chinese groups (and when) were huge before the Western powers

Answer 2

• Foreign powers have long played a part in Chinese history
• Before the Western powers, came the Mongols (13c) and
  Manchus (16c)