One of the most recognized invention of the Chinese is the paper
around 2nd century BC. Primarily, paper was used as clothing; it
was when the materials used for were tough and thick paper fibres.
But paper was not only clothing, but as an armour as well. Penetration
of arrows could be stopped on pleated papers. Around a century after
the invention of the paper, its writing property had been discovered.
An earlier example of paper with characters written on in was found
on an abandoned military post around 110AD.
Matches were another invention of the Chinese. Impoverished court
ladies invented the first version of matches around 577AD during
a military siege in the short lived Northern Ch’i kingdom. The early
versions of matches were sulphur-made. There was no evidence that
matches appeared in Europe before 1530. It could have been that
Europeans who used to travel brought early matches to Europe.
Pi Sheng invented between 1041 and 1048 invented a movable type.
In the West, they believed that Johann Gutenberg invented a movable
type. Paper money was invented in the 9th century AD. Silk notes
had been introduced by the Mongols. The deposits for these silk
notes are bundle of silk yarns.
