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The trade brought increased contact with foreign people and cultures. People from Arabia, Persia, and India. Even missionaries and diplomats from as far Europe. The most famous european to vist china is Marco Polo. He visited for 17 years

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The Mongols control is known as Mongol Ascendancy.Mongol made overland travel safer. Caravans moved along the Silk Roads, ancient trade routes strething from china to the black sea.

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The technology of paper spread to Arab  in the 700s and later to europe. The chinese invented gunpowder, which they used for fireworks, but later was used for warfare.
The chinese made the first magnetic compass which later spread to europe and help make the exploration days possible.

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Because the chinese loved learning they looked for better ways to study. So, they developed methods to manufacture in paper. They also created wood-block printing. Carved wooden blocks with enoigh characters to print whole pages. Printers later creted movable type.

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Barges and cargo ships carried goods on canals, rivers and the coastline of China. The growth of trade led to a rapid expansion in the use of money, in the form of coins, to pay for goods. However, coins became heavy to carry and as a solution they started printing paper money

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Genghis Khan fought and defated his enemies. By doing so he became a great ruler

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The mongols were feirce nomadic warriors who lived in the vast plains to the northwest of china

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Improvement in agriculture and transportation helped make china one of the  most powerful countries in the world

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The examination carried out confusions belief that a government had to be built on the skill of its people

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The tang used several ideas they had learned from the sui dynasty to set up the organised well-run government

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Confucianism affected many aspects of Chinese goverment and society. Confucius taught people they could advance through life with education

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A time of great disorder invading  nomads, eventually settled down and adopted Chinese customs.