https://padlet.com/lillian_mennes_24/loh7ne7zwjof Made with mirth en-us 2018-09-14 18:47:23 UTC 2025-11-23 04:29:39 UTC hello@padlet.com lillian_mennes_24 https://padlet.com/lillian_mennes_24/loh7ne7zwjof/wish/351768322 Most Chinese people are religious. One of the main ones is Buddhism. Buddhism is a tradition that focuses on a personal  spiritual development. Buddhist  strive for a deep insight into the true nature of life and do not worship gods or deities. expand all. Buddhists seek to reach a state of nirvana, following the path of the Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, who went on a quest for Enlightenment around the sixth century BC. There is no belief in a personal God Buddhists believe that nothing is fixed or permanent and that change is always possible]]> 2019-04-15 18:28:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lillian_mennes_24/loh7ne7zwjof/wish/351768322 lillian_mennes_24 https://padlet.com/lillian_mennes_24/loh7ne7zwjof/wish/351771802 China invented the gunpowder. Gun and gunpowder. Once gunpowder had been invented in China, the Silk Road helped spread it westwards. The first known instances of gunpowder in china are from 850 AD, but there is now evidence of gunpowder being used for military purposes there until 919 AD. Under the rule of the T'ang Dynasty, about 700 AD, people used gunpowder more. T'ang Dynasty emperors used gunpowder to put on great fireworks displays. Two hundred years later, in 904 AD , Chinese inventors saw that you could also use gunpowder as a weapon. First the army used fire arrows and fire spears.]]> 2019-04-15 18:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lillian_mennes_24/loh7ne7zwjof/wish/351771802 lillian_mennes_24 https://padlet.com/lillian_mennes_24/loh7ne7zwjof/wish/351776206 Silk Road, also called Silk Route, ancient trade route, linking China with the west, that carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of Rome and China. Silk went westward, and wool's, gold, and silver went east. China also received Nestorius Christianity and Buddhism (from India) via the Silk Road. Besides silk the Chinese also exported (sold) teas, salt, sugar, porcelain, and spices. Most of what was traded was expensive luxury goods. This was because it was a long trip and merchants didn't have a lot of room for goods. They imported, or bought, goods like cotton, ivory, wool, gold, and silver.]]> 2019-04-15 18:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lillian_mennes_24/loh7ne7zwjof/wish/351776206 lillian_mennes_24 https://padlet.com/lillian_mennes_24/loh7ne7zwjof/wish/351777177 The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders. The primary purpose was always to protect the Chinese Empire from the Mongolians and other invaders. Most of the current great wall we see today was built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and is approximately 6000km long. 2. ... The Mongols were a tribal group that would regularly conduct raids into China.]]> 2019-04-15 18:52:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lillian_mennes_24/loh7ne7zwjof/wish/351777177