History of Non-Western Scientific Contributions by Jayne Leusink https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj History/Nature/Context Science Class en-us 2017-11-18 16:39:40 UTC 2025-12-12 20:36:39 UTC hello@padlet.com One of the earliest reports of solar eclipse from Assyria (763-762) https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208387488 2017-11-18 16:48:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208387488 700 AD (8th century) https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208388186 mutakalliumun: 3 theories of matter
- bodies are the only constituents
- extended accidents are the only constituents of the world
- accidents and bodies constitute the world, bodies are constituted from atoms]]> 2017-11-18 16:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208388186 900 AD (10th century) Middle East https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208388582 Basrian Mutazazili Abu al-Husayn al-Barsi embraced falsala physical theory and abandoned atomism]]> 2017-11-18 16:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208388582 China - Kong Yingda (574-648) rainbows created by sun on water drops https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208388600 2017-11-18 16:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208388600 220-280 AD https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208388805 Chen Zhuo collected catalogues of stars and summarized it.

Hengxing (fixed stars)
Jingxing (warp stars)
Xingxing (movable stars and planets)
Weixing (web stars)

]]> 2017-11-18 17:00:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208388805 Astrological instruments are used in India (500 BC) https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208388833 2017-11-18 17:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208388833 Astrolabe introduced in India from Islamic world (1360s) https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389045 2017-11-18 17:03:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389045 Armillary Sphere used in Islamic world in the eighth century https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389091 2017-11-18 17:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389091 145-86 BC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389143 Sina Qian describes 91 constellations and 500 stars.

The constellations were usually several stars connected together with imaginary lines. Some constellations are only one star. Stars are called inner or outer according to their location North or South of the Equator. ]]> 2017-11-18 17:03:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389143 Best known https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389145 2017-11-18 17:03:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389145 Best known solar obscuration in Babylonian records https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389146 April 15 136 BC]]> 2017-11-18 17:03:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389146 Astrolabes used in Islamic world in tenth century https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389232 2017-11-18 17:04:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389232 Sundials used to coordinate prayers in Islamic world (718) https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389274 Evidence of equinoxes and solstices on sundial in 1000]]> 2017-11-18 17:05:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389274 1054 Supernova documented in China, Japan, and Korea, could also be depicted in a Native American cave painting https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389412 2017-11-18 17:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389412 1368-1644 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389429 European Astronomy begins to influence China. ]]> 2017-11-18 17:06:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389429 India - started recording precipitation in the 4th century https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389524 2017-11-18 17:07:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389524 829-830 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389591 Astronomers for the caliph al-Ma'mun record 24 stars. ]]> 2017-11-18 17:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389591 835 AD Middle East https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389598 Anti-atomism
Ibrahim ibu Sayyar al-Nazzam
motion was a sole accident]]> 2017-11-18 17:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389598 Chinese star catalog recording events such as sunspots, comets, and supernova in fourth century BC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389762 2017-11-18 17:10:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389762 903-986 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389770 Persian Astronomer Abu'l-Husayn al Sufi records constellations and longitude and latitude. ]]> 2017-11-18 17:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389770 800s - in Baghdad, the House of Wisdom started transferring Greek works into Arabic https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389808 2017-11-18 17:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389808 Italian explorer noted that North American Indians used the moon's location in the Pleiades constellation to know when to plant crops (1524) https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389822 2017-11-18 17:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389822 239 BC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389953 Lushi Chun Qui Book mentioned lodestone attracts metal]]> 2017-11-18 17:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389953 2000- 3000 BC- Chinese star clerks make astronomical observations (this is debated to as far back as 16,000 BC or as recent as 600 BC) https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389999 2017-11-18 17:12:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208389999 927 Sept. 14 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390004 Lunar eclipse account]]> 2017-11-18 17:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390004 1085 AD Middle East https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390153 Abu Bakr al-Furaki- the atom is the smallest of what is small with respect to volume]]> 2017-11-18 17:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390153 481- 221 BC- Chinese star catalogs depict eclipses, comets, novae, sunspots, and aurora borealis https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390271 2017-11-18 17:15:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390271 384-322 BC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390364 hollow sighting tubes without lenses are used to observe the starts by Aristotle ]]> 2017-11-18 17:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390364 Two silk scrolls discovered in Mawangdui tombs in China (246- 177 BC) contain accurate records of Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus suggesting use of an armillary sphere for measurement https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390416 2017-11-18 17:17:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390416 300 AD https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390460 Guo Pu comments on Pu with the role "qi" invisible interconnected and their measures are are silently met..a mutual influence between the two. "qi" is just the "energy"]]> 2017-11-18 17:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390460 450-388 BC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390559 Lenses are mentioned by playwright Aristophanes and mirrors were investigated by Heron of Alexandria (ca. 60 AD)]]> 2017-11-18 17:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390559 78- 139 Seismograph used to measure earthquakes in China https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390585 2017-11-18 17:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390585 1279 - Aboulfarag (Arab) - the Milky Way is related to stars and constellations https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390641 2017-11-18 17:19:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390641 Mesoamerica https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390648 medicinal/psychoactive (peyote buttons) plant use]]> 2017-11-18 17:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390648 1127 - 1234 AD (China) jayne_leusink https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390737 The invention and military use of rockets were perfected in China on the basis of fireworks technology]]> 2017-11-18 17:20:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390737 1285-1317 AD https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390755 Invention of spectacles by an Italian glassmaker, but Alexandro della Spina and Salvino d'Armati are credited.]]> 2017-11-18 17:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390755 Tantric monk Yixing (683- 727) https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390806 Worked to develop more accurate calendar. Also calculated proper motion of stars more than 1000 years before Edmond Halley]]> 2017-11-18 17:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390806 300 BC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390863 Toltecs-(Mayan) medicinal calandars]]> 2017-11-18 17:21:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390863 1570-1571 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390960 First refracting telescope ]]> 2017-11-18 17:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390960 968 AD (China) jayne_leusink https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390964 Rocket Technology Begins: The appearance of rockets signified a revolution in the development of firearms. Sent by low-nitrate gunpowder in 968.]]> 2017-11-18 17:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390964 Guo Shoujing (1231- 1316) https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390999 Constructed most accurate calendar in the traditional Chinese astronomer era]]> 2017-11-18 17:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208390999 1895 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391007 John Harshberger coins term ethnobotany]]> 2017-11-18 17:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391007 1608 Holland https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391056 First unambiguous account of the European telescope]]> 2017-11-18 17:23:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391056 206 BC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391123 Han dynasty ]]> 2017-11-18 17:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391123 1609-1610 Italy https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391152 telescope used for military operations]]> 2017-11-18 17:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391152 960 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391208 Song dynasty China develops Horticultural science

]]> 2017-11-18 17:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391208 1611 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391257 The word telescope was coined ]]> 2017-11-18 17:25:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391257 1611 Germany https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391316 Johannes Kepler designed the improved Keplerian telescope of two biconvex lenses.]]> 2017-11-18 17:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391316 1240 - 1270 AD (Rockets) jayne_leusink https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391384 After rocket technology was perfected in China, it was spread to other parts of the world. First Arabian world, then to Europe.]]> 2017-11-18 17:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391384 1663 Scotland https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391451 Reflecting telescope invented]]> 2017-11-18 17:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391451 500 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391482 Tao developed plant classification
Chinese

]]> 2017-11-18 17:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391482 1557 Native America https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391750 Juan Diez Freyle's treatise dealing with the arithmetic of the Aztecs. It was forgotten along with all other pre-Columbian arithmetic. ]]> 2017-11-18 17:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391750 965 optic lenses Arabic astronomers https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391773 Mathematical laws for reflecting and refracting lenses.]]> 2017-11-18 17:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391773 Afghani named Abu Rayhan al-Biruni wrote about fossils, geology and the circumference of the Earth - 1000 AD https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391944 2017-11-18 17:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391944 3000 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391985 2017-11-18 17:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391985 858-929 BC Arabic sighting tubes https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391989 Sighting tubes used in Raqqa observatory]]> 2017-11-18 17:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391989 3000 BC- Native America https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391990 2017-11-18 17:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208391990 3000 BC- Native America https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392012 Japanese arrived in ]]> 2017-11-18 17:32:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392012 3000 BC- Natieve America https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392026 Japanese arrived in ]]> 2017-11-18 17:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392026 3000 BC- Native America https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392028 Japanese arrived in ]]> 2017-11-18 17:32:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392028 3000 BC- Native America https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392035 Japanese arrived in Equador. ]]> 2017-11-18 17:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392035 1st Century BC- Native America https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392091 Trade opened up between China and South America]]> 2017-11-18 17:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392091 120 BC China Sighting tubes https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392155 Used for surveying the land]]> 2017-11-18 17:33:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392155 700 BC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392216 Chinese developed philosophy of science]]> 2017-11-18 17:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392216 10,000 BC- Animal Domestication https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392267 Sheep, pigs, goats, wheat, and barley domesticated]]> 2017-11-18 17:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392267 900 AD Gunpowder jayne_leusink https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392316 Military inventions: gunpowder (used in rockets by about 1100 AD, in guns before 1288)]]> 2017-11-18 17:35:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392316 770 BC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392335 China artificial light source in optics, sundials and reflectors]]> 2017-11-18 17:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392335 12,000 BC- Animal Domestication https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392344 Dog was domesticated]]> 2017-11-18 17:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392344 8,000 BC- Animal Domestication https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392477 Cattle, chickens domesticated]]> 2017-11-18 17:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392477 6,500-5,000 BC- Animal Domestication https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392587 pigeon, camels, llama, alpaca, horse, water buffalo, camel, cat, silkworm domesticated.]]> 2017-11-18 17:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392587 749 AD (Baghdad) jayne_leusink https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392658 Paper Manufacturing Introduced]]> 2017-11-18 17:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392658 13th century https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392728 magnetic compass and lateen sail made Chine effective ocean travelers. ]]> 2017-11-18 17:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392728 + https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392743 2017-11-18 17:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392743 Slave trade https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392818 African culture and knowledge transmitted to new world.]]> 2017-11-18 17:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392818 1078 AD (China) jayne_leusink https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392887 Iron masters pioneered blast furnaces capable of melting metal]]> 2017-11-18 17:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392887 end of 16th century https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392931 China era of isolation ended and cultural exchange began]]> 2017-11-18 17:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392931 1561-1626 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392987 compass, gun powder, and printing press from China began use in European Renaissance]]> 2017-11-18 17:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392987 500 BC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392991 Mesopotamia roughly marked out constellations]]> 2017-11-18 17:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208392991 1833 AD jayne_leusink https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393076 William Whewell first used the word "scientist"]]> 2017-11-18 17:43:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393076 221BC - 220 AD https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393108 Han rule military campaigns and diplomatic activity spread China concepts throughout Asia. ]]> 2017-11-18 17:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393108 300 BC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393211 Greece used ecliptic coordinates ]]> 2017-11-18 17:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393211 166 AD https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393224 Ship from Rome reached China]]> 2017-11-18 17:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393224 226 - 651 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393350 imported potter and textiles show link between Iran and China]]> 2017-11-18 17:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393350 960-1279 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393433 Agricultural revolution in China]]> 2017-11-18 17:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393433 End of 11th century https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393485 New type of ship during Song empire allowed China to take over shipping in East Asia. ]]> 2017-11-18 17:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393485 12th Century https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393576 Chinese shipping fleet at peak of power.]]> 2017-11-18 17:48:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393576 128 - 1367 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393620 Roman Catholic Church discover China as a potential group of converts. ]]> 2017-11-18 17:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393620 1368 - 1644 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393704 Europe lost contact with Far East due to Black Death]]> 2017-11-18 17:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393704 15th century https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393768 Official exploration voyages from China - Ming rulers prohibited private dealings with foreigners to avoid competition. ]]> 2017-11-18 17:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393768 1552 - 1610 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393898 2017-11-18 17:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208393898 12 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208394378 2017-11-18 17:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208394378 1258 https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208394380 Cairo emerged as a shipping and trade power.]]> 2017-11-18 17:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jayne_leusink/u9j6sh90e1hj/wish/208394380