Cai Lun

Once language begins to develop, though, humans wrote on anything that would stand still long enough. Clay tablets, bamboo, papyrus and stone were only a few of the early writing surfaces. Things changed once the Chinese, specifically a man named Cai Lun, invented the prototype for modern paper. Before Cai’s breakthrough, the Chinese wrote on thin strips of bamboo and lengths of silk, but in AD 105, he created a mixture of wood fibers and water and pressed it onto a woven cloth. The weave in the cloth

Origins of Native American Culture The disadvantages of farming without metal tools were compounded by the absence of the plow, the wheel, and large domesticated mammals. Like much of Africa, isolation and local conditions in the Americas produced an agriculture that relies solely on hoes and digging sticks. Could stone tools, hoes come and wooden cultivation sticks proficient enough to generate the needed food surpluses to produce great cities? Such restrictions on food production again raises the

The Silk Road, a series of passageways connecting China with the Mediterranean completely changed the world. These series of trade routes allowed the advancement of technology and cultural diversity like never seen before. These routes connected many different civilizations allowing the exchange of goods and ideas. This variety of nationalities made it a “Cultural Bridge between Asia and Europe. ” Before these pathways were established trade was nearly impossible due to extreme desert conditions

The Silk Road, a series of passageways connecting China with the Mediterranean, completely changed the world. These trade routes allowed the advancement of technology and cultural diversity like never before seen. These routes connected many different civilizations allowing the exchange of goods and ideas. This variety of nationalities made it a “Cultural Bridge between Asia and Europe. ” Before these pathways were established trade was nearly impossible, due to extreme desert conditions and high

Kingdoms rise and fall, and out of their ashes come new kingdoms. Over and over again, the pattern recurs throughout history. China’s history and culture were born of such patterns, and it all began 1.7 million years ago.1 Archaeologists from modern times found the remains of the early hominid species Homo erectus in Yunnan Province, which was called Peking man. Peking man could walk upright, create fire, and possessed the ability to make stone tools, but it wasn’t until 2183 BCE that the vestiges

silk’s value was that when scribes wanted to write important texts, they would often need to write a rough draft on a jiandu strip before copying the perfected version onto the silk. In about 104 A.D., a eunuch of the Chinese imperial court, named Cai Lun, changed the course of writing’s history by making the first sheet of paper (The Invention of Paper). To do this, he mixed bamboo fibers and the inner bark of a mulberry tree with water, and then dried the pulp on a cloth screen. With paper, writing

well as silk were used in Chins to write before paper appeared. However, both of them have shortcomings for bamboos are heavy and silk paper is exorbitant. Lin, Salwen, and Anokwa (2003) point out that in the year 105AD, the invention of paper by Cai Lun improves writing condition, thus, manual record has become the main way to record data. In their findings (Leiner et al., 1997), conception of "Galactic Network” was put forward by J.C.R.