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The 400-year rule of the Han Dynasty generated a slew of innovations in everything from agriculture to metallurgy to seismology.
The Han Dynasty saw the first official trade with western cultures from around 130 BCE. Many types of goods from foodstuffs to manufactured luxuries were traded, and none were more typical of ancient China than silk.
For tilling the soil and planting straight rows of crops, the improved heavy-moldboard plough with three iron plowshares and sturdy multiple-tube iron seed drill were invented in the Han, which greatly enhanced production yields and thus sustained population growth.
The Han dynasty inventions were some of the greatest contributions not only in the Chinese society but even across the globe. Some of the lesser known innovations developed during this period include the creation of the wheelbarrow and the seismograph.
From its centralized governance and pioneering civil service exams to the nurturing of Confucian ideals, the Han Dynasty’s contributions reverberated across trade routes like the Silk Road and technological domains like iron casting and agriculture.
There were many inventions in Chinese history, and the following ten innovations from Han Dynasty are among the most important ones. Invention of Paper-making. Paper-making is one of the four greatest inventions of ancient China and an outstanding creation in human civilization.
10 Inventions From China’s Han Dynasty That Changed the World. The 400‑year rule of the Han Dynasty generated a slew of innovations in everything from agriculture to metallurgy to...
Han dynasty, the second great imperial dynasty of China (206 BCE–220 CE), after the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BCE). So thoroughly did the Han dynasty establish what was thereafter considered Chinese culture that ‘Han’ became the Chinese word denoting someone who is ethnically Chinese.
The Han dynasty 漢 (206 BCE-220 CE) was the first long-lasting imperial dynasty of China. It was founded by the adventurer Liu Bang 劉邦 (Emperor Gaozu 漢高祖, r. 206-195 BCE) who took part in the rebellion against the oppressive government of the short-lived Qin dynasty 秦 (221-206 BCE).
1. Papermaking. Paper was invented in about the year 105 AD by Cai Lun, who was an imperial court official of the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). Before the invention of paper, ancient people from all over the world wrote words on many kinds of natural materials, such as leaves, animal skins, rocks, and earthen plates.