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  • {{See|Science and technology of the Han Dynasty|List of Chinese inventions}} ...eveloped in [[China]] during the early 2nd century AD by [[Han Dynasty|the Han]] court eunuch [[Cai Lun]]. China used paper as an effective and cheap alte
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  • ...inually evolved, and the choices of textiles available have influenced how people carried their possessions, [[clothing|clothed]] themselves, and decorated t ...ton has been spun, woven, and dyed since prehistoric times. It clothed the people of ancient India, Egypt, and China. Hundreds of years before the Christian
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  • ...]. The death of the bamboo plants following their fruiting means the local people lose their building material, and the large increase in bamboo fruit leads [[Image:Hsü Wei 001.jpg|thumb|''Bamboo'', by [[Xu Wei]], [[Ming Dynasty]].]]
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  • ...The Morning Light, Dunhuang, Gansu Province.jpg|thumb|The ruins of a [[Han Dynasty]] (202 BC - 220 AD) Chinese [[watchtower]] made of rammed earth at [[Dunhua ...[construction|building]] method that has seen a revival in recent years as people seek more [[sustainability|sustainable]] [[building material]]s and [[natur
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  • It had been a long time for people to look forward to working at the workplace without getting involved in occ ...nment tried to improve the quality of life in an agricultural village, but people who knew a vicious circle of farming were driven into cities which needed l
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  • ...hamans were known as ''wu''. This vocation was very common down to the Han dynasty. After that it gradually diminished in importance, but the practice persist
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  • ...medical papyrus]] written in the [[Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt|Eighteenth dynasty]].<ref name=Anslinger1953/><ref name=Ebers1889/><ref name=Ebbell1937/> Howe ...ical procedures. It is recorded in the ''[[Han Feizi (book)|Book of Master Han Fei]]'' (ca. 250 BC), the ''[[Records of the Grand Historian]]'' (ca. 100 B
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