Great Inventions Of China

China impacted the world in many ways with their many great inventions, that they brought along the Silk Road. The great inventions were paper, printing press, compass, gunpowder, kites, etc. Only one of the magnificent inventions stand out from the others. That one would be, the compass. The compass helped introduce new parts of our Earth that we could not find ourselves. The compass was made of magnetite, which was magnetic. The magnetite aligned north and south because the of the magnetic fields or pulls against the north and south poles. The compass would help the explorers figure out where you are going or what direction to go in, to get to your destination. The compass was used to help explorers travel much further than they ever could.