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What Was The Greatest Invention That The Chinese Made?

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The Printing Press What was the greatest invention that the Chinese made? Was it the printing press, paper, compass, or other things? The printing press is the greatest invention that they have made. This is because the printing press made books cost less and it wouldn’t take forever to write the books. It would take like 10 seconds and boom you got what you want like that. It also helps us now in our everyday life. This is when the prices start to go down. The printing press making books cost less was a good thing because the poor people could get educated and not have to pay a lot of money for a book. “The spread of books greatly increased the spread of literacy (ability to read and write).” This is basically saying that people could

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