What the Ancients Did for Us - Season 1 Episode 2 The Chinese
China is the fastest growing economy on earth. One in four of every person on the planet is Chinese, and Shanghai is six times the size of London, offering a home to twenty million people. But while China is developing rapidly now, the Chinese civilisation is one of the oldest surviving in the world.
The ancient Chinese thought they were at the centre of universe. Cut off from the rest of the world for centuries the Chinese developed a unique culture, and made many technological, scientific and artistic advances long before the West.
Programme two of What The Ancients Did For Us explores this amazing country and the inventions of these ingenious people. The people who gave us the world's first fast food including what we call pasta - the noodle. To pay for this delicacy, they came up with paper money, printing with moveable type and a unified system of weights and measures. To move all their goods they invented canals, and the unique segmented arched bridge. To protect their new border
Year: 2005
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: BBC Two
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Cast: Adam Hart-Davis, Marty Jopson
Crew: Liz Tucker (Producer)
First Air Date: Feb 16, 2005
Last Air date: Apr 13, 2005
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 9 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 7.00/10 by 1.00 users
Popularity: 0.7657
Language: English
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