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China, which reached higher technological levels than Europe before in the Middle Ages

China also invented paper money before Europe.

However, Gutenberg invented movable type.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 24th, 2007 at 02:51:24 PM EST
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but he wasn't the first to. the chinese came up with it pretty early on, but for a variety of reasons - the number of characters vs. letters in the alphabet being a major reason - it was not as practical as woodblock printing.
by wu ming on Tue Jun 26th, 2007 at 03:43:12 AM EST
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