Achievements and inventions in medieval China.

The main achievements and inventions of medieval China can be considered: the printing of books and newspapers, the cultivation of rice, gunpowder as a means of waging war, the prototype of guns from bamboo sticks, a compass for determining the cardinal points and orientation on the terrain, porcelain for making dishes, medicine based on acupuncture of acupuncture points and moxibustion, the production of silk, as a matter in great demand among wealthy families both in China itself and in other countries where silk was exported along trade and caravan routes.