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Your Turn! Read the Document Carefully. The information in this passage from a secondary source will help you to answer the question. (Document Based Question, or DBQ) Once you have finished look through your notes and try and find any information which we learned about NOT mentioned in the Document, this information will be considered OUTSIDE INFORMATION because you are bringing it in from someplace outside of the document you were given. Once you have come up with some outside information discuss it with a partner. Did they have anything different from you? If so what? Share your ideas.

Document This excerpt, about Han China’s technology advancements, is from the World History: Connections to Today (Ellis, Elisabeth Gaynor, Esler, Anthony Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1999) In its time, Han China was the most technologically advanced civilization in the world.  Cai Lun, an official of the Han Court, invented a method for making durable paper out of wood pulp. His basic method is still used to manufacture paper today.  The Chinese also pioneered advanced methods of shipbuilding and invented the rudder to steer.      Identify two achievements that occurred under the Han Dynasty. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Outside Information: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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