Compass

**Han Compass**

 * By Andy**

Can you imagine getting around with no map only a compass? Well believe it or not the Chinese had to do just that. The early compass wasn’t even transportable in desserts since you needed to put it in water, were would you find water to put the fish (fish is a early compass) in. It was a drag, but later in time the fish was evolved into a compass. This time it was a bronze square plate with a magnetite spoon on top and now to the real compass.

During the warring states period of, China came along a device called the Si Nan which later became known as the compass. Before the compass the Chines were really in confusion. They still went on a lot of voyages but couldn’t really tell were they were going or even if they got somewhere they couldn’t really know were home was and how to get there. They did use the North Star at some point but some times that didn’t help. If they found a great resource or religions they could not go back to were they found it? They were also weaker not being able to find new technology or more land. They also became really conceded, they thought that they were the best the strongest, but they didn’t really know what was out there.
 * How was it before the compass?**

The first compass was a simple magnetized piece of iron shaped as a fish. You were so post to put it in water and it would point south. The later compass was a spoon cared out of a special rock called magnetite it was to be placed on top of a square bronze plate and that would then point south. So what is it about south that all the compasses pointed to, why not north? Well the Chinese thought that south was the good side were birds live, open fields, summer time and with all good things.
 * What did it look like and what was south?**

The compass was not something people would expect to work properly. For instance you are in the desert and you need to find a way home, were would you find water to put it in. How about at sea with a compass and you are looking for new land? So you take out the bronze plate and spoon, but the wind is blowing it around too much what a bummer. I my self would never trust the thing.
 * How was the transportation of the compass?**