The Chinese have created many great things. Some of those things we still use today. I think that the best one has been the magnetic compass. Thy were the first to use compasses at sea to help them get to their destination. 
     The compass was used in China hundreds of years before the Europeans. They have created a device that is still used today. Now days you can buy them almost anywhere. I think that the Chinese compass was an inspiration for the modern day G.P.S. Now G.P.S's are use in phones and are the easiest way to find your destination in the car. The Chinese has also created things like the arabacus which was a device that made it easy to add, subtract, and multiply anything in seconds. 

     The West African story telles are called griots. The memorizes stories about the past and tell it to as many people as possible and make sure that they can tell thse stories to the younger generations. Mansa Musa took several griots to come on his amazing hajj for them to tell it to other people.
      Groits where important because West Africa did't have a writing system. So they did'nt have a way of passing along stories about the past. Being a griot would be difficult because you would have to memorize every detail and make sure that you can tell everything to the next person. The passing of sories of the past by stories is called oral history. Becuse they were so important , many kings like Mansa Musa took them on important trips so that the groits can tell other people how important their ruler is, to make him more popular. They also pasted ro proverbs or sayings of wisdom or truths.they are very

     There are many good things about summer,but all good things have to come to an end. And now it is fall. I love fall. Ther are many good things about it, the weather, Halloween, football ... the list goes on and on. My favorite thing is Halloween and the weather. I love Halloween day. At Computech we have a dance and we get to wear our costumes. I also love to go to  halloween parties with my friends. We all go and get candy. But then after a while we just stay at home and pass out candy. We eat good food and play volleyball in our costumes. 

     The metal called iron has help the West Africans a lot. I know that that might not seem that the discovry of a metal would help the West African. But it did help a lot.They make tools and wepons that made thier lives much eaiser.
      They made a tool called the hoe which was used to clear large areas of farm land much quicker. Before they dicovered iron they use wood tools, those wood tools would break easily and you would have to fruicuntly replacce them. They had to put a lot more time, effort and resources  into  makeing suitable working tools .They aslo make better wepons like an arrow and a spear which were used for hunting. The discovery of iron has help the West Africans a lot. It made thier lives much easier.