Last year, the Colorado Department of Transportation counted 95,752 cars on I-25 at U.S. Highway 34 the day of the showdown, about 2,000 cars more than the week before, CDOT spokesman Jared Fiel said.
To make sure that they always had the upper hand, the Chinese invented many simple, yet effective tools of war. The Military inventions of ancient China were the kite, the wheelbarrow, naval mines, land mines, the flamethrower, the early form of mustard gas, the fire lance, paper armor, and the crossbow.
Islam had given rise to a brilliant new civilization that stretched from Spain to India. Hindu and Buddhist traditions flourished. Indian mathematicians invented a number system. China had a strong central government and made advances in technology, inventing paper, printing, and gunpowder. In West Africa, the Soninke people were building the great trading empire of Ghana.