In Chinese culture, many achievements and advances happened in the area. These advances had benefitted the civilization greatly. There were also many other major achievements in areas such as science, math, literature and the arts. The Chinese, developed the idea of negative numbers and other advances in algebra. Many of the inventions we use today were actually invented in the time of ancient China. The compass, silk, fireworks and much more were all developed by the ancient Chinese. Their contributions have continued to benefit us today. The trade of China, mainly the Silk Road, had caused a large amount of cultural interaction to occur in ancient China. This cultural interaction helped develop China’s own culture. Their culture was very extremely unique