·paper · porcelain · printing press · navigational compass all of these technological advances originated in

The answer is: China.

The first system to produce paper was recorded in China during the Han dynasty (25-220 CE), while Mechanical woodstock printing began at the time of the Tang dynasty in about 220. Besides, porcelain also developed at a slow pace in China around 2,000 years ago, and the compass was invented throughout the Han dynasty, in about 206 BC, but was later used as a nativation device in the eleventh century, amid the Song dynasty.

this means that germany had to pay the allied countries. reparations are/is essentially payment for something that they have done wrong, so after ww1, germany was forced to pay reparations so they could replenish the allied countries resources' that they had lost during the war.

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