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How coal turned China into an 11th century superpower
Barbara Freese on how technological advances in China as early as the 11th century made it one of the first countries to use coal to create cheap iron and industrialise.
Photo: somebody holding chunks of coal. (Money Sharma/AFP/Getty Images)
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