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The Emperor Ho-Ti was pleased by this invention and granted Cai Lun an aristocratic title which contained great wealth.  But in the end his great wealth and position led to his downfall when Cai Lun drank poison and committed suicide after he had taken a bath and had been dressed in fine robes.   

The Emperor Ho-Ti was pleased by this invention and granted Cai Lun an aristocratic title which contained great wealth.  But in the end his great wealth and position led to his downfall when Cai Lun drank poison and committed suicide after he had taken a bath and had been dressed in fine robes.   

By A.D. 105 paper was used widely in China. Paper eventually spread to the west by Arabs in 751 who captured Chinese paper makers in the [[Battle of Talas]]. The knowledge of papermaking spread through the nascent Islamic Empire and eventually reached Europe, where it was perfected.

By the tenth century, paper production was widespread enough to spawn a printing industry in China. Chinese papermakers pulped the bark of the mulberry tree, a process which could not be duplicated elsewhere. In the fourteen century, Europeans developed paper mills that used water power to pulp rags. The inexpensive paper produced by these mills was the basis the printing revolution.  

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