Discoveries & Inventions of the Chinese Dynasties

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Which of the following rules of Chinese calligraphy is incorrect? Strokes are drawn from top to bottom. Strokes are drawn from left to right. Strokes are drawn in one continuous motion. Trick question! These are all correct.

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Trick question! These are all correct.

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Compasses turn toward north because of the _____________ pole there.

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magnetic

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Newer versions of the compass are most relevant to today's world because they are integral to every-day __________________ of unknown places by measuring the Earth's magnetic field on your phone's magnetometer and calculating your latitude & longitude.

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navigation

Front

The primary purpose of a canal lock is to improve __________________.

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transportation of people & goods for trade over water.

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Because the Chinese mastered the practices of paper-making, book-binding, and block-printing, their society likely had the highest _________________ rate in the world during the Medieval Period.

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literacy

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The ideas of the philosopher ______________ were spread using printing technologies. The printing technologies also allowed for paper-tests to be created and given to students and job applicants in China!

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Confucius

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Porcelain is made by baking clay in a _________, or pottery-oven.

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kiln

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The Chinese invented steel, which is made from _______, but it is less brittle and easier to bend into different sheets.

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Iron

Front

True or False? Most historians think the discovery of gunpowder was an accident.

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True

Front

Which of the following military technologies that uses gunpowder was NOT invented in China? Flamethrower, Grenade, Rocket, Machine Gun

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Machine Gun