Duncan 4 - Chinese Inventions

The skillful transformation of ordinary clay into beautiful objects

• junk
• porcelain
• iron
• steel

Foreigners importing Chinese _____ paid a lot of money for certain shapes and designs more specific to their own culture.

• paper
• movable type
• compass
• porcelain

_______ is the second most popular drink in the world. The first is water.

• tea
• gunpowder
• alchemy
• junk

At first, Chinese people mostly used ________ to help with digestive and nerve problems.

• iron
• compass
• tea
• moveable type

Every Chinese social group and class built special ______ for themselves.

• teahouses
• guns
• paper
• compasses

After "discovering" paper, the Chinese made the first _______.

• toilet paper
• painting
• written text by humans
• Bible

By using ________, the Chinese mass-produced written work that previously had been hand-written.

• the compass
• gunpowder
• woodblock printing
• porcelain

Woodblock printing allowed the Chinese to __________.

• print more books quickly and cheaply
• create new weapons
• trick the Mongols
• convert to Christianity

One effect of inventing paper and woodblock printing...

• More people learned to read and became educated.
• People's social and economic status lowered.
• The Chinese government jailed those who could read.
• Civil service exams stopped being used.

New forms of writing like poetry and drama became popular due to...

• improved navigation
• improved weapons
• improved printing
• urbanization