Discoveries & Inventions of the Chinese Dynasties

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.

Compasses turn toward north because of the _____________ pole there.

• magnetic

• magma

• magnanimous

• magnificent

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.

• navigation

• recreation

• government / governing

• educating

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

• transportation of people & goods for trade over water.

• a empire's naval fleet.

• the quality of drinking water

• arts & culture

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.

• literacy

• unemployment

• birth

• marriage

<Gr.6 Review> 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!

• Confucius

• Marcus Aurelius

• Hinduism

• the Buddha

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

• kiln

• furnace

• washer

• chimney

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

• Iron

• Porcelain

• Cotton

• Tea

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

• True

• False

Which of the following military technologies that uses gunpowder was NOT invented in China?

• Flamethrower

• Grenade

• Rocket

• Machine Gun