Medieval Chinese Innovations

Which dynasty is considered the Golden Age of China?

• Tang

• Song

• Yuan

• Ming

Porcelain is

• a thin, white, delicate pottery often used for dishes or decorative figures.

• a durable metal known for its ability to conduct electricity.

• a durable metal known for its ability to conduct electricity.

Which is a fine, white, delicate pottery often used to make dishes or decorative figurines?

• porcelain

• moveable type

• magnetic compass

• gunpowder

Which is the primary source material for luxurious silk fabric?

• fibers from plants

• hair from alpacas and other camel-like herbivores

• mulberry worm cocoons

• manmade chemicals turned into fine threads

A magnetic compass

• uses the position of stars at night in relation to the horizon to show direction.

• allows for individual arranging of letters to make sentences of text.

• the fibers from mulberry worm cocoons to make luxurious fabric.

• uses the Earth's gravitational pull to show which direction the poles are.

Which device used Earth's gravitational pull to show direction?

• woodblock printing

• magnetic compass

• porcelain

• silk

Which innovation is a mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal that, when mixed together, creates an explosive propellant?

• woodblock printing

• gunpowder

• fast-ripening rice

• porcelain

Woodblock printing

• was kept a secret from European traders so the fabric would be very valuable.

• was imported from Vietnam and helped increase the population.

• allowed for text and drawings to be pressed into paper and bound into books.

• allowed for the spread of China's armies through defense and conquest.

Silk is

• a durable metal known for its ability to conduct electricity.

• fibers from the mulberry worm made into luxurious fabric.

• a thin, white, delicate pottery often used for dishes or decorative figures.

• a gemstone known for its brilliance and transparency, used in jewelrymaking.

Which was imported from Vietnam and could be harvested 2-3 times per year?

• fast-ripening rice

• silk

• gunpowder

• moveable type