Chinese Inventions and Discoveries
What is gunpowder used in?
What is fireworks, rockets, guns, and cannons?
What is aristocracy?
What is being picked for government positions based on your birth status/family?
Who ruled during the Yuan Dynasty?
Who are the Mongols?
What is Daoism?
What is the yin & yang symbol and advocacy for balance?
What is the definition of imperial?
What is being ruled by an emperor or empress?
When was paper invented?
What is the 2nd century?
What is meritocracy?
What is being picked for positions of government based on you smarts and determination?
What did China do during the Ming Dynasty?
What dynasty closes off China's borders and contact with the outside world?
Where did Buddhism originate and what dynasty adopted it?
What originated in India and was adopted in the Tang Dynasty?
What is tea?
What is grown on a tree or bush on high ground and drank as an everyday beverage?
What is wood printing?
What is a printing technique that worked like a stamp?
How long did preparations and study for the civil service exams take?
What is 7 years?
What was China's age of expansions and prosperity?
What is the Han Dynasty?
Who is Confucius, what did he create?
Who is the creator of Confucianism, the Chinese philosophy that taught respect in the home, it also taught gender roles/structure?
What is the first lunar cycle?
What is the rat?
What was steel made of and was it stronger than iron?
What was made of hot air being blown into molten steel and stronger than iron?
What did people have to endure during the civil service exams?
What is people being in an isolated room with only paper, pen/pencil, and a bucket for 24 to 72 hours with only the food/water they brought with them?
When was China more liberal and open to new ideas and different ways of dress?
What is the Tang Dynasty (618-709)?
What dynasty followed Confucianism?
What was the Han Dynasty?
How did Empress Wu help secure her rule?
What is supporting a scholarly bureaucracy to replace rule by aristocratic families?
What is lodestone used in?
What is the magnetic compass?
What was a problem that occurred when China first transitioned to Meritocracy?
What was aristocratic students doing better on the civil service exams because they had the wealth to buy all the textbooks and resources they needed to study?
Who is Empress Wu?
Who was one of the rulers of the Tang Dynasty that ruled when her husband died and when China was more accepting of new ideas?
Who is Zhao Ban?
Who is the writer of a book that teaches how women should behave in a Confucian society?
Who was Zheng He?