Government
This is how the Song Government selected citizens to join the government as officials.
This is the main reason paper money replaced metal coins as the preferred medium of currency.
What are copper shortages?
Alchemist who first combined the main ingredients of gunpowder.
Who is Ge Hong?
The dynasty where the first mariners compass was created.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This is the person is generally credited as the creator of movable type.
Who is Bi Sheng?
These trade routes were used to spread new Chinese innovations.
What is the Silk Road and the Indian Ocean?
This is one way how paper money spread across the world.
What is the Silk Road?
The first weapon that incorporated gunpowder.
What are fire arrows?
The dynasty when the first compass was created.
What is the Han Dynasty?
This was one of the main benefits of movable type printing.
What is the ability to mass produced text?
A system that protected intellectual property from theft.
What is the copyright system?
This is what paper was commonly made of.
What is mulberry bark/mulberry tree?
This is what Taoist monks were trying to achieve during the accidental creation of the main ingredient of gunpowder.
What is immortality/longevity?
This is what the compass was originally used for.
What is divination?
This is the form of printed that movable type replaced.
What is woodblock printing?
The civil service lead to a general population that was ____.
What is highly educated?
This is one of the reasons paper was produced on a large scale.
What is government influence?
The group credited for globally spreading gunpowder.
The region that had the largest naval power in the world during 12th-15th centuries.
What is China?
This was the most common form of literature printed with movable type printing.
What are Confucian texts?
This is how the Song Dynasty differed from its predecessors.
What is a lack of expansionistic ambitions?
This denomination of paper currency was the most used in the Song Dynasty.
What is Huizi?
The main groups the Song Dynasty had conflicts with.
Who are the Liao, Western Xia, and Jin Dynasties?
Who are the Mongols?
Title of the first piece of literature that mentions the magnetic compass.
What is Brush Talks from Dream Brook?
This was the most common form of text exported out of China into other nations.
What are religious texts?