Weapons
The type of weapon the Dao was.
What is a sabre?
The Han Dynasty is known for the ____ road.
What is silk?
A loop that hangs from a horse's saddle to support a rider's foot.
What is a stirrup?
This Chinese inventor, who lived from 970–1051, created the first system of movable, reusable type.
Who is Bi Sheng?
The earliest silk dates back to 3,630 BC in this Chinese province.
What is henan?
The shape of the Qiang spear.
What is a leaf?
This dynasty, beginning in the early 200s B.C., is credited with the initial development of the blast furnace.
What is the Han Dynasty?
The suspension bridge was invented around this time.
What is 90 CE?
The term used to describe Bi Sheng's lasting title in the history of printing.
What is the Father of Typography?
Before paper, people used materials like leaves, animal skin, and this plant-based material often bound into heavy books.
What is bamboo?
The Han Dynasty used these double edged swords in battle.
What are Jian?
This tool helped sailors and travelers find direction and sail.
What is the Round Compass?
The purpose of a rudder.
What is change directions?
This earlier printing method, which was highly wasteful, was largely replaced by movable type.
What is block printing?
This material, which was first made using silk, had the initial downside of being extremely expensive and was limited to imperial documents.
What is paper?
Another name for the Jian.
What is "The Gentleman of Weapons"?
This finished metal product was the result of pumping a blast of air into a heated batch of iron ore inside a blast furnace.
What is cast iron?
Best way to describe a suspension bridge.
What is sophisticated?
By using movable type, Western civilizations were able to create these faster, accelerating the distribution of information.
What are books?
Han Dynasty network of canals and ditches.
What is an irrigation system?
Another name for the Qiang.
What is "The King of Weapons"?
Before the compass, people relied on the positions of the sun, moon, and these celestial objects for direction.
What are the pole stars?
_________ rudder.
What is sternpost?
Who is Cai Lun?
The use of the compass by Europeans directly led to the discovery of this landmass.
What is America?