This popular drink was grown and invented by the medieval Chinese.
What is tea?
100
This, invented by the medieval Chinese, is made of fine clay, baked at high temperatures, and bears a familiar nickname.
What is porcelain?
100
This large network of trade routes stretched 4,000 miles from western China to southeast Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
100
This replaced wood in medieval China as a primary way of providing heat.
What is coal?
100
This strong metal was discovered by the medieval Chinese by burning a natural resource at high temperatures in a furnace and cooling the oozing ore.
What is steel?
200
He was the founder of a thought system / religion which encouraged people to place the needs of the community above their own. He preached duty and the Golden Rule.
Who is Confucius?
200
This program consisted of assessments to determine who would earn a government job in ancient and medieval China.
What are the Civil Servant Exams?
200
This religion / way of thought preaches giving up worldly desires, following the Eightfold Path, and reaching Nirvana. It provided comfort to those in medieval China following violent civil wars.
What is Buddhism?
200
This thought system / religion of medieval China taught that the current life was as important as the afterlife; it also combined other beliefs to mean: rules and spiritual beliefs about harmony and peace of mind in nature.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
200
This navigational instrument uses a magnet to align itself with the Earth's magnetic field to point to a direction.
What is a compass?
300
This process and invention involved cutting block characters of an entire page, placing ink over it, and making copies.
What is wood block printing?
300
This explosive mixture was invented by the medieval Chinese.
What is gunpowder?
300
This term describes deserving an award or honors based on action; in medieval China it described acceptance based on excellence rather than other factors such as wealth.
What is merit?
300
This process and invention involved clay pieces that were molded into characters which could be shifted to make sentences multiple times with ink placed over each piece.
What is movable type print?
300
These two parts of maritime travel, improved by the Chinese, allowed for vast travel.
What are the rudder and moveable sail?
400
This is a place of living occupied by people living in seclusion under religious vows; in medieval China it provided schools, room, food, and medicine by a certain religion/way of thinking.
What are monasteries?
400
The greatest age of poetry in China occurred during this line of rulers from the same family.
What is the Tang Dynasty?
400
The reason for this was that people were only a part of harmony in nature and that people could not know the whole truth about something.
Why were humans so small in medieval Chinese paintings?
400
In medieval China, those who wished to qualify for a government job had to write with these two qualities for a high mark.
What are style and understanding?
400
This line of rulers from the same family in medieval China was known for prosperity, peace, and cultural achievement.
What is the Song Dynasty?
500
Some medieval Chinese people did not approve of a certain religion/way of thinking for these two reasons.
What is the accepting of donations and encouragement of not getting married?
500
He invented clay-molded character pieces that could be moved around again and again for ink to be placed on for printing.
Who is Pi Sheng?
500
He wrote the best-known poem in China called "Still Night Thoughts."
Who is Li-Bo?
500
This was a new class of people who gained wealth by earning government jobs in medieval China.
Who are the Scholar-Officials?
500
He wrote very serious poems such as "Spring Landscape" in medieval China, and originally was a poor and suffering citizen.