The Silk Road
A very soft fabric that was created by the Chinese by raising silkworms and using the threads of their cocoons.
What is Silk?
Dynasty that created paper.
What is the Hahn dynasty?
Item used by the Chinese for direction by placing a magnetic rock on a bronze plate.
What is a magnetic compass?
A type of pottery created by the Hahn dynasty.
What is porcelain?
A trade route that was a system of roads which stretched thousands of miles across the mountains and deserts of Central Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
A type of plant, the fibers of which are used to make such things as rope, fabric, and paper.
What is hemp?
A naturally occurring magnetic iron ore.
What is magnetite?
A pottery glaze created by the Hahn dynasty?
What is celadon?
Animals that carried the silk when traders would travel in caravans.
What are camels and yaks?
Before paper was invented, the Chinese used these items for writing.
What are animal bones, strips of bamboo, and silk?
By the 900s CE, the Chinese had realized that the needles always pointed in this direction when placed on water.
What is North?
The two colors associated with the celadon glaze.
What is green or blue?
Emperor that had forbid men from wearing silk so that there would be enough for women.
Who is Tiberius?
The process of carving words and drawings onto a wooden block, covering the block with ink, then pressing it onto a piece of paper.
What is woodblock printing?
In early versions of the compass, the magnetic stone was shaped like this familiar utensil. (Utensil: Object used to eat food.)
What is a spoon?
Pottery so well-made that some of it still exists today.
What is celadon porcelain?
The process of spreading goods and ideas of many cultures to one another.
What is cultural diffusion?
Oldest book in the world that was printed in China in 868 CE.
What is Diamond Sutra?
The time period of when people started using the magnetic compass to navigate.
What is 11th or 12th century?
Two areas of the world that wanted the beautiful celadon porcelain.
What is Europe and Asia?