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| Frage | Antworten |
| This "stone" is a magnetic mineral that was used to make the very earliest types of compasses. | L |
| This instrument would help sailors to navigate in the open sea. | The Magnetic Compass |
| This type of construction made sea travel even safer so that ships would not sink. | ships with separate, watertight compartments. |
| This type of boat made travel by river or across lakes easier. It also made this travel faster. | The paddle wheel boat |
| This invention made it possible for Chinese to navigate rivers that flowed through land that sloped up (or down). | The canal locks |
| The Chinese bridge used arches that were a smaller part of a circle. This type of Chinese bridge is called an ____ | segmented arched bridge |
| Earliest Chinese paper was probably made from these two materials. | hemp, bark of the mulberry tree |
| This type of printing involved drawing whole symbols or illustrations on to a block. | woodblock printing |
| This type of printing consists of separate blocks for each character on a page. | movable type |
| This drink was first cultivated in China. | Tea |
| This material used for making beautiful pottery is made from clay, quartz and feldspar | Porcelain |
| To produce many, many pieces of a product, the Chinese starting using this method of making objects. | mass production |
| The Chinese learned that blowing air bubbles into molten, or melted, cast iron causes a chemical reaction that creates this type of metal. | steel |
| This material, first made by alchemists in China, was an attempt to make a product that might allow people to live longer. | gunpowder |
| By the 10th Century, Chinese were first using weapons that used this material. | gunpowder |
| The Chinese used a "two stage" form of this weapon to drop arrows unto enemy forces. | Rocket |
| In the 9th Century, Chinese used woodblock printing to invent the earliest forms of this recreational activity | Game Cards |
| Woodblock printing was to develop this in order to make business and commerce easier than using coins. | Paper money, paper currency |
| The Chinese devised a wheel that made one complete turn every 24 hours. This became the first one of these common items. | the mechanical clock. |
| Poisonous smoke was used by early Chinese medicine men as a form of this. | disinfectant |
| About the 10th Century, the Chinese discovered that people could do this to as prevention from small pox. | inoculate (inoculation) |
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