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Chinese Discoveries and Inventions Chapter 17
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- 1This "stone" is a magnetic mineral that was used to make the very earliest types of compasses.L
- 2This instrument would help sailors to navigate in the open sea.The Magnetic Compass
- 3This type of construction made sea travel even safer so that ships would not sink.ships with separate, watertight compartments.
- 4This type of boat made travel by river or across lakes easier. It also made this travel faster.The paddle wheel boat
- 5This invention made it possible for Chinese to navigate rivers that flowed through land that sloped up (or down).The canal locks
- 6The Chinese bridge used arches that were a smaller part of a circle. This type of Chinese bridge is called an ____segmented arched bridge
- 7Earliest Chinese paper was probably made from these two materials.hemp, bark of the mulberry tree
- 8This type of printing involved drawing whole symbols or illustrations on to a block.woodblock printing
- 9This type of printing consists of separate blocks for each character on a page.movable type
- 10This drink was first cultivated in China.Tea
- 11This material used for making beautiful pottery is made from clay, quartz and feldsparPorcelain
- 12To produce many, many pieces of a product, the Chinese starting using this method of making objects.mass production
- 13The Chinese learned that blowing air bubbles into molten, or melted, cast iron causes a chemical reaction that creates this type of metal.steel
- 14This material, first made by alchemists in China, was an attempt to make a product that might allow people to live longer.gunpowder
- 15By the 10th Century, Chinese were first using weapons that used this material.gunpowder
- 16The Chinese used a "two stage" form of this weapon to drop arrows unto enemy forces.Rocket
- 17In the 9th Century, Chinese used woodblock printing to invent the earliest forms of this recreational activityGame Cards
- 18Woodblock printing was to develop this in order to make business and commerce easier than using coins.Paper money, paper currency
- 19The Chinese devised a wheel that made one complete turn every 24 hours. This became the first one of these common items.the mechanical clock.
- 20Poisonous smoke was used by early Chinese medicine men as a form of this.disinfectant
- 21About the 10th Century, the Chinese discovered that people could do this to as prevention from small pox.inoculate (inoculation)
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