Chinese Inventions Quiz

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Where did tea first grow wild as a shrub?

Mount Fuji, Japan

Korea Peninsula

banks of the Yellow River

Himalayan Mountains

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What is the result of mixing charcoal, potassium nitrate, and sulfur?

gunpowder

charcoal briquets

electrical current

the invention of the compass

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Who introduced tea to China?

Chinese merchants

Buddhist monks

Korean fisherman

Mongolian warriors

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What led to more accurate compass readings?

when Marco Polo brought magnetite to China

when small pieces of iron were mixed with lodestone and floated on water

the discovery of gravity

Japanese Buddhist monks taught the Chinese

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What replaced Chinese woodblock printing?

Korean woodblock printing techniques

Western printing techniques and machinery

Japanese printing techniques

Mongolian printing techniques

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Where did printing originate?

Korean Peninsula

Mongolia

Western China

Tibet

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Under which dynasty did papers become widely available?

Han

Tang

Qin

Shang

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How were the first printed images obtained?

by using carved wooden blocks

by using bronze cast blocks

from charcoal blocks and seals

by using copper block seals

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Which large scale printing projects improved printing?

story of An Lushan Rebellion

Confucius and Buddhist scriptures

the Great Wall

Ten Abominations

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Why was it at first hard for Western machinery to print the Chinese language?

the machinery could only print in English

it requires an enormous amount of characters

the instructions were in Korean

there were very few printers who understood Chinese

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