| A | B |
| irrigation | improved crops |
| tea | became popular drink |
| gunpowder | used in fire lance and fireworks |
| porcelain | fine baked clay |
| trees/wood | became scarce during Tang dynasty |
| Chinese discovered strong metal | steel |
| printing press | allowed more books |
| woodblock printing | was easier to use that movable type |
| paper currency | mass produced paper led to it |
| Pi Sheng | invented movable type |
| Diamond Sutra | earliest printed book |
| Li Bo | popular Chinese poet |
| Chinese artists portrayed | 'idea' of landscape |
| calligraphy | art of brush, ink, and characters |