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 |