| A | B |
|---|
| calligraphy | using brush and ink to write beautiful characters |
| Diamond Sutra | the earliest known printed book |
| porcelain | a fine clay baked at high temperatures |
| Pi Sheng | the printer who invented movable type |
| Li Bo | one of the most popular poets of the Tang era |
| changes Tang farmers made | improved irrigation and introduced new ways to grow crops |
| tea | popular Chinese crop that became a popular drink |
| steel | strong metal discovered by heating coal to high temperatures |
| currency | mass-produced paper money |
| Chinese uses of gunpowder | used in the fire lance, an ancestor of the gun, and in fireworks |
| coal | used to heat things, an improvement over wood burning |
| compass | invention that helped sailors navigate |
| block printing | made it possible to publish books in large numbers |
| Changan | capital city of China during the Tang dynasty |
| Duo Fu | wrote poems about social injustice and the problems of the poor |
