Cornell Notes Unit 4 Section 2 -- Sorry so late!


Item #1
Li Bo
Most popular poet of the Tang era
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Item #2
porcelain
Fine clay and baked at high temperature

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Item #3

calligraphy
Brush and ink to write beautiful characters

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Item #4

• Improved irrigation
• Introduce new ways of growing crop
• Farmers began to grow tea which became a popular drink

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• Used coal to heat furnaces to high temperatures
• While producing iron, molten iron mixed with the coal and created steel

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Item #6

In AD 1000s, Chinese printer named Pi Sheng who invented movable type for printing

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• Printing allowed for yet another important Chinese invention: paper currency.
• Earliest printed book in AD 868
• Buddhist book called Diamond Sutra

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Item #8

• Chinese made gunpowder for explosives
• fire lance (ancestor to the gun)
• Fireworks