L6 Flashcards
This was originally used for political prediction, and also used to gather minerals.
Compass
This is why the Chinese never set out to sea and closed their borders.
They thought that everyone else was so far behind in technology that nobody could offer them anything.
The Chinese invented black powder searching for this.
Everlasting Potion/Elixir of Life
The Chinese used this for religious festivals, but the Europeans used this for violence.
Rockets
This was why the Chinese never used superior technologies the way Europeans did.
The Chinese were opposed to change. They said no to progress.
This is what was used to make gunpowder.
Potassium nitrate was made from pig urine’s ammonia, which was used to make gunpowder.
This was the order of technological transfers of the cannon.
Chinese - Mongols - Turks
Due to cannons’ destructive power on forts, and walls, the military focused more on this.
Research and books
This person wrote the House of Wisdom
Al-Mamun
This is the solution the Europeans came up with to get rid of the knights in “shining armor”.
The First Crusade
This person taught Aristotelian philosophy, and Ptolemaic/Platonic cosmos part of Christian ideology
Thomas Aquinas
This person came up with the printing press.
Johannes Gutenberg
This is how the Europeans discovered how to make paper.
Torturing the Chinese
This is how the Europeans got linen fibers.
Linen underwear from people that died in the Black Death.
100% of these people were wiped out from the Black Death.
Monks/Scribes
