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Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for "coal," nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes — China's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.

Question: What new fire technology astonished Marco Polo when he reached the capital of China? (true/0)

Question: What type of pre historic man was credited with the first Chinese invention and what was invented? (true/1)

Question: Where did man get fire and what luxuries did it provide? (true/2)

Capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and kept it alight
Light and heat
Rubbing two sticks together and it provided heat
A way to cook food
He got fire from a forest fire and it provided heat and light
Accidental discovery from lightening strike
They learned to retain flame from another source, like a forest fire, and it provided warmth and light

Question: Who designed geometric bowls and bronze vessels? (true/3)

The Shang Dynasty
Homosapiens
The Shang
Xia Dynasty

Question: Where would the Peking man capture flame and heat? (true/4)

Question: When did the Hsia Dynasty first made silk? (false/5)

Question: Peking Man achieved a mastery of fire in what is currently which nation? (true/6)

America
Beijing
China

Question: What were the Chinese using coal for? (false/7)

Fire
Food
Fuel

Question: What did the second quasi-legendary dynasty give rise to the concept of? (true/8)

Question: What is the modern-day name for the fuel Marco Polo found when he reached the capital of China? (true/9)

Coal
Black stones
Rocks

Question: Did written language exist during The First Dynasty in China? (false/10)

No
Yes

Question: Approximately how many years passed between the Xia Dynasty and the creation of the oldest known bronze vessels in China? (false/11)

Question: Who achieved what might be called the first Chinese invention? (false/12)

Peking Man
The Shang
Marco Polo

Question: Who were the second dynasty to create art? (true/13)

Shang Dynasty
Quasi-legendary dynasties
The Shang
Xia Dynasty

Question: What might be called the first Chinese invention? (true/14)

Peking Man
The mastery of fire
Fire
Fuel

Question: Who enjoyed the two revolutionary luxuries of light and heat? (true/15)

Peking Man
Marco Polo
Christopher columbus

Question: Who could be called the first Chinese inventor? (true/16)

The shang dynasty
Peking man
Marco Polo

Question: Who was the mastery of fire? (true/17)

Question: What dynasty brought about the interest in art and the concept of one Chinese nation under one government? (false/18)

Chinese
The Shang Dynasty
The Shang dynasty brought about an interest in art and the concept of one Chinese nation under one government
Xia Dynasty
Shang

Question: This famous explorer , after reaching China's capital city reported that the Chinese used what color rocks to make fire? (true/19)

Marco Polo was amazed they used black rocks for fuel
Peking man said the chinese used coal to make fire
Black
Cobalt blue rocks
Marco Polo said the Chinese used coal to make fire

Question: When the Xia Dynasty came about was written language already in place? (true/20)

No
Yes
No. The Xia Dynasty was 4,000 years ago and written language appears 4,000 to 5,000 years ago

Question: What development in fire technology did Marco Polo discover when he reached the capital of China? (true/21)

Question: Which Chinese dynasty is associated with careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs? (true/22)

The Shang Dynasty
The Xia Dynasty
Shang
First

Question: The first Chinese invention involved a master of what subject? (true/23)

Question: What did a mastery of fire achieve for Peking Man? (false/24)

Question: What period was the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty during? (false/25)

Question: What sort of fuel source allowed settlement of which major city in China? (false/26)

Question: Where were black stones dug from and had the Europeans found a use for this? (true/27)

Mountains, no
Yes
Ground
They were dug from mountains and Europeans had not discovered a use for the product

Question: During the Shang Dynasty, the Chinese developed an interest in what type of designs? (true/28)

Question: Which European explorer discovered that the Chinese used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel? (true/29)

Peking Man
Marco Polo
Christopher columbus