Achievements
- Reestablished the safety of the Silk Road. POLITICAL
- Silk Road trade with Middle East and Constantinople. ECONOMIC
- Printing press using moveable print. ARTISTIC
- Porcelain used for dishes and decoratives. ARTISTIC
- Gunpowder originally for fireworks but eventually for weapons. ARTISTIC
- Mechanical clocks. TECHNOLOGIC
- Powerful military state. POLITICAL
- Extended the boundaries of China through Siberia. POLITICAL
- Korea in the east. POLITICAL
- Vietnam in the South. POLITICAL
- Extended a corridor of control along the Silk Road well into modern-day Afghanistan. POLITICAL & ECONOMIC
- More cosmopolitan culture. SOCIAL
- Cities have a great social life with live music and drama. ARTISTIC & SOCIAL
- Loved poetry and landscape painting. ARTISTIC
- Some of Chinese best poets. ARTISTIC