I need the following items ordered from least to greatest importance in ancient Chinese culture:

Question

Tea
Silk-making
Blue and white porcelain
Multiplication Table
Gunpowder

*Note: These are all things that were developed in the ancient Chinese culture.

Answer 1

Impossible!

Each was important to different people and for different reasons.

Tea -- most people enjoyed drinking tea
Silk-making -- an important economic skill
Blue-and-white porcelain -- a beautiful reminder of traditional arts
Multiplication table -- necessary for mathematicians
Gunpowder -- helped repel enemies

Perhaps your text orders these from least to greatest in the culture. I can't.

Answer 2

This is what it says Ms. Sue:
Choose five of the contributions named in this lesson. Rank the contributions in order of importance.

Answer 3

I can only apply a standard that MIGHT rank them by importance to the world at large, beyond China.
Multiplication tables are universally used and learned by every primary school student in the world. Gunpowder is used all over the world. Tea is, too, but the world could live quite well without it. Silk is also very nice, but there are other fabrics and the world would not suffer without it. Blue and white china is valued for its beauty, but a tin plate will serve the same practical purpose.

Answer 4

To rank them by economic importance to the ancient Chinese, tea and silk were primary trading goods, so of more importance in that way than the others. There was no direct economic value in terms of trade or selling to the multiplication tables, although that was probably the most important contribution to the world.

Answer 5

So would this be good:
Gunpowder
Multiplication Table
Tea
Silk making
Blue and white porcelain
Ms. Sue? Reed?