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Busby-China
chapter four vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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loess | a yellowish brown soil that blows in from the desert |
terrace | a platform of earth |
levee | a dike to control flooding |
double cropping | a process in which two crops are grown on the same land in the same year |
pictograph | a picture that represents a word |
oracle bone | a bone commonly used during the Shang dynasty to predict the future |
province | political division |
ancestor | an ancestor that lived longer ago than a grandparent |
civil service | the practice of using skills and talents to work in the government |
middleman | a person who goes between buyers and sellers |
nobility | high ranking social class |