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chapter four vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |