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What is the North China Plain? | The North China Plain is the region where human settlement and culture began in China. |
What is loess? | Loess is a yellowish brown soil that blows in from the desert and makes the land fertile. |
What are terraces? | Terraces are platforms of Earth that look like stairs. |
What is Beijing? | Beijing is the capital of China. |
What's the Huang River? | The Huang River is the river with cuts through the North China Plain. |
What are levees? | A levee is a wall that traps water within it's river bank. |
What's the Guangxi Zhungzu? | The Guangxi Zhungzu is a region in southern China that has one of the best climates for farming. |
What is double cropping? | Double Cropping is a process in which two crops are grown on the same land in the same year. |
What is the Tibetan Plateau? | The Tibetan Plateau is an area |
What is a pictograph? | A pictograph is a Chinese language written in pictures that represent words. |
What's the Shang Dynasty? | The Shang Dynasty was the first dynasty in China. |
What's the Bronze Age? | The Bronze Age was the period in China which tools and weapons were made of bronze. |
What was the Zhou Dynasty? | The Zhou Dynasty was the 2nd dynasty in China. |
What is the silk road? | A trading route from northern China and across central Asia to the lands of the Roman Empire. |
What is the Qin Dynasty? | The dynasty that had come after the Zhou Dynasty. |
What's the Han Dynasty? | The dynasty that came after the Qin Dynasty. |
Who was Wu Di? | The emperor of the Qin Dynasty after Shi Huangdi. |
What is civil service? | The practice of using skills and talents to work in the government. |
What are oracle bones? | Shells and Bones commonly used during the Shang Dynasty to predict the future. |
What are middlemen? | People who go between buyers and sellers. |
Who is Shi Huangdi? | The first emperor of the Qin Dynasty. |
What is the Great Wall? | A wall built all around China that prevented enemies from getting in. |
Who is Confucius? | A man in China who taught the Chinese people. |
What is the book of documents? | A book written by Confucius. |
What are Analects? | A collection of sayings by Confucius that was written down by his students. |
What is Confucianism? | Believing in the virtues of humanity, respect for the family, and humility/modesty. |
What is Daoism? | The belief in finding the way or the dao of the universe. |
Who is Laozi? | Laozi was the first great teacher of Daoism and taught before Confucius. |