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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is loess | a yellowish brown soil that blows in from the desert |
| What are terraces? | platforms of the earth that look like stairs |
| What is Beijing? | China's capital |
| What's another term for levee? | dikes |
| What is double cropping? | two crops are grown on the same land |
| What is the Tibetan Plateau? | a place where the land is very rocky |
| What are pictographs? | pictures that represent words |
| What is the Shang Dynasty? | The first dynasty in China |
| What is the Bronze age? | the period during which tools were made of bronze |
| What are oracle bones? | shells and bones commonly used during the Shang Dynasty to predict the future |
| What is the Zhou Dynasty? | the longest dynasty |
| What is the Silk Road? | a road in which china trades silk |
| What is the Qin Dynasty? | one of the dynasties in china |
| What is the Han Dynasty? | a dynasty in China that lasted from 206 B.C. to 220 A.D. |
| What is civil service? | the practice of using skills and talents to work in the government |
| Who is Wu Di? | one of the emperors in china |
| What are middlemen? | people who go between buyers and sellers |
| Who is Confucius? | a man in which his ideas and philosophies greatly effected Chinese culture and civilization |
| What is the book of documents? | one of the Zhou texts |
| What are Analects? | a collection of sayings by Confucius that were written down by his students |
| What is Confucianism? | it teaches the middle way, which means that people should make balanced decisions |
| What is daoism? | the belief in finding the "way" or the dao |