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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is China | A populous nation in East Asia |
| What is Loess | A loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment of which extensive deposits occur, e.g., in eastern China and the American Midwest. |
| What is the Huang River | the second longest river in China |
| What is the North China Plain | a large-scale downfaulted rift |
| What is a Levee | an embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river. |
| What is Beijing | china's capital |
| Who is Guangxi Zhuangzi | the most significant of China's early interpreters of Daoism, |
| What is Double Cropping | a form of polyculture. |
| What is the Tibetan Plateau | levated plateau in Central Asia and East Asia, |
| what is a pictograph | a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC. " |
| What is the Shang dynasty | the earliest ruling dynasty of China to be established in recorded history, |
| What is the Bronze Age | a prehistoric period that followed the Stone Age and preceded the Iron Age, when certain weapons and tools came to be made of bronze rather than stone. |
| What is the Zhou Dynasty | a Chinese dynasty that followed the Shang dynasty and preceded the Qin dynasty. |
| What is the Mandate Date | a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative |
| What is silk | a fine, strong, soft, lustrous fiber produced by silkworms in making cocoons and collected to make thread and fabric. |
| What is the Silk Road | an ancient network of trade routes that connected the East and West |
| What is the Qin Dynasty | the first dynasty of Imperial China, |
| What is the Han Dynasty | the second imperial dynasty of China, |
| Who is Wu Di | he was the emperor who made china powerful again |
| What is civil service | the permanent professional branches of a government's administration, excluding military and judicial branches and elected politicians. |
| What are Oracle Bones | are pieces of ox scapula or turtle plastron, which were used for pyromancy – a form of divination – in ancient China, mainly during the late Shang dynasty |
| Who is Shi Huangdi | the founder of the Qin dynasty and was the first emperor of a unified China |
| What is the Great Wall | a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, |
| What are Middlemen | a person who arranges business or political deals between other people. |
| Who is Confucius | a Chinese philosopher who lived in the 6th century BCE and whose thoughts, expressed in the philosophy of Confucianism, |
| What is the Book of Documents | one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. It is a collection of rhetorical prose attributed to figures of ancient China, and served as the foundation of Chinese political philosophy for over 2,000 years |
| What are Analects | a collection of sayings by Confucius that were written down by his students |
| What is Confucianism | a system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by Confucius and developed by Mencius. |
| What is Daoism | Chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-tzu ( fl. 6th century BC), advocating humility and religious piety. |
| What is Laozi | was the first great teachers of daoism and had taught before confucius |
| What is the Sui Dynasty | a short-lived imperial dynasty of China of pivotal significance |
| What is the Tang Dynasty | an imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. |
| Who is Wu Hou | the only female emperor in the history of China. |
| What is the Song Dynasty | an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and lasted until 1279 |
| Who is Genghis Khan | the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, |
| who is Kublai khan | the fifth Khagan of the Mongol Empire, reigning from 1260 to 1294 |
| What is the Yuan Dynasty | the empire or ruling dynasty of China established by Kublai Khan, leader of the Mongolian Borjigin clan. |
| what was the ming dynasty | the ruling dynasty of China – then known as the Great Ming Empire – for 276 years following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty |
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