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Trent vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Beijing | the capitol of china |
| loess | a yellowish brown soil that blows in from a desert |
| terrace | a platform of earth that looks like stairs |
| levee | a dike used to control flooding |
| double cropping | a process in witch 2 crops are grown on the same land in the same year |
| shi huangdi | King of quin who created the first unefied chinese empireand became the first chinese emperor |
| wu di | chinese emperor who increased authority during the Han dynasty. |
| pictograph | a picture that represents a word |
| oracle bone | a bone commonly used during the Shang Dynasty in China to predict the future |
| province | political division |
| ancestor | a relative that lived longer ago than a grandparent |
| civil services | a practice of using skills and talents to work in the government |
| middleman | people who go between buyers and sellers |
| great wall | a wall in China originally built for protection from northern invaders that over centuries was extended to more than 4300 miles. |
| silk road | a trading route that connected Europe and lands of the former Roman empire with China |
| confucius | Chinese teacher of morals that came to embody the core of Confucianism |
| mencius | Disiple of Confucius who is regarded as second only to Confusius as the confounder of Confucianism. |
| noblilty | a high ranking social class |
| analects | a collection of sayings by Confucius. |
| daoism | the belief in finding the "way" or the dao, of the universe. |
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