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the Huang He
and Ancient China-for History test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| loess | a dusty, yellow soil in northern China |
| Huang He | a 3,000 mile long river in northern China; "the yellow river" |
| Chang Jiang | "the long river"; the Yangtze; the third longest river in the world; located in southern China |
| gorges | mountain passes with steep rocky sides |
| steppe | a dry, treeless plain |
| dynasty | a line of rulers that belong to the same family |
| oracle bones | sheep or cattle bones that when heated over a fire crack. The cracks tell the future. |
| Mandate of Heaven | an idea that says that if a government is ruling unfairly, they can be overthrown. |
| Wuwang | the first Zhou king |
| Confucius | the most famous Chinese scholar |
| Shihuangdi | the first Chinese emperor; only ruler during the Qin dynasty |
| legalism | a system of government that rewards those who have done good deeds and punishes those who do bad deeds |
| Liu Pang | overthrew Shihuangdi's son; started Han dynasty, took the name Gao Zu |
| Confucianism | the teachings of Confucius; the base of Han government |
| Wudi | ruler in Han dynasty; emperor that made the Grand School and its lesser counterparts to expand the Han bureaucracy |
| bureaucracy | an organization that runs the daily business of government |
| seismograph | a machine that detects earthquakes |
| rough-straw paper | the first ever paper; made by the Han |
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