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Chinese vocab
Question | Answer |
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Silk Road | The most well-known trading route of ancient Chinese civilization |
The Great Wall of China | The biggest wall in China |
Levee | A wall built along a river bank to prevent flooding |
Loess | A fine, yellow soil that is easily carried by wind and rain, found in China |
Oracle Bones | A cattle or sheep bone used to predict the future |
Mandate of Heaven | The belief that the Chinese emperor's right to rule came from the gods |
Emperor Qin's Terracotta Army | A collection of 8,000 terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang |
Analects | Selected passages from the writings of an author or more authors |
Famine | A widespread lack of food resulting in hunger and starvation |
Huang River | The world's 6th longest river. It's 3,395 miles long. |
North China Plain | a river. It floods every summer putting silt |
Steppe | A dry, grassy, treeless plain |
Ordos Dessert | A desert and steppe region ling on a plateau in the south of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China |
Plateau | An area of flat land that rises above the surrounding land |
Dynasty | A line of rulers who belong to the same family |
Erosion | The gradual wearing away of soil and rock by wind, glaciers, or water |
Stir Fry | Food with vegetables and meat |