Question | Answer |
famine | widespread shortage of food |
leeves | walls built by farmers to control floodwaters |
Long river, chang jiang or yangtze river | worlds third longest river |
gorge | mountain passes with steep rocky sides |
steppes | a dry, treeless plain witch isnt suitable for growing crops |
chinas sorrow | when the Huang he River floods and causes destruction |
Huang He | Yellow River/China's Sorrow: in northern china plain |
loess | a dusty, yellow soil that is easily carried by the wind |
dynasty | a line of rulers who belong to the same family |
Fu Hao | or "lady Hao," was the wife of the ruler Wu Ding |
Oracle bones | writing on cattle and sheep bones that tell the future |
Zhou takes control | 1100 the Zhou under there king Wu Ding took over the Shang dynasty |
Wuwang | the king of the Zhou, defeated the Shang Dynasty army and established a new dynasty in the Huang Valley |
5 classics | poetry( or songs ), the book of history, the Spring And Autum animals, the book of changes and the book of rituals |
Confucious | Chinas most famous scholar lived during the hundreds philosophy |
Daoism | means "The way" Lao Zi |
Confucious beliefs | key to happiness is a good education |
Lao Zi beliefs | daoism |