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| loess | a yellowish brown soil that blows in from a desert |
| terrace | a platform of earth |
| Beijing | the capital of China |
| Huang River | a river that cuts through the North China Plain- Yellow River/ China’s Sorrow |
| levee | a dike used to control flooding |
| double cropping | a process in which two crops are grown on the same land in the same year. |
| Tibetan Plateau | a rocky region in the west of China |
| Himalayas | a mountain range in southern Asia which includes Mount Everest |
| pictograph | a picture that represents a word |
| oracle bone | a bone commonly used during the Shang Dynasty in China to predict the future |
| Shi Huangdi | 259 B.C.- 210 B.C. King of Qin who created the first unified Chinese empire and because the first Chinese emperor |
| province | a political division of a country |
| Great Wall | a wall in China originally built for protection from northern invaders that over centuries was extended to more than 4,300 miles |
| ancestor | a relative who lived longer ago than a grandparent |
| civil service | the practice of using skills and talents to work in the government |
| middlemen | a person who goes between buyers and sellers |
| Silk Road | a trading route that connected Europe and lands of the former Roman Empire with China |
| nobility | a high ranking social class |
| Analects | a collection of sayings by Confucius |
| Confucianism | a way of thinking and living based on the teachings of Confucius |
| Mandate of Heaven | in dynastic China, the divine right to govern for the good of all people |
| Daoism | the belief in finding “the way”, or the dao, of the universe |
