vocab Flashcards
loess
Yellowish brown soil
terrace
Platforms of earth that look like stairs
levee
Used to control flooding
double cropping
Two crops are grown on the same land and the same year
pictograph
pictures that represent words
oracle bone
Used to tell the future
province
Political divisions
ancester
A relative who lived longer than your grandparents
civil service
The practice of using skills to work in the goverment
middleman
Go between buyers and sellers
Shang dynasty
The first dynasty
bronze age
The age when bronze has tools and weapons were made of bronze
Zhou dynasty
Conquered the last army shang ruler
Qin dynasty
King was made emporar under this dynasty
Great wall
One of the biggest engineering projects
Han dynasty
Eventually stretched south into present day borders of Vietnam and Combodia
Silk road
was a trading route
