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| A study or the values and beliefs that give maning to life. |
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| Bones used by priests in ancient China to tell the future. |
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| Members of a ruling family or one of high rank |
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| A fine, yellow soil tha t is easily carried by the wind and rain. |
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| A vaulable cloth made only in China. |
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| Why was Huang River considered "China's sorrow" |
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| Because so many people died because of unexpected floods. |
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| An ancient province in Northern China that rose to power under Emperor Shi HuangDi in 221. B.C. |
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| Closely related people of several generations. |
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| A widespread lack of food resulting in hunger and starvation. |
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| A wall built along a river bank to prevent flooding |
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| The group of people whose job it is to carry out the work of the government. |
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| The kind of money used by people or a nation |
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| What happened when Chinese farmers stripped the land of trees to make more farmland? |
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| Land washed away and famine. |
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| Why did Chinese farmers strip the trees from the land? |
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| It was fertile, rock free and easy to dig. |
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| What were the problems with loess? |
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| it was light and would be washed or blown away. |
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| The first civilization and dynasty of ancient China |
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| the Chinese emperor from the Han Dynasty,140 to 86 b.c. He expanded the Chinese empire under the Han Dynasty, made Confucionism the state religion |
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| the gradual wearing away of soil and rock by wind, glaciers, or water. |
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| a Chinese philosopher and teacher; originator of Confucianism |
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| the second-longest river in China, beginning in Tibet and emptying into the Yellow Sea |
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| a series of rulers from the same family |
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| the idea from the Zhou Dynasty that the ruler was chosen by the gods.. it was a matter of fate |
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| the founder of the Qin Dynasty and China's first emperor |
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