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| Yellowish-brown soil carried along river. It helped land become fertile. |
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| A protective wall that holds back the waters. |
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| Closely related people. Parents, uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters and grandparents. |
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| Chang Jiang river (Yangtze) |
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| Longest river in China and Asia. 3rd longest river in the world. |
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| Cut flat fields on hillsides to make room for more farmland; looks like a stairway. |
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| Name Chinese gave themselves. They were isolated by geographic barriers so they thought they were in center of world. |
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| respected spirit associated with emperor and good luck. |
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| Known as the Yellow River and China's Sorrow because it would flood unpredictably. |
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