Ancient China Lessons 1 & 2

a yellowish-brownish soil that blows in from the desert

• loess

• terrace

• levee

• bronze

a platform of earth that looks like a stair

• terrace

• levee

• double cropping

• loess

a wide wall that is built next to a river to keep it from flooding

• levee

• double cropping

• terrace

• loess

a way of farming in which two crops are grown on the same land in the same year

• double cropping

• loess

• levee

• terrace

River that flows through the North China Plain; has been called "China's Sorrow"

• Huang He (Huang River)

• Nile River

• Tigris river

• Euphrates River

Mountain Range located on the Tibetan Plateau that has the tallest peak on Earth

• Himalayas

• Rockies

• Smoky Mountain

• Alps

China is the largest country on this continent

• Asia

• Africa

• Europe

• South America

A large portion of China's food comes from the

• North China Plain

• Himalayas

• Europe

• Gulf of Tonkin

a picture that stands for a word

• pictograph

• province

• loess

• oracle bone

a shell or bone used during the Shang dynasty to tell the future

• oracle bone

• dragon bone

• Rosetta stone

• terrace