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11 Cards in this Set
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loess
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a yellowish-brown soil that blows in from the desert
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terraces
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platforms of earth that look like stairs
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levees
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walls it in within its river banks (a dike used to control flooding)
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double cropping
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in which to crops are grown on the same land in the same year
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picto-graphs
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pictuers that represent words
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oracle bones
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used to predict the future
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provinces
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political divisions
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anscestor
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a relative who lived longer ago than a grand-parent
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civil services
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the practice of using skills and talents to work in the government
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middle men
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people who go between buyers and sellers
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nobility
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a higher ranking social class
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