Soc.St. Chapter 4 Flashcards
1
Q
a yellowish, brown soil that blows in from a desert
A
loess
2
Q
a picture that represents a word
A
pictograph
3
Q
the practice of using skills and talents to work in the government
A
civil service
4
Q
a platform of earth
A
terrace
5
Q
a bone commonly used to during the Shang dynasty in China to predict the future
A
oracle bone
6
Q
a person who goes between buyers and sellers
A
middleman
7
Q
a dike used to control flooding
A
levee
8
Q
a territory
A
province
9
Q
a high-ranking social class
A
nobility
10
Q
a process in which two crops are grown on the same land in the same year
A
double cropping
11
Q
a relative who lived longer ago than a grandparent
A
ancestor
