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China Vocabulary
china vocabulary mrs. cissel
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History
6th Grade
03/14/2006

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interminably
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without end; tiresomely long
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conscripting
Definition
forcing people to enlist in the army
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impenetrable
Definition
can not be entered or crossed
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plundering
Definition
taking by force
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emperor
Definition
principal ruler of China
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grotto
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cave
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pagoda
Definition
originally burial sites; evolved as the principal worship are of Buddhist emples
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loess
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yellow-brown soil
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oracle
Definition
prediction about the future
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feudalism
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economic system in which nobles own the farmland and peasants work on it
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dialect
Definition
defferent form of the same language
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Himalayas
Definition
world's highest mountains, southwest part of China
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nobility
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class of people having high birth or rank
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Confucianism
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ideas of Confucius, emphasizing such calues as family, tradition, and mutual respect
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province
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territory governed as a unit within a country or empire
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bureaucracy
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type of organization structured like a pyramid, with one person at the top and many at the bottom; workers at each level supervise those below them
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censorship
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control of what people read or write or see or hear; efforts to prohibit free expression of ideas
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seismograph
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machine that detects and records the intensity of earthquakes
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middleman
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trader who buys from the producers and sells to the consumers
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yurt
Definition
tent
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