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| noun- a state of extreme confusion and disorder |
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| noun- a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family |
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| noun- (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops; |
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| noun- animal bones carved with written characters that were used to tell the future |
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| noun- they believed that heaven was a supreme force of nature that gave dynasties the right to rule. They called this right of rule the Mandate of Heaven |
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| adj.- paying tribute; of a stream; flowing into a larger stream; tending to bring about; being partly responsible for; noun a branch that flows into the main stream |
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| noun- a graphic character used in ideography |
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| noun- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea; |
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| noun- supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak |
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| noun- extensive plain without trees |
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| noun- a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind |
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| noun- a highly mobile army unit; troops trained to fight on horseback |
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