Vocabulary
Soil that is good for growing things in
What is fertile?
the color worn during the Chinese New Year
What is red?
meaning religious; a priest may be this way
What is pious?
What is the Indus River?
civilizations must have these to govern how people should act and what they're allowed to do
What are laws?
Most important river in India
What is the Indus River?
type of calendar the Chinese use
Name of boy who went with father to see the holy man
Who is Sanjay?
nicknamed because of the silt that fell into water and made it muddy
What is the Yellow River?
ancient civilizations must have this person to be in charge of all people
What is a leader?
feeling like you cannot wait until something happens due to excitement
What is eager?
time that Chinese celebrate New Years
What is two weeks?
city where Sanjay lived in our read-aloud
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
one of its nicknames was "China's Great Sorrow" because it flooded so often and destroyed cities frequently
What is the Yellow River?
ancient civilizations must have this so they can have crops to survive
What is farming?
protection against something harmful
What is defense?
Who is Confucius?
melting snow from these mountains caused Indus River Valley to be flooded
nicknamed China's Rice Bowl because its climate was perfect for growing rice
What is the Yangtze River?
ancient civilizations must have form of this to be able to communicate non-verbally
What is a form of writing?
getting over something, winning
What is conquer?
barrier built to protect China from nothern nomads and invaders.
What is the Great Wall of China?
way of holding water back and putting it into the fields when needed
this was needed to get the river water to the crops that were higher up than the river
What is a pump?
civilizations had to be located near one of these so they'd have a water source
What is a river?