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Hung he- floods could be disasterous sometimes devours villages, earning the nickname China's Sorrow.
 * Enviroment Challenges

chinese relatives had to supply their own goods rather than trade.

boundaries didnt completely protect them from invasions from the west and north that occured again and again.

China's Heartland- 10% of china's land is suitable for farming.

The plain is known as the North China Plain.

Civilization emerges in shang times.

fossils show that modern humans lived in southwest 1.7 million years ago.

The Geography of China-

the hung he is known as th yellow river and is could be found in the north.

chang jiang known as the yangtze, flows east to the yellow sea.

the hung he deposites huge amounts of yellowish silt when it overflows it banks.

the fertile soil is called loess, blows west and north.

mountain ranges and deserts dominate about two-thirds of landmass. (china)

taklimakan-

an icy 15,000 foot plateau of tibet. southwest of the himalayas. north gobi desert and mongolian plateau.

(CEIST)-

homo erectus skeleton found known as peking man. people settled the river valley 500,00 years ago.

first dynasties-

around 2000 b.c. settlements grew into china's first cities.

first dynasty- xia (shyah) dynasty

yu- technology of society making the transition to civilization.

shang dynasty-

lasted 1700 b.c. - 1027 b.c.

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