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Homepage Geography .To China's east lay the yellow sea, the east China sea, and the Pacific ocean. .Moutain ranges and deserts dominate about two-thirds of china's landmass. Advantage-Not as much war-keep people out Disadvantage-90% of land was not good for farming, hard to trade and sharer knowledge. .The Huang He, whose name means "yellow river" deposits huge amounts of yellowish silt when it overflows its bank. .This silt is actually fertile soil called loess which is blown by the winds from the deserts to the west an north. .China's 2 major rivers, HuangHe (found in north) Chang Jinag also called Yangtze (flows east to the yellow sea)

Enviromental challenges .China's first civilization developed in a river valley. .China faced floods. .The Huang He's floods could be disastrous, sometimes devoured whole villages, nickname was "China's sorrow" .Because of China's relative geographic isolation, early settlers supply own goods, no trading with outside peoples. .Boundaries didn't completely protect settlers, invations occured repetedly in history.

China's Heartland .10% of land was good for farming. .A small plain known as north china was china's heartland. .Political boundaries expanded and contracted depending on strength or weakness of its ruling familes. .Heartland of china remained center of its civalization.