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 * Geogrpahy: **
 * 2/3 Mountains
 * Huange he & Chang Jiang
 * Rivers
 * Yangtze & Yellow
 * 10 % Farmlands
 * Deserts
 * Taklimakan Desert


 * Natural Barriers: **
 * Desert
 * Plateu
 * Mountains
 * Ocean
 * Sea
 * Isolated = not much trade


 * Environmental Challanges: **
 * China sorrow = floods
 * Isolated so they had little trade
 * Natural barriers did not protect them completely
 * 10 % Farmland
 * Invasions from west and north occured
 * Had to supply their own goods, rather than trade goods

**Dynasties**:
 * 1700 B.C. - 1027 B.C.
 * Shang
 * First to leave to written documents
 * 2000 B.C.
 * Xia
 * Yu
 * Irrigation
 * Zhou
 * Coin money
 * Roads
 * Canals
 * Blast furnace


 * Civilization: **
 * The first dynasties
 * Leader was Yu


 * Culture: **
 * Elder man in the family took care of property
 * Believed that spirits from ancestors bring good fortune
 * Consulted gods through ancestors
 * Consulted through oracal bones
 * Animal bones
 * Shells of turtles


 * Writing: **
 * Each character stands for one unit of language
 * Easy to read
 * Alot of symbols to memorize


 * Dynastic Cycle: **
 * Strong dynasty establishes peace
 * Dynasty declines, becomes corrupt
 * Disasters like floods occur
 * Old dynasty is lost
 * Mandate of heaven
 * Dynasty is overthrown, new dynasty emerges
 * New dynasty gains power