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[3rd Adam Zac]

• Yellow river valley
  • Civilization
    • Anyang mainly built of walled
    • Rich people live in timber framed houses
    • Poor people lived in huts outside the city
    • Shang people needed walled cities because they were constantly waging war
  • Geography
    • Yellow river because it deposits yellow silt called loess which is blown from the west and northern deserts
    • Floods are disastrous
    • Sometimes called China’s sorrow
    • Geographic  isolation met no trade with outsiders
    • 10% of land is viable farm land
    • Most of the farm land is between the yellow river and chang jiang in eastern china
  • Culture
    • Called yellow river the mother river
    • Inventions
      • Gunpowder
      • The compass
      • Paper making
      • Printing
      • Poetry
    • The yellow river civilization is the yuan dnasty glittering civilization
  • Importance
    • Drinking water
    • A bunch of current figures, that have nothing to do with anything historical