Yellow River
- Anyang was built mainly of wood. the city stood in a forest clearing.
- rich people lived in timber framed houses with walls of clay and straw
- poor people lived in huts outside the city
- Shang people needed walled cities because they were constantly waging war
- It's called the yellow river because it deposits a yellowish silt
- Its floods are disastrous because it devours entire villages
- China couldn't trade with outsiders so they had to figure things out on their own
- Only 10% of China's land is suitable for farming
- Called the yellow river the mother river
- its important because it provides China's local population with drinking supply
- 400 million people live in the yellow river basin
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