The Yellow River
Anyang was built mainly of wood, the city stood in a forest clearing, the rich people lived in timber framed houses with walls of clay and straw, the poor lived in huts outside of the city, shang people needed walled cities because they were constantly waging war
Geography
The main reason why it is called the yellow river is because it deposits of yellowish silt which is fertile soil called loess which is blown from the deserts to the west and north, the yellow river flood s are disastrous because it devours the whole village, Only 10% of china's land is suitable for farming, most of the farming lad is located between the huang he and the chang jiang in eastern china,
Culture
The called the yellow river mother river, gunpowder the compass printing and poetry and song ci, yellow river civilization is the yuan dynasty in glittering gems,
importance
provides chinas local population with drinking water supply and without it the grasslands will shrink so farmers would have to graze their animals somewhere else, 400 milliom people live in the yellow river basin
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