The Yellow River Civilization
-built mainly of wood
-rich popole lived in timber houses
-poor people lived in huts outside of the city
-located in china
-deposits yellowish silt which is fertile soil called loess which is blown from deserts to the west and north
-floods are disasturous it devours the whole village
-sometimes called "china's sorrow"
-10% of land is suitable for farming
-couldnt trade with outsiders
-invented gun powder
-provides local populations with drinking supply
-supplies water to 155 million people irrigates 18 million acres
-400 million people live in the yellow river basin
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