China 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 people lived in huts outside the city. The shang people needed walled cities because they were constantly waging war.
- Geography: Its called the yellow River because it deposits yellowish silt which is fertile soil called loess which is blown from the deserts to the west and north
- Its floods because it devours the whole village
- "China's Sorrow"
- Settlers couldn't trade with other countries so they had to figure it out on their own
- Only 10% of China's land was suitable for soil
- Most farming land is located between the Huang He (Yellow River) and Chang Jiang in eastern China
- Culture: Yellow River the mother river
- Gunpowder, the compass, paper making, printing, poetry, and Song Ci
- Yellow River civilization is the Yuan Dynasty in glittering gems
- Importance: Is important because it provides china's local population with drinking supply and without the yellow river grasslands will shrink so farmers will have to move their animals some place else
- Supplies water to 155 million people or 12% of Chinese population and irrigates 18 million acres
- 400 million people live in the Yellow River
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