Today we continued with our presentations.
China- Civilization
-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.
-Shang peoples needed walled cities because they were constantly waging war.
Geography
-main reason why its called the Yellow River is because it deposits yellowish silt which is fertile soil called loess which is blown from the deserts to the west and north
-The yellow River's floods are disastrous because it devours the whole village.
-The Yellow River is sometimes called China's Sorrow
-only 10% of china's land is suitable for farming
-Most of the farming land is located between the Huang He (Yellow River) and Chang Jiang in eastern China.
Culture
-They called the yellow river the mother river.
-Gunpowder, the compass, paper making printing poetry and song ci
Importance
-The yellow river 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 graze their animals somewhere else
-Yellow River supplies water to 155 million people.
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