During the Neolithic revolution, people could start settling down permanently and begin creating villages in which they would live. Eventually, these villages would grow larger, more travelers or nomads passed by and decided that they also wouldn't mind settling down. How could people ' just start settling down ' ? - farming. That's what the Neolithic revolution was. It was a period where people realized or discovered that they could actually stop being hunter/gatherers and start farming. In the Huang River Valley this exact cycle occurred. Almost all of the first civilizations where built near rivers because they provided transportation and a consistent supply of water. There is also direct evidence of the influence the Chinese had on the world, through culture. All of the basic characteristics and elements of any other great nation are easily present in the …show more content…
Having included all of the basic characteristics of a successful society such as their government, in the form of several passing dynasties and their complex religions Confucianism and Daoism. Like the Chinese, most civilizations had social classes, and job specialization, as I mentioned earlier, in Chinese tradition the royals and nobles were at the top. The nation felt a sense of unification after to the invention of writing, which made it possible for people to communicate more efficiently. The feats of arts and architecture which involved The Great Wall of China and the art of calligraphy further more carried on developing the country as did the public works which included the building of canals and roads. Surreal, how the small villages in the Huang River Valley evolved into one of the world's leading countries, The Great Nation of