Rivers In Ancient Chinese Civilization
Rivers played a big role in why civilizations were able to grow so large because it could provide people with a way of transportation, water to drink, and irrigate their crops.
The Chinese first started to settle the land about 1.7 billion years ago near the Yun Nan Province in the south near the Yangtze River. Yun Nan has a warm climate to grow crops, and the river gave them water to drink and gave them a way to irrigate their crops. Fish also were an abundant food supply. As they prospered, they started expanding to take up more and more and they just built along the river. The other river in China was the Yellow River which gets its name because of the sediment which gives the river its dirty yellow color. We know today that these people
The Chinese first started to settle the land about 1.7 billion years ago near the Yun Nan Province in the south near the Yangtze River. Yun Nan has a warm climate to grow crops, and the river gave them water to drink and gave them a way to irrigate their crops. Fish also were an abundant food supply. As they prospered, they started expanding to take up more and more and they just built along the river. The other river in China was the Yellow River which gets its name because of the sediment which gives the river its dirty yellow color. We know today that these people