The Geography Of China's Early Civilization

The geography of China affected the development of early civilization in many different ways. One of them is that the early river valley civilization of China grew mostly independently from the other river valley civilizations. They were isolated from them because of barriers such as the Gobi Desert in the north, the South and East China Sea in the south and east, and the Himalayas and other mountains to the west and southwest. But with their isolation, they were able to grow and develop along the natural resources given to them – the Huang He (or the Yellow River) and the Yangtze rivers. Because most of China’s fertile land were located along these rivers, this is where civilization flourished, and where people lived. The Yellow River deposits