Introduction Geography Ancient China Introduction Geography

Map #1 Shade each a different colour and label: China, Japan, India, Mongolia, Russia, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Nepal. Mark on the map: the Himalayas and the Gobi Desert

Map #2 Mark on the Map: The Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the East China Sea, the South China Sea, the city of Anyang

The Great Wall of China is the only human-made structure on Earth that can be seen from space.

Chinese societies developed in isolation from the rest of the world. Chinese borders were protected in southwest by the Himalayan Mountains and the west by the Gobi Desert.

Two rivers were very important in ancient China, the Yellow River and the Yangtze. The rivers provided people with transportation routes, water for washing and drinking, and irrigating crops.

The land surrounding the Yellow River is covered in loess; yellow silt from the plains and Gobi desert. The loess was brought into the area by glaciers and from the annual flooding of the Yellow River.

The Yellow River was not consistent in level because of unpredictable summer rains; this made it necessary for farmers to learn how to build dikes, dams, canals, and irrigation systems.

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