1. Essential Question: How does geography influence the way people live?
Learning Goal: I will be able to identify the effect of China’s geography on where they settled and their interactions with other ancient civilizations.
Guiding Questions:
Why did China’s geography cause the ancient Chinese to have little knowledge of other civilizations, such as those of Egypt, Greece, India, and Rome?
Why do you think the Chinese continued to live along the Huang He, despite its dangers?
How will China’s geography influence modern China?

2. Geography of China Chapter 10 Pgs 278-280
(11minutes)
Watch video and take notes onto page 13.
Set up pages for Cornell notes!

3. Chang Jiang Powerful Rivers . Huang He loess
1/26/15
Topic: The Geography of China
(Textbook pages )
Pg 14
Essential Question: How does geography influence the way people live?
Questions:
Notes:
Powerful Rivers .
Huang He
loess
Chang Jiang
End 17:50 3rd period 5th period 20:00
Questions to consider: Why were rivers so important to ancient civilizations and how did they influenced the lives of the people?

4. Chang Jiang Powerful Rivers
1/26/15
Topic: The Geography of China
Pg 14
Essential Question: How does geography influence the way people live?
Questions:
Notes:
Powerful Rivers
Rivers were important for trade and transportation
Huang He
also known as the Yellow River because of the loess* it carries downstream to fertilize the land (loess – rich yellow soil)
Huang He river valley emerged as a great wheat producing area
Also known as “China’s Sorrow” due to the intense floods. Over 1,500 floods have been recorded since 600 BC
Chang Jiang
Also known as the Yangtze River
Longest river in China; 3rd longest in the world
produces rich soil; farmers along the Yangtze River produce rice
End 17:50 3rd period 5th period 20:00
Questions to consider: Reflect on why rivers were so important to ancient civilizations and how they influenced the lives of the people?

5. Mountains and Desert . 1/22/15 Topic: The Geography of China Pg 15
Essential Question: How does geography influence the way people live?
Questions:
Write a
question or
two for
each chunk.
Questions:
Notes: (CHUNK IT!)
Mountains and Desert .
End 17:50 3rd period 5th period 20:00
Summary: write your summary!!

6. China isolated (Himalaya Mts and 12 other ranges in
Geographic Barriers
Mountain Ranges keep
China isolated (Himalaya
Mts and 12 other ranges in
the west of the country.)
Oceans and Seas to the
east
Deserts to the north and west
Gobi Desert
Taklimakan Desert
Huang River
(Yellow River)
Yellow Sea
Chang River
(Yangtze River)
East China Sea
Himalaya Mountains
Xi River
(Pearl River)
South China Sea

7. Geographic Barriers
Mountain Ranges keep
China isolated (Himalaya
Mts and 12 other ranges in
the west of the country.)
Oceans and Seas to the
east
Deserts to the north and west
North China Plain
built up from soil deposits
from the Huang River
Intense summer rainy
season is brought on by
monsoons
Southern China Climate
monsoons from the South
China Sea bring heavy rains
from March to September
warm and wet year round

8. Why did China’s geography cause the ancient Chinese to have little knowledge of other civilizations, such as those of Egypt, Greece, India, and Rome?