Ancient China-Geography and Early Settlement

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In ancient times, what limited settlement in the Chang Jiang Basins?

Rainforest vegetation may have limited the space for farming

Why did fewer people settle in Outer China than in Inner China?

The climate was more extreme in Outer China

Why did ancient people on the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau herd yaks rather than grow crops?

The region was too cold for crops

What do the Turfan Depression and the Chang Jiang Basins have in common?

They are both lower than many other parts of China

Several groups of invaders from the Northeastern Plain traveled to Inner China

along a narrow coastal plain

What protected Inner China from invasion from the northwest?

barren deserts

How did the natural vegetation of the Northeastern Plain affect the lives of ancient settlers there?

Prairie grass provided food for horses and sheep

How did the Huang He most influence settlement near its banks?

By fertilizing the soil, it attracted communities of farmers

Why is the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau called the "Roof of the World"?

It is very high above sea level

Why is the North China Plain sometimes called the "Land of the Yellow Earth?

Limestone silt from the Gobi Desert covers the soil

How is the Gobi Desert different from the Taklimakan Desert?

Pebbles cover much of the sruface

In Inner China, which natural events enriched the soil?

floods

Later in Chinese history, which of these geographical features made governing China as a unified state most difficult?

its large size

Of all the countries in the world, China has the

most people

What made the Taklimakan Desert one of the most dangerous deserts in the world?

sandstorms and shifting dunes

Because rice requires warm wet weather, where did the ancient Chinese develop rice fields?

the Chang Jiang Basins


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