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Exploring China's Geography and Early Civilizations

China's vast physical geography, covering nearly 4 million square miles, includes mountains, deserts, rivers, and plains that shaped its early civilizations. Major rivers like the Huang He (Yellow River) and Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) provided essential resources for agriculture, supporting farming communities and leading to the development of Dynasties such as the Xia and Shang. These dynasties laid the foundation for social hierarchy and early writing systems, helping to explain how geography influenced the rise of civilizations in ancient China.

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Exploring China's Geography and Early Civilizations

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  1. Chapter 7 Section 1Geography and Early China

  2. China’s Physical Geography • China covers an area of nearly 4 million sq. miles, about the same size as the United States. China’s boundaries isolated it from the rest of the world for thousands of years. What are China’s physical boundaries? (look in your book,pg 182)

  3. Physical Boundaries • Mountains • Deserts • Oceans • Characteristics: rivers, plains, plateaus

  4. Physical Map of China

  5. Regions of China • What is the weather like in the different regions of China? • Northwest • Northeast -Southeast

  6. Weather • Northwest • Northeast • Southeast

  7. Huang He RiverWhat is its other name? • What was important about the Huang He river? It flooded and layered the ground with silt.

  8. The Chang Jiang River • What did the Chang Jaing River do? • It helped connect eastern and western China. • Flooded and provided silt. What is another name for this river?

  9. Flooded rivers in China left silt deposits. • What happened as a result of this? • Farmers were able to farm: • Along the Huang He they farmed cereals like millet and wheat • Along the Chang Jaing they farmed rice

  10. Civilization Begins in China Huang He river produced farming and civilizations. Mountains and desert made travel difficult and isolated China. • Good farming • Lg. amts. of rain • Rice is main crop

  11. Summary

  12. The Xia (Shah) DynastyWhat was significant about the Xia dynasty? Dynasty: series of rulers from the same family. Their stories helped explain geography, and told about how kings worked with people to help solve problems. Yu the Great

  13. Shang Dynasty

  14. Shang Dynasty How was their social hierarchy organized? What was significant about the oracle bones? What advances did the Shang dynasty make?

  15. Check your Shang facts!!! • *The social order under the Shang Dynasty was: nobles, artisans, farmers, slaves. * • *Priests carved questions about the future on bones or shells which were heated, causing them to crack, Priests believed they could predict the future by interpreting cracks on oracle bones. * • *The Shang were the first people in China to develop a writing system. *

  16. Large cities Of China China Today

  17. Summary… Write Your Own!!!! Huang He River

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