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WORLD HISTORY
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The river system known as “China’s Sorrow” due to its extreme and violent flooding.
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Indus River
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Yellow River
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Tigris & Euphrates
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Crete
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The river is often called “China’s sorrow” because millions of people have been killed by flooding. The worst flood disaster in world history occurred in August, 1931 along the Huang He River in China and killed an estimated 3.7 million people.
Detailed explanation-2: -The worst flood in human history occurred in 1887, when the Yellow River overran the dikes in Henan Province. That flood covered 50, 000 square miles. It inundated eleven large towns and hundreds of villages. Nine hundred thousand people died, and two million were left homeless.
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