HISTORY
ANCIENT CHINA
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Nile
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Huang
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Yangtze
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Indus
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Huang He (Yellow River) Valley is the birthplace of Chinese Civilization. The Yellow River is the second largest river in China and one of the longest river systems in the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -Control of the river and its drainage area provided the great surplus of grain required for China’s military and political expansion beginning in the Qin Dynasty (221–207 bc).
Detailed explanation-3: -Two great rivers run through China Proper. Two great rivers run through China Proper: the Yellow River in the north, and the Yangtze (or Yangzi ) River to the south. In fact, most of China Proper belongs to the drainage-basins of these two rivers. Both originate to the far west in the Tibetan Plateau.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gunpowder, the compass, paper making, and printing-all of these inventions were the result of the Yellow River civilization.