WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT CHINA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Similar the Nile River, the Huang He deposited ____ when it flooded.
A
rich black silt
B
rich yellow loess
C
dark red mud
D
granite rocks and marble
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -What is Loess and why is it significant in China’s history?-called the Yellow River because huge amounts of loess sediment turn the water that color. So much of this mineral-rich soil ends up in the Yellow River that it can fill the riverbed and thus change the river’s course.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Huang He, whose name means “yellow river, ‘’ deposits huge amounts of yellowish silt when it overflows its banks. This silt is actually fertile soil called loess (LOH•uhs), which is blown by the winds from deserts to the west and north.

Detailed explanation-3: -The cause of the floods is the large amount of fine-grained loess carried by the river from the Loess Plateau, which is continuously deposited along the bottom of its channel.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Huang He or Yellow River is the second largest river in China after the Yangtze and has a total length of 5, 464 km. The Huang He rises in northern China in the Kunlun Mountains in Qinghai Province, south of the Gobi Desert.

Detailed explanation-5: -Loess-fertile soil left behind by the flooding of the Huang He River.

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