WORLD HISTORY

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: -The Huang-He River is so important because it provided the fertility for the origination of agriculture in northern China. Therefore, it was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chinese civilization grew up in the river valleys of the Huang River (a.k.a. the Yellow River) and the Yangzi River.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Chinese refer to the Yellow river as “the Mother River” and “the Cradle of Chinese Civilization". That is because the Yellow River was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilizations in the Xia (2100–1600 BC) and Shang (1600–1046 BC) eras-the most prosperous region in early Chinese history.