WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Yellow River, Chinese (Pinyin) Huang He or (Wade-Giles romanization) Huang Ho, also spelled Hwang Ho, English Yellow River, principal river of northern China, east-central and eastern Asia. The Yellow River is often called the cradle of Chinese civilization.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.