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= = =Ancient China-= The walls of China's first cities were built 4,000 years ago. Unlike the other three river valley civilizations, the civilization that began along one of China's river systems continues to thrive today. Natural barriers somewhat isolated ancient China from all other civilizations. Like the other ancient civilizations, China's first civilization developed in the river valley. China, too, the danger of floods--but its geographic isolation posed its own challenges.



=Why should I care?-= Although ancient civilizations appear to be boring Ancient China is actually quite fascinating. The people of Ancient China made majors improvements in technology and trade.