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 Ancient China
Natural Barriers isolate ancient China from other civilizations, to the east lay the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the Pacific ocean. Mountain ranges and deserts all over China dominate two-thirds of its land mass. The two major rivers flow from the west into the Pacific ocean. The Huang He, whose name means "yellow river" large amounts of yellowish silt, which is actually fertile soil called loess, when its banks overflow. Only about ten percent of ancient China's lan d is usable for farming. Most of this land is between the two major rivers, Chang Jiang and Huang He, this land was know as the heartland of China which remained the center of China's civilization. Around the time the civilizations Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley fell to outside invaders, people called the Shang came to power in Northern China this lasted from around 1700 B.C. to 1027 B.C.


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Why Should i Care??
Ancient China's people "Zhou Dynasty" have made many technology improvements such as, Roads and canals, Coin money, and Blast Furnaces. They had tools that they had made from iron, they especially made dagger-axes and swords. This made farming easier for them and that was passed down millions of years.