Ancient Chinese Civilization: Geography, Government, and Early Dynasties, Summaries of History

Download Ancient Chinese Civilization: Geography, Government, and Early Dynasties and more Summaries History in PDF only on Docsity! The Chinese civilization began along with one of China's river systems 3500 years ago and continued to thrive today. geography ; natural berries isolated the ancient civilization from the other civilizations Chinese civilization knew of many rivers and the famous one is Huang he the Yellow River and it is about 2900 miles long, And the yangetz River is about 3400 miles about 10% of the total area is for farming mountain ranges dominate about 2/3 of the Chinese landmass because of China's relative geographical isolation, the Early settlers had to provide their own goods rather than trade with outside people. ¶ China's political borders have expanded or contracted depending on the strength or weakness of the rolling family. government ; they were governed by the emperor King and Dynasty which is the hereditary rulers about the time when the Mesopotamia and the civilizations fell to outside Invaders. A people called the Shang Rose to power in northern China around 1750 bc. The dynasties in Earley China were Xia, Shang, zhoo, and qin. The shong dynasty was mostly a farming Society ruled by an aristocracy .