Geography of China Notes
I. Where in the world is China?
II. The importance of location
A. Two important factors limited China's contact with outsiders:
1.
This is something China
shares with India
________
2.
________
B. Natural barriers insulated China from outsiders.
1. The
forms part of China's
2. The
contain some of the
________
natural boarder to the west.
________
tallest mountains in the world.
3. The
is a vast area
________
stretching from Mongolia into China.
4. What formed the natural barrier to the East?
C. Natural barriers and long distances separated China from other
civilizations. This geography allowed China to develop relatively
undisturbed. Just like with India this had both benefits and drawbacks.
Give an example of how this could help China and how it could hurt.
How might this help China?
How might this hurt China?
D. Some contact did occur from trade, missionaries and invasion.
III. China developed along its rivers
A. There are two main rivers in China.
1. The Huang He River (also called the Yellow River)
2. The Yangtze River (also called the Chang River)
B. The rivers flooded out of their banks, creating fertile land but also
causing great destruction. Recall: can you
name another example of a civilization that
flourished along a that flooded frequently?
C. The Huang He River has an ominous
nickname. It was sometime called the ________________________.
How might it have received this nickname?
Why do you think people continued to live near it?
D. _________________ is fertile yellow soil that blows off the plains
into the rivers and is deposited on land during a flood.