How did geography affect settlement in ancient china?

Answer 1

i believe it has something to do with isolation. they had huge mountain ranges cutting them off from Europe - the greatest powers at the time - and this separation from the rest of the world led them to believe they were superior than everyone else. they cut themselves off completely until European powers challenged them, won, and set up the open door policy. this created spheres of influence in china for several different countries. china at this point was very behind in modernization because they had isolated themselves for so long, so they were very weak to resistence.

Answer 2

Geography actually had a really big effect on the lives of the residents of Ancient China because the mountains and plateaus on the west side enabled people to live only in the east of China where there is fertile soil. The mountains and deserts also isolate it from the rest of Asia.

It also provided a natural security system for China. It has also required traders to travel over very dangerous terrain.

Answer 3

It stopped people incomers and foreigners from coming into China. It also protected them from invaders and other dangerous things. But it also made them isolated because it prevented different cultural people coming in and the outside world. Making China feel like they are the only ones living in this world.

Answer 4

A lot of the first settlements in China started around the two main rivers of China, obviously water is very important for any form of civilisation to grow. These two large rivers are the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.

Geography also effected the types of food grown in the country of course so that in the south a lot of people eat rice and in the north flour based products such as noodles.

Answer 5

The Himalayas separated China from the rest of the world.

Answer 6

Though invaders getting trough the great wall, but a huge part was the Yangtze and the Huang He River. They gave drinking water, fertile land, and made an easy way to travel!