- largest country in asia
- Inner China (East)
- more ancient history
- 1. Outer China (West)
- Himalayan Boundary
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Tibet-Qinghai Plateau
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tall mountains
- Mount Everest
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very cold
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thin & dry air
- Difficult to live
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too cold & dry
- farming difficult
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people
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raised stock
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Yaks
- meat
- milk
- Wool
- clothing
- Turfan Depression
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North East Plain
- Called: Inner Mongolia/Manchuria
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too cold & dry
- farming difficult
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Land of
- hills
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river valleys
- Enrich Soil
- Water for irrigation
- plains
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attractive to settlers
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Crops
- rice, wheat, millet
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Cattle
- oxen, pigs, sheep, chicken
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North China Plain
- Drier and Cooler
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Land of Yellow Earth
- Silt from Gobi Desert
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Yellow River
- Called: Huang He
- Very Muddy
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Water for Farming
- People Settled here
- Wet & Fertile lands
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caused Flooding
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caused Damage
- Loss of life
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Chiang Jiang Basins
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Warm and wet
- growing rice
- thick rain forest
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heavy rains
- farming difficult
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hundreds of tributaries
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Tributary
- Stream feeding river
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Takliman Desert
- Dangerous
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Gobi Desert
- World's Largest Desert
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Oasis
- water near desert
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Great Wall of China
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for protection
- against Invasion