ancient china
split into warring fractions
large landmass in asia
had very wealthy people
foot binding
influenced man neighboring cultures
most people were famous
buddhism
has a history of over 5000 years
they didn't have kings and queens they had
emperors
they had different dynasties
they invented many things
13th century AD Marco Polo wrote about china and interested the Europeans
over the years many rivers have flooded causing destruction
each dynasty (ruling family) made small changes, never very significant
the flood carried silt to the farmers and helped keep farms fertile
fourth largest country in the world
climate
always been a continuity (same thing most of the time, largely unchanged)
pacific ocean as it's eastern boundary
tropical rain forests in the south
two great deserts in the north west
in the south west rise the peaks of the highest mountains in the world, the himalayas
two large rivers somewhere
northern china doesn't receive much rainfall
vast landscape
summer = hot winters = cold