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The Rise and Fall of China’s First States
Tides of History
The Rivers in China Are a Continually Recurring Problem
Rivers link coast line to areas deep in the interior and act as corridors along which people, goods and ideas travel because of terrain. Flooding has been a massive problem throughout recorded chinese history and beyond into pre history. Both places were centres of plant domestication, millet along the yellow, rice along the yangs. Animals were domesticated in both places. People grew more numerous along both rivers, spreading from their core regions toward inner mongolia and south along the coast. Some settlements grew larger than others, the beginnings of what we call settlement hierarchy. After five thousand b c, some chinese neolithic societies completely rejected them and even abandoned agriculture altogether in favor of hunting and
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