10. China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Yellow River and the Yang Se
The yangte is the longest river in asia and the third longest in the world, after the nile and the amazon. It flows for six thousand 300 kilometers from the mountains to the sea, right through the centre of what is to day modern china. The yellow river passes through a region known as the hwang to, or the yellow earth plateau, made up of some of the most easily eroded soil in the world. This huge quantity of silt gives the soil of the northern chinese plains an enormous fertility, but it also creates a number of challenges.
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