Ep. 244 | The History of Xinjiang (Part 1)
The China History Podcast
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The Great Wall From Outer Space
There were three basins in shin cang where the entirety of our story takes place. They are the tarim, mentioned already, the turpon and the zungarian basins. You could peck the entirety of egypt inside taran basin, with a little room to spare. All those tall mountains that rimmed the basin hogged all the precipitation in the air. And for that reason, the only rain or snow that fell, mostly all fell on the mountains and rarely ever in the basin itself.
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