• holds 24% of world's population

Three Rivers Valleys

I.             Hang He (Yellow River) “China’s Sorrow”

II.             Chang Jiang (Yangzi River) = (Long River)

III.           Xi Jiang (Pearl River)

• Liao River
• Cold climate
• industrial area

• Includind Ordos desert
• extreme temperatures

• Takla makan desert basins, surround by mountains

• Tibet 
• cold, barren area 

• 2nd largest desert in the world
• sands are spreading towards Beijing
• Government is planting trees to reverse effects

• Evidence of human settlement as much as 500,000 years ago (Peking man)
• Japan settled 10,000-12,000 years ago by Ainu people

• Earliest dynasty
• ruled over the core area (1900 BCE)

• 2nd main dynasty
• territory grew (1766-1080 BCE)

• 3rd dynasty
• "Roman Empire of the East"
• Main "ethnic" group of China 
• Headquaters was the city Xian

• Final Dynasty (1644-1911)
• Defeated by Europeans
• How China got it's name