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sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago The Yangtze likely played a big role (In my poorly educated opinion). It’s far more reliable than the yellow river and likely provided a more stable ecosystem from which early people would learn to live with, and make use of, the yellow river despite its volitility.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
You’d think so, but according to Wikipedia it was both, and the Yellow river is definitely the more prominent one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_River_civilization
Huh, neat, I wonder why. I really gotta read more about Chinese “pre-history”
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
AFAIK it’s the gigantic sediment load plus the wind sediments from the Loess plateau, which makes the area exceptionally fertile.