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Did Ancient China Have a Single Origin? - Rethinking the Origins of Ancient Chinese Civilization | Sleepy Facts About History
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The traditional story of ancient China often centers on the Yellow River, treating the south as a later addition to a northern cultural core. But the landscape of early China was never that simple. The Yellow River carried thick, fertile silt from the Loess Plateau, supporting dryland millet farming in a challenging environment of floods and droughts. Far to the south, the Yangtze basin offered a warmer, wetter world of wetlands and rice paddies, requiring entirely different agricultural…
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