HIST 1011 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Shennong, Yellow Emperor, Fuxi
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Fu xi ox-tamer who domesticated animals and introduced family life. Shen nong the farmer who taught agriculture. Huang di called the yellow emperor, and credited with the writing system and inventing bows and arrows. In china, around the 8th millennium b. c. e. people began living along riverbanks, and growing crops. Many of these settlements were near the yellow river, where the. Similar communities have been found in central, and southern china. The southern settlements were based on rice, not dry crops. As agriculture was mastered, communities became more complex societies. Because civilization spread from the the yangtze and yellow river valleys to eastern and central china, the two river valleys are the core regions of development in china. This arid/forbidding landscape is central to chinese life. The geographical barriers isolated china from other societies. This meant that china"s contacts with the outside world was characterized by mutual distrust and conflict. To the east lay the china sea, filled with pirates.
