Question

How did the location of the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts, the Himalaya Mountains, and the Pacific Ocean impact early settlement in China?

(1 point)
Responses

It meant early peoples had to trade along the Chang River.

It meant early peoples had to trade along the Chang River.

It meant early peoples had to develop into a seafaring civilization.

It meant early peoples had to develop into a seafaring civilization.

It meant early peoples developed in isolation.

It meant early peoples developed in isolation.

It meant early peoples fought for fertile land as there wasn't very much.

It meant early peoples fought for fertile land as there wasn't very much.

Answer 1

It meant early peoples developed in isolation.

Those deserts, mountains, and the ocean acted as natural barriers that limited contact with other civilizations, so early Chinese societies grew largely separated and developed their own distinct cultures (concentrated along river valleys).