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Student book questions
15.2 Landscape and climate
Pages 418419
Check your learning 15.2
Remember and understand
1 Why did the ancient Chinese call the Yellow River ‘the Great Sorrow’?
2 How did the development of irrigation systems affect the people living by the Yangtze?
3 Explain how geographical features helped to isolate China from the rest of the world for a long time.
4 What impact do you think ancient China’s isolation would have had in shaping the society of the
people who lived there?
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5 Which of China’s surrounding barriers (natural and built) do you think would have posed the greatest
challenge for an invading force? Justify your opinion. Suggest what an invading force might have had
to do to overcome this obstacle.