中国的传统与转型课件第二章lnk.pptVIP

China: Tradition and Transformation Lecturer: Liew Jien 中国的传统与转型 SWUFE 2. Early China: The Birth Of a Civilization 2.1 The archaeological Record Agriculture seems to have started in North China in the region of the great bend of the Yellow River, in a fringe area between wooded highlands on the west and swampy lowlands on the east, where hunter-fisher folk could domesticate animals and begin to cultivate plants for food. It then spread along the middle and lower course of the Yellow River and out over the North China Plain, which, despite severe winters, was well suited to agriculture