Protection+from+Invaders

China's cultural center is located near the coast, in the center of the of the country. This location protected their culture from other country's influences. Theses are four reasons why China was a somewhat isolated society:

Moutain Images - The Himalayas are not merely a geographical feature, a range of mountains; they epitomise a people’s civilizational identity that goes back to the dawn of history. If these majestic mountains were not there, the rain clouds sweeping up from the Indian Ocean would have passed over the Indian subcontinent into central Asia leaving it a burning desert.
 * The Himalayan Mountains**

- The Himalayas stretch across six nations: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

- Urban civilization first emerged in the valleys of the rivers coursing down from the Himalayan mountains. When man elsewhere was cautiously emerging from his cave shelters, spectacular cities flourished at Mohenjodaro and Harappa in the Indus valley.

- The mountain range separates the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. They are the source of the Indus and the Yangtze rivers. Approximately 2.4 billion people live in the drainage basin of the Himalayan rivers, among them the people of Bangladesh.

Desert Images __Facts about the Gobi Desert:__
 * The Desert in the north-west**
 * One of the least populous areas of China
 * The desert protects from invaders because of lack of resources
 * Desert is about 500,000 square miles
 * Located on a plateau 3,000 to 5,000 miles high
 * A large about of the soil has been blown away by strong winds
 * Cold winters
 * Short summers
 * Short course grass
 * Not many people live there, but the silk road went through a fertile part


 * Long Pacific Ocean Coastline**


 * Large Country (long distances discourages invaders)**

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