Around 4000 B.C. communities of people settled in the Yellow River Valley in what is today this country
)of the middle Yellow River valley, known for 
its ... of the people at Banpo, but excavations have uncovered a settlement 
covering .... pushing back the crop's advent in the country by approximately 1,000 
years and... [DOC] [TLE] Chinese Geography: Readings and Maps | Asia for Educators ... [PAR] China's two major rivers, the Huang He (Yellow River) and the Chang Jiang .... 
fact that the earliest hearths of Chinese civilization developed along its river 
valleys.