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Notes on the Huang He/ Chang River Valley Civilizations….. It is debated but, but most historians believe civillization began in China, along the Huang He river in 1700 BCE. The seasonal floods of the Huang-He and Chang are both very unstable. They may over-flood, or cause drought. Though the Chinese have tried many different ways, they have never been able to tame the rivers. However they both bring much silt/loess, so much so, that the Huang-He is also known as the Yellow River. The fields of agriculture along the rivers are full of crops such as millet and rice. The first documented Dynasty was the Shang. A dynasty is when a ruler passes power down to their son. The Shang Dynasty ruled over the towns and cities along the Huang He river for about 1,000 years, and was then replaced by the Zhou Dynasty. The Shang dynasty had several important pieces. The dynastic rulers, or Emperors, were buried in tombs like the Egyptians. They had a form of writing that was mostly symbols, pictographs. They were skilled with a metal called bronze, many things from statues to charriots to swords have been found by Paleontologists that were made out of bronze. The people of the Shang Dynasty greatly believed in the power of their Ancestors - - they did not so much believe in gods, rather their former relatives that now controlled things on earth from the heavens. Shang priests also used Oracle Bones. They would heat a sheep bone until it cracked and then read the cracks to see the future or advice from ancestors. Shang rulers always had priests look at oracle bones before they made an important decision. The Huang-He/Chang River valley civilizations never came to prominence because of unstable rivers, and outside invaders.