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Term Paper Northern Southern frontiers of China The land that we call China today has not always been a part of the traditional China In fact the China we know today is approximately twice the size of China under the Shangs rule the first known dynasty They have since gradually filled it by successive expansions out of their earliest known homeland in the North China Plain Through much of history the nomadic horsemen of the northern and western steppes and the sedentary Chinese engaged in a back and forth struggle to determine who would prevail With each invasion and attack some of the nomads would assimilate with the Chinese population Little did the Chinese know some of these foreigners would later on take over their whole country But some of the resistant ones who refused assimilate moved to Central Asia to become the Turks and the Huns A similar situation exists with the south except the people in the south were not nomads At about the same time civilization developed in the Northern China Plain in the south a group of people were also developing a similar culture with different languages When the Chinese invaded them some of them would then become Chinese and along with them they brought elements of their own culture or traditions and combined it with the Chinese culture Just as with the northern nomads some of the southerners were also very resistant and moved farther south to establish their own civilization as the Vietnamese people and Thai people Some of the differences between north and south derive from differences between Chinas two great river systems the Huang He RiverYellow River and the Yangtze River The Yellow River is located in the north and the water that flows in this river appears yellow due to the soil and thats how it got its name The Yangtze RiverChang Jiang is located in the south Their differences are also
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