Yellow River

Due to its importance in size, the Yellow River is still a key resource for the Chinese civilization’s development. Nowadays industrial, agricultural and residential areas increasingly contribute to water contamination. However, there are measures that can be taken to reduce the amount of these pollutants. Current interventions addressing pollution control measures depend on the area of location of the river. In this approach, as part of the environment management, chemical and physical tests were done in order to divide the river in small parts referred to as functions. The main characteristic of these zones is the pollutant discharge capacity, serving, as indicators of what kind of chemical are initially present in the water, and allowing to proceed with a specific remediating technique. In the past, there has been an important…

The Yellow River estuary has rich biological resources. It represents the spawning area for many fish species of the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea, and an important fishing ground in the northern China Sea (Shan et al., 2013). Laizhou Bay is an estuary of the Yellow River, and has high primary productivity. It represents an essential nursing and feeding area for many species (2et al., 2013). There is low biomass in the river, but the presence of few and unique indigenous fish make the conservation of…

The Shang and Zhou dynasty coexisted and originated in China, around the Yellow / Huang He river in the Bronze era ( 1,700 bce ) and went on to exist for nearly 2,000 more years. Though these Dynasties weren’t in perfect peace and harmony with one another, they shared similar values and working methods in which made the two opposing dynasties very similar. Each pillar (social, political, interaction with the environment, cultural, and economics) had it’s own way of showing through in it’s time…

This relates to the chapter because the Samurai represented a significant cultural aspect of Japanese history. In addition, this Samurai class was practically abolished with the modernization and industrialization of Japan, yet some extreme Japanese nationalist call for a removal of Western culture and a return to the military based society of Samurai. sediment load (486)- Sediment load is a term used to describe the amount of sand, mud, and clay present within a river. This relates to the…

The twentieth century was the century of urban revolution. The population of many cities has been growing exponentially, and cities are urbanising rapidly. Hence, many cities like Singapore, New York, and Tokyo are facing the issue of scarcity of land. One might say that many countries have abundant land in the form of forests and farms, which can be transformed into an urban land someday, but land is not created equal. Singapore and Hong Kong are of the most densely populated cities in the…

People resort to violence because they think it is the right decision but there were always different ways of solving problems. Boxers was about foreign missionaries and soldiers converting the Chinese to Christianity. These foreigners would harass the chinese and disrespected their Gods. Bao and many others wanted to rid of them so they resort to violent acts to be intimidating and get them out of China. Bao and the others would learn to harness the powers of their Gods and kill any foreigners…

Yellow River, one of China’s mother river which fostered the Han ethnicity throughout history, turned into a ruthless murder killing nearly millions of people during the second Sino-Japanese war. The 1938 Yellow River Flood, also known as “Huayuankou (Flower Garden mouth) embankment breach event” was one of the most severe ecological disaster and the largest act of environmental warfare in history. Though the flood was claimed to be a strategic decision in order to halt Japanese marching to…

The Sanmenxia dam has become a national symbol of power and the party’s ability to dominate nature. Many people hoped that the construction of the Sanmenxia Dam would block all the silt from upstream and make the Yellow River “run clear”. (Yellow River, pg.184) After completion, the dam failed to block all the silt in the Yellow River because the rapid silt accumulation has exceeded Chinese leader’s expectations. The purpose of the dam was later changed to discharge silt back into the river…

The Egyptian complex societies grew up along the banks of the longest river in the world, the Nile. During the third millennium BCE these people created a distinctive and powerful state. Many of the people living here had migrated to Egypt, some from the eastern and western deserts in Sinai and Libya. Ancient Egypt was an area where different cultures blended cultural practices and technologies. Very similar to the people of Egypt were the people of East Asia. Just like all the other people of…

The Mesopotamian civilization and the Yellow river civilization both had characteristics that showed an advanced society. Mesopotamia had a form of centralized government named Hammurabi's code which is a set of the laws written by King Hammurabi. The Yellow river valley civilization had oracle bones, a form of religion which were shoulder bones of animals that were thrown into fires and read by priests to see what would happen in the future. Mesopotamia achieved greatness because of a written…