Early+Civilizations

The Neolithic China consisted of a group or tribes and other societies that were diverse but isolated from the world due to geographical constrictions. Chinese geography and landscape itself is highly mountainous and mixed from environment to environment. Although early people made it to China through exploration, they remain isolated once settled, finding comforts in horticulture and agriculture. According to archeological research groups of people remain isolated and eventually settled in areas and stay isolated due to the conditions present in the land, which in part forced them to move from place to place in nomadic tribes. The reasons this could have happened to the clans in China becomes clear when looking at a map of geographical china.



As can be seen from this image the area of land is different from the edge of China as you go from west to east. Although this is a picture of Modern China the land itself has change little in 3000 years, although early civilizations probably saw vast changes in the land overtime, such as in the form of climatic conditions (5). In addition, the outline of the region known as China today has changed widely because of the change in political and social structures, including warfare and the conquest of lands.



On closer inspection of the land surrounding China mountainous regions become clearly visible. Because of the elevation of some areas in China, the early people who inhabited this land probably were unable to move around easily.



Eventually small areas of land between mountains and close to rivers are settled and the people might find it hard to move from those areas once settled. This picture above shows of the compact space between higher elevations of land that modern Chinese civilizations still cope with. Most likely past civilizations would have similar difficulties to overcome as these people today however, there is probably no knowledge of the outside world from that area available, probably restricted the fruition of a political structure for several years. This might explain why the Xia Government itself did not become a prosperous society like the Egyptians who were creating their Dynasties around the same time until later. It might also have created some isolation, therefore, their society lacked contact with other prospering societies, which possibly slowed the progress of Chinese civilization until much later. Reasons for this include lack of trade and other commerce which may have created a need to structure a working civilization with labor customs and other societal attributes that might have placed an importance on the development of a prospering civilization.