Question

What did early Chinese people grow on the banks of the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers?

Answer 1

Answer:

b) millet and rice

Explanation:

The Chinese people where on of the first in the world to start practicing the farming of wild plants and gradually turning them into domesticated ones. The first crops that the Chinese start to cultivate were the millet and the rice. The cultivation of these two crops initially started on the banks of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. The reason why these were the places chosen for cultivation was that these two rivers were flooding their valleys each year, leaving lot of deposits in the valleys, thus bringing them new, and very fertile later. This enabled the people to grow these crops without any problem, as well as to be getting a very good harvest, thus securing the food problem.