The correct answer is - The region is dominated by desert and high elevations.
Most of the population of China is concentrated in the eastern half of the country, while the western half is very sparsely populated. The main reason for this is the geography and the climate of this part of China.
The western half of the country is dominated by high mountains, the highest in the world actually, the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, deserts and semi arid ares. All of these places are not suitable for living, especially not for larger populations, so there's towns and villages that far away from one another, and they have relatively small populations.
As more and more modern things were being implemented into society people found a need for change. A change to modern times. Some modern activites which cause this such as trade and wealth were becoming more popular therefore causing more modern adjustment which caused the Renaissance.
The Catholic Church suppressed many ideas of the Scientific Revolution and they even excommunicated Galileo for saying that the earth revolved around the sun
