I Believe the answer is: Serial position effect
Serial position effect refers to a tendency among people to held the first and lest object of memory in higher regards compared to the one that placed in the middle. This happen because most people use the first and last objects in the list to mark and separate one set of memory with another.<span />
In ancient times<em> China</em> was isolated because of the mountains and rivers, they had the Himalayas and the Gobi, as good barriers. They believed that were alone in the world. Living in isolation made difficult to govern there, because of the large areas they had. This made people lived in different parts of China, create their own culture and costumes too, dialects, and way of speaking.