Deadly Deserts and Towering Mountains. ... China's towering mountain ranges cover two-thirds of the country, including the Himalayas, which hold the world's tallest peaks along the country's western borders. These treacherous deserts and mountains kept early China isolated from Western civilizations.
Because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed. (I think that will be the answer to your question)
Pompeii was the city that was destroyed, yet preserved, by a volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.