Rivers played an important role in the rise of the greatest and oldest civilizations in China and India. Explain this statement. What is the importance of rivers for humans and other living things?

Which of the following statements about the shang dynasty’s system of writing is false? a. no evidence of the writing system has survived. b. the shang often wrote on bamboo parchment. c. the writing system had over 3,000 characters. d. the writing system developed from a system of pictographs.