Mountains and Deserts

Mountains and Deserts

To the south of China are the Himalaya Mountains. These are the highest mountains in the world. They provided a border that is so difficult to pas it is practically impossible, keeping the area isolated from many other civilizations, like the Mongols and any others around Chins. They were also important to Chinese religion and were considered sacred, many Buddhist people are associated with the Himalayan Mountains and not only Buddhist many other religions too.

To the north and west of Ancient China were two of the world's largest and probably the most famous deserts, they are the Gobi Desert, The Gobi measures over 1,600 km (1,000 mi) from southwest to northeast and 800 km (500 mi) from north to south.  And the Taklamakan Desert, The Taklamakan Desert has an area of 337,000 km² (130,000 sq mi) making it slightly smaller than Germany. These deserts also provided borders that kept the Chinese isolated from the rest of the world, You start to see a pattern her the Chinese people didn’t want anyone beside them, you can take this as arrogance or you can see for it what it really is which is Independent, they were all smart and skilled they didn’t need anyone else. The Mongols, however, lived in the Gobi Desert and were constantly raiding cities of northern China. This is why the Great Wall of China was built to protect the Chinese from these northern invaders.