How did geography affect ancient people?

How does the geography of China affect the way people meet their needs?

• How does the geography of China affect the way people meet their needs? Their basic needs like food, clothing, transportation, education, career, etc!

• Answer:

  big cities like Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai work the same way as most other cities do in the world, as far as the people in China who live in the country-side or in western parts of China have a whole other way of doing things all the provinces of course have their business centers and people in the outlaying areas will travel to them for things they cannot get, but I think in most cases people way out in the villages basically are self-sufficient take for instance the recent earthquake, some villages were not reached for days b/c they were so remote, on way in one way out kind of deal how do they live? it is an agricultural society, they grew their own veggies, raise pigs, chickens and such for meat, dig wells, sow and knit their own clothes they are educated at the village school, if they have one, in some cases kids just go to school for a short time and start helping the family farm I have traveled a little to places like this and find that there are people who have never left the village their whole lives, they cannot read but are wise from experience transportation to and from these places are usually buses, if the town is big enough they will have a train, river travel is also pretty big in some areas I find these people to be the friendliest and kindest people of all, not soiled by riches and desires and worldly pleasures