Where the Name "Yellow River" Came From The name "Yellow River" comes from the huge amounts of "yellow" loess sediment it carries , which are eroded when it flows through the Loess Plateau.
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As Tang armies approached the Liang capital, a general named Tuan Ning decided to breach the Yellow River dikes and flood 1, square miles of the Liang Kingdom in a desperate effort to stave off the Tang.
Tuan's gambit did not succeed; despite the raging floodwaters, the Tang conquered the Liang. Over the following centuries, the Yellow River silted up and changed its course several times, breaking its banks and drowning surrounding farms and villages. Major re-routings took place in when the river split into three parts. The river jumped south again in during the waning days of the Yuan Dynasty. In , another attempt to use the river against an enemy backfired badly. Kaifeng city had been under siege by Li Zicheng's peasant rebel army for six months.
The city's governor decided to break the dikes in hopes of washing away the besieging army. Instead, the river engulfed the city, killing almost , of Kaifeng's , citizens and leaving the survivors vulnerable to famine and disease. The city was abandoned for years following this devastating mistake. A northward course-change in the river in the early s helped fuel the Taiping Rebellion , one of China's deadliest peasant revolts.
As populations grew ever larger along the treacherous river's banks, so too did the death tolls from flooding. In , a major Yellow River flood killed an estimated , to 2 million people, making it the third-worst natural disaster in history.
This disaster helped convince the Chinese people that the Qing Dynasty had lost the Mandate of Heaven. View all natural wonders worksheets. View all landmark worksheets. View all US state worksheets. View all country worksheets. View all Seasonal worksheets. View all mammal worksheets. View all marine life worksheets. View all insect worksheets.
View all Bird worksheets. View all natural world worksheets. View all earth science worksheets. View all biology worksheets. View all space worksheets. View all science worksheets. View all animal worksheets. View all Addition Worksheets. Da Yu, or Yu the Great, is a mythological figure who created systems to control the floods in the Huang He Valley, and is credited as the first leader of the Xia Dynasty. With the ability to better control the Huang He and save their crops from flooding, Chinese leaders were able to solidify their rule of China, and a number of dynasties headquartered in the region followed.
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