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I thought the Yellow river was the oldest place for humans. The site where Shenyang and Fushun sit they have found signs of human living there 7200 years ago. I would think then from this that humans live by the Yellow River long before 4000 BC, this would put the humans on the Yellow River around 6000 years ago.

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A. Indus River Valley

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Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys

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The Wei River (Simplified Chinese:渭河; pinyin: Wei He; Wade-Giles: Wei Ho) is a river in west-central China and is the largest tributary of the Yellow River. The source of the Wei River is close to Weiyuan County in Gansu province. Weiyuan (渭源) literally means "Wei's source". At its source, it is less than 200 kilometres from the Yellow River at Lanzhou. However, due to the sharp turn north the Yellow River takes in Lanzhou, the Wei and the Yellow Rivers do not meet for more than 2000 km further along the Yellow River's course. In a direct line, its source lies 700 kilometres west of the main city along its course, Xi'an in the Shaanxi province. The length of the river is 818 kilometres and the area drained covers 135.000 km² Its valley was one of the early cradles of Chinese civilisation, along which the capitals of the Qin, (Xianyang), Han and Tang Dynasties were situated. The area in Dingxi City, Gansu Province, around its headwaters, has numerous stone age sites from various early cultures. In September of 2003 extensive rainfall led to flooding that caused over 30 fatalities, and temporarily displaced over 300,000 persons.

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I'm giving you some useful imformation. Chinese is a kind of ideograph not phonogram. And Chinese is consisted of lines and other stuff. You can't know the pronunciation of a Chinese character. So, we use another way to express the pronunciation. It's Pinyin. Pinyin is a kind of pronunciation system. The basic rule of Pinyin is the same to english. Such as the alphabet. But the pronunciation is a little different to english. You english native speaker have some difficult to pronunciation it correctly. So sometime we add some letters into a Chinese-Pinyin-word in order to make you pronounce conveniently. Such as the word 北京. The Pinyin is Bei3 Jing1. But you have not studied Pinyin. You can't pronounce it. So we write it into beijing. And the word 黄河. The Pinyin is Huang2 He2. But the pronunciation is not hunghe. We change it into hwang ho which is not Pinyin but you can pronounce it correctly. Just make it more close to the pronunciation of Chinese. It doesn't make sense. And there is not a rule about how to add the letters. Just try to make the pronunciation. My english is not very good. Please don't laugh at me. If you have any question, you can send e-mails to me. I'm pleased to give you some information.