Question

Explain how certain geographic features caused China to be isolated from others.

Geographic Feature 1: Taklimaken Desert
​Geographic Feature 2: Himalaya Mountains

Answer 1

The Taklimaken Desert and the Himalaya Mountains have contributed to China's isolation by acting as barriers and limiting interaction with other countries.

Step-by-step explanation:

The geographic features of the Taklimaken Desert and the Himalaya Mountains have contributed to China's isolation from others.

The Taklimaken Desert, located in western China, is a large desert that is uninhabited and inhospitable due to hot summers and long cold winters. The desert acts as a barrier, making it difficult for people and resources to pass through and interact with China.

The Himalaya Mountains, situated on the border between China and India, also create isolation for China. These mountains act as a natural boundary, separating China from other countries and limiting trade and interaction.

Answer 2

It isolated it from other cultures because there were the Himalayan Mountains, the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau, the Taklimakan Desert, and the Gobi Desert. Cold climates also kept invaders out.

Step-by-step explanation:

1. The Taklamakan Desert is an inhospitable approximately 1000x500 km (193,051 sq. mi.) oval. It is far from any ocean, and so hot, dry, and cold, by turns, with shifting sand dunes covering 85% of the surface, propelled by northerly winds, and sandstorms.

2. The most characteristic features of the Himalayas are their soaring heights, steep-sided jagged peaks, valley and alpine glaciers often of stupendous size, topography deeply cut by erosion, seemingly unfathomable river gorges, complex geologic structure, and series of elevational belts (or zones)

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