Question

How did East Asia’s highlands affect human settlement?

Answer 1

People were forced to live a nomadic lifestyle due to the rocky terrain and deserts.

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Answer 2

As explained below.

Step-by-step explanation:

• East Asia is surrounded by the vast expanses of the territory of China, Mongolia, north an south Korea, and Japan. It also is called the land of the five tigers and has 1/5 of the world population.

• Being surrounded by a chain of mountain ranges in west of Mongolia, and north of Russia, and south by the Himalayas. The Karakoram Ranges, and Tian Shan mountains in central Asia.

• These create the rain shadow zone and generate dry conditions west of china as the gobi desert in china and a warmer tropical climate in Taiwan and Japan.

• Since there is a moderate temperature in the interior area of east Asia. The thickly populated fertile river valleys of the central and the southeastern China as they have rich alluvial soils that provide food.