Three Gorges Dam site

Usage examples of yangtze.

On most of the sectors civilization began in the valleys of the Nile and Tigris-Euphrates, or on the Indus and Yangtze.

Either way, the Yangtze has become very much more muddy during the history of the baiji species, mostly because of human activity.

Some or all of these centers may actually comprise several nearby centers where food production arose more or less independently, such as North China's Yellow River valley and South China's Yangtze River valley.

Water control systems also appear to have been associated with centralized political organization in some other areas of the world, including the Indus Valley of the Indian subcontinent, the Yellow and Yangtze Valleys of China, the Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica, and the coastal desert of Peru.

Thousands of them got various local diseases, sometimes called by such undignified names as the Yangtze rapids, Delhi belly, the Roman groanin', or the like.

OF THE MAJOR RIVERS OF THE WORLD, THE NILE CASTS A romantic spell from an ancient past, the Amazon conjures up images of adventure and danger, while the Yangtze entwines the soul with the mysteries of the Orient.

Finest of all caviars is roe of the Yangtze sturgeon simmered in a decoction of the seeds of the honey locust!

But it is clear that if those efforts were suspended for a moment, the kakapos, the Yangtze river dolphins, the northern white rhinos and many others would vanish almost immediately.

The reason for this is that there is nothing to see in the Yangtze.

Sweatley and his Marines, plus several able-bodied Yangtze sailors and several of the 15th Infantry retirees, provide the armed force to protect everybody.