How did the geography of ancient China affect the development of its culture? Access to the seas allowed Chinese people to trade with cultures from far away.
Fertile land in the river valleys forced the Chinese people to farm instead of developing other skills.
Isolation from other lands forced the Chinese people to depend on themselves to adapt to their environment.
Extensive highlands promoted a nomadic lifestyle that kept the Chinese people from becoming a unified culture.

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frederick william of brandenburg-prussia trained his son, frederick, to be a hardy soldier. but frederick disliked rifle shooting and horseback riding. unlike his father, he was interested in french literature. he enjoyed poetry and music and, like some others of the enlightenment, he scoffed at religion. his father thought him soft, frivolous and unmindful of his duties. and when frederick refused to put his signature on a right to succession, for a few moments his father strangled him.

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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