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The Yellow River is running through China and the area around has been having inhabitans for 50 000 years and is considerd the crib of the Chinese civilization.
The river has also gotten the name ”The Chinese Sorrow” due to the fact that it often is flooding and has taken most lifes in the history.
The most devestaing disaster occured in 1887 when about a miljon persons died.
In 1931 a general got the idea to use the Yellow river in the war against the japanese. He blow up some of the bars and therefore caused a controlled flood that would stop the Japanese attacks.
The results become even better, it was a total flooding, but about a quarter miljon chinese died in the waters, and about six miljons more become homeless.
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