Flooding of this river led to many sorrows, but also permitted human settlement because of the fertile loess-rich soil.
A civilization centered around this river invented rammed-earth walls and developed advanced black and gray pottery. This river's valley was home to a civilization that wrote a book about every permutation of three broken-or-whole horizontal lines. The Records of the Grand (*) Historian describe early civilizations on this river. A civilization on this river wrote on tortoise shells, and performed divination using oracle bones. Flooding of this river led to many sorrows, but also permitted human settlement because of the fertile loess-rich soil. For 10 points, name this river, around which the Chinese civilization developed.
A civilization centered around this river invented rammed-earth walls and developed advanced black and gray pottery.
Yellow River [or the Huang He]