Pictographs, clay, oracle bones, and bronze utensils along this river provide evidence of the Shang dynasty, the successors to the Xia.
The Chengkuo Canal irrigated part of this river's basin using water from the Wei River during the Qin dynasty. During the siege of Kaifeng, this river's dikes were disastrously broken and allowed for that city's immediate capture. An 1887 flood of this river immediately preceded the Taiping Rebellion. Pictographs, clay, oracle bones, and bronze utensils along this river provide evidence of the Shang dynasty, the successors to the Xia. The Grand Canal built by the Sui dynasty connected the Yangtze River with this one. For 10 points, name this dangerous and colorful Chinese river that accumulates soil called loess as it flows east.
The Chengkuo Canal irrigated part of this river's basin using water from the Wei River during the Qin dynasty.
Yellow River (also called the Huang He)