2. China's ancient civilization locations had been based on the geography of China. The civilizations were located along the Yellow, Yangtze and Xi rivers where a supply of water is available to blooming or already set civilizations. An advantage from the rivers of China is a way of trading. You wouldn’t find a civilization in the Gobi Desert because of the geographical features of it. There is no way of getting water or any way of trading from the desert because of no transportation of a river. The river has many obstacles too, so it would be very hard to build a good civilization off of the Gobi desert. The geography affected where the many great dynasties was like the Shang, Zhou, Quin, Han, Sui and many other major dynasties.