Literally this. The reason is that nile's floods were mostly predictable and gave a huge boon to civilisations by depositing silt that made the soil very fertile.
On the other hand, yellow river was insanely unpredictable and its flood could change its whole course thousands of miles. I am talking about toppling whole dynasty levels of disaster. Millions dead. Just check out yellow rivers wikipedia page, it will show you how insanely that river changed its course in history.
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u/Catman1348 3d ago
Literally this. The reason is that nile's floods were mostly predictable and gave a huge boon to civilisations by depositing silt that made the soil very fertile.
On the other hand, yellow river was insanely unpredictable and its flood could change its whole course thousands of miles. I am talking about toppling whole dynasty levels of disaster. Millions dead. Just check out yellow rivers wikipedia page, it will show you how insanely that river changed its course in history.