Transportation Differences Between North and South

Southern boats and northern horses. Ancient China's mode of transportation is the South to ship-based, the North to horse-based. The reason is that the southern climate is humid, precipitation is abundant, the surface of the river network is dense, so in order to adapt to the "water town" ship transportation came into being. And the northern more arid, semi-arid climate, extensive pasture, developed animal husbandry, horses in addition to providing dairy products, but also with its endurance, fast and domesticated by the people of the north as a means of transportation in the northern part of the earth.