Overland travel was difficult in the early colonies. For a long time, water transportation was the colonists' main link to the outside world. In fact, nearly all the early colonial settlements were port located on natural harbors or navigable rivers. New settlers migrated by sea to the growing coastal towns and inland trading posts on rivers.
World Geography Today, Holt
it is located near the Pacific Ocean
What did early settlements have
#1. Water. #2. Food. #3. raw materials in order to build the settlements (i.e. wood, stone, mud, metal ore, etc.)
Overland travel was difficult in the early colonies. For a long time, water transportation was the colonists' main link to the outside world. In fact, nearly all the early colonial settlements were port located on natural harbors or navigable rivers. New settlers migrated by sea to the growing coastal towns and inland trading posts on rivers. World Geography Today, Holt
What did early settlements have
most settlements were located near water for transportation and shiping in and out goods. also for water to use as bathing, drinking, and cooking.
Because they was dirty
The creation of democratic government
The early English settlements contained many more families who intended to stay there permanently
Many early settlements during the Neolithic Age were located in fertile river valleys, such as the Tigris-Euphrates in Mesopotamia, the Nile in Egypt, the Indus in the Indian subcontinent, and the Yellow River in China. These areas provided fertile land for agriculture and access to water for irrigation.
The early English settlers profited mostly from agriculture.The early English settlements contained many more families who intended to stay there permanently.
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