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Rivers are always useful.

You can travel on them if there aren't any/many roads. A bit of annual flooding can fertilize nearby fields and pastures. You can catch fish etc in them. They can give water for humans, livestock and to water fields with.

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They settled her to battle. With the river there, the people they battled couldn't surround them, because of the river.

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Because it provided water, food and transportation.

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