Fertile river plains provided the surplus of food necessary to underpin the emergence of civilisation.
because the first civilization started there, Mesopotamia, and it was the base of their entire civilization ( the needed the rivers for farming, there for food, and water, and it was also used for transportation).
They all developed in areas around rivers, with some geographical protection from outside invaders.
He used "River" to symbolize the linkage of all human life from the earliest time to the present. Apex-History
He used "River" to symbolize the linkage of all human life from the earliest time to the present. Apex-History
"The cradle of civilization." It got this name from all the inventions that came from it.
Water, irrigation, fertility of soil. All the earliest civilizations started there.
Cradles of early civilization
Mesopatamia which means land between the rivers is thought by most to be the cradle of all civilization. It now is known as Iraq. Iraq is on the continent of Asia.
they're all located near rivers, because water is essential for the existence of life.
Rivers have been important in the development of nearly all civilizations - from the earliest known settlements around the Tigris and Euphrates in modern day Iraq, to the Mohenjo-Daro civilization along the Indus in what is now Pakistan, to the Nile RIver in Egypt.In more modern times, rivers provided a means of transportation for goods to travel from one spot to another, and fostered travel and communication from one spot to another.The Ohio, the Mississippi, and other rivers, played a large part in the growth and settlement of the US.
The Olmecs Civilization was the earliest of all the Mesoamerica Native American civilizations. There is no record of who the leader or emperor was.
It is called the fertile crescent . Because of the people who lived near Egypt lived in between two rivers called the Tigris amd Euphraties . The two rivers flooded all year around the same time every year . The people planted crops near flooding points in the rivers . and that has started agriculture.