The first farming societies were located along rivers because farms need water to survive. Without the modern invention of Plumbing, it would be impossible to sustain a farm in a location far from water.
Farming civilizations developed along rivers because if they were to far from water the crops would have dry out and die before harvest!. Farmers just can't wait for rain, even back then! Where the first farming civilizations started were dry places! Farmers HAD to find a way to get water on a daily bases, thous, they moved by rivers!
The ancient mesopotamians settled along those rivers because it was a water source to drink, it had fish to eat, and it was used for transportation.
when floods happen the soil gets rich and now they can plant get water and do what ever they need to do that includes water.
they wanted to take shower and get water for there survivement and follow the path for easy reading at maps for where they are going
Some of the earliest agriculture was developed in the Fertile Crescent, in what is now Iraq. Due to the lush soil the the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, grains for bread and beer were the some of earliest cash crops.
Between the Tigris and the Euphrates river
the four earliest farming areas developed are North America, South America, Africa, and Australia
15,000 years
africa, aisa, north and south america
Africa,Asia,norht America.south America
Asia Africa Antarctica north America
They developed around 6000-7000 Bc.
It was in Mesopotamia and Egypt that the first agricultural communities estableshed permanent farming populations which developed into civilised states.
The fertile land from Syria to the Persian Gulf (that is Syria, Lebanon, Israel, valley of the Tigris and the Euphrates). With this expression archeologists describe(d) the territory in the Middle East where the first civilizations were born. These developed from the first farming communities which existed from c. 8000BC on.
FARMING
River valleys provided rich soil to grow plentiful crops.