The valleys gave an assured source of abundant food and water.
In Nile River
the Nile river
Rivers allow for transport Rivers provide water and food River floodplains are fertile
Ruins of early civilizations were most commonly found in valleys formed by the flow of dried out rivers.
The upper (south on a map) Nile River.
5000 B.C. is when the first civilizations emerged in river valleys.
Early civilizations developed near any river valleys. The most common river valleys was the Nile RIver of Egypt, Tigris and Euphrates river in the fertile crescent and the yellow river/Huang he river in china. the reason for the settlement near the river valleys was the fertile land. Nomads did not have to move around for food and home. THey learned to grow crops and domesticate animals. River valleys gave nomads a place to stay and develop towns and villages which led to societies and a civilization.
They were in fertile river valleys that had good soil to farm on.
Around productive, well watered land, usually river valleys.
The annually renewed soil from the river flooding provided the surplus of food on which a civilisation can develop.
The occupied fertile river valleys, which gave them the surplus produce on which civilisation could develop.
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