WHY DID THE WORLD'S FIRST CIVILIZATION ALL DEVELOP IN RIVER VALLEYS?

Question

PLEASE HELP ME AND GIVE ME THE ANSWER PLEASE

Answer 1

Hi Starlet,

 

This is a very open-ended question and everyone can have different opinions. However, I think that the main reason is that water is extremely important to human life. We cannot live without water. Thus, living next to a water source would be beneficial to turn away from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and begin developing civilizations.

 

Another possible theory is that as they shifted lifestyles, from hunter-gathering to staying in one location, the often, not always, fertile soil provided by seasonal or annual flooding by the nearby valleys enabled bountiful harvests.

 

Eventually, rivers were used as a means of trading. It was much easier to navigate down, not always easy going upriver, a river to trade than to cross through wide plains or the other landscapes just to trade with the neighbouring civilization.

 

If you have a textbook, you can definitely find more reasons in there. You can also ask a question and give your own explanation.

 

Hope this helps!