Why do people wanna live near rivers? O_o

 A few positive reasons of living near rivers :D

•  The water from the river provides rich soil for farming. So the people that lived around there were farmers.
• The river also provides transportation for the people that live around there. This is good for trading around the world.
• The water there also provided baths.
•  Imagine the soil. What types of plants (the ones you can eat like grapes carrots, etc.) grow there.
• Since the river provides rich farming you can see what types of food grow from the soil. Remember that a back then, they did not have all these fancy gardening tools such as gloves, etc.
• Some places that are similar to this is Mesopotamia and Egypt. Egypt has the Nile that also provides them with gifts from the Nile river. And Mesopotamia has two rivers that are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. These places are called river valley civilizations. Because the rivers help them survive.
• The indus vally sivilization is also sometimes called Indus Ghaggar-Hakra civilization or Indus-Sarasvati civilization. Sarascati is a name of another river. Sarasvati is also a name of an Indian god. Along with Durga and Laxmi. 

 

water is necessary for life. If you are not able to get to any, you will die within three or four days. Another reason is because water in the form of an ocean or river allows an easy way for a country to trade with another. (For Example : Bolivia in South America does not have any access to any oceans or rivers leading out of the country, and they cannot import or export goods out of the country any easy way. What if a manufacturer in the center of the country wasted to ship their goods to Chile? It would be kind of hard. And, as a result, Bolivia is a very poor country.)