GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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Mountains
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Valleys
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Plains
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Rivers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Humans built the first permanent settlements by rivers. Mohenjo-daro was located near the Indus River (in what is now Pakistan), Mesopotamia was between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (in Iraq), and ancient Egypt was on the Nile.
Detailed explanation-2: -Early humans settled near rivers and streams as they needed freshwater to survive and grow food.
Detailed explanation-3: -Rivers were attractive locations for the first civilizations because they provided a steady supply of drinking water and game, made the land fertile for growing crops, and allowed for easy transportation.
Detailed explanation-4: -By about 14, 000 years ago, the first settlements built with stone began to appear, in modern-day Israel and Jordan. The inhabitants, sedentary hunter-gatherers called Natufians, buried their dead in or under their houses, just as Neolithic peoples did after them.