SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Rivers. 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. Rivers lend themselves to human settlement for a number of reasons.

Detailed explanation-2: -The prehistoric people settled near the banks of rivers because of the easily available water for irrigation, and the favourable climatic conditions that helped their crops to grow.

Detailed explanation-3: -Historically, humans have chosen to live close to rivers for domestic and agricultural water supply as well as for navigation purposes, which has led humans to follow the courses of rivers during migrations1–3 and locate in proximity to rivers when establishing settlements4, 5.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sometime about 10, 000 years ago, the earliest farmers put down their roots-literally and figuratively. Agriculture opened the door to (theoretically) stable food supplies, and it let hunter-gatherers build permanent dwellings that eventually morphed into complex societies in many parts of the world.