beaause they can get the water from the lakes
A water source is vital to life. And it also provides a means of transportation.
yes they were but why
By the early 1200s BC the Olmec were living along coastal rivers in villages of small houses made of reeds and straw. People fished in the rivers and farmed land made fertile by river flooding.
Factories need transportation to bring in supplies needed inside the factory and to ship what is produced in the factory out to stores, the public, etc. Early factories didn't have the use of railroad and trucking transportation, so the quickest way for these early factories to bring things to the factory and ship goods out of the factory was by water. Therefore, they were built along waterways like rivers.
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The Netherlands began to colonize Indonesia in the early seventeenth century.
The reason why many towns in the early days of the country were built near oceans or rivers was so they could get supplies. Supplies came by water way and living close to water meant getting supplies were easier.
So they could have a water source.
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So they could have easy acces to fishing, and a water source to clean there clothes ;-]I hope this helped :D
Many of the most successful great early American civilizations built large cities along water. Typically these cities were built along the Atlantic Ocean.
The early castles along the English -Welsh border were built by the Normans to protect their newly acquired country. 300 years later more castles were built by Edward I as part of his efforts to conquer Wales.
I am going to guess it would be along the Hudson River where all the castles were built in the early 1900's by the riches people in the country.
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Ease of traveling and shipping along with a supply of running water.
Rivers provide food, water for drinking and crops, transportation .
Rivers and ports were important in the early 1800's in the distribution and acquisition of food processing, printing and manufactured goods. Ports and rivers helped in the maintaining of a country's economy.
Because they provided water power to run the machinery and a place to dump their waste