Why did early civilizations develop near major rivers?

i belive the continental association was created to boycott all contact with british goods.

i also belive it was in december 1, 1774

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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