Jamestown offered anchorage and a good defensive position. Warm climate and fertile soil allowed large plantations to prosper. Plymouth provided good anchorage and an excellent harbor. Cold climate and thin, rocky soil limited farm size
<span>In his clearly titled Water and American Government Donald J. Pisani continues his planned multivolume analysis of water law, water policy, and American governmental institutions.[1]
This second volume offers a narrative history of the Reclamation Service from its creation by the Reclamation Act of 1902 through its monumental, crowning achievement in the first third of the twentieth century, Boulder Dam on the Colorado River.</span>
1)geography
2)politics
3)technology and innovation
<span>The Nile river
River originating in central Africa and flowing north to the Mediterranean Sea, with its delta in Egypt. The Nile proper is formed by the joining of the Blue Nile, which flows from Ethiopia, and the White Nile, which flows from Lake Victoria.</span>
