Question

Before railroads, people lived mainly near waterways.

Answer 1

Answer:

True.

Explanation:

You can technically build a "cities" without waterways, however, it further complicates transportation, trade, and relations with other cities. For a city to thrive, it must have some way of being able to transport goods, resources, and people from the place to anywhere else, and back. Waterways, paved roads, pathways, and later planes and helicopters are all ways of transportation. However, the most natural and easiest one was by waterways. Waterways utilized boats, which can generally hold more than any land transportation at the time, and uses the current for travelling, which typically can help speed, or even impede the transportation process.

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