Answer: The first civilizations formed on the banks of rivers. The most notable examples are the Ancient Egyptians, who were based on the Nile, the Mesopotamians in the Fertile Crescent on the Tigris/Euphrates rivers, the Ancient Chinese on the Yellow River, and the Ancient India on the Indus.
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<span>They probably want the Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890, but regulation actually started in the 1840s when states began allowing anyone to form a corporation. Prior to that, corporations (like the Hudson Bay Company) were all quasi-governmental monopolies.</span>
It took place in Belgium.