What did the early civilizations of the Nile River Valley, Mesopotamia, and the Yellow River Valley have to gain by locating the
ir settlements on river banks? 1- the ability to maintain agriculture settlement in areas of fertile land. 2- the ability of religious leaders to emphasized their locations as important to the gods. 3-the ability to travel along rivers to ensure access to game for hunting 4- the ability to enhance their new technological innovations of irrigation
It was Rodger Sherman--a representative from Connecticut--who proposed the ideas for the compromise that was eventually adopted in drafting the Constitution, since this was a compromise between the Virginia and New Jersey Plans.
