the medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code.
courteous behavior, especially that of a man toward women.
Civilizations developed around rivers because their waters provided places to hunt and fish.
Also, as the rivers flooded, the lands around them became fertile. This allowed them to support farming.
In addition, because they provided a steady supply of drinking water.
Moreover, goods and people could be transported easily
Finally, River valleys not only have water, they also often have a broad, flat floodplain that is readily adapted to agriculture.
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Those countries were known as the "non-aligned nations." The Non-Aligned Movement was initiated by the leaders of Yugoslavia, India, Indonesia, Egypt and Ghana. Many other nations joined in their movement to keep free of commitments to the two superpowers, the USA and the USSR. At the Bandung Conference in 1955, twenty-nine nations were represented. The Belgrade Conference in 1961 was the first official summit of the Non-Aligned Movement. Member nations attending that conference were Afghanistan, Algeria, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, the Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, the Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen, and Yugoslavia. <span>Bolivia, Brazil, and Ecuador attended as observer nations. (Note also that Cuba was an original participant in the movement, but then ended up aligning with the USSR.)</span>
