This chapter mainly talks about how many early civilizations started out near rivers. How they were able to control and irrigate the land and control the water of the rivers. By being able to control the water, it was able to make their lives a whole lot easier because now they could make trenches, aqueducts, and canals to help them move the water to their crops and whatever else they needed. Water is the base of all life, so by being able to master the way of the river they could being on expanding in life because they were then able to grow crops for food, obtain drinking water, and even use the water for pluming. People in the early civilizations were also able to advance in technology and build machines in order to help them move water from place to place, some examples of their early technology were the shaduf, saqiya, square-pallet chanin pump, and noria just to name a few of their inventions.
Even in the early time people needed law and rules to keep things in order and thats why they followed certain rules and laws to keep everything in order. People followed rules from the Code of Hammurabi which was a Babylonian legal code dating from 1750 B.C.E.
The chapter pretty much just talked about how early civilizations started to flourish and how they started to develop over time.
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