All of the ancient civilizations around the world are significant for practicing farming and trading things to various places! The rivers brought in nutrients-rich silt to their basins where farming flourished and the great networks in river systems provided viable waterways for trading to be developed! This is the reason rivers are considered life-giving and are worshiped as sacred entities and also the major reason why civilizations developed along the major rivers!
old people used to move here n there to find food and shelter . they used to live near the rivers on that time when they started harvesting as they could get water from river to watering their crops.
they used to live near the river brcause in ancient time they use to do farming and harvesting and they easly get water from river side so they prefer to live near water.