5 sentences with “waterways”

That region, immediately a close ally of Britain, had usable waterways, coal deposits and a skilled artisan workforce.

At the same time, transporting goods across France itself was prohibitively expensive due to the lack of navigable waterways and the existence of numerous tolls.

Using waterways, they developed trade routes extending from Canada to Louisiana, where they exchanged goods with other tribes and traded in many different languages.

The word Mesopotamia is Greek, meaning 'between the rivers', and refers to the area between the Tigris and Euphrates, two of the most important waterways of the ancient world.

Even short waterways, such as the two-and-a-half mile canal that circled the rapids of the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky, proved to be a breakthrough, in this case opening up a river route from Pittsburgh to New Orleans.