10 sentences with 'rivers'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rivers and other words derived from it.
• « Some rivers had overflowed their banks, and at the slightest drizzle everyone worried that the flooding would get worse. »
• « Closely related, and located within the Fertile Crescent, is the region of Mesopotamia, which is the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq. »
• « 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. »
• « Thus, between the water provided by the rivers and their tributaries, the temperate climate and the prevalence of the area's plant and animal species that were candidates for domestication, Mesopotamia was better suited to agriculture than virtually any other region on the planet. »
• « There, the two rivers meet in a great delta that flows into the Persian Gulf. Further up the rivers, the northern region of Mesopotamia was known as Akkad. »
• « To the north, beyond Mesopotamia itself (the land between the rivers), a rival state known as Assyria traded and fought against Kassite-controlled Babylon. »
• « Unlike Egypt or Mesopotamia, there were no great rivers to feed the fertile soil, only mountains, hills and scrub with poor, rocky soil. »
• « While fleets patrolled the rivers and oceans, these garrisons controlled access to the empire. »
• « The two main rivers, the Rhine and the Danube, were the main dividing lines north of Rome, with Roman legions maintaining permanent fortifications there. »
• « The Vikings began travelling up the Russian rivers from the Baltic in the mid-8th century, even before the period of raiding began further west. Their initial motive was trade, not conquest, to trade and collect goods such as furs, amber and honey and transport them south to both Byzantium and the Abbasid Caliphate. »