Overland travel was difficult in the early colonies. For a long time, water transportation was the colonists' main link to the outside world. In fact, nearly all the early colonial settlements were port located on natural harbors or navigable rivers. New settlers migrated by sea to the growing coastal towns and inland trading posts on rivers.
World Geography Today, Holt
#1. Water. #2. Food. #3. raw materials in order to build the settlements (i.e. wood, stone, mud, metal ore, etc.)
They had beds just like we do.
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Most men and women only lived until their early to mid 40s.
Overland travel was difficult in the early colonies. For a long time, water transportation was the colonists' main link to the outside world. In fact, nearly all the early colonial settlements were port located on natural harbors or navigable rivers. New settlers migrated by sea to the growing coastal towns and inland trading posts on rivers. World Geography Today, Holt
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#1. Water. #2. Food. #3. raw materials in order to build the settlements (i.e. wood, stone, mud, metal ore, etc.)
most settlements were located near water for transportation and shiping in and out goods. also for water to use as bathing, drinking, and cooking.
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Many early settlements during the Neolithic Age were located in fertile river valleys, such as the Tigris-Euphrates in Mesopotamia, the Nile in Egypt, the Indus in the Indian subcontinent, and the Yellow River in China. These areas provided fertile land for agriculture and access to water for irrigation.
Communities had little fresh water
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Early on, the biggest settlements were in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Albany and Saugerties.
They had beds just like we do.
In 1632, the major settlements in Maryland were primarily centered around the Chesapeake Bay. The most notable was St. Mary's City, established as the first capital and a significant center for the early Catholic settlers. Other areas of importance included the Potomac River region, where various plantations and settlements began to emerge. However, the colonial landscape was still developing, with many settlements being small and primarily agricultural.