Rivers of Power: The World's First Civilisations

Imagine you have been chosen to found a brand-new city. You have no shops, no roads, and no food supply — just land and people. Where would you choose to settle, and why? Think about what your community needs to survive every single day. Now consider this: across thousands of years and thousands of kilometres apart, four very different groups of people all made a remarkably similar choice. They all built their first cities beside a river. Was that a coincidence — or something far more telling about how human societies begin?