Sentence examples for great river system from inspiring English sources

Tigris-Euphrates river system, great river system of southwestern Asia.

Theodore Roosevelt predicted the great river system could be harnessed to create "populous manufacturing communities".

After centuries of exploration and exploitation, the trunk of this great river system has been largely abandoned by its native inhabitants.

And that is thanks to the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal, connecting the two great river systems of Europe: the Rhine in the west, the Danube in the east.

The Continental Divide separates the landscape into the watersheds of two great river systems: the Colorado Gila San Juan, in the west, and the Rio Grande Pecos, in the east.

Agriculture has effectively collapsed; the great river systems of Mesopotamia have shriveled; trade routes based on Iraq's unique geography have vanished; and transport links have atrophied.

During the cold war, opportunities for western scholars to research the Viking penetration of Eurasia along the great river systems of the Volga and the Dnieper were in the deep freeze.

Not surprisingly, metallurgy developed first near the farming valleys of the great river systems of the Nile, Tigris-Euphrates, and Indus, all of which provided a high yield of foodstuffs per acre.

The railway is vulnerable to the same process.The vast and sparsely populated Tibetan plateau is the origin of the great river systems of China, South-East and South Asia: the Yangzi and Yellow Rivers, the Brahmaputra, the Indus, the Mekong and the Salween.

India is a civilization of great river systems and large-scale irrigation, thanks to the Himalayan snowmelt and glacier melt and the annual monsoon rains.

This was the greatest river system that has ever drained Europe, and without much resistance it gouged out the English Channel and drove back to the two sides the chalk cliffs of France and England.