Sentence examples for great river systems from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lying at the crossroads of five culture areas (the Subarctic, Plains, Great Basin, California, and Northwest Coast), the Plateau is surrounded by mountains and drained by two great river systems, the Fraser and the Columbia.
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.
Brazil has utilized the hydroelectric potentials of the great Amazon, Parana, Sao Francisco and other large river systems, meeting more than 90% of the country's power requirements.
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.
