Drainage
The Fount of Civilization
The India Plate pushed up the Himalayas.
Which created all this potential energy.
Which potential energy was channeled into the drainage of water from those heights eventually making its way to the sea.
Where all that drainage poured out you have China’s first civilisations in the Yellow and Yangtze deltas.
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You had the Tigris and Euphrates, drainage channels from the surrounding mountains, the waters of which nourished Mesopotamia.
The Nile was the fount of Egypt.
The Indus River was the fount of the Indus River civilization.
There you have the world’s first four civilizations, all created by the potential energy of the movements of the tectonic plates, and the drainage coming down from the mountains on high.
When you study the mechanisms of the earth, you sometimes find yourself amazed.
