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Rivers that enable foundation of first cities and organized states near them with their prosperity and abundance; had an important mission especially in the Middle Ages because they eliminated the difficulties encountered on highways like highway robberies, taxes, tributes and long caravan journeys. Boats navigating on a river can carry more cargo than camels or mules that travelling on the land and if direction of the river's flow is the parallel with the journey then transportation will be faster compared to the land journeys. Also, the transportation of more products in a short time also decreases the costs and provides more profitable trades. In this context the rivers Nile, Euphrates and Tigris that contributed great values to the medieval civilization; by watering arid lands they provided plenty of products and replacement of these products among people by water transportation also these rivers became a source of life for places that they passed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]