rivrrrs of the old world

yellow

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Yellow_River%2C_Qing_Dynasty.jpg

indus

http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Images_Indus/indus_boat.jpg

euphrates & tigris

http://www.livius.org/a/libya/qasr_libya/qasr_libya_1_04b_euphrates.JPGhttp://www.livius.org/a/libya/qasr_libya/qasr_libya_1_04d_tigris.JPG

nile

http://egyptsitesblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/img_3727.jpg?w=480&h=321

mekong

http://www.angkorguide.de/pictures/Myth%202%20041.jpg

niger

http://www.rupestre.net/tracce/shipmali.jpg

ganges

http://0.tqn.com/d/hinduism/1/5/t/Y/ganga_aarti.jpg

yangtze/chiang jang

http://history.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/images/arbigimages/ef6e092457d81039ac73bfd16f024e98.jpg

euphrates

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/openmediaboston/Art%20and%20Empire%20exhibit/15_Escapeacrossariver.jpg

naga in yamuna, ganges tributary

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Indischer_Maler_um_1640_001.jpg/370px-Indischer_Maler_um_1640_001.jpg

niger

http://www.raremaps.com/maps/medium/0055em.jpg

STYX

and in green

indus

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qTDAEasFLtU/RhVs5HPLYpI/AAAAAAAACoE/6Mcsylud-lQ/s400/Indus%2Bmap.jpg

mekong

http://ipsnews.net/mekong/images/naga2.jpg

nile

http://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/images/ancient-map-of-the-nile-river-valley.jpg

scroll yr way down the yangtze

the yangtze & yellow were surely the most effective society builders. w/ the rivers going coast to coast, with no severely restrictive landscape between the north & south of china, they figured out one solid boss of a writing system extremely early on post-sedentarism & kind of managed a 'unified' population.
will probably vote for euphrates & tigris because i am a man of the occident & i love weetabix

OMG, how did I miss this thread? (oh yeah coz I was at a Guardian/Cambridge lecture on Gender (ILX collective heads explode)) but OOOOOOOHHHH they're all so wonderful, in different ways. How do I choose?

Nile is the mother of Geometry and all sorts of things I hold sacred.
Ganges is, actually, literally sacred.
Tigris/Euphrates cradle of civilisation etc. etc.
Yellow for just amazing massiveness (and also I was looking at some amazing oxbows on it on google the other week)

Actually I am mistaken, it was the Songhua River I was looking at oxbows on

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhua_River

(look at those fucken oxbows etc.)

thread of missing congo

I voted mekong for some reason even though I wanted to vote Yellow. I guess I am racist against my own people eg we all look alike. Also, very srs history question born of ignorance re: Congo river: what civilization came out of it?

Not sure, but WOW, even though I've been to Kinshasa, I had no idea it looked like THIS from above.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Kinshasa_%26_Brazzaville_-_ISS007-E-6305_lrg.jpg

(typically, my brother had the window seat on that flight.)

No Amu Darya, no credibility.

^^

also danube, volga, heilonjiang

'congo' was named for the kongo who moved there but as far as I know it was never this kind of river

ganges is the celebrity river

http://pilgrimageindia.org/img/pkg-itinery/haridwar-big.jpg

Yes, but if you want to talk about quintessential geographical-typographical features, the Nile has the ur-Delta

http://neonized.net/blog/wp-content/files/2009/09/nile_delta_2000.jpg

(that said, the Euphrates had the, erm, ur-Ur...

http://www.crystalinks.com/ur.jpg
http://www.atlastours.net/iraq/ur_ziggurat.jpg

also one for the ruins thread, I think...

Only one I've been on is the Nile.

ganges, nigga

Have been on Indus, Ganges, Mekong and Niger. Voted for Ganges because of things like the pic ogmor posted yesterday.

I've only been on the Mekong, took a vid 4 y'all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIk4IdT5Y1M

(actually that may have been the jungle cruise at Disneyland, I can't remember, both are really similar)

that looks amazing, plus the way you whipped out that camera so that everyone on this thread could enjoy it shows admirable quick thinking.

people have been giving ur the thumbs up for at least 4600 years and i would like to join them.

i agree w/ boss margins about weetabix & the yangtze, which has drama & would doubtless be good to sail up, but the yellow river is quite badly behaved in real life. the first pic in the thread is my favourite but also wishful thinking. i think the award for best society builder should go to the nile, which is located in a desert stuck in an awkward continental crossroads & still managed to be reliable enough to inspire the idea of eternal life. but that is only one aspect of the issue imo.

Close between Yellow, which iirc was the river in a primitive 'bandits' game that came with my BBC micro; and Yangtze, which I read a splendid book about. Went Yangtze.

i was looking for books along these thread lines but that yangtze one looks baller

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Gotta be the Nile. I like my rivers exotic and erratic.

primitive 'bandits' game

Yellow River Kingdom

Is it too much to ask to spell "rivers" correctly in the title of the thread? This thread will never be found again once it falls off the new answers page, because it's totally unsearchable.

search old world

It's not TOPIC searchable. It's a thread about rivers, and the title is about being all special and clever instead of being about rivers. Bad form.

rivrrrun, past gbx and kenan, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth, Castle and Environs.

there's no comma after howth u disgusting savage

zvookstocking

the river bends, you know what i mean

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Mali.A2001291.1045.250m.jpg/800px-Mali.A2001291.1045.250m.jpg

nearly voted for the niger, i like desert rivers & this one seems the best, but if it can't even retain the interest of the dogon ahead of sirius b then maybe it's not all that when you're there.

to elucidate on the congo; it's a bastard river surrounded by v difficult to clear forest & quite isolated from other river ppl (unlike fellow bastard river the mekong), which afforded a degree of security to its varied inhabitants, but made the sort of social networks that wld allow agriculture, trade & cities v difficult. also these -

http://www.microbiologybytes.com/introduction/graphics/Tsetse.jpg

which results in me not being able to find any sweet jpegs of native depictions of the congo. the danube, volga &c. weren't so central to europe as the mediterranean which is what got ppl busy. if i had to pick a river fucked by latitude i wld go for the ob, but the most appropriate sort of rivers i have missed here are the zambezi&limpopo.

yenisei imo

danube didn't support so much as delimit a great culture from the hyperborean wastes beyond

volga pretty damn important, insofar as russia is important

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

http://i.imgur.com/D8sVH.jpg

voted indus on the basis it bore the society i'd probably most enjoy living in, but perhaps should have registered appreciation of the niger

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/10/ancient-river-network-discoverd-buried-under-saharan-sand