SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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The ancient Sumerians modified their environment to increase food production by
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building terraces
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removing rain forests
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digging irrigation canals
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developing chinampas
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The farmers in Sumer created levees to hold back the floods from their fields and cut canals to channel river water to the fields. The use of levees and canals is called irrigation, another Sumerian invention.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Sumerians (people who lived in Southern Mesopotamia) did not get their food by hunting and gathering. Instead they produced their own food by farming. To help them farm the dry land they learned to irrigate their fields.
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