WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -To solve their problems, Mesopotamians used irrigation, a way of supplying water to an area of land. To irrigate their land, they dug out large storage basins to hold water supplies. Then they dug canals, human-made waterways, that connected these basins to a network of ditches.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mesopotamians created irrigation systems to protect against damage from too much or too little water and to ensure a stable supply of water for crops and livestock.

Detailed explanation-3: -The regular flooding along the Tigris and the Euphrates made the land around them especially fertile and ideal for growing crops for food. That made it a prime spot for the Neolithic Revolution, also called the Agricultural Revolution, that began to take place almost 12, 000 years ago.

Detailed explanation-4: -There were two types of agriculture: Dry agriculture without irrigation, where people mostly cultivated cereals and relied on rainfall, which was primarily practiced in the hill country of upper Mesopotamia and the Levant. Irrigation agriculture, which was centered in the alluvial plains of Lower Mesopotamia.

Detailed explanation-5: -The earliest known systems of irrigation began in 6000 BC in Egypt and Mesopotamia.