CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Question
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cooperation
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uncontrolled water supply
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food shortages
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conflict
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Detailed explanation-1: -Food shortages had forced settlers in Mesopotamia to move from the foothills down to the river valley. There, farmers faced the problem of having either too much water or too little. To control the water supply, Sumerians built a complex irrigation system.
Detailed explanation-2: -One problem that occurred in the foothills was a food shortage due to an increase in population. To solve it, farmers moved from the foothills to the plains of Sumer, near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. 4. The Sumerians were an ancient people who lived in Sumer, the plains region of southern Mesopotamia.
Detailed explanation-3: -By 5000 B.C.E., some historians believe, farmers in the Zagros foothills did not have enough land to grow food for the increasing number of people. As a result, villages began to suffer from food shortages.