WORLD CIVILIZATION

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: -Ancient Mesopotamians, including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and the Assyrians, relied on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers not only to water their fields but also for clean water for domestic uses.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia built city walls and temples and dug canals that were the world’s first engineering works. It is also of interest that these people, from the beginning of recorded history, fought over water rights.

Detailed explanation-4: -Early settlements in Mesopotamia were located near rivers. Water was not controlled, and flooding was a major problem. Later people built canals to protect houses from flooding and move water to their fields. To solve their problems, Mesopotamians used irrigation, a way of supplying water to an area of land.