CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Your crops would be fine as long as you kept the canal on your land clear.
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Nothing; the canals are not that important to farmers.
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The system could clog up and ruin everyone’s crops
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All answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Suppose you are a Sumerian farmer, and you don’t like having to clean out canals. What might happen if you refused to help? The system could clog up and ruin everyone’s crops. Why did Sumerians build walls around their cities?
Detailed explanation-2: -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. The system crossed village boundaries, so the Sumerians had to cooperate with one another. This led them to live in larger communities-the first cities.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The rulers organized major building projects in the cities. They constructed canals for a large irrigation system that opened more land for growing food crops. The Sumerians also developed the world’s first writing system.