CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Question
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What happened when people from many villages used Sumerian irrigation systems?
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Cities had to have moats for storing water outside their walls
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Cities had to limit the number of people who could have farms
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People in the villages had to develop a language they could all speak
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People in the villages had to work together to take care of the system
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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: -By irrigating the nearby desert with water from the rivers, Sumer could greatly expand its farms and population by growing much more food. This helped it become the most powerful and wealthy city-state in early Mesopotamia.
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