CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Question
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What made it harder to live in the plains than in the Zagros foothills?
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The plains lacked natural barriers to keep out enemies
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The plains had many hills that made farming difficult
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The plains had many stones that needed to be cleared from farmland.
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The plains didn’t have strong people to build canals.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Food Shortages in the Hills A shortage of food forced people to move from the foothills of the Zagros Mountains to the plains between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This plains area became Sumer.
Detailed explanation-3: -Because most of Mesopotamia had a landscape of plains, there were no natural barriers, such as mountains, to provide protection from invading neighbors. So, people began to build walls made of dried mud bricks around their cities.
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