CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Question
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to allow travel by boat
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to make it easier to fish
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to aid farming
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to protect villages from attack
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Detailed explanation-1: -To succeed in growing food, they needed a way to control the water so they would have a reliable water supply all year round. So, Sumerian farmers began to create irrigation systems to provide water for their fields.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Mesopotamians developed what is probably the world’s first irrigation system. They dug trenches through the river banks in order to bring water to the fields where they would grow their crops. And to protect the fields from floods, they built dykes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sumerian agriculture depended heavily on irrigation. The irrigation was accomplished by the use of canals, dams, rivers, and reservoirs. The frequent violent floods of the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers meant that canals required frequent repair.