CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Question
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To control the river’s flow of water during the spring.
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So they could use water during cooking.
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To lure animals so they could hunt them.
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To use for swimming during the summer.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Mesopotamians figured out a way to preserve their land, its fertility, and their yearly harvests by taking control of the floodwaters. Over the course of many years, they developed levees and reservoir basins to hold water. These kept the floodwaters from drowning the crops.