CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Question
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it had cold winters.
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it had windy rains.
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it had hot summers, little rain, and rivers that flooded the plains in the spring.
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the people couldn’t adapt to the environment.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. Controlling the Water Supply on the Plains Farmers in Sumer faced times of flooding and drought.
Detailed explanation-2: -The natural resources of Sumer were limited. Building materials and other necessary items were scarce. of Sumer created solutions to deal with these problems. To provide water, they dug irrigation ditches that carried river water to their fields and allowed them to produce a surplus of crops.
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.