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why did the submarines move down from Mesopotamia
because there was too much or too little water
what is the difference between the neolithic and palithic
neolithic is the new palithic is old
what was one of the biggest problems in sumer
uncontrolled water supply
why did irrigation systems help farmers
it held the water and it stop floods
what did the people in sumer do to keep other cities out
they built canals
why did the Sumerians have trouble in Mesopotamia
They had to much and or too little water
why was there not enough food for the people in the foothills
because the population was constantly increasing
what over time caused the rivers to flood
the rain and snow
what is one bad thing that happened to the levees
one thing bad is that silt would get clogged in them
what is a canal
a canal is something that holds a lot of dirty and nasty water
why did the submarines build a bigger city-state
because there were too many people
why did the submarines move out of the foothills
because there was too many people
why is uncontrolled water supply bad
because it would wash away the saplings
why did people have to live in groups
because if someone did not clean out their silt then nobody would get water
what else did the sumer build
they also built walls
what country is Mesopotamia in
Iraq
what ran through the land bellow the foothills
the Euphrates and Tigris rivers ran through flat plains
what is an irrigation system
a levee or a dam
what did the villages turn into
they turned into towns
what were the walls built out of
baked mud
what was one problem that the seminarians faced in the lower Mesopotamia
one was the neighboring communites
what was another problem in the foothills
sometimes during the year, the land would get very dry
what do irrigation systems do
stop the water from flooding
what did the towns turned into
they turned into cities
what else could you use the baked mud for
building houses