They can go bad
It increased the amount of crops a farmer could plant.
They wanted to because of the crops growing.
Early Mesopotamian farmers grew many different crops. If you were able to go back there in time, you would see fields of wheat and barley. These were the region's most important crops.
The floods help the people get water for their crops to grow because there was little rainfall.
I don't think this would answer the full question that you asked, but Mesopotamians did use irrigation to protect their crops from flood and drought. Flood would probably wipe out their crops and drought would dry their crops. A thing I'm not sure of is how they would protect their crops from locusts. When I find the answer I'll be sure to send you that too. -Anon
If the flood in ancient mesopotamia came a little earlier than expected the farmers crops may die because all of the crops may have not been harvested and that would insure of no food until next year's flood.
Mesopotamia was in an area that was harsh and unpredictable. There was floods
The timing of the floods would determine when the crops would need to be harvested and how effectively they could be irrigated. If the flood was too powerful, it could easily wipe away the crops and leave the cities starving. On the other hand, the floods deposited silt filled with nutrients for the growing plants and helped the water table to rise to a point where grains could grow effectively.
They could prepare the land and plant more crops.
Which factor led to the development of civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia?
The people affected by monsoons could not grow crops because of floods.
the climate of mesopotamia is food crops
It increased the amount of crops a farmer could plant.
Crops grew well in Mesopotamia because of its very fertile land
The floods in mesopotamia were common and irregular, but the mesopotanians dealt with that by living on high banks of rock near the rivers tigress and Euphrate. When the river flooded, the water would go through the banks, not over them, and the rocks would filter out debris. The debris free and nutrient rich water would then water the crops in the fields.
The most important factor of making the Mesopotamian land fertile is because They had to grow crops and food and without fertile earth nothing like that could happen
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