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They created more usable land by truncating (creating steps) along mountain sides. For some types of foods, like fish, they created irrigated waterways, like shallow canals in rings or rows. This would be similar to retention pond fishing today (without the worry of fertilizing/insecticide chemicals). They also used this form of shallow canal rings to bring water to crops that needed a lot of water!

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