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The plains were dry - there was little rainfall, so it qualified as a desert. The yearly river flow from rains in the highlands was trapped in dams and canals and used for irrigation, and the floods washed silt down which replenished the farmland. In poor rain years in the mountain headwaters, there was drought, poor crops and famine.

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