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Mesopotamia is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Sumerians learned to control the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers by constructing levees and irrigation canals.

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What did the Sumerians use to control the twin rivers?

The sumerians used dikes and ditches.


How did the Sumerians control the rivers?

Mesopotamia is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Sumerians learned to control the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers by constructing levees and irrigation canals.


How did the Sumerians gain control of the twin Rivers?

Well, according to my book.... " the river water that ran through the holes made channels in the soil. The Sumerians made the the channels larger until they became canals" answered by 11 year-old 2013


Why were the twin rivers important to Sumerians life?

The twin rivers of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) are the Tigris and Euphrates The rivers provided waters for irrigation and their flood plains renewed soil fertility.


Why were the twin rivers so important to the sumerian life?

Sumerian civilization is the earliest know on earth. for the first time, people began to control their physical environment. The sumerians knew they had to control the twin rivers. The rivers flooded each spring. When the water went down, natural levees or raised areas of soil, remained behind. The sumerians built the levees even higher and used them to keep back the flood waters. During summer when the land became dry, they poked holes in levees. The river water that ran throught the holes made channels in the soil. Then they used it to water crops.


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the Sumerians had rich soil and water to grow crops and were able to control the rivers flooding.


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