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Why would Sumerians settle on fertile lands?

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Where did the sumerians first settle?

In about 3000 BCE, their first city, Ur, was established. By about 2500 BCE they had established a ruling system that involved dynasties.


Why are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers dangerous to the Sumerians?

The Sumerian's City-States depended on the swamp lands located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers' Fertile Crescent. Due to the constant flooding, this Fertile Crescent formed by making the Persian Gulf to recede from its previous shores. The floods brought much fertile top soil down from the mountains that gradually filled that section of the Persian Gulf. The Sumerians had built high walls around their city to divert the periods of flooding waters. This swamp land being plowed and used for Sumer's agricultural land, that fed their people, had gradually brought up a salty water that would kill their crops. The land became not fit to grow anything. So the Sumerians had to relocate to a better land for to grow their crops as to feed their people.


What group was the first to control the Fertile Cresent after the Sumerians?

After the Sumerians, the Akkadian Empire became the first to control the Fertile Crescent. Under the leadership of Sargon of Akkad, the Akkadians unified various city-states in the region around 2334 BCE, expanding their influence over Mesopotamia. This marked a significant shift in power and the beginning of a new era of centralized governance in the region.


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.