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Because it was too salty.
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What expanse of water lay south-east of Sumer?
Persian Gulf
Where is the strait of H ormuz?
Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea. Strait Marine Barykh curved shape that is located in the East and the Persian Gulf from Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf to the Oman Sea and the Indian Ocean together.
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.
Why was the plow so important to Sumerians?
because it helped farmers Another Answer: The Sumerians lived in the Persian Gulf area in Southern Iraq and South of there. Once a year the Tigris and Euphrates rivers overflow and leave a new layer of silt on the land. It was possible to drop seeds in this ground and grow crops. A lot of land existed real close on which almost nothing grew. It was low enough to build canals so that water could be brought to it from the rivers, but too high to flood and cover with silt. The Sumerians invented the plow so they could farm that land. Thus, the Sumerians built their irrigation canals and plowed desert land so they could grow crops.
Who gave the sumerians a great advantage in trade?
they traded grain and clay and guns and weapons and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff with people from a different countries and people out of the Persian gulf and Mcdonalds and Burger King and Wendys
What region did sumerians live?
they lived in the Persian gulf i think
What body of waters border Iraq?
The only body of water that borders Iraq is the Persian Gulf.
What body of water surrounds Qatar?
Bahrain is an archipelago of islands completely surrounded by the Persian Gulf.
Is the Persian gulf salt water or fresh?
Salt water. The Persian gulf is one of the saltiest bodies of water on earth.
Around what body of water are most of the working oil fields concentrated in the middle east?
The persian gulf
Which body of water borders the Persian homeland?
Being Persia = Iran, it borders the Persian Gulf.
What are the main bodies of water in Oman?
red sea, persian gulf, half moon sea, and gulf of aquada and gumdama riveridk
What body of water is southeast of the Fertile Crescent?
Persian gulf, an inlet of the Arabian sea
Who did the Sumerians trade with?
The Sumerians performed a trade with foreign countries and other people out of the Persian Gulf. Extensive use of the wheel, which they attached to carts and horse drawn wagons.
What body of water is bordered by Saudi Arabia KuwaitIraq and Iran?
The Persian Gulf borders Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran.
Is Persian Gulf a water or land?
A gulf is the name of an inlet of the sea - so water.
Is the Persian Gulf the hottest body of water?
no
