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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 medicine so important to the Sumerians?
Medicine was important to Sumerians because when the Sumerians lived together the more they would eat and the more they would use materials and throw them away, the trash would pile up. The Sumerians would step in the trash or fall in the trash and would catch a disease from the trash. The trash would spread many disease's around and a lot of Sumerians would get sick. The Sumerians would have to use medicine to cure their people who were sick.
Why were scribes very respected by the sumerians?
Because if they were not nice to them they knew the Sumerians would kill them.
How did the Sumerians maintain their irrigation systems?
The area in which the Sumerians lived was subject to flash flooding because it was located along The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. This provided fertile soil to produce surplus amounts of crops but was in some ways a disadvantage to the people because the floods would sometimes distroy their settlement and livestock.
Did the Sumerians sacrifice?
They would either A) stab the person, then burn them in fire. B) they would drink poison.
When did the Sumerians live in the Fertile Crescent?
If you go to school or 6th grade u would know!
Why would early people most likely to settle in deserts?
They most likely would not. They would be far more likely to settle by a source of water, fertile land and ample game.
What would early people look for as they decided where settle?
Fertile soil, abundant water, security.
Why did the annual flooding of the nile help make the soil more fertile?
The silt from the bottom of the Nile River would settle into the soil making it more fertile.
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 do people move and settle in different areas?
People settle in New lands to simply get away from old lands that the do not like there are many reasons people settle in New lands it could be something that's going on in their old land that's making them annoyed so they move to a new land.
Why was medicine so important to the Sumerians?
Medicine was important to Sumerians because when the Sumerians lived together the more they would eat and the more they would use materials and throw them away, the trash would pile up. The Sumerians would step in the trash or fall in the trash and would catch a disease from the trash. The trash would spread many disease's around and a lot of Sumerians would get sick. The Sumerians would have to use medicine to cure their people who were sick.
How did the Sumerians irrigate crops?
The area in which the Sumerians lived was subject to flash flooding because it was located along The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. This provided fertile soil to produce surplus amounts of crops but was in some ways a disadvantage to the people because the floods would sometimes distroy their settlement and livestock.
Why were scribes very respected by the sumerians?
Because if they were not nice to them they knew the Sumerians would kill them.
What was the writing called that the Sumerians developed?
The Cuneiform would be the name of the writing the Sumerians made.
What body of water was important to ancient egyptians and why?
The NILE of course. the Nile overflows ones/few nights a year--as a result, it would fertile the lands and the people would be able to farm. If it does not overflow, the agriculture there would be in big trouble.
Is pencil measured in kilograms or grams?
OBVIOUSLY TONS!Just kidding. It is measured in grams.Kilograms are WAY to much. that would be 100 grams and grams are small.Could you answer this question? You don't have too.How did the geography of the Fertile Crescent help the Sumerians to prosper?
