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How did the Mesopotamians control the two rivers?

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The farmers in Sumer created levees to hold back the floods from their fields and cut canals to channel river water to the fields. The use of levees and canals is called irrigation, another Sumerian invention.

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Cause that’s what it be

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They developed levees and reservoir basins to hold water to keep the floodwaters from drowning crops
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