The old nation in Iraqy country

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The old Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Chaldeans:
To surmount these problems, a succession of peoples over the centuries-Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Chaldeans mobilized large, well-organized labor forces that gained control over the water supply by constructing and maintaining a system of canals, dikes, drainage dikes, drainage ditches, and reservoirs. Properly irrigated and cultivated, Mesopotamian crops yielded as much as a hundredfold return on seed planted and thus supported a much larger population than regions outside Mesopotamia still practicing Neolithic agriculture.
Soon after 3500 B.C.E. the Sumerians began to exploit the potential of the lower Tigris- Euphrates Valley.
They built several city-states of ten to fifty thousand inhabitants, notably Ur, Uruk, and Lagash, and sustained themselves both by the agricultural produce of the land they controlled and by trade, which provided various imported goods and materials in exchange for surplus crops.
Word list:
To surmount these problems: من اجل التغلب على هذه المشاكل
Succession: الخلافة او الوراثة او التعاقب
Mobilized: ينظم يحشد يحرك يدير
Maintain: يحافظ على , يصون
Dikes: يصون بسد, حاجز, سياج, خندق, سد
Drainage: بزل, شبكة لتصريف المياه
Ditches: قناة الري , خندق للدفاع
Crops: محاصيل, غلة
Neolithic agriculture: الزراعة في العصر الحجري الحديث
Hundredfold: مئات القطعان من الغنم
Potential: كانت موجودة بالقوة , محتمل
Notably: بوضوح , بجلاء
Sustained: يغذي , يساند يؤازر
Reservoirs:خزان , صهريج, مستودع , ذخيرة
Yielded: ينتج , يعطي محصول الارض
Maintain: يحافظ على, يصون

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