Sumerian Culture Spread Throughout Mesopotamia

In my essay, I will determine how Sumerian culture spread throughout Mesopotamia. Also, I will justify why the development of a written code of laws was critical to a society. Moreover, I will analyze how the need of Mesopotamians to collaborate with the environment lead to advances in civilization. The Sumerians culture enormously advanced throughout Mesopotamia. One of the cities was the Ur and it was located on the banks of the Euphrates river. There were three hardships that the people of the Ur and all Sumerians have faced. The first conflict was the unpredictable floods that occurred since they were located on the bank of the river. The river in Mesopotamia that would overflow was called the Euphrates river, since it was located in the desert, the dry land would reconstruct into silt. The meaning of silt is a rich mineral the produces fertile soil. As known the flood was unpredictable, if a person planted crops very early, they would die. Also if the person planted very late, then you missed the flood and the silt would already be evaporated and your crops would be dry. All thanks to Sumerians, they came up with a solution which was doing irrigation, which is moving water from rivers to ditches and canals to the crops that are planted during

For example, the deserts, cataracts of the Nile River, mountains, and seas. The most important natural barrier to Egypt’s history however, was the deserts. Deserts were extremely hard to get through because of its ridiculous heat in the day, and cold in the night. Seas can be sailed, mountains climbed, cataracts also sailed, all with great difficulty, but the deserts, you got to go straight through that heat and cold, the wild animals, the distance, and whatever else nature has to throw at you. The deserts protected Egypt the most from other cities, and therefore are the most important natural barrier in Egypt’s