Sargon and the Vanishing Sumerians
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(CIVILIZATION in MESOPOTAMIA – continued) CIVILIZATION in MESOPOTAMIA (3 of 7) The Sumerians had a salinization problem. Evaporating water left behind layers of salt, and rising water tables brought more salt to the surface. Sumerians wrote of the earth turning white. A solution to the problem was to leave lands not watered for many seasons, to let the water table fall and let rain wash the salt down far below the surface. But this would have taken years. It was not done. Wheat is less tolerant of salt than barley, and Sumerian clay tablets describe the Sumerian diet changing from wheat to barley. Then the growing of barley and other crops diminished and the Sumerians suffered from hunger, malnutrition and disease. A Sumer weakened has been described as unable to defend itself.Â
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| Page title: | Sargon the Great |
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| Description: | Salt and agriculture, the Sumerians are overrun and the rise and fall of Sargon the Great's empire. |
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