Irrigation+of+Babylon

=Irrigation=

• Babylon was one of the greatest cities of the ancient world because of it's fertile soil • The network of canals made the city very fertile and easy to farm on • Water was taken from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers • The whole city was networked around the two rivers, roads were parallel or at right angles to the rivers • Without irrigation the city would not have survived because the area around was all swamp and desert • As the civilization in Babylonia grew the more canals were dug