irrigation

• Caligastia 100 taught

66:5.21. The coun­cil on food and ma­te­rial wel­fare. This group was pre­sided over by Ang. Food, wa­ter, clothes, and the ma­te­rial ad­vance­ment of the hu­man species were fos­tered by this able corps. They taught well dig­ging, spring con­trol, and ir­ri­ga­tion. They taught those from the higher al­ti­tudes and from the north im­proved meth­ods of treat­ing skins for use as cloth­ing, and weav­ing was later in­tro­duced by the teach­ers of art and sci­ence.

• Adamites labored along rivers of Mesopotamia on

78:2.1For thou­sands of years the sons of Adam la­bored along the rivers of Mes­o­po­ta­mia, work­ing out their ir­ri­ga­tion and flood-con­trol prob­lems to the south, per­fect­ing their de­fenses to the north, and at­tempt­ing to pre­serve their tra­di­tions of the glory of the first Eden.

• Sumerians used irrigation canals for military defense

78:8.5When these bar­bar­ian cav­al­ry­men from the north­east over­ran the whole Eu­phrates val­ley, they did not con­quer the rem­nants of the And­ites who dwelt about the mouth of the river on the Per­sian Gulf. These Sume­ri­ans were able to de­fend them­selves be­cause of su­pe­rior in­tel­li­gence, bet­ter weapons, and their ex­ten­sive sys­tem of mil­i­tary canals, which were an ad­junct to their ir­ri­ga­tion scheme of in­ter­con­nect­ing pools. They were a united peo­ple be­cause they had a uni­form group re­li­gion. They were thus able to main­tain their racial and na­tional in­tegrity long af­ter their neigh­bors to the north­west were bro­ken up into iso­lated city-states. No one of these city groups was able to over­come the united Sume­ri­ans.