文档介绍：托福阅读真题第6套
第6套
Sumerian Contributions（17年3月4日考过）
Paragraph1：Before .,lower Mesopotamia,the re silt left from the spring floods of the Tigris and Euphrates its full productive power,however,required an elaborate system of drainage and irrigation, which in turn required a large and well-disciplined workforce as well as skilled management and latter were supplied by a class of priests and warriors who ruled a large population of peasants and taxation and other means the rulers extracted wealth from the population and then used it to
第6套
Sumerian Contributions（17年3月4日考过）
Paragraph1：Before .,lower Mesopotamia,the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers just north of the Persian Gulf,was much less densely populated than other inhabited regions of the Near and Middle marshy soil, subject to annual inundations floods from the rivers,was not suited to the primitive hoe culture of early agriculture,in which land was cultivated without domestic animals or ,the land was virtually treeless and lacked building stone and mineral the next thousand years,however,this(unpromising) area became the seat of Sumer,the first great civilization known to history,with large concentrations of people,bustling cities,monumental architecture,and(a wealt