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Do Now—Exercise 11C--Your answer: Review Chapter Eighteen. In five or more complete sentences, summarize the several factors that contributed to the collapse of Sumerian civilization in the late twenty-first century B.C. Include the salinization of crops, the Amorites, and the Isin Dynasty in your answer. Read

p. 127 – 128 (all paragraphs) HW—Exercise 11C—Model answer: Several factors contributed to the collapse of Sumerian civilization in the late twenty-first century B.C. Salt from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers slowly poisoned the fields of wheat and barley. Because of the food shortage, the kings could not pay their soldiers to fight off attacks from the Amorites. General Ishbi-Erra defected from Ibbi-Sin’s rule and established his own rule, the Isin Dynasty. Finally, in 2004, the Elamite king, Kindattu, sacked Ur and ended the Sumerian civilization.