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| − | Salinization is the accumulation of salt on soil. This greatly affected farming in Mesopotamia because farmers had to switch from wheat to more salt resistant crops such as barley, so that they could grow them in the fields. The salt in the soil limits the amount of water a plant can soak up, which limits their growth and how healthy a crop will be when it needs to be harvested. A lot of land was abandoned because of large amounts of salt and farmers not knowing how to combat it. This was a major problem because if crops are not growing well, that means that the population cannot be fed which sent the prices for grain skyrocketing. This also affected trade because Sumer had been reliant on international trading of grains and crops to other cities and towns in more northern Mesopotamia, this caused the government to start to collapse and lose allies with normal trading partners.
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| − | USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Soil Survey Center, Salinization, January 1998, [[http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_053151.pdf]]
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