They hid in marshlands to avoid being captured. They also formed a colony of fisher men who lived and working in the swamps and bayous and also developed a successful method of drying shrimps in the sun on raised platforms as this happened dried shrimp were exported to other countries.
I think it was germany and they gained an alliance right before ww1
It achieved peace because two world powers connected in a peaceful way. This created a sense of calmness for the end of the Cold War
Scribes were extremely important in Sumerian society since they were needed to transcribe everything that was written, because this was before the time of the printing press (which made duplication of such documents are easier).