They handled small claims.
A volcanic eruption or extreme flooding.
Answer:
The plains in this area are southerly sloping, dissected, and uneven. Low, rolling hills, large, gently sloping ridgetops, a few steeper side-slopes where streams cut through, and broad, flat bottomlands along low-to-moderate gradient streams with sand and clay bottoms characterize the landscape.
A reason is because when it floods it waters all their plants and it's one of their only water sources :)
