How did these advancements or practices affect the development and growth of the civilization? How did they affect the other civilization you selected?

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Although there are no options attached we can say the following.

Unfortunately, you forgot to include the advancements to know what they are and answer your question. Otherwise, we do not know what are those advancements, just you know them.

You also forgot to mention what was the civilization you selected. There are many ancient civilizations.

However, trying to help you with some information, we can comment on the following.

We are going to choose the Sumerian civilization.

The advancement or the practice that affect the development and growth of the civilization was that Sumerian learned agriculture techniques that allowed them to stop being nomads and settle in a territory for the first time to grow crops and built homes to live permanently there.

In this case, Sumerians settled in between two major rivers: the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, in the Middle East region, modern-day Iraq. There, they learned how to benefit from the flooding of the rivers to grow crops in the fertile land.

Due to this success, they could establish powerful city-states such as Lagash, Nippur, Ediru, Kish, Ur, and Uruk.

They affect the other civilizations such as the Harappan or the Indus Valley civilization that settled next to the Indus River, and the ancient Egyptians that settled in next to the Nile River in North Africa.

the underground railroad (apocope of the metropolitan railroad) is a system of urban trains located within a city and its metropolitan area. it is characterized for being a massive transport of passengers in the big cities, uniting diverse zones and their environs, with high capacity and frequency and in segregated form to other systems of transport. metropolitan railroads are built underground or on the surface, although most systems use mixed models where sections are combined in both modalities.

1 - as a result, the metro tends to reduce car travel for two reasons: first, due to the greater transfer of users from the car and, second, due to the reduction in the acquisition of cars in homes located in sectors near the stations of the metro.

2 -the metro allows to contribute effectively to the achievement of all the objectives of an urban development policy: it improves the efficiency of the city's economy by reducing travel costs and also generates a higher level of activities in the city center, taking advantage of of the agglomeration economies.

3 -it is a clean means of transport, since it uses renewable energy (usually electricity), taking care of the environment and avoiding excessive pollution.