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Hydraulic empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A hydraulic empire also known as a hydraulic despotism or water monopoly empire , is a social or government structure which maintains power and control through exclusive control over access to w...
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Wittfogel On The Hydraulic Civilization ... Civilizations whose agriculture was dependent upon large-scale waterworks for irrigation and flood control were called "hydraulic civilizations" by the German-American historian Karl A. Wittfogel in his book Oriental Despotism (1957).
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The first civilizations arose along hot dry river valleys in Egypt, Mesopotamia, northwest India, and China. The importance of rivers to these civilizations has given rise to the term : hydraulic civilization, coming from hydra, the Greek word for water.
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article about Sri Lankas hydraulic civilisation of water reservoir rice cultivation ... 4. Ptolemy clearly indicated our contacts with the rest of the Asian world which resulted in the development of our unique hydraulic civilization, which sublimated from the Stone Age to the Iron Age bypassing the Bronze Age.
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Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology; Karl W. Butzer ... Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt is a fundamental contribution to knowledge of the cultural ecology of civilization in the Nile Valley.
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Cultivation around Nalut began about 4400 BC. As the climate became more arid, one of the ancient world�s longest and deepest Qanats was constructed ... This amazing hydraulic feature, considered to be the oldest feat of human engineering, is known to have developed and existed in many areas of the ancient world.
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India-centric Hydraulic Civilization of the Old World � 7 by Dr. V. Sankaran Nair ... Alc�zar Herald of a Hydraulic Civilization ... These examples of Nalut and the rice terraces of Philippines take one to the hydraulic civilization of the old world. One thing that we have forgotten is that these hydraulic civilizations...
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The Hydraulic Civilization theory holds that cities able to control irrigated farming over large hinterlands held power over others and thrived as they expanded their spheres of influence.
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A developed "hydraulic civilization" maintains control over its population by means of controlling the supply of water. ... The Indus Valley civilization is often considered a hydraulic empire despite a lack of evidence of irrigation (as this evidence may have been lost in time due to flood damage).
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