HIS 102 Lecture 10: Water
22 Nov 2016
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Lecture thesis: the ways in which different countries dealt with their water helped create certain types of government. History of water: utilized it for agriculture and industry, gained a political advantage from water, ancient rome rose as a powerful state when it gained dominance over the. Mediterranean sea: china created a 1100 mile-long grand canal that allowed the transportation of resources from the southern yangtze region to the yellow river northlands. Rivers, irrigation, and the earliest empires: 3 early hydraulic civilizations, mesopotamia along the twin tigris and euphrates. Indus civilization around the indus river: water was highly concentrated in hydraulic civilizations, benefits of the nile. Only large source of irrigation water in egypt. Annual flood brought a thick silt to create good farm land: flood can be predictable and is also regularly occurring. Two way navigable current: up river is by sail, down river is by the water current.
