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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for despotism
		oriental despotism A concept popularized by the German sociologist Karl Wittfogel, a member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory who fled the Third Reich in 1933, and spent much of the rest of his academic career in the United States (see his Oriental Despotism, 1957).
		In Greek usage, a despot was ruler of a household and master of its slaves.
		to be the heirs of one of the oldest and greatest imperial despotisms of all.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=despotism (1263 words)

	hydraulic action - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about hydraulic action
		Hydraulic action occurs as a river tumbles over a waterfall to crash onto the rocks below.
		The hydraulic action of ocean waves and turbulent currents forces air into rock cracks, and therefore brings about erosion by cavitation.
		In coastal areas hydraulic action is often the most important form of erosion.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /hydraulic+action (173 words)

	Hydraulic empire: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A hydraulic empire (also known as a hydraulic despotism or a water monopoly empire) arises through the need for flood control and irrigation, which requires...
		Despotism is government by a singular authority, either a single person or tightly knit group, which rules with absolute power....
		Hydraulics is a branch of science and engineering concerned with the use of liquids to perform mechanical tasks....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hy/hydraulic_empire.htm (1629 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Hydraulic empire
		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).
		Thus, a particularly extreme despotism is typical of hydraulic empires -- historically, many of the empires Wittfogel classes as "hydraulic" revered their rulers as gods.
		Needham argued that the Chinese government was not despotic, was not dominated by a priesthood, and that Wittfogel's perspective does not address the necessity and presence of bureaucracy in modern Western civilization.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Hydraulic_empire (975 words)

	Amazon.com: Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power: Books: Karl A. Wittfogel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The downside is that the conditions encourage rigid and despotic social forms.
		He hypothesized that in the pre-industrial age, places that undertake "hydraulic" agriculture have a hyper-despotic (or dictatorial) government for functional reasons.
		Thus, this is a semi-slave or corvee labor.
	www.amazon.com /Oriental-Despotism-Comparative-Study-Total/dp/0300010540 (1249 words)

	State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These states were usually despotic and unstable, with the ruler(s) holding absolute power over their subjects until some other ruler(s) displaced them.
		Since there were no laws and no infrastructure, and since power was exercised arbitrarily, some political theorists and historians do not consider such early forms of despotic rule to have been states in the proper sense of the word; they are sometimes called proto-states.
		It was around this time that the concept of law - one of the foundations of the modern state - began to appear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/State (4600 words)

	National Novel Writing Month - Forums - Science Fiction - Hydraulic Despotism
		I want to center a portion of my plot around a literal hydraulic despotism -- that is, some planets in the system don't have enough water.
		Clearly it would be silly for people to ship water across space if the necessary elements existed in the atmosphere of the planets in question, so it only makes sense (to me) that the planets in question are poor in hydrogen.
		Another problem I didn't seem entioned is keeping this "hydraulic despotism" (awesome word, by the way) in place.
	www.nanowrimo.org /modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=105031 (1560 words)

	ipedia.com: Indus Valley Civilization Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		There is no evidence of irrigation, but such evidence could have been obliterated by repeated, catastrophic floods.
		The Indus civilization appears to disconfirm the hydraulic despotism hypothesis, which is concerned with the origin of urban civilization and the state.
		To build these systems, a despotic, centralized state emerged that was capable of suppressing the social status of thousands of people and harnessing their labor as slaves.
	www.ipedia.com /indus_valley_civilization.html (3091 words)

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