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	Hydraulic empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 central coordination and gives rise to a specialized bureaucracy.
		A developed "hydraulic civilization" maintains control over its population by means of controlling the supply of water.
		Ban used the "hydraulic empire" theory to explain the hostility between the Middle East and Western civilization, starting with the Persian invasion of Greece, leading through the Punic Wars, the Jewish rebellions against Rome and eventually to the conflicts between the Islamic world and the West.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hydraulic_empire (419 words)

	Hydraulic Machines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hydraulics is a branch of science and engineering concerned with the use of liquids to perform mechanical tasks.
		Hydraulic fill is also a term used in hard rock mining and describes the placement of finely ground mining wastes into underground stopes in a slurry by boreholes and pipes to stabilise the voids.
		A hydraulic jump represents a wave that desires to move in upstream direction, but which it is unable to do, as the flow velocity of the water is larger than the wave's celerity (the speed of individual waves).
	www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/43/hydraulic-machines.html (1573 words)

	Hydraulic despotism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hydraulic despotism is a term for despotic rule supported by control of a single, necessary resource.
		Frank Herbert's Dune establishes a universe centered around a hydraulic despotism: The spice, Melange, is essential for, among other things, space travel; it is said that "He who controls the spice controls the universe".
		In the film Total Recall, the air on Mars is controlled by a central authority, which acts as a hydraulic despotism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hydraulic_despotism (193 words)

	Hydraulic empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A hydraulic empire (also known as a hydraulic despotism or a water monopoly empire) arisesthrough the need for flood control and irrigation, which requires central coordination and gives rise to a specializedbureaucracy.
		Most hydraulic empires existed in desert regions, but imperial China also had some such characteristics, dueto the exacting needs of rice cultivation.
		With hydraulic hierarchies, animpersonal government as a permanent institution was established.
	www.therfcc.org /hydraulic-empire-21102.html (285 words)

	Hydraulic empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In E. Ban's view, Middle Easterners hate the West because of a feeling of deprivation and envy resulting from the desertification of their own environment.
		Though tribal societies had structures that were usually personal in nature, exercised by a patriarch over a tribal group related by various degrees of kinship.
		With hydraulic hierarchies, an impersonal government as a permanent institution was established.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hydraulic_empire (406 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hydraulic empire
		Wittfogel asserted that such "hydraulic civilizations" –; although they were neither all located in the Orient nor characteristic of all Oriental societies – were essentially different from those of the West.
		As a civilization based on irrigation, it is the quintessential example of a hydraulic empire.
		An empire (also known technically, abstractly or disparagingly as an imperium, and with powers known among Romans as imperium) comprises a set of regions locally ruled by governors, viceroys or client kings in the name of an emperor.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hydraulic-empire (1016 words)

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		Holy Roman Empire -> History Conflict with the Pope and the Italians When Otto I became emperor, he renewed the traditions of the Carolingian empire that had been eroding for decades before Arnulf's death.
		Ottoman Empire -> History Origins The Ottoman state began as one of many small Turkish states that emerged in Asia Minor during the breakdown of the empire of the Seljuk Turks.
		British Empire -> The Second Empire The voyages of Capt. James Cook to Australia and New Zealand in the 1770s and new conquests in India after 1763 opened a second phase of territorial expansion.
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	Empire -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In some cases synonyms of empire such as (A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)) tsardom, (The domain ruled by a king or queen) realm or (The German state) reich occur.
		Many ancient empires maintained control of their subject peoples by controlling the supply of a vital resource, usually water; historians refer to such régimes as " (Click link for more info and facts about hydraulic empire) hydraulic empires".
		The Mongol Empire was governed by (Click link for more info and facts about kurultai) kurultai, and there was (A civil right guaranteed by the 1st amendment to the US constitution) freedom of religion, tax exemption and extensive trade routes that were nurtured by the Khan.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/em/empire.htm (2453 words)

	Empire Vented Gas Heaters
		The complete line of Empire Vented Wall Furnaces is specifically designed for placement in areas where flues or chimneys are available.
		Hydraulic Thermostats are built in to the gas valve with settings from 1-9 and a pilot setting.
		Empire vented room heaters are designed for quiet operation.
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	Serebella Contents Hydraulic empire---Hydraulic fluid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Hydraulic".
		An empire can be ruled by an emperor or an empress if it is a monarchy, or a dictator-president if it is a totalitarian regime.
		It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Empire".
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	Book Review
		One of the most persistent and pervasive myths is that the region was settled by individuals who, free of government retraints, conquered a hostile environment and created an egalitarian society that was the fulfillment of Jeffersonian Democracy.
		Rivers of Empire is a social historical analysis of irrigation in the arid West.
		As in the ancient hydraulic societies, a small group — large land owners and federal technocrats — rose to dominate the new hydraulic empire in America.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/87fall/br-rivers.htm (1460 words)

	Read about Hydraulic empire at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Hydraulic empire and learn about Hydraulic empire ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A developed "hydraulic civilization" maintains control over its population by means of controlling the supply of
		Indus Valley civilization, China and pre-Columbian Mexico and Peru, were hydraulic empires.
		despotism is typical of hydraulic empires - historically, many of these empires revered their rulers as gods.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Hydraulic_empire (458 words)

	Definition of index.php?search=elamite\|empire&limit=20&offset=20
		Khwarezm was a province of the [[Ghaznavid Empire]] from [[992]] to [[1041]].
		6: 1875andndash;1890 Annexed to empire* of [[Ahmadu Shaykhu]].
		(For the [[Pre-Columbian]] empires of [[Mesoamerica]] in the territory of modern-da...
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	Atomic Rocket: Interstellar Empire
		The defining factor of whether a given planet was part of an empire or not is whether the time delay between the start of the rebellion and the arrival of the imperial punishment fleet is longer than the time required for the rebellious planet to manufacture enough defenses to take care of the punishment fleet.
		An average planet in the middle of the empire could rate a sizable fleet since it could be a nucleus of rebellion for other planets, while the same planet out on the galactic marches of the empire might not get anything.
		An empire of this sort is dependent on the inability of the governed to defend themselves.
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	Hadanite Marasek - Nicht mehr, nicht weniger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A hydraulic empire is a governmental entity ruling its citizens by allocation of water.
		This is a strange idea to begin with, but applied to a city state within a desert oasis, it starts to make sense: the rulers control the water supply of the city and control the citizens with rations of water - or deprivation of said rations.
		The first and the second solution most likely will only remove a certain government, but will not end the hydraulic empire itself, as surely neither the rebels or the invaders will be able to resist the temptation to rule the hydraulic empire for themselves.
	www.hadanite-marasek.de /index.php4?topic=texte&text=waterempire&kategorie=gesellschaft (1066 words)

	Gold Fever Giant Gold Machines - Hydraulic Mining
		This thirteen-foot monitor, made by the Empire Foundry in Marysville in the 1870s, is not even the biggest.
		Hydraulic monitors blasted 1.5 billion cubic yards of soil and rocks from the Sierra hillsides.
		It was a battle cry in the war between the hydraulic miners and the valley farmers in the 1870s and 1880s.
	www.museumca.org /goldrush/fever19-hy.html (482 words)

	Karl Wittfogel and the rise of the West
		Karl Wittfogel is best known for his "hydraulic hypothesis": he thought that the development of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China and Pre-columbian societies had been blocked because of the need to irrigate vast surfaces for agriculture.
		He correctly identified the centralized and bureaucratic empire as the one blocking element for Chinese science, technology and economic development.
		If his hydraulic hypothesis must be rejected, Wittfogel's other ideas were quite to the point, however.
	www.riseofthewest.net /thinkers/wittfogel01.htm (721 words)

	Egyptian Empire Culture - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Twilight of the Egyptian Empire (Dynasties 19-20, c.1293-1150 BCE).
		Never before and never again would the Egyptian empire attain the size and power that it did during this period...
		Culture Ministry is currently preparing for the inauguration of a new museum in the Upper Egyptian province of...
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	Hydraulic empire - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hydraulic empire - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This page was last modified 09:48, 19 May 2005.
		The article about Hydraulic empire contains information related to Hydraulic empire, Civilizations, Analysis and See also.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Hydraulic_empire (384 words)

	Ancient Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And by 4000 BC they had invented the use of mortar (masonry).
		The Egyptian pyramids took the geometric shape formed from a polygonal base and a point, called the apex, by triangular faces.
		Hydraulic Cement was first invented by the Egyptians.
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	Company News On Call
		Included in the proposed Dana divestiture are hydraulic cylinder operations in Arab, Alabama, and Lancaster, Texas, as well as the Lessard operation in St. Wenceslas, Quebec, Canada, and the Erwin Hengstler Hydraulik, GmbH facility in Hausach, Germany.
		Completion of the divestiture is contingent upon completion of a due diligence review and a definitive purchase agreement, and the approval of appropriate regulatory agencies.
		Empire Financial Corporation is a Dallas-based merchant banking and investment firm.
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	tdaxp : Empires of Connectivity and Generations of Empire
		The mechanism of centralization [of the old Empires] was their shared need to pool massive labor and resources to build and maintain the irrigation works upon which their agricultural sustenance depended.
		If we use Chirol's concept of "generations," we might call a Hydraulic Empire a "Zeroth Generation Empire" or a "Pre-Modern Empire." In a Pre-Modern, Hydraulic, of 0G Empire, the most important "flows" are the flow of labor into the center and the flow of water into the periphery.
		Likewise, the arteries of Pre-Modern Empires were canals that carry water, and the arteries of 1st Generation Empires were roads and ocean-routes that carried goods and men.
	tdaxp.blogspirit.com /archive/2005/08/01/empires-of-connectivity-and-generations-of-empire.html (1580 words)

	Empire Comfort System heaters, furnaces, stoves, gas logs, fireplaces, and cooking stoves
		The BF-10 is equipped with a hydraulic thermostat with a constant 10,000 Btu input, while the BF-20 is equipped with a modulating hydraulic thermostat that modulates from 8,500 Btu to 20,000 Btu for continuous temperature control.
		The BF-30 offers the visual warmth of an alluring blue flame with a hydraulic thermostat that modulates from 8,500 Btu to 30,000 Btu for continuous temperature control.
		The Vintage is available as a manually controlled model, a modulating hydraulic thermostat model, or a remote model with various control accessories.
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	Amazon.com: Books: Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.
		Rivers of Empire represents a radically new vision of the American West and its historical significance.
		Donald Worster's "Rivers of Empire" is a superb work by the environmental historian, though his critique of California's "hydraulic society" is more a social history.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195078063?v=glance (2394 words)

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	Building the Hydraulic Empire
		Aqueduct Empire: A Guide to Water in California, Its Turbulent History and Its Management Today, Western Lands and Waters Series.
		Long, David R. "Pipe Dreams: Hetch Hetchy, the Urban West, and the Hydraulic Society Revisited." Journal of the West 34 (July 1995): 19-31.
		"Hydraulic Society in California: An Ecological Interpretation." Agricultural History 56 (July 1982): 503-15.
	www.cnr.berkeley.edu /departments/espm/env-hist/ca-bib/hydro.html (1691 words)

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