The baray system of the Khmer empire is thought to have served this function, which the Dujiangyan project exemplified in Warring States-era China.
According to anti-Communist historian Karl Wittfogel, this material technology is the best metaphor for the Soviet Union's mode of domination, and its literal form enabled "Oriental despotism" in Chinese and Indian empires. Middle Eastern implements used in this process include the pole-like shadoof and a type of wheel called the noria. The baray system of the Khmer empire is thought to have served this function, which the Dujiangyan project exemplified in Warring States-era China. The Abbasids overcame geographic impediments to this process by improving upon Archimedes' screw. For 10 points, name this technology whose use in the Virgin Lands program depleted the Aral Sea, which is still used on Asian terraces to create dependable rice paddies.
According to anti-Communist historian Karl Wittfogel, this material technology is the best metaphor for the Soviet Union's mode of domination, and its literal form enabled "Oriental despotism" in Chinese and Indian empires.
irrigation [or hydraulics; or diverting water; or drainage; or water management; or aquaculture; or controlled flooding of arable land; or creating reservoirs; accept any answer indicating the controlled diversion of water from natural sources for human ends; accept hydraulic power or hydraulic despotism; prompt on "agriculture," "farming," "growing plants," "saving water," "storing water," "pools," "baths", or "lakes"]