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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1363785)6/22/2022 5:49:22 PM
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"In 1858 the SW was a desert. 40,000,000 people moved into it thinking they were somehow able to make Nature change...because why"

They invented irrigation.

A History of Agricultural Irrigation
easy-irrigation.co.uk

The earliest known systems of irrigation began in 6000 BC in Egypt and Mesopotamia. In Egypt, the Nile flooded for a few months each year, and the waters were

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OK, so they invented dams...

The first known dam to be built is the Jawa Dam, which is actually the largest in a series of dams that are all part of one reservoir system. Located in modern-day Jordan, the Jawa Dam was originally constructed around 3,000 BCE in what was then Mesopotamia.

tataandhoward.com

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Maybe it was the free farmland with nothing but Indians standing in the way.
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