Canal List
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{ "count": 368, "next": null, "previous": "https://seshat-db.com/api/sc/canals/?format=api&page=7", "results": [ { "id": 351, "polity": { "id": 798, "name": "de_east_francia", "long_name": "East Francia", "start_year": 842, "end_year": 919 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "IFR", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "present", "comment": "The Fossa Carolina (Charlemagne’s Canal), an ambitious project started in the late 8th century to connect the Rhine and Danube river systems, is the most prominent example of canal construction in medieval Europe.\r\nWhile there is debate about whether it was fully completed or operational, recent studies suggest it was at least partially functional for a time. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/KP7PGXWP\">[webpage_Fossa Carolina / Karlsgraben –...]</a>, <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/FFA2FMSK\">[Leitholdt_et_al 2012]</a>, <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/8XZSW6WB\">[Schmidt_Werther_Zielhofer 2018]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 352, "polity": { "id": 177, "name": "tr_ottoman_emp_4", "long_name": "Ottoman Empire IV", "start_year": 1839, "end_year": 1922 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "present", "comment": "Mesopotamian Irrigation Canal, actively maintained throughout the 19th century under Ottoman rule. Supported agriculture by distributing water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to surrounding farmland. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/BA773IQM\">[Husain_Husain 2021]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 353, "polity": { "id": 21, "name": "us_hawaii_k", "long_name": "Kingdom of Hawaii - Post-Kamehameha Period", "start_year": 1820, "end_year": 1898 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "absent", "comment": "Maritime transportation: Given the island geography, ocean routes were the primary mode of long-distance transport for goods and people. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/QT8DN5BS\">[Daws 1997]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 354, "polity": { "id": 496, "name": "ir_elam_2", "long_name": "Elam - Shimashki Period", "start_year": -2028, "end_year": -1940 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": null, "description": "Certainly in neighbouring Mesopotamia c2000-1500 BCE: \"It was an important task for the rulers of Mesopotamia to dig canals and to maintain them, because canals were not only necessary for irrigation but also useful for the transport of goods and armies. The rulers or high government officials must have ordered Babylonian mathematicians to calculate the number of workers and days necessary for the building of a canal, and to calculate the total expenses of wages of the workers.\"§REF§Muroi in J J O'Connor, J J. Robertson, E F. December 2000. <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Babylonian_mathematics.html\">http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Babylonian_mathematics.html</a>§REF§" }, { "id": 355, "polity": { "id": 95, "name": "in_hoysala_k", "long_name": "Hoysala Kingdom", "start_year": 1108, "end_year": 1346 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 356, "polity": { "id": 126, "name": "pk_indo_greek_k", "long_name": "Indo-Greek Kingdom", "start_year": -180, "end_year": -10 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": "Unknown.", "description": null }, { "id": 357, "polity": { "id": 466, "name": "uz_koktepe_2", "long_name": "Koktepe II", "start_year": -750, "end_year": -550 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": "\"it can be provisionally assumed that the two earlier Iron Age phases distinguished at Koktepe could represent the first manifestations of local agricultural development. Maurizio Tosi has proposed that for the southern slopes of the Zerafshan valley, along the Dargom canal, this economic system could have developed from an earlier period, when irrigation was limited to the natural flows of water from the foothills (Koktepe I period), to a later irrigation system, mainly exemplified by the excavation of the great canals deriving from the Zerafshan, the Bulungur and the Dargom (Koktepe II period).\" <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/5PR5E7DS\">[Rapin_Cribb_Herrmann 2007, p. 35]</a> -- were these \"great canals\" large enough to facilitate transportation?", "description": null }, { "id": 358, "polity": { "id": 160, "name": "tr_konya_eba", "long_name": "Konya Plain - Early Bronze Age", "start_year": -3000, "end_year": -2000 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 359, "polity": { "id": 170, "name": "tr_cappadocia_2", "long_name": "Late Cappadocia", "start_year": -330, "end_year": 16 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 360, "polity": { "id": 243, "name": "cn_late_shang_dyn", "long_name": "Late Shang", "start_year": -1250, "end_year": -1045 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": "Unknown.", "description": null }, { "id": 361, "polity": { "id": 169, "name": "tr_lysimachus_k", "long_name": "Lysimachus Kingdom", "start_year": -323, "end_year": -281 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 362, "polity": { "id": 161, "name": "tr_central_anatolia_mba", "long_name": "Middle Bronze Age in Central Anatolia", "start_year": -2000, "end_year": -1700 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 363, "polity": { "id": 171, "name": "tr_rum_sultanate", "long_name": "Rum Sultanate", "start_year": 1077, "end_year": 1307 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 364, "polity": { "id": 436, "name": "co_tairona", "long_name": "Tairona", "start_year": 1050, "end_year": 1524 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": "reference to canals - was this transport canal or irrigation canal?", "description": null }, { "id": 365, "polity": { "id": 80, "name": "pe_wari_emp", "long_name": "Wari Empire", "start_year": 650, "end_year": 999 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": "Not for transport but \"the scale of Wari water management - which involved constructing and maintaining canals capable of carrying 1,000 liters (265 gal.) per second - would not be surpassed in the Moquegua Valley until present-day national irrigation projects. Most modern canal systems transmit 75-150 liters (20 to 40 gal.) per second.\" <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/MTIZJA6I\">[McEwan_Williams 2012, p. 76]</a>", "description": null }, { "id": 366, "polity": { "id": 443, "name": "mn_mongol_late", "long_name": "Late Mongols", "start_year": 1368, "end_year": 1690 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": "were present in Mongol Empire and Yuan dynasty, but these encompassed wider territories including more urban areas.", "description": null }, { "id": 367, "polity": { "id": 48, "name": "id_medang_k", "long_name": "Medang Kingdom", "start_year": 732, "end_year": 1019 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 368, "polity": { "id": 89, "name": "in_satavahana_emp", "long_name": "Satavahana Empire", "start_year": -100, "end_year": 200 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Canal", "canal": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null } ] }