Ancient canals, environmental change, and the complex reasons agricultural systems sometimes failed.Water and the Development of Central Asian SocietiesCentral Asia contains some of the world's most important examples of settlement in dry and semi-arid environments. Across parts of present-day Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and neighboring regions, communities developed ways to obtain water from rivers, seasonal streams, sprin…
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