The best answer to go with is b
The answer is Canal. Canals are human-made channels for water movement, or to administration water transport vehicles. In the vernacular, both are alluded to as 'trenches', and as a rule, the built works will have a progression of dams and bolts that make territories of the low-speed current stream. These territories are alluded to as 'slack water levels', frequently just called 'levels'.
The Ottoman empire split because of ww1
and the Russian empire
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