The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
12 Chapter One Chariots were expensive, both because of the workmanship that went into their construction and because of the cos ...
Arms and Society in Antiquity 13 Hillsmen and other barbarians living on the fringes of civilized society profited most directly ...
14 Chapter One in g roads to facilitate military movement across long distances, and of mobilizing labor for the erection of for ...
Arms and Society in Antiquity 15 bowman that had made chariot fighting possible. Such paired cavalry men were, in fact, chariot ...
16 Chapter One were far-reaching. Steppe populations, once they had mastered the arts of horsemanship and acquired the skills to ...
Arms and Society in Antiquity 17 pected to arise, at least for a while, until the new rulers lost their tribal cohesion and surr ...
18 Chapter One and again, in periods of peace and population growth, fields would creep out into the grasslands, until some new ...
Arms and Society in Antiquity 19 provide. The great horses had to be fed of course, and natural pasture was scarce in most culti ...
20 Chapter One styles of warfare matched Homer’s heroes’ disdain for archery. It differed from the apparent irrationality of Hom ...
Arms and Society in Antiquity 21 220), were long retained and readily restored, even after sporadic breakdowns due to bureaucrat ...
22 Chapter One regions was carried through by command.^24 When rulers found that they needed something which could not be obtain ...
Arms and Society in Antiquity 23 routine dominated everyone’s behavior. Large-scale changes in human conduct, when they occurred ...
2 The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–1500 Remarkable changes came to Chinese industry and armaments after about A.D. 1000, an ...
The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–1500 25 mercial network, buying and selling to supplement every day’s liveli hood, made a ...
26 Chapter Two naval hegemony that extended briefly throughout the Indian Ocean. In the meanwhile, active hypothesis is all that ...
The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–1500 27 Year Tons (^806) 13,500 998 32,500 (^1064) 90,400 1078 125,000 Such statistics are ...
(^28) Chapter Two prices, state revenue could readily be enlarged. The decision of 1083 thus represented a reversion to old, wel ...
The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–15 00 29 shift from taxes in kind to taxes in money gained rapid headway. According to one ...
30 Chapter Tivo imperial carriage. Everyone sees them and the people pity them and lament.^16 Under the remorseless pressure of ...
The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–1500^31 the northern Sung.^19 After 1126 the city of Hang-chou, at the other end of the Gr ...
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