The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
32 Chapter Two general interest. Confiscatory taxation of ill-gotten gains always smacked of justice and retribution. The all to ...
The Era of Chinese Predominance. 1000–1500 33 China. This, in turn, was part of an enormous disaster that occurred in 1194, when ...
34 Chapter Two response was to rely initially on a “scorched earth” policy that aimed at bringing everything of value within cit ...
The Era of Chinese Predominance. 1000–1500 35 the cost was loss of field mobility and vulnerability to large-scale, well-organiz ...
36 Chapter Two mental policy towards merchants and others who enriched themselves by skillful or lucky manipulation of the growi ...
Chinese Crossbow Manufacture This woodcut from a seventeenth-century encyclopedia shows how the arc was strengthened by laminati ...
38 Chapter Two practice allowed an ordinary man to use a crossbow quite effectively. Yet Chinese crossbows of the thirteenth cen ...
The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–1500 39 eluding gunpowder, joined this array of complicated weaponry about the year 1000. ...
40 Chapter Two gols demonstrate that these devices could be used to break down city gates and walls as well as to defend them.^3 ...
The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–1500^41 expansion, and military expansion were built into the Chinese system of political ...
(^42) Chapter Two This partial coalescence between mercantile and official outlooks reached its apogee under the Mongols (the Yü ...
The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–1500 43 materials required for shipbuilding—timbers, rope, sails, fittings— were added to ...
(^44) Chapter Two ten days—far faster than cargo could travel through the Grand Canal. But local rebellion and disorders in the ...
The Era of Chinese 'Predominance, 1000–1500 45 chants and capitalists built and operated large ships. Standard patterns for mana ...
(^46) Chapter Two waters of the Grand Canal, and the seagoing warships were allowed to rot away without being replaced. Shipbuil ...
The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–1500 47 would not sacrifice their lives abroad, the people from afar would voluntarily sub ...
48 Chapter Two sibility of accumulating large private capital from the profits of seafar ing became correspondingly slim, inasm ...
The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–1500 49 everybody else in Chinese society, were never autonomous. When officials allowed i ...
50 Chapter Two Chinese felt that any unusual accumulation of private wealth from trade or manufacture was profoundly immoral, si ...
The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–1500 51 lives of many thousands of people in southeast Asia and adjacent islands. All who ...
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