The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000

52 Chapter Two balance between the two governed the scale of trade and the number of ships that showed up to pay dues.^56 Though ...

The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–1500 53 Indeed, the transformation of Chinese economy and society in Sung times may best b ...

(^54) Chapter Two confiscatory taxation and robbery by finding refuge in one or another port of call along the caravan routes an ...

The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–1500 55 that needed rather less artificial improvement than was the case in China. By the ...

56 Chapter Two Nor were the seas the only important medium of long-distance travel. From about the beginning of the Christian er ...

The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–1500 57 handsomely for animals and animal products because the work force under their cont ...

(^58) Chapter Two suitable pack animals in large numbers. In fact, it seems plausible to say that a social alliance between urba ...

The Era of Chinese Predominance. 1000–1500 59 slave soldiers in the service of civilized rulers before seizing power in their ow ...

(^60) Chapter Two (1346). The plague bacillus probably became epidemic among bur­ rowing rodent populations of the steppe for th ...

The Era of Chinese Predominance, 1000–1500 61 century, was a by-product of the Mongols’ military success, and of the radical rat ...

(^62) Chapter Two How Latin Christians achieved this proficiency, and the reckless­ ness with which they proceeded in the follow ...

3 The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 In the year 1000 the part of Eu­ rope known as Latin Christendom was overwhelmingly r ...

64 Chapter Three This introduced a second relatively well-armed element into society. It was connected with the knightly establi ...

The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 65 extensive expansion occurred east of the Elbe where, by the mid­ thirteenth century, ...

(^66) Chapter Three As in China in the same age, places where transport and communica­ tions were unusually easy led the way. In ...

The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 67 local rulers and jurisdictions, but only sporadically were they able to enforce over ...

(^68) Chapter Three simplicity in use made it a great equalizer in the field. Armored caval­ rymen need not always prevail when ...

The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 69 been able to make good their vision of a Christendom obedient to papal governance, s ...

70 Chapter Three of war began to evolve among Europeans with a rapidity that soon raised it to unexampled heights. The history o ...

The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600^71 wide market. Bills of exchange facilitated payment across long dis­ tances. Credit b ...