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Genetic Diversity of Biofuel and Naturalized Napiergrass (Pennisetum purpureum)
- Yolanda López, Jeffery Seib, Kenneth Woodard, Karen Chamusco, Lynn Sollenberger, Maria Gallo, S. Luke Flory, Christine Chase
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Biofuel crops such as napiergrass possess traits characteristic of invasive plant species, raising concern that biofuels might escape cultivation and invade surrounding agricultural and natural areas. Napiergrass biofuel types are being developed to have reduced invasion risk, but these might be cultivated in areas where naturalized populations of this species are already present. The successful management of napiergrass biofuel plantations will therefore require techniques to monitor for escaped biofuels as distinguished from existing naturalized populations. Here we used 20 microsatellite DNA markers developed for pearl millet to genotype 16 entries of napiergrass, including naturalized populations and accessions selected for biofuel traits. Use of the markers showed a clear genetic separation between the biofuel types and naturalized entries and revealed naturalized populations undergoing genetic isolation by distance. These findings demonstrated the utility of microsatellite marker transfer in the development of an important tool for managing the invasion risk of a potential biofuel crop.
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Comparison of figural intrusion errors in three amnesic subgroups
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To examine the contribution of memory deficits and executive dysfunction to the production of prior-item intrusion errors, Korsakoff, mesial temporal amnesic, and anterior communicating artery aneurysm (ACoA) patients’ performance on the Visual Reproduction subtest of the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMS-R) was assessed. The Korsakoff patients were matched to the mesial temporal group in terms of severity of amnesia, while the ACoA group, which was less severely amnesic, was matched to the Korsakoff group in their performance on executive tests. Results indicated that at immediate recall, Korsakoff patients made significantly more intrusions than mesial temporal and ACoA patients. Conversely, after a delay, ACoA patients tended to make more intrusions than the other groups. Findings suggest that intrusions are due to a combination of deficient memory and executive dysfunction. A further comparison of a subgroup of ACoA patients matched to the Korsakoff patients in terms of severity of amnesia, however, revealed differences in the pattern of intrusions of these two groups, suggesting that different mechanisms may underlie Korsakoff and ACoA patients’ susceptibility to interference. (JINS, 1995, 1, 561–567.)
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5 - Eastern Islamdom
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Eastern Islamdom comprises all those lands to the east of the Ottoman empire, including Iran and points farther east. As explained in chapter 4, the division between Western and Eastern Islamdom seems to have been the dividing line between two styles of warfare throughout this period, and perhaps in earlier periods as well.
The heavy cavalry of the Mamluks in Egypt could not cope with the janissary musketeers of the Ottomans. By contrast, the light cavalry of the Safavids in Iran was able to hold its own against them. This light cavalry was none other than the familiar mounted archers of the steppe nomads operating in a slightly more arid environment of mixed deserts and grasslands surrounding small oases of agrarianate civilization. In other words, these were the Turkish desert nomads described earlier in chapter 1.
In Iran, a military ruling class of Turkish pastoral nomads was imposed over the Iranian settled population. In northern India, a similar ruling class was imposed over the Indian settled population. Given that the Ottomans and Mamluks were themselves Turks, virtually all of Islamdom (aside from newly converted areas in central Africa or Southeast Asia) was ruled by Turks by the time that firearms arrived.
Nevertheless, despite the similarity in their cultural background, each regime adapted to the land over which it ruled. The Ottomans (in Turkey) and Mughals (in India), who ruled over densely populated agricultural lands, came to rely more heavily on infantry armed with muskets and cannon.
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Europe is roughly comparable in size and diversity to India or China. Europe has no strikingly obvious eastern boundary – the Ural Mountains are about the same height as the Appalachians, and the Don River was traditionally taken as Europe's eastern boundary instead – and it gradually merges into the steppe. Few thirteenth-century Europeans would even have heard of the word “Europe” (although this would change by the 1600s), and it might be equally appropriate for the purposes of this book to refer to it as Christendom instead.
Pastoral nomads did not establish themselves any farther west than Hungary, the last outpost of the great steppe belt that stretches all the way from Mongolia. Transhumance (the seasonal migration of livestock) was common throughout southern Europe, in the familiar figure of the shepherd and his flocks, but the shepherds were no more nomads than were the cowboys who drove herds of cattle from Texas to Kansas every year – they were marginal members of agricultural societies. Their families, if they had any, lived in villages or towns.
Nevertheless, the horse was enormously symbolic for European culture. In the words of one knight, writing around the year 1250, “No animal is more noble than the horse, since it is by horses that princes, magnates and knights are separated from lesser people, and because a lord cannot fittingly be seen among private citizens except through the mediation of a horse.” Paintings and statues of monarchs on horses were ubiquitous.
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I originally approached this topic from an interest in nomads. Reading up on China's relations with the Mongols in the summer of 1991, I was struck by the strategic dilemma facing the Chinese. The Chinese had to defend a thousand miles of frontier against an enemy with superior mobility, one who could choose the time and place of an attack almost at will. The Mongols lived in tents and traveled with their flocks, so the Chinese could not pin them down. Nor could the Chinese possibly hold every point along the frontier with sufficient strength. Arthur Waldron's The Great Wall of China analyzed the range of options open to the Chinese and showed that the decision to fortify the frontier in the 1500s was anything but a foregone conclusion.
My interest in the Mongols then took me to other places they had been, like Russia and Iran, and I was struck by the similarities and differences with the strategic situation in China. The Russian border defenses were similar in principle to those in China, albeit far less elaborate. On the other hand, there were no such defenses separating Iran from the steppe. Although China and Russia broke free of the Mongol empire in the 1300s and 1400s, respectively, Turks gained and maintained the upper hand throughout the Middle East and India. The Middle East and India might be taken as an illustration of what happened when the defenses failed, except there was no evidence of such defenses, and anyway they had failed in Russia and China without similar consequences.
1 - Introduction
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Why was it the Europeans who perfected firearms when it was the Chinese who invented them?
Boiled down to a single sentence, that is the question this book tries to answer. There was once a great deal of confusion and controversy surrounding the invention of firearms, but it is now generally accepted that firearms originated in China. Although there is no solid evidence for firearms in Europe before the 1300s, archeologists have discovered a gun in Manchuria dating from the 1200s, and an historian has identified a sculpture in Sichuan dating from the 1100s that appears to represent a figure with a firearm. Since all the other evidence also points to Chinese origins, it is safe to conclude that this was in fact the case.
The earliest known formula for gunpowder can be found in a Chinese work dating probably from the 800s. The Chinese wasted little time in applying it to warfare, and they produced a variety of gunpowder weapons, including flamethrowers, rockets, bombs, and mines, before inventing firearms. “Firearms” (or “guns”) for purposes of this book means gunpowder weapons that use the explosive force of the gunpowder to propel a projectile from a tube: cannons, muskets, and pistols are typical examples. Although there were many kinds of gunpowder weapons other than firearms, none ever rivaled firearms in importance.
Firearms remained in use in China throughout the following centuries. Meanwhile, gunpowder and firearms spread elsewhere very quickly.
6 - China from 1500
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Firearms spread from China to Europe at some point around the year 1300, and from there to the Ottoman empire around the year 1400. By the year 1500, greatly improved weapons were making their way back toward China. The reverse movement of firearms technology was a momentous event not only for military history: it foreshadowed a reversal in the direction of technology transfer across the Oikoumene. These firearms were the first in a long line of inventions to make their way from Europe to China.
There is some evidence that the Chinese may have encountered Ottoman firearms even before European ones. Certainly, the Chinese were aware of differences between Ottoman and European muskets. The differences were fairly subtle, differences of degree rather than kind, because Ottoman and European firearms belonged to the same tradition, as did Japanese firearms, which were an offshoot of European ones. References to “foreign firearms” in this chapter should be understood to include all these firearms and not merely European ones.
Ottoman firearms reached the Chinese along two routes, by land and by sea. The land route was a series of caravan routes connecting the cities of Transoxania with those of China known as the “Silk Road,” so called because valuable, lightweight, imperishable, unbreakable silk was one of the mainstays of the trade. The sea route of course passed through the Indian Ocean. The Ottomans themselves did not have a presence in the Indian Ocean until they conquered Egypt in 1517, but there was no shortage of possible intermediaries.
4 - Western Islamdom
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At the time of Muhammad's death in 632, the Muslim community was still confined to the Arabian Peninsula and concentrated in the two towns of Mecca and Medina. Within a hundred years, Islam had spread from there to encompass Spain, the Maghrib, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Transoxania, and northwestern India. Within this area there were initially few Muslims, but over time the majority of the population converted. This rapid expansion subjected the political organization of the Muslim community, the caliphate, to powerful centrifugal forces that it was not equipped to handle. By the 900s, the caliphate had for all practical purposes split into a number of independent sultanates, although the caliph remained a potent symbol of religious community.
Beginning in the 900s, Turkish tribes migrated south and west off the steppe into the settled regions of Islamdom. Thanks to the missionary work of Sufi mystics and others, these tribes had generally converted to Islam beforehand. Still, this migration had profound effects on Islamdom, especially in regions like Anatolia, Azarbayjan, Khurasan, and Afghanistan that were suited to nomadic pastoralism. The balance between settled and nomadic shifted toward the latter. Thanks to their military prowess, the Turks were able to found dynasties all throughout Islamdom, even in places farther removed from the steppe like Egypt and India.
The invasion of the Mongols in the 1200s was more traumatic. Not only had the invaders not been converted to Islam, but they also sacked Baghdad and killed the caliph in 1258.
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2 - China to 1500
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China might broadly be divided into two regions based on its two major river systems: the Yellow River valley in the north and the Yangzi River valley in the south. The ancient political and cultural centers were concentrated in the north, but over the centuries the population and the economy shifted to the south. By 1250, the population of south China probably exceeded that of north China, and the largest (and richest) cities in the world were located in the south, starting with the city of Hangzhou with a population of more than one million.
Thanks to the monsoon winds that blow off the ocean from the southeast in the summertime, south China has enough water for intensive rice agriculture. The climate becomes drier and the rainfall more erratic as one moves north. North China is characterized by extensive cultivation of wheat, barley, millet, and sorghum. Farther north still, on the Mongolian steppe, there is insufficient rain to support agriculture, and the land is better suited for grazing livestock.
Since China was unified under the first Qin emperor in 221 b.c., periods of unity alternated with periods of disunity. The first period of unity lasted from 221 b.c. to a.d. 220, the same time that the Roman republic and empire ruled much of Europe. The second lasted from 589 to 756, the same time that Islam was spreading over the lands between Spain and Transoxania. The third lasted from 960 to 1127.
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7 - Korea and Japan
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To the east of China lies Korea, and to the east of Korea lies Japan. Although there were countless cultural differences among the three countries, they were all heirs to the classical civilization of Tang and pre-Tang China, and they had much more in common with each other than any of them had with anyone else. The Koreans obtained firearms from the Chinese in the 1300s, but they kept firearms secret from the Japanese for almost two centuries, until the Japanese acquired muskets from the Portuguese in 1542. This discrepancy set up a revealing comparison between Chinese, Korean, and Japanese adaptation to European technology when the Chinese intervened to protect the Koreans against the Japanese in the 1590s. Despite their much longer experience with firearms, the Chinese and Koreans found themselves outgunned by the Japanese.
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Korea is a peninsula roughly the same size as the island of Great Britain. It shares a border with Manchuria to the north, and it is a short distance by sea to China and Japan. Like Vietnam, Korea had once been a part of the Chinese empire, but it broke off from the Chinese empire during the extended period of disunity between the third and sixth centuries, and it successfully resisted reintegration by the Sui and Tang dynasties, even though Korea itself was not unified until 671.
The Chinese soon resigned themselves to the loss of Korea, and it remained independent under the rule of its own kings, who sent tribute to the Chinese on a regular basis.
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- A Global History to 1700
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This book is a history of firearms across the world from the 1100s up to the 1700s, from their invention in China to the time when European firearms had become clearly superior. It asks why it was the Europeans who perfected firearms when it was the Chinese who had invented them, and answers this question by looking at how firearms were used throughout the world. Early firearms were restricted to infantry and siege warfare, limiting their use outside of Europe and Japan. Steppe and desert nomads imposed a different style of warfare on the Middle East, India, and China – a style with which firearms were incompatible. By the time that better firearms allowed these regions to turn the tables on the nomads, Japan's self-imposed isolation left Europe with no rival in firearms design, production, or use, with consequences that are still with us today.
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