The Measure of Civilization by Morris Ian

Author:Morris, Ian
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012-03-10T05:00:00+00:00

Figure 5.16. Eastern and Western war-making capacity, 200 BCE–1600 CE.

The shape of the curves for Western and Eastern war-making capacity between 200 BCE and 1500 CE (figure 5.16) suggests that it was probably impossible for any state (including even the strongest steppe confederations) to push their military effectiveness up very far above the 0.1–0.12 range before the gunpowder revolution took off. Despite all the difficulties of making sweeping comparisons across huge swathes of time and space,96 iron-armed imperial Roman, early Tang, and early Ming war-making techniques do seem to have reached roughly the same level. No amount of reorganizing command and control and tightening up logistics could advance much beyond this.

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