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0460 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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when abundant rainfall and good crops brought on pros-
perity. In view of all this, Clayton concludes, with justice,
I think, that even the small changes of climate incident to
the Brückner cycle have been significant factors in American
history. The idea that financial crises and political changes
in the United States may be genetically connected with
famines and revolts in Asia suggests a hitherto unsuspected
unity of history. If the small changes of the Brückner cycle
can produce such important results as those described in
the preceding pages, it is clear that the far greater changes of
which we have found evidence in Central Asia and elsewhere
must have exercised a tremendous influence upon history.

In the dry regions of Chinese Turkestan, we have seen
the effect of a change of climate from conditions of com-
parative aridity to great aridity; in Kashmir, we have seen
the opposite effects produced by a change from conditions
of extreme coolness and moisture to those of moderate cool-
ness and moisture. The physical change in the two cases
was of the same type, from a cooler, moister climate to one
that is warmer and drier. The effect on human life, how-
ever, was utterly different. In places such as the Chira and
Niya regions in Turkestan, the effect of increasing aridity
was to drive away the nomads, and to greatly diminish the
number of persons supported by agriculture and to reduce
them to a somewhat lower stage of civilization. At Endereh,
Yartungaz, Lulan, and elsewhere, the result was much more
disastrous. Not only did the population decrease enor-
mously, but the few people who remained were compelled to
abandon agriculture and to adopt the life of semi-nomadic
shepherds or fishermen. All arts decayed, and the people