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0466 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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at first to the influence of improved climatic conditions, until
it, too, was reached by the migrating hordes of invaders.
Meanwhile, in the most densely populated part of Arabia,
another movement of the nations had begun, presumably
because of the distress due to rapid desiccation. The Arab
migrants carried with them the fanatical faith of Moham-
med, and were by it inspired to remoter conquests. The
migrants to Europe found there Christianity, and in time
became its greatest exponents.

When the progress of desiccation was stayed in Asia, and
the desert lands began to grow slightly more habitable, there
was no further impulse impelling migration, and Europe
was freed from further invasion. At last, at the beginning of
the Middle Ages, she was free to develop in response to the
favorable climatic conditions which had come upon her.
Christianity and the civilization to which it gives name and
form found a fruitful field of development, one which has
continued to expand. Mohammedanism, too, was able to
make progress for a time during the period of revival ac-
companying the expansion of the habitable areas of Persia,
Syria, and other parts of Central Asia and north Africa.
Under the Caliphs, Mohammedan civilization progressed
more rapidly than did that of Christian Europe, but soon
the climate ceased to become more favorable, and stagnation
ensued, followed by retrogression, when a slight tendency
toward desiccation again appeared.

To-day, the strongest nations of the world live where the
climatic conditions are most propitious. Japan and north
China in Asia; Russia, Austria, Germany, France, and
England in Europe; and the United States and Canada in