And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance.

Since the WIOD monetary goods flows are based on undeflated current prices, one possible reason for the emergence of the German community is that the community members may have experienced significantly more inflation and/or exchange rate volatility than other regions in the world.

For instance, tyro jousters in fifteenth-century Iberia wore “white armor,” while experienced men wore surcoats over their harness (Fallows 2010, 80), while fabric-covered breastplates are depicted in many examples of fifteenth-century northern European art.

Politically, China proper (where the core of Han culture and settlement began in the middle of the Yellow River valley) and frontier areas of China were brought together under the Qing dynasty, mostly during the 18th century. Incursions by earlier dynasties into Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and southern Manchuria did occur, but were later reversed. It is this latest process of expansion that accounts for the enormous size of the People's Republic of China today.