从西汉时期并州人口数量的变化看其国力的盛衰

在农业社会,人口数量是衡量社会生产力发展水平的重要标志之一。西汉时期,地处北部边境的并州,是农耕经济区与游牧经济区交错相接的地区,也就成为了农耕民族与游牧民族交流、碰撞与冲突的前沿阵地,其人口来源复杂,人口数量极不稳定,其变化大致经过了快速发展、持续增加和快速减少这一过程,而这一变化实则是西汉王朝经济和边防实力兴衰的晴雨表,折射出这个王朝综合国力由兴盛转向式微。

A Review of the Prosperity and Decline of the West Han Dynasty's National Power by Examining the Change in the Population of Bing Prefecture

In an agricultural society,the size of population is one of the importance criteria to estimate the level of development of its social productivity.In the West Han Dynasty,Bing Prefecture on the northwest border was an area where farming economy areas and nomadic economy areas adjoined,therefore becoming the front where farming nationalities and nomadic ones communicated,clashed,and conflicted with each other.Its population was from various sources,and the size was unstable.This change roughly went through ...