In Western Siberia it was in the late Palaeolithic Age that men came to liver for the first time (Cf. Fig. 1). They enlarged their dwelling. area as far as_ the lower Ob River in the Neolithic Age (Cf. Fig. 2). The first farming of Western Siberia was begun in the southern part of it at the Andronovskaya epoch (1700-1200 B.C.). The northenmost bounds of agriculture in the end of the Bronze Age were along the line of Kurgan, Petropavlovsk and Omsk. In other words, they were in the southern part of the forest steppe zone. In the part of the Minusinsk Basin, irrigation-farming was begun at the Tagarskaya epoch (700-100 B.C.). About the fifth century, they started to till the fields with plough under the influence of China. S.V. Kiselev states that hack-tilling with irrigation played the main role in the rise of the Türk people(_??__??_)in the Altay in the sixth century and that plough-tilling with irrigation came to have an important meaning in the rise of the Kyrgys people(_??__??__??_)in the upper Yenisey River in the tenth century. The agriculture in Southern Siberia, which had developed comparatively highly in the ancient time, fell into decay in the latter period.
When the Russian people began colonizing in the end of the sixteenth century, the northernmost bounds of agriculture by the native peoples had moved up to the north as far as the line of Tobolsk, Tomsk and Krasnoyarsk. In other words, they were in the south of the forest zone. Only the Tatars of the Siberian khanate were tilling with plough, and the rest peoples were tilling with hack. In general, agriculture was mere the supplementary means of industry to hunting, fishing and stock farming. There were some peoples who didn't engage in agriculture. From the oldest times, Western Siberia had been the mixed area of the race of the mongoloid type and the race of the europeoid type. There were Mongoloid peoples in the north and Europeoid peoples in the south. In the Minusinsk Basin, however, mongolonization came to have a remarkable meaning at the Tashtykskaya epoch (1c. B.C-4c. A.D.). It means the process of Turkicization in the fields of both language and civilization, in which the peoples called the Tatars by Russians were formed, in the Altay and the middle and upper parts of the Yenisey River.

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The minor textile industry belongs to the category of smaller enterprises and it is an industrial capital in charge of the weaving process which is the second processing stage of the fiber industry. The greater part of the minor textile industry of Japan is traced back to the rural domestic industry and the urban manual trade in the Edo era. It is, therefore, found in the old weaving regions and has developed centering around them.
Generally the capital is small and, as is the characteristic of the minor enterprise, it is directly or indirectly subordinate to the monopolistic capital (huge yarn maker). Besides, from its characteristic of being an old industry, it retains in itself a marked degree of non-modernistic character and a great part of it is dependent upon the old and new commercial capital.
But these characteristics of smallness, suboidination and non-modernism (feudalism) are not equally found in all the weaving districts, but each of them has its own regional characteristic.
(1) Regions where petty enterprises are large in number and subordinate to the old commercial capital (e.g. merchant-like textile manufacturer, center commission agent, etc.) and have a deep tint of feudalism: Ex. cotton weaving regions-Kurume, Bingo (both producing cloth with splashed patterns), Oume (cloth for bed-cover), etc. silk and rayon weaving regions-Nishijin (high class cloth for clothing, & cloth for ‘obi’), Tango (‘chirimen’), many places of the Kanto Districts (cloth for the use of the masses), etc.
(2) Regions where enterprises are on a larger scale than (1) and dependent upon the new commercial capital (textile firm, trading firm, etc.): Ex. cotten-weaving regions-Banshu (broad thread-dyed cloth), Enshu (broad processed cloth), etc. woolen weaving regions-Bisai (patterned cloth), silk and rayon weaving regions-Fukui, Ishikawa (broad rayon cloth with no pattern), etc.
(3) Regions where enterprises are relatively large scale, being mostly subcontractors of spining companies: Ex. cotton weaving regions-Chita, Senshu (both producing white cotton cloth), etc.
All the enterprises in these weaving districts, in the Edo era, usually manufactured cloth for clothing of single breadth, and were of the old domestic system subordinating to wholesale dealers. With new markets opened before them from 1920 to 1930, some of them, introducing broad cloth weaving doveloped into the new types (2) and (3). From me standpoint of manufacturing process to the broad cloth weaving, these regions were divided into two types: one being those which selected thread dyed and processed cloth, and another those which selected cloth with no pattern and white cloth.
The first key to clarify the reginal characteristics of the tertile industry is the kind of cloth that is produced in each region of textile industry.

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Many of the cities of Japan are old in their origin. Already in the feudal age, they existed as castle-towns, post-towns, and port towns. In the process of their development into modern cities, industrialization has played an important role in shaping the character and the function of each city. The present writer attempts to survey all the historic cities along the coasts of the Inland Sea of Seto and study the influences which development of industries has had on their modernization.
There are three types in the process of their regeneration: Firstly, traditional feudal industries, such as cotton and shipbuilding industries, developed into modern industries after the industrial revolution. (Fukuyama and Imabari are two of such cases).
Secondly, traditional feudal industries have not been much affected by the industrial revolution. In this case, modernization of the towns is rather slowed. (Naruto, Mitsuishi, etc.)
Lastly, modern industries such as chemical and machine industries sprang up newly after the industrial revolution. (Tokuyama, Takasago)

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