Chapter 1879 Maya Is a Primitive Person?

In fact, there are more than one so-called prehistoric relics on the earth, such as Asan’s stainless iron pillar.

In Maihalloli, near the capital of Asan, stands a huge iron pillar. There are clear historical records that the iron pillar has stood in the open air for more than 1,500 years and has experienced countless winds and rains, and it is still intact today. Traces of rust!

Some scientists analyzed the composition of the iron pillars and found that it contained many impurities and was by no means pure iron, because pure iron does not rust, and iron with magazines is more likely to rust than ordinary wrought iron.

Some people even say that this is the prototype of the golden cudgel in Journey to the West.

Ah San believes that this is a product of prehistoric civilization, but like the memory properties of Yue King Goujian's sword, there is no way to prove it.

But that doesn’t mean there definitely isn’t one, otherwise how can we explain the golden mask?

If the pyramids of the ancient Mayans were connected with the pyramids of Egypt, is it possible to guess that memory metal appeared on the earth in a certain period of time, and it happened to be discovered and utilized by the civilization of that era?

Is it just that for some reason the technology didn't survive?

The fundamental purpose of Yang Cheng's sponsorship of Dick Gill's research is to explore more secrets about memory metal. If this ultra-modern technology is mastered by him, then the future of the Yang family will be completely stable.

As for the crime of carrying a jade without guilt, Yang Cheng is not worried. For ordinary people, this is indeed cause for concern, but the Yang family is not a soft persimmon.

Of course, the research is aimed at mass-producing memory metal. If it cannot be used by civilians, the production cost will still be expensive, which is meaningless to Yang Cheng. After all, he is not prepared to conquer the world with this thing.

Safra was frantically flipping through the information, trying to find the connection between memory metal and ancient Maya.

While shaking his head, he said, "My memory is correct. Although it is very confusing, the Mayans prohibited the use of metals for practical purposes. They believed that metals are related to weapon manufacturing and may lead to wars.

Therefore, the few metals used were only used in agriculture, temple construction, and ritual sacrificial vessels, while household knives were replaced by obsidian.

Not only metals, but also the wheel, which is the origin of technology, are rarely seen in the life of the Mayans.

In fact, the Mayans could make wheels, but they were never used in actual life. You must know that there are no transportation roads or water sources near those large pyramid buildings, and they are surrounded by dense rainforests. Then the pyramids also need large squares. How are materials mined and transported?

This is what I've always wondered about.

But one thing is certain, the Mayans rarely used metals in their lives, let alone the magical technology of memory metal. "

After listening to Safra's explanation, Yang Cheng couldn't help but say, "First of all, we have to admit that the Mayan civilization is indeed a highly developed civilization in some aspects.

For example, the writing of the Mayan civilization is very complex and exquisite, with hundreds of words with different structures, and different combinations of these words can be used to create long texts.

So far, archaeologists have discovered more than 10,000 text passages written in Mayan script, mainly inscribed on stone tablets, lintels and pottery.

Moreover, the Mayans also established an extremely complex social system. During the Mayan era, very complex vassal, tribute, and alliance relationships were formed between different Mayan states and tribes, and there were multiple overlords in different historical periods.

We also know that Mayan cities were very large, and some of the large buildings were intricately constructed.

Later, a theocratic ruling system with the god king as the core was formed in the Mayan region, and various very complicated power struggles were staged.

At the same time, there are also distinct classes of nobles and civilians in Mayan society. The two classes account for about 10% and 90% of the Mayan population respectively.

These all prove the achievements of the Mayans in certain aspects, so before judging whether they possess certain technologies, one must not generalize. "

Yang Cheng's words really impressed Safra, "You really have done some research."

I don’t know if I heard all this knowledge from Dick Gill not long ago. I’m just learning it now and selling it now.

Without further answer, he continued, "At the same time, Mayan society seems to be a society that attaches great importance to business, because according to some paintings carved by the Mayans on stone tools or pottery, some Mayan merchants may belong to the aristocratic class.

Moreover, during the Mayan civilization, trade exchanges between different regions were very frequent. For example, the core Mayan areas located in Mexico and Central America at that time would import gold foil from Colombia in South America and turquoise from the New Mexico region in North America. Sometimes nobles would even personally Lead teams to travel long distances and conduct remote business activities.

Therefore, it is definitely a wrong conclusion to say that the life of the Mayans has nothing to do with metals. Gold is also a metal, and it is a valuable precious metal, and this happened in the commercial activities of the Mayans. "

Safra nodded thoughtfully, "You continue~"

“The most undeniable thing is that the Mayans developed quite high technological achievements in some specific scientific fields.

For example, the Mayan number and astronomical system, which is the most widely circulated today, can be said to be in a relatively leading position in the world before modern times.

I won’t say much about this, I believe you know more than me.

In addition, the Mayan agricultural system is considered to be ahead of its time.

The main food crop of the Mayans was very high-yielding corn. Although corn is native to the Americas, modern humans cannot find a species close to corn in the Americas. What does this mean?

It shows that corn is a product carefully cultivated by the Mayans from generation to generation, so it is very different from its wild distant relatives.

There are also high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, tomatoes and peppers, which also come from the Americas. These high-yield crops can also be said to be the cutting-edge achievements of the highly developed American agricultural civilization represented by the Maya.

In addition, the Maya also developed a complex farming system such as terraces, which can avoid water loss and soil loss to a large extent.

Not only that, the Mayans made rubber very early, and rubber technology was used in many aspects of their society.

Mayan doctors even performed many types of surgeries.

Can you believe that a nation or a civilization has developed to this point, but its research on metals is still at an almost zero level? Don’t you still use the wheel, a tool that can greatly promote technological progress?

I don’t believe it anyway! "

Safra immediately retorted, "You don't want to believe it. This is a fact. While you admit that the Mayans are highly civilized in some aspects, you cannot deny that the Mayan civilization has always been very advanced in other very important aspects." original.

The Mayans, like all other civilizations in the Americas, never invented any kind of vehicle, not even a handcart. The reason for not discovering a vehicle is also very simple. They did not use wheels. Even if it can be inferred from some data, they had The wheel was developed, but it was not widely used in daily life.

For this reason, there is nothing wrong in positioning them as primitive people. "

Yang Cheng retorted, "You still haven't given any evidence."

Safra said, "As a stone civilization, the most advanced metal smelting technology at the peak of the Mayan civilization was only to process gold, silver, copper and other metals into small beads, bells, flakes and other items, which were mainly used like jewelry. Decoration, which means they basically don't make any metal tools.

Various building stones and sculptures and other crafts of the Mayan civilization were processed and polished from obsidian, or actually extremely hard gemstones.

The lack of practical metal products means that the Mayan weapon system has always been very primitive.

The Mayans did not have any metal weapons. Their most commonly used weapons were various darts and spears, and their arrowheads were all made of hard stone tools such as obsidian.

Therefore, the most complex war machine invented by the Mayans is the 0.5-meter-long gun thrower, which can throw some darts slightly farther.

In addition, the Mayans also used blowguns and bows, but because they did not have metal arrows, these weapons were of limited use on the battlefield.

In the late period of the Mayan civilization, the Mayans also made swords with wooden sword bodies inlaid with obsidian blades, but they were relatively bulky and required both hands to control.

So you have to believe that the Mayan civilization was more primitive than people imagined in these aspects. "

Yang Cheng questioned, "You said before that the Mayans banned the use of metals because they were afraid that metals would become the beginning of large-scale wars. The implication is that the Mayans did not know how to use metals, but did not want to. Your context is contradictory."

Safra waved his hand, "I will explain one by one. First of all, regarding the issue of wheels, the general view in the industry is that this is related to the fact that large mammals have never appeared in the Americas.

Because the American continent was isolated from Eurasia and Africa very early, only a few native large mammals existed in the American continent in a very early period.

But more than 10,000 years ago, shortly after humans entered the Americas through the Bering Strait, these animals became extinct one after another.

Therefore, Americans could not domesticate different livestock like humans in the Old World. The only domesticated alpaca was very small and did not play a big role in production.

And because there were no large livestock, the Americans did not have livestock that could be used to pull carts. So the early very primitive wheels and animal-drawn carts had no efficiency advantage over humans in transporting items themselves, so the Mayans did not have The drive and need to invent the wheel.

Furthermore, the Mayans were unable to give birth to the embryonic teeth of mechanical civilization, thus completely insulating themselves from the mechanical civilization that ultimately played a decisive role in the development of civilization in the Old World.

Are you satisfied with this explanation? "

Yang Cheng thought for a while and realized that this explanation made sense, but what about metal?

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