Chapter 2354: Distinguishing
During the long voyage, these primitive people who were born and grew up on an isolated island saw the steel city for the first time. Although the city was overgrown with weeds half a century later, the corpse of the city still shocked them. When they saw the various life-sized stone statues standing horizontally and vertically in the city, they were shocked by the reality of these stone statues, and couldn't help but feel a sense of awe.
The number of such huge petrified statues is indeed astonishing. Dulan has reason to believe that the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang were made with petrified light more than two thousand years ago.
The lifelike stone statues retain their last movements, which frightened primitive people who lacked knowledge. However, they remembered a hundred stories passed down by their elders and knew that these cities must be their hometowns.
They found some useful things in the city, replenished food and water, and continued on their journey.
In fact, they didn't know where Dulan was going to take them. They thought it would be good to live in the ruins of the city. The place was so big and there was no shortage of space. There was nothing bad about it except that the animals were cruel.
In the past fifty years, the city has become an animal paradise, and wild dogs and cats are very cruel. But compared to the small space of an isolated island, these dangers in the city are nothing.
But Duran decided to continue moving because his goal was the Longxing Place in Rome, one of the earliest birthplaces of human civilization.
Although reluctant, Du Lan requested, and Fu Hao and Wu Ding commanded that they could only set foot on the ark and continue setting sail. This is a long and thrilling journey, where some people leave forever and new lives are born.
Fu Hao is very powerful, because she is the abbot of the two most important jobs in the Yin Shang Dynasty, and her husband Wu Ding seems to be a logistics minister. It is said that the most important affairs of the country are sacrifices and wars, that is, sacrifices and wars. Fuhao led 13,000 soldiers to attack your country in the north, creating a great situation for the Shang Dynasty in which Wu Ding was revived. Now that she has returned as a heroic spirit, it is natural that she is also I value these two things very much.
However, the sacrifices of the Yin and Shang Dynasties were too cruel, and they often involved human sacrifices. To put it simply, they killed people in a variety of ways, without treating people as human beings at all.
Of course, in ancient times, when even the slavery system was imperfect, the large number of captured people had no other use than to be sacrificed to heaven and killed. After all, when the population increases, food is wasted, which has no economic value at all. When the slavery system is established later, it will be a waste of resources to kill people as sacrifices to heaven, because population is an important production tool.
The era of Fuhao still retains the atmosphere of matriarchal society, and it has not yet been fully realized that slaves are equal to production tools. Nowadays, her main job is to divine whether everyone should do something, or whether it will result in good or bad consequences.
If you are in doubt about something, fortune telling immediately. Anyway, he uses a very confusing way to manage a ship of people.
Finally, after three years, Ark arrived at the place where Rome was prosperous and was able to settle down. Now the total population of the Ark is only eighty people, and they don't know what to do in the face of the huge Longxing Land.
A good woman means that she will settle down and have children first, and other things will be discussed later.
"Very good, you have completed the task well." Dulan praised Wu Ding and his wife for their hard work along the way: "But this is just the beginning, don't be careless."
Fuhao naturally knew that this was the beginning: "Next, I will take them on a hunt to ensure that our tribe will not be attacked by wild beasts. At the same time, we will also look for food."
Wu Ding said: "I will teach the remaining people to build houses and refine bronze. These high-rise buildings have become weak and no longer suitable for habitation. We will choose the address of the tribe in the huge Colosseum. There are ready-made Walls protect us."
They husband and wife have already made plans, and they are worthy of being the most famous rulers of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
Dulan knew that after a few hundred years of reproduction and reproduction, this land would be full of life again. After a thousand years, the second generation of civilization would definitely rise from the ground.
The first generation of civilization took a long time to establish, starting with thousands of years of domesticating plants and animals. During this period, society slowly formed. This era can basically only be understood from the scattered stone tools and pottery found. For future generations, it is the origin of human society hidden in the fog.
After humans domesticated staple foods and livestock, they entered a social process familiar to humans, and some clearly documented nations and tribes emerged. Written records of people, events, and places appeared in the Bible, Homer's epics, Shangshu, Mahabharata, and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Later generations are working hard to excavate ancient ruins to confirm whether these events and places are true.
The existence of Fu Hao was unknown to everyone at first, but was only known after digging the grave. At the same time, it also proved that Wu Ding's historical records were credible.
At this time, human society has begun to take shape, and it has grown from a baby waiting to be fed to a child with a certain degree of attack power.
As a result, fighting and destruction have become the main theme of this era. There are constant conflicts between different civilizations. Coupled with climate change, the addition of nomads has added a bit of cruelty to this era.
Some civilizations fell and never recovered, such as ancient India, Babylon, and ancient Egypt. These four local native civilizations were severely impacted. Under the double blow of internal and external troubles, the Dark Ages came. This period of history has left few records for mankind, but it can be regarded as the first exchange of civilizations on earth.
Exchange always includes blood and trade. Obviously, there is no trade in the first exchange, only blood.
After these epic eras that only exist in books and are difficult to distinguish between true and false are over, we will truly enter the era of history. After a long period of integration, which is the most brilliant era in the history of human civilization and thought, humans finally began to think about the relationship between man and God, and between man and man.
Socrates, Confucius, Sakyamuni, and Jewish prophets all began to shine, and began to summarize and innovate local culture, laying the foundation for the thoughts of later generations.
But at the same time, we must also see that Egypt, as the oldest civilization, has declined, and soon they will become the object of constant conquest. In an era of generous and glorious thoughts, no one cares about losers.
If you want civilization to be passed on, you can only become a winner. This is a single-plank bridge with only one path.
The main thoughts of mankind are based on the axial age of more than two thousand years. Of course, mankind has taken a technological path later, but technology has improved material things and cannot soothe the human soul. If humans want to understand the power of the soul, they still have to gain strength from ancient thoughts.
Until now, the first generation of civilization has come to an abrupt end. Duran does not want the second generation of civilization to follow the old path of the first generation of civilization. But if he wants to lead the second generation of civilization astray, he must first overcome the "chicken elimination principle".
The so-called chicken elimination means that there will be chickens with independent physical strength born in a large number of chickens, such as chickens that are not afraid of weasels, chickens that are not afraid of eagles, and even flying chickens, but these independent chickens will be eliminated by nature. And the ones left are ordinary chickens that can lay eggs and grow meat.
Is this the survival of the fittest in natural evolution? Obviously not, because independent chickens have more potential, but they are still eliminated, more like bad money driving out good money.
This also exists in other natural groups, especially herbivores, such as zebras. Zebras are blindly obedient. Once they see any movement, all zebras will run away. If there is a zebra that is independent and says that the movement does not mean there are carnivores, so he just doesn't leave, then this ability to think independently is naturally valuable, but it is also the most likely to be eaten by lions. So the zebras who think independently are eaten, and the zebras who follow blindly survive.
The same is true for humans. When ancient humans did not master stone tools and were still monkeys, monkeys with independent thinking ability had already been eaten. Therefore, all future generations of humans are descendants of blindly following monkeys.
Therefore, the chicken elimination principle means that when the group is weak, it is impossible to have independent thoughts, and all individuals can only blindly follow to survive. It also means that the second generation of civilization will also blindly follow the first generation of civilization when it is weak. Even if the two generations of civilization are interrupted, this talent of blind obedience will not disappear, so the second generation of civilization is very likely to continue the first generation of civilization. This is the problem Duran faces, how to overcome the blind nature of the second generation of civilization and make the second generation of civilization different from the first generation of civilization.