Chapter 2355 Shackles
The second generation of civilization was still very weak at this time. They were shocked by the remains of the first generation of civilization and were in awe of the groups of petrified stone statues.
"When the population exceeds one thousand, start digging pits and bury all these stone statues in the pits in a row, just like the Terracotta Warriors." Fu Hao arranged.
As heroes, they have naturally made up for their modern knowledge. They know the past of the first generation of civilization very well. Even if they have not experienced the Qin and Han dynasties, they know that the Terracotta Warriors are used as burial objects to replace living people.
The tombs of Fu Hao and Wu Ding are not human figurines, but real living people, because they lived in an era where human life was not taken seriously, and it was normal to kill people for burial.
"No, no." Duran objected: "Why do we have to bury them? These statues can be piled up into mountains in a regular manner and built into a wonder." Duran wants the second generation of civilization to be as far away from the first generation of civilization as possible. The first generation of civilization is buried, and the second generation of civilization is piled.
In fact, it will not take up space if all seven billion people are piled together.
"Yes, sir." Duran is their master. Since he has decided, let's pile them up and make a mountain of stone statues.
But this will have to wait until the population exceeds a thousand. At present, it will take several decades. After all, having children is not something that can be done overnight.
Duran feels that everything is ready now, except for the population. Without the population, nothing can be done.
Only with the population can there be farmers, miners, soldiers, and building wonders.
In the ancient Roman dragon's birthplace, resources are not a problem. As long as the beasts are defeated, survival can be ensured. So hunting is very important. It is not only a source of meat, but also a guarantee of safety.
Hunting has produced martial arts and armies, which is the most important activity in the early human society. Even in the later period, the nobles retained the tradition of hunting. Even if there was no need for hunting, hunting was passed down from generation to generation as an entertainment activity.
Hunting activities are very important. Fu Hao and Wu Ding attach great importance to it, so Fu Hao personally trains hunters.
After half a century of recuperation, the number of animals has increased sharply. Around the city, animals have re-formed an ecological circle of the survival of the fittest. There are lions and tigers, as well as brown bears and wild wolves, all of which escaped from the zoo.
Duran knew that it would take time to have a baby, so he went to look around first, mainly around the Mediterranean Sea. This circle was exactly the territory of ancient Rome. It absorbed ancient Greece, occupied ancient Egypt, and took the Promised Land for itself, which was extremely powerful.
Duran certainly did not come here to reproduce the glory of ancient Rome, but because the territory of ancient Rome was diverse enough and it was more interesting to do it.
Ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and the Promised Land were completely three different cultures, which were forcibly tied together. It was reasonable that ancient Rome never unified again after the division.
Although ancient Rome pushed monotheism in the late period, it did not save its collapse. Instead, monotheism spread and grew with the bones of ancient Rome, and developed from the Jewish religion of the Promised Land to a broad religion.
In the Old Testament, God was the protector of Jewish civilization, and all the prophets were their own people. They were miserable in order to regain the Promised Land of God.
The Bible, which has the highest sales in the world, was not written by one person, but a collection of many prophets who came from different eras. However, the prophets had only one goal, which was to sign a contract with God. They fulfilled God's requirements, and God gave them land flowing with milk and honey. Therefore, when the content of the Old Testament was promoted, it was difficult for people in other regions to accept it, so there was a more universal New Testament. God became merciful, and the Son of God took the initiative to bear the sins of mankind. The style of painting changed.
Ancient Rome tried to unify thoughts through monotheism, but unfortunately, material was the basis for determining the superstructure. Without the same track and writing, it was obviously not enough for all citizens to have a sense of belonging just to make people believe in one God.
In fact, ancient Rome absorbed the polytheism of ancient Greece at the beginning, and ancient Roman mythology was completely a fan work of ancient Greek mythology. As for ancient Egypt, because ancient Egypt had already declined at that time, culture was like heat conduction, heat was transferred from high-temperature objects to low-temperature objects, and culture was transferred from powerful regions to backward regions.
Because ancient Egypt had already fallen, it could not export culture to ancient Rome after being occupied, so no one believed in ancient Egyptian gods, no one knew ancient Egyptian characters, and no one learned ancient Egyptian systems.
As the oldest civilization in human history, ancient Egypt developed early, but its potential was limited. Of course, it was also related to their system. The Bible records that in the early days of ancient Egypt, the virtuous were also selected. For example, many Jews were driven out of the Promised Land and drifted to Egypt. Among them was a Jewish ancestor, Joseph. This man was a slave in Egypt at first, but he was a prophet, so he knew that there would be seven years of harvest and seven years of famine. So this slave advised the Egyptian Pharaoh to store grain in the seven years of harvest, and when the famine began, he would exchange the victims' property in the first year, the victims' livestock in the second year, the victims' land in the third year, and the victims directly became tenants in the fourth year. From then on, all farmers in Egypt had to pay taxes to the Pharaoh.
The Pharaoh was naturally very happy, so he appointed Joseph as prime minister. Although Joseph cheated all the Egyptian people, it at least showed that the Egyptian Pharaoh was more willing to accept foreign talents at that time. But by the time of the Exodus, Moses led his people out of Egypt. At that time, ancient Egypt had become extremely xenophobic and no longer welcomed outsiders.
From the Bible stories, we can see the clues of the decline of ancient Egypt, and we can also see that the cunning of Jewish merchants is written in the Bible. As long as there is profit, they will cheat people without negotiation.
Duran thought that religion would definitely appear in the second generation of civilization in the future. After that, tribes would appear when there are more people, and different tribes would have different beliefs. In the era of tribal annexation, there are only three ways to deal with different beliefs. One is naturally tolerance. No matter what god you are, you can add it to your own mythology system. One is to destroy them all. Only the god of your own tribe is the true god, and all other gods are abandoned. These two still need to retain faith.
Finally, there is a third way, that is, everyone simply does not believe in gods. If gods are useful, tribes will not swallow tribes. Since the gods of losers are useless, the gods of winners are probably useless, so it is better not to believe in gods.
When the Zhou Dynasty overthrew the Shang Dynasty, it was the third situation. The Shang Dynasty was not disrespectful to gods. They killed so many people to sacrifice to gods, but they still perished in the end. Then the successor would wonder why such a powerful Shang Dynasty collapsed in just a few months. Was it because they did not believe in gods? Obviously not. It was not the gods' fault, but the Shang Dynasty did not treat people as human beings, so the Zhou Dynasty had to learn from the lesson and admit that the gods would not bless the Zhou people. Instead of killing people to sacrifice to the gods, it is better to treat people as human beings.
What is this? This is the great speculation and the great dialectics. We learned lessons from the destruction of the Shang Dynasty and took history as a mirror, thus embarking on a path different from other civilizations.
Other civilizations attributed their success to their gods being the true gods during the period of tribal annexation, but the Zhou people realized the deceptiveness of gods and broke free from the shackles of gods.