Chapter 377 I Am Your Emperor

History has always proved that the world is a linked whole.

Three thousand years ago BC, the ancient Aryans invaded West Asia and began to rob the locals of their living space.

Under the oppression of the ancient Aryans, the Pelasgians who worshipped the goddess of snakes were forced to migrate from the Anatolian Peninsula to the Greek region.

In addition to the Pelasgians who worshipped the goddess of snakes, there was another group of goddess worshippers - the Phoenicians who worshipped Aphrodite and were oppressed by the ancient Aryans.

In order to survive, some Phoenicians migrated to Egypt.

The Phoenicians who stayed in the Phoenician region began to sail to distant places to get food.

This ancient history can clearly prove that the Phoenician patron goddess Aphrodite and the patron goddess Inanna of Uruk are not the same goddess.

Geographically, the Phoenicians lived on the east coast of the Mediterranean, and the Uruk people lived on the west coast of the Persian Gulf. The two sides were thousands of miles apart. It was impossible for the Uruk people to leave the fertile land of the Mesopotamian Basin and migrate to the land-poor Phoenician region.

In terms of time, Inanna, the patron saint of the Uruk people, rose from a local god to the queen of the gods in the Sumerian region 2,700 years ago as the city of Uruk dominated the Mesopotamian region.

But as early as 300 years ago, the ancient Aryans had already ruled the area between the Mesopotamian region and the Phoenician region.

With the ancient Aryans in the middle, Inanna's influence could not spread to the Phoenician region, causing the Phoenicians to abandon the gods they originally worshipped and worship Inanna, who was thousands of miles away and had no influence on them in reality, as their patron saint.

In order to migrate to the barren Phoenician region, the Uruk people died of thirst and starvation, risked being killed by the ancient Aryans or other city-states and being reduced to slaves, and left their homes to embark on a life-threatening migration journey -

This is obviously a conclusion that normal people cannot accept.

Since it is impossible for the Uruk people to migrate to the Phoenician region on a large scale, the goddess of the Uruk people, Inanna, could not be the goddess of the Phoenicians, Aphrodite.

From a geographical point of view, the goddess of snakes worshiped by the Pelasgians is more likely to have the same origin as the goddess Aphrodite of the Phoenicians.

The Phoenicians entered the bronze civilization in the Near East around 2,000 BC and began to sail in the true sense of the sea.

Because of the emergence of bronze weapons, they can protect themselves in unfamiliar lands.

They can also use more advanced weapons to attack the locals in a dimensionality reduction manner when the number of locals is small, and directly plunder the locals' wealth.

In this era, maritime trade means that if the locals are strong, they will trade normally with the locals.

If the locals are weak, they will plunder their wealth and even colonize the locals.

After four hundred years of development, the Phoenicians now have a mature sailing route.

This sailing route starts from Egypt, sails along the concave coast of North Africa, and sails all the way to the distant Iberian Peninsula [Spanish Peninsula].

There are many reasons why the Phoenicians did not choose the northern coast of the Mediterranean as their sailing route.

The rugged coast of the northern coast of the Mediterranean will increase their sailing time.

From the Asia Minor Peninsula to the Greek region, these areas are either barren or fertile plains occupied by nomads. The benefits of normal trade with them are far less than those of trade with the indigenous people along the North African coast.

It is precisely because the Phoenicians looked down on the trade routes on the northern coast of the Mediterranean that the Greek city-states represented by Athens did not become colonies of the Phoenicians and developed into competitors for the Mediterranean trade hegemony with the Phoenicians.

The Apennine Peninsula did not attract the attention of the Phoenicians because it was a trade route on the northern coast of the Mediterranean.

On the contrary, Sicily, next to the Apennine Peninsula, was used by the Phoenicians as a maritime coordinate for sailing in the central Mediterranean, and some settlements were established along the coast of Sicily.

Roy led a large fleet of 150 warships and sailed in the Ionian Sea for six days, finally arriving in the southern part of the Apennine Peninsula on the seventh day.

The Calabria region in the southernmost part of the Apennine Peninsula.

Roy's large fleet sailed into the port of Catanzaro in a mighty manner, immediately arousing the vigilance of the locals.

Just like in Greece at that time, there lived three ethnic groups: Pelasgians, Illyrians, and Caucasian nomads.

At that time, there were also four different ethnic groups living in the Apennine Peninsula.

In the southwest of the Apennine Peninsula lived the Sicurs, who worshipped the god of agriculture, Palic, as the highest patron saint, and also worshipped the god of war, Adrenus, and the goddess of the sea, Hybla.

In the southeast of the Apennine Peninsula lived the Sabines, who worshipped the god of war, Quirinus, as the patron saint.

In the central part of the Apennine Peninsula lived the Latins, who worshipped the god of agriculture, Mars, as the patron saint, and also worshipped gods such as the goddess of oak, Diana.

In the north of the Apennine Peninsula lived the Etruscans, who worshipped the sun god, Jupiter, and the moon goddess, Minerva, as the patron saints.

Neptune, the god of the sea, Vesta, the goddess of the hearth, Venus, the goddess of the orchard, and Janus, the god of the door, were also important gods in the Apennine Peninsula.

The Calabria region where the port of Catanzaro is located is where the Sicul people live.

Legend has it that their ancestors lived in the central part of the Apennine Peninsula. Later, as the Sabines and Latins moved south to snatch living space, the Sicules had to migrate southward. Now some of the Sicules have left the Apennine Peninsula and migrated to Sicily.

The Sicules originally worshipped the god of agriculture, Palic. Later, they continued to fight with the Sabines and Latins, and began to worship the god of war, Adrenus, and the goddess of the sea, Hybra, in order to migrate to Sicily safely across the sea.

Catanzaro Port.

After Roy's flagship landed, Roy was about to land first, and a large group of men with black hair and black eyes, wearing linen clothes, rushed out of the woods near the port with wooden and stone weapons.

These Sicules stopped 20 meters away from the port, and then a Sicule asked loudly in the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean.

"Who are you?"

From the reaction of these Sicules, it can be seen that they are full of fear of the large fleet of the Kingdom of Athens.

Because they had never seen such a huge fleet, nor had they seen the black iron weapons used by the Athenian soldiers.

And the unknown has always been the source of fear.

Roy jumped from the flagship to the beach, and then walked towards the Sikur people in front of him and said.

"Don't worry, we are not your enemies. Now I will introduce my identity to you. From the moment I set foot on this land, I am the emperor of the Athenian Empire, the ruler of 380,000 square kilometers of land and 2 million people in Greece and the Roman province. The land where you Sikur people live - this Apennine Peninsula, is the Roman province of our Athenian Empire. In other words, I am your emperor. You can call me His Majesty the Emperor, or you can call me His Majesty Roy by my name."