gluttonous adventure king

Chapter 283 Wisdom
In the entire cave, apart from three men, there were some women and children, and there were no old people, or not too old people.

And women's clothes are obviously better than men's.

Since it is the coldest time of the year in this area, they wear sleeves that can almost cover the elbows, and they also wear things that don't know whether it should be a shawl, a bag, or a scarf.

There is a woman with a hair accessory, and an unknown wooden hairpin on her head. The hair is wrapped with cloth, and the hair at the bottom is loose.

"Brother Gun, is this the costume of an ordinary Maya?"

"I don't know either. The Mayans don't seem to have a uniform style of clothing, so I don't know if it's their national costume or just casual."

"Casual... Wear it... Brother Gun, you summed it up well..."

"Brother Gun, there seems to be nothing to see, should we go?"

"Not in a hurry." Fang Hong looked around: "How many times will you have the opportunity to go to a primitive tribe in your life?"

"Primitive tribe?"

Fang Hong pointed to a mound of earth: "In an earthen kiln for burning charcoal, first pile the firewood into a cone shape, then paste it with thin mud, leak out the top, and then dig a few small holes below, and ignite the fire from above, borrowing the flow of air, let The fire burns all the way to the bottom, then seals the top and seals the air holes below, suffocates for five hours, and burns the firewood into charcoal. This technology of burning charcoal in an earthen kiln was a thing in our country 6000 years ago."

"Look at this, a small earthen kiln on a simple mound, firing pottery, and scrapping it once, is a technology 5000 years ago in our country."

"Look at their weapons, look at their attire, look at everything about them, they are all stuck in the Neolithic Age."

In my country, the first copper smelting began 6000 years ago.

"They already have charcoal-burning technology, and they already have a complete technology for making exquisite pottery, but they just haven't developed the technology of firing porcelain, and they haven't developed the technology of smelting metal. From the footsteps of science and technology, they stay in our 5000 years ago."

"They are indeed more advanced than us in astronomy. They have two kinds of calendars. The overlapping period of the two calendars is 52 years. It is a reincarnation. The two calendars confirm each other and infer. They are the most accurate people in the world in calculating modern solar eclipses. But it's not science."

It's very simple, just like ancient China, there are only craftsmen, no scientists, only technology, no science and technology.

If people in ancient China did not have sectarian views and wrote various technologies in books, then science had been born in our country thousands of years ago, but it is a pity that there is no such thing.

The same is true for Maya. This loose city-state empire did not take a step from primitive society to farming civilization until it collapsed, let alone anything else.

"On the way we came, we saw the pyramids and the Night Sun Palace. In the 30th century, the king of this small city-state slaughtered nearly [-] slaves to sacrifice to the sun. Just under the pyramids, there were [-] slaves. Corpse, you can't convince me that this is a modern civilized race and not a primitive tribe."

Some things can be proved without evidence, such as the exchanges between various ethnic groups in Asia, Europe and Africa. Many things happen in the world very synchronously, although the whole world seems to be unconnected.

To put it a little farther away, the Huns were defeated when the wolves were sealed off, and then the Huns squeezed the living space of the barbarians, and the barbarians destroyed Rome.

To put it bluntly, the whole world entered the silver standard era at the same time, and the whole world entered the gold standard era almost at the same time.

In the [-]th century, smallpox ravaged the world, and Europe and China invented vaccination methods at the same time.

Everything proves that the world is very closely connected, but everyone has never thought about it.

However, Maya is different. The society of Maya is very sick.

First of all, there is a problem with the ecosphere in South America. There are no bees or earthworms in South America. The crops cannot be pollinated by bees, and the land will not be overturned by earthworms after cultivation.

If there were earthworms in South America, the Mayan Empire would not have collapsed, nor would the land be barren due to slash-and-burn farming.

With the trade between America and Europe, earthworms followed the ballast soil to America.The arrival of earthworms has almost turned the land of the Americas over again, and the fertility has increased sharply. Otherwise, the Americas would have come to an end due to population pressure.

For example, there are no large livestock on this land, and the largest is the guanaco.This resulted in no wheels in the Americas, although scientists desperately wanted to prove that the Maya had wheels.

But there is no real object. You can’t say that the circle in a mural is a wheel. Maybe it’s a cross-section of a wax gourd?

Mayan political system stuck in feudal system.

Since the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion in the Western Han Dynasty, the enfeoffment system has collapsed, so the ancient system of our country is not a feudal system, but a central imperial system.

From the perspective of the progress of democracy, the first is the primitive society - the city-state, then the slave kingdom - the republic of the House of Elders, then the feudalism - the empire, and finally enters the modern democratic capitalism, socialism.

The Maya stayed in the transitional period between Phase I and Phase II, slave city-states.

In addition to first-class carving and astronomy, this nation is in primitive beliefs, using a primitive social system, and there is no democracy at all. What's more frightening is that they have forgotten sculpture and astronomy.

Seeing them is basically equivalent to seeing the Hemudu people and the Longshan civilization.

They are also a little more developed than the Maasai, and not as good as the Native Americans of North America.

At any rate, the natives of North America have learned to be chartered open casinos.

A series of simple murals record the past.

The fire pits testify to their living habits.

Burrowing and solitary.

If it were not for the modern state that was established on this land, the Maya would have set history back in the direction of the Neanderthals.

But there is one thing they do very well, and that is cultivating plants.

From potatoes, to peppers.

Although primitive, their contribution to humanity is enormous compared to other parts of the world.

Potatoes and corn alone fueled a population explosion across the world.

Fang Hong pointed to a painting on the wall: "Chili?"

"Well, chili."

"Do you have your own fields?"

The other party hesitated for a moment: "Yes."

He didn't even want to tell Fang Hong his name, it's normal to hesitate about such things.

"Can you take me to see it?"

"can."

On the way, Fang Hong learned something.

On the one hand, the Mayans believed that continuing to cultivate would result in retribution, which may be the legacy of the turbulent thinking from the tenth to the fifteenth century, or it may be to remember the training of the group.

On the other hand, some Mayans became ordinary farmers in modern civilization, and some smart Mayans even received higher education.

What Fang Hong saw was the struggle of a nation.

On the one hand, it sticks to the tradition, on the other hand, it seeks to change.

For 500 years, every nation on earth has faced such a choice.

Now it was the Zoe's turn, and the Maya made a choice.

And, they are already making choices.

"I have a question, do any of you know how to carve?"

There is no need to ask about the language. Different dialects make it impossible to understand the foley part of the Mayan text. A large number of books were burned by Portuguese missionaries, destroying the past of a civilization.

"Understand a little."

"Why not carve?"

"No need."

Fang Hong was very puzzled: "Why is it unnecessary? Don't you need to inherit the skills you have learned? Your sculptures will still be historic sites in hundreds of years."

"Sculptures are used to record brilliance." This Maya, who did not want to be named, was full of pain under his face of vicissitudes.

(End of this chapter)