As for Svyatoslav, he led his army to meet the enemy in a hurry, so he did not even set up the basic formation. In the end, he was completely defeated by the Byzantine army, and had to flee back in despair with the remaining remnants of the defeated army.

Kievan Rus.

However, the Byzantine Empire knew very well that if the Kievan Rus' army was given a chance to breathe, they would inevitably carry out the craziest revenge, and there was no need to declare war, because this was the Kievan Rus that their Byzantines attacked first.

army.

At this point, in order to eliminate this trouble that frightened and suffocated them, the Byzantines informed the Turks, the enemies of Kievan Rus, about Svyatoslav’s whereabouts! In fact, Svyatoslav had led the

Many armies carried out large-scale and extremely cruel acts of burning, killing and looting in the Turkic areas. At this point, the Turks hated Sviatoslav so much that they wanted to peel off his skin, twitch his tendons and drink him.

They drank his blood and ate his bone marrow! And now the Turks got news about the Byzantine Empire, knew the whereabouts of Sviatoslav, and knew that they had just had a hasty battle with the Byzantine Empire, so their army was extremely weak.

It was also the moment of escape, so the Turks thought this was a very good opportunity for revenge.

Then the Turks made very quick preparations and ambushed the remnants of Svyatoslav's defeated army halfway. And the army led by Svyatoslav, which had just been defeated by the Byzantine Empire, was simply

Unable to fight, this resulted in the complete annihilation of the Kievan Rus' army. There were corpses everywhere. The unusually strong smell of blood spread wantonly on the battlefield. The Turks were all like evil wolves. Although

Svyatoslav himself was very powerful, but he was outnumbered. In the end, the Turks cut off Svyatoslav's head and even used it as a container for wine. This shows how much the Turks hate Svyatoslav.

Already.

And because of Sviatoslav's death and the complete annihilation of the Kievan Rus' army, the entire Kievan Rus was severely weakened and unable to recover. Suddenly the country was divided into three small countries because of the throne.

This also completely weakened the overall strength of the entire Kievan Rus' country in disguise. In the end, the kings of the three small countries wanted to unify Kievan Rus', so they launched a bloody civil war that lasted for more than 40 years. The entire Kievan Rus'

The common people are miserable, with no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth. Their prayers are not answered every day, but their prayers are not answered! They can only live a life without enough food and clothing, and even have to deal with almost every time

Mandatory conscription. What is even more outrageous is that although the Turks have a small sphere of influence and do not have many soldiers, Kievan Rus is now divided into three small countries and is still fighting a bloody civil war every day. This gives the Turks a credible

Taking advantage of the opportunity, they continuously attacked Kievan Rus, plundered their property, and killed their people. This brought an extremely serious and nightmare-like disaster to the entire Kievan Rus.

It is precisely because of the continuous crazy attacks of the Turks, coupled with the bloody civil war between their three small countries, that the people cannot survive at all. Almost all of them starve to death or are killed in large areas every day.

The large area eventually led to Kievan Rus splitting again from three small countries and becoming many small principalities.

It was not until the 13th century that Kievan Rus was completely conquered by the Mongols, that is, it was completely slaughtered! The cultural system began to die. This is one of the countless war victims in our human history, and it is also the tip of the huge iceberg.

We can also see from the country of Kievan Rus that the reason for the birth of war is nothing more than the expansion of the king's desire, the desire for power, wealth, reputation, or extravagance and debauchery. This form

Every war was a tragic scene, and every time it was the death of a large number of civilians, but in the end history only remembers Sviatoslav, Igor, and other people who started the war.

, there is no record of the countless civilians who died because of the war, or even the civilians who were implicated in the war and died because they could not live at all! At most, they only record the countless casualties and the people's livelihood. Such empty and horrifying words are crude and crude.

Just a description.

But is war bad? Of course, war is terrible and definitely not a good thing, because the people who die are civilians, and the high-level people will basically not die. Whether they are nobles or higher-level people, or even the rich, they will basically not die.

Will die, only civilians will die! This is war. Countless civilians have died, bringing fame, power, wealth, and even a life of extravagance, lust, and debauchery to the rich, nobles, and high-level officials. We civilians have never

This kind of life has been lived since ancient times, and it has continued to our modern times.

But can war not be fought? No! Some wars are bound to be fought. We humans are all selfish and like to be alive. Absolutely no one likes him to be an extremely cold corpse. And in many cases,

If we ourselves do not attack other people's empires, but the kings of other empires come to massacre us because they want wealth, reputation, and greater power, we can only be forced to join the war, and then become that desperate person.

Suffocating soldiers! Therefore, this kind of war is not something that any of us can control at all. It is the biggest deadlock in itself, just like what General Edward of our modern Western countries said: As long as

As we humans live in this world, war will be endless. Of course, we humans have also interpreted General Edward's words to the fullest throughout our entire human history! We have even interpreted it to the point where we are completely

I can't figure out who is right and who is wrong.

Okay, let’s stop talking about this topic here. Recently in this book, we have been talking about war issues, and it has caused a certain sense of depression in my own psychology. Although I

Strictly speaking, people? I guess they are quite cold-blooded, because just last night, I was chatting with a group of authors in the group, and they said that I am simply anti-human and like to look down on all living beings from the perspective of God. In fact, what I want to say is

, How can I be so arrogant? It’s just because I have studied a large amount of historical documents, learned about the nature of human beings, and understood the general direction of the world. It has always been developing in an absolutely suffocating direction.

, so I am completely desperate. I can only understand the problem from God's perspective, and cannot treat any problem with my personal prejudice.

Having said that, let’s talk about a topic that is not very bloody. Let’s slightly change our mood at this time. This topic also happened during this period, mainly in terms of trade, although eventually the trade industry will develop into a bloody one.

A cruel war, but it was not like this in many cases at first, so let’s talk about it together, mainly to look at some of the conditions of our human trade industry during this period.

These are a group of black people living south of the Sahara. They have dark skin. This was analyzed at the beginning of our book. It is mainly due to the influence of the environment. This is a tropical area, so it is always hot under the bright sun.

Weather, the skin of people here has begun to evolve and become darker, making it easier to be protected from the sun's ultraviolet rays. However, the soles of their feet are very white. Black color has not evolved in this place. I personally feel that this kind of thing

The power of natural evolution is quite interesting. First of all, there is no obsessive-compulsive disorder, haha.

Okay, let's continue talking, because here are a group of dark-skinned people, so humans in other parts of sub-Saharan Africa also like to call this place black Africa.

In more ancient times, there was actually a Kingdom of Ghana in Black Africa, which was world-famous for its gold production. Because gold, a special metal, has a brilliant golden light, countless people are fascinated by it and like to use it to make ornaments and so on.

For example, the Arabs are very pursuing things like money, and their Arab businessmen are just to make money. But we also have a saying like this today. Often the greatest risks are accompanied by greater benefits. There is also a saying

What are the words? Oh, by the way! It’s called: Wealth is gained through danger. So Arab businessmen obviously have a great desire for gold, so Arab businessmen will ride camels and risk their lives to cross this country.

The dry and vast Sahara Desert, and then came here to do business.

In the eleventh century, a Moroccan scholar named Beckley became very interested in this golden country and really wanted to see its elegance. And it happened that one of his friends...

The next time was to go to Ghana for business, so Beckley set out with the caravan.

The boundless Sahara Desert is simply endless as far as the eye can see. There is not a single plant in the desert, but only people dying of thirst and the bones of camels. These scenes are chilling.

There were many camels in Beckley's friend's caravan. In addition to some goods, they also carried a large number of skins filled with water. After several months of trekking through the desert, Beckley's friend came one morning.

Pointing to the black shadow in the south, he said to Beckley: Look! Odagest has arrived. Then Beckley’s friend continued to explain to Beckley that Odagest is a border in the north of Ghana, the country of gold.
Chapter completed!