First of all, let's take a look at the current general situation of each city-state. The river water surge here is not only caused by rain, but also has another relatively stable situation. Every spring, the snow on our modern plateau called Armenia melts, so the river water here will surge.

Floods in Mesopotamia are widespread, especially in the lower reaches of the river. Almost all of them will be submerged. After the flood recedes, a large amount of silt will be left behind, making the land on both sides of the river extremely ugly.

Fertile.

Then the ancestors who lived here enjoyed the gift of the river, that is, the silt. In addition, there was sufficient sunshine and abundant water sources, which led to bumper harvests of crops such as wheat, cotton, potatoes, etc. every year. It can be said that agriculture

It is already very developed.

The development of agriculture means that there is a lot of food. As in the past, almost all of this food needs to be handed over to the gods, that is, to the clan leader, who then uses it to support many slaves and craftsmen, and then builds

Temples and even his own mausoleum, and now a very large part of this food is in the hands of civilians.

What’s even more outrageous is that in the dozens of city-states here, most common people now have gold products in their hands. The gold of their ancestors was basically found from river sand, and some of it was smelted and made into gold helmets, and even

There is also the golden dagger. Let’s not talk about whether this golden dagger can be used to kill people. Let’s just talk about how outrageous its value is. Moreover, this kind of golden dagger is currently in the hands of civilians.

It is not difficult to see from here that the lives of civilians have indeed developed more powerfully. In fact, this is not due to the good management among the various city lords. Let us analyze what is going on in these situations.

First of all, the first point is: the current city lords are not as ambitious as the previous clan leaders. They basically like to enjoy themselves, so they do not work hard on the people and let the common people build larger temples or mausoleums.

Therefore, the common people have more time to plant crops and go panning for gold. Another thing is that the current ideological concept of the city lords is that as long as they have enough resources to enjoy themselves, they will not damage the food in the hands of the common people.

Thinking about property or something.

The second point is: population issue, why do we talk about population issue again? In fact, this is because after splitting into dozens of city-states, more people died in this kind of split war. Originally, more people died.

This has led to a large population decline. You must know that the food produced by the fertile land here can supply 300,000 people to survive at the same time. But now these rations, which were originally enough for 300,000 people to survive at the same time, are distributed to 100,000 people.

, each of these 100,000 people is equivalent to having three portions of food as before, can they live well? Can they not develop as fast?

The third point is: in recent years, because each city-state has been developing itself, there is no time for war, and the relationship between the city lords is not very bad, they just want to enjoy themselves, so there will be no major wars.

A large-scale battle, and now there is sufficient food and other resources, which has led to another violent increase in the population.

At present, in the concept of ancestors, it seems that the gods among their dozens of city-states are fulfilling their duties and guarding everyone in the city-state day and night. This has led to almost everyone starting to believe in gods again. This is what we humans

People’s habitual thinking is that the gods are good to them and protect them, so everything the gods say is correct.

Another thing is that in the city-states of our ancestors, not only agriculture has experienced great development, for example, agriculture has more cattle to plow the land, and there are also relatively sophisticated agricultural tools for plowing, and clothing has also developed very much.

Fast, because civilians have time to deal with cotton, and they also have time to slowly learn what aesthetics is, so the development of clothing is really fast.

Then there is the rapid development of weapons. Think about it, even gold daggers can be made now. This indirectly shows that the refining of copper ore has reached a superb level, and then we have a better grasp of copper weapons. Another one is

It’s outrageous. Because of improvements in copper-smelting furnaces, our ancestors can now refine iron!

Iron! This is very important, but the iron weapons made by our ancestors are actually not as useful as the copper weapons, because when the same amount of tin is added to the copper weapons, they are indeed harder than iron. However, our ancestors are slowly

Tempering iron is actually the process of tempering steel. However, our ancestors have not discovered steel yet. However, the emergence of this iron means that the styles and even the number of weapons will increase dramatically! Because in the past, there were only copper weapons, and

After many years of mining, the copper mines around here were almost exhausted, so the emergence of iron made up for this gap, causing the number and variety of weapons to increase dramatically again.

But the sharp increase in weapons is not a good thing, because weapons are not made for children to play with. These weapons are actually made to kill people.

Why do we say that these weapons are made for killing people? In fact, it is too simple. Due to many factors, these city-states have begun to become less harmonious again. The main reason is that the population of each city-state has continued to increase dramatically for many years.

For example, one of the city-states originally had 20,000 people, and the nearby resources and food could be enjoyed by 20,000 people for several years if they worked hard for a year. But now it is different. These 20,000 people have been developing peacefully for many years.

This has increased to almost 40,000. This is no joke. The resources and food consumed by 40,000 and 20,000 are very different from before.

For example, when there were 20,000 people before, the land boundary between this city-state and another city-state was occupied by more than ten meters of distance between the other city-states, but the people of this city-state thought it was nothing because they had enough food at home, and even

There are other resources, so there is no need to quarrel or even end up in a fight.

But things have changed now. Originally, the family had a relatively large population, and the food they grew themselves was not enough to eat. People from other city-states still occupied the land. This was definitely not going to work, so negotiations were needed, and even ended up in fights.

However, the fights between our ancestors were not what we modern people call fighting. They said that they would beat the other party hard and then go to the police together. The police also said it better: if you win, you will go to the police to pay for medical expenses; if you lose, you will go to the hospital.

Go to the police again!

So when we say that our ancestors fought, we do not mean that they ended up in the police or paying for medical expenses, but that they were directly beaten to death! How to say this? Because the order and rules of various city-states are also different, and they are not unified. For example,

It is said that the common people between the two city-states today even said that the other party took one of their sheep away because of the incident in the wheat field. Anyway, the conflict was not big at first, but eventually the conflict escalated and a group of civilians started fighting.

, and then people die.

Since there is a dead person, does it need to be managed by the public security? No, there is nothing wrong with having soldiers in the city-states of our ancestors, but the soldiers will not care about this kind of thing because the matter is too small, so this kind of death matter usually only needs to be dealt with by the police.

If we don't upgrade again, it will be nothing. It can also be said that this kind of fight to death does not actually violate any order or law.

Then there are more and more small conflicts between various city-states, mainly because of the factor we mentioned before. After all, the population in the city-states is increasing, and everyone has lived a relatively happy life in the past, which can be considered an experience.

A period of happy life, but now that the population is too large, the resources needed need to increase. As a result, things such as wheat fields, sheep, cotton, iron ore, copper mines, and even gold and sand are all

It needs to be doubled, so civilians and even warriors in various city-states will help the civilians in their own city-state. After all, in the past few years, the relationship between warriors and civilians has been relatively relaxed.

, so soldiers will also help civilians to kill civilians in the other city-state, or the other party's soldiers.

In short, we only need to understand that in fact, the conflicts have begun to escalate violently. This is why various city lords suddenly produce a large number of weapons. Although they, the city lords, have enjoyed it all year round, they cannot let their enjoyment of life suddenly deteriorate.

End it, right? And if you don’t end your enjoyment of life, then city-states must exist. And with so many city-states now, God knows which city-state’s city lord may have expanded his ambitions and suddenly lead troops to attack him?

Therefore, manufacturing weapons in large quantities is one of them, and the other is that after the conflicts among the civilians escalated, there were even civilians with other city-states, which all started to fight in groups, but this group fight was not like our modern China.

When people fight in groups, they basically use fists and kicks. Weapons are rarely used, because no matter whether you lose or win, you have to go to the police. If you beat someone to death, you have to pay for your life. Killing requires a life. Is it natural?

.

However, the ancestors' common people were more cruel when fighting in groups, and could even be said to be very bloody and violent. This is the concept we have talked about several times before: maiming, beating to death, and beating to pieces! Moreover, the ancestors and common people all had weapons among themselves.

Because weapons are not rare items, not only the city lords and high-level people are manufacturing them in large quantities, but civilians are also generally manufacturing them in large quantities. Why do civilians also have the technology to make weapons? In fact, this is not difficult to understand, because the agricultural tools that civilians use for farming are what they use

I made it myself, so I originally had relatively sophisticated stoves and so on, and then making a batch of decent weapons, isn't it the same as playing for fun?

Therefore, the fights between ancestors and civilians usually resulted in blood and flesh flying everywhere. Anyway, as long as the opponent was completely beaten to death, then within a period of time, the dead civilian would appear.
Chapter completed!