Verya was in charge of some "measuring tools of standard units", and she hoped that the "rope rulers" in the hands of the tribesmen would all be given to her. This length was exactly the same, so it was a standard stika.
In fact, it is not as simple as she thought. Is the standard that Vilia has mastered really? In fact, there is a slight gap between the so-called "standard one stika rope ruler" of the allied tribes in the south. So in the transaction
When it comes to linen and animal skins, merchants always add another thumb's length.
After all, there is only a little more, and no one will suffer a big loss.
Vilia happily showed: "This rope is the length of a stika. It is used to measure the length of linen and animal skins. Naturally, it can also measure your height. Now take off your leather boots and stand up easily."
"OK!"
Rurik stood up quickly. He also had another plan in mind, so he used his own height measured in local length units to estimate the difference between a stika and a standard meter.
Maybe the difference isn't that big.
Because he saw that Villa didn't even need to straighten his arms, the hemp rope was stretched straight, and it even looked like it was not much different from the "one meter" in his concept.
His estimate was correct!
However, several units of length that have been commonly used in Scandinavia are actually very similar to the metric unit of length a thousand years later, and are even particularly similar to the "one meter" originally determined. This is purely a romantic coincidence.
Because of another dimension, French scientists hope to invent a unit of length that can be used across Europe. In an immediate way, they calculated the different lengths of shadows at the vernal equinoxes in Paris and Alexandria, and then asked people to use the ancient unit of length to measure the distance. They were stunned.
The arc length on the earth's curved surface from Paris to Pressure Mountain Dagang was calculated.
With the arc length, it is assumed that the earth is a perfect ball, and it is logical to calculate the circumference of the entire sphere. Therefore, the distance from the North Pole to the equator is considered to be 10,000 kilometers, and one week of the earth is artificially determined to be 40,000 kilometers.
kilometer.
Of course, because of the longitude difference between Paris and Alexandria, the "one meter" length obtained from the initial survey data was too small.
The initial scientific survey was in the first half of the 19th century, but the current era of Rurik is in the first half of the 9th century.
The two "one meters" are very similar, what a wonderful coincidence.
Rurik's height was measured. Because there were marks on the rope, it was divided into equal parts. It was actually divided into ten parts.
It is not difficult to make ten equal parts. The rope must be divided into ten equal parts because humans have ten fingers.
The reason why humans unanimously love the decimal system is because humans have ten fingers.
However, in both the East and the West and even in the isolated American continent, civilized groups invariably gave birth to mystical worship of the twelve-digit system.
In Europe, because the Viking group is indeed subordinate to the huge Germanic group, many cultural factors are the same.
Their various languages have a common origin, and they all have unique markings on the pronunciation of numbers from one to twelve.
Reflected in trade, high-level currencies correspond to twelve low-level currencies.
Of course, this cultural phenomenon was the same in Eastern Rome.
Rurik stood obediently, while Vilia hunched over and tried to measure his body with a rope ruler.
"Not bad, it seems you have surpassed Stika." Vilia shook her head.
"Grandma, do you think I should be shorter?"
"No. You will grow very tall. Your shortness is only temporary. For you, I need to change a new tool."
After a while, Villa took out an extended version of the rope ruler. According to him, this rope ruler was specially used for cutting curtains and curtains. The total length of the rope ruler was three stikas.
She muttered something: "Mortals cannot be as tall as three stikas. Only the giants of Asgard can. Unfortunately, no one has seen those giants, not even me, who has lived for seventy years. The ordinary ones I know
Men can generally grow to be as tall as one stika, one ell, and half an ell. I only remember your father’s father’s father. He was close to the height of two stikas. That was already a very old thing. At that time, I
Only at your age."
Regarding the description of numbers, perhaps Europeans have never thought since ancient times that numbers can be accurately described with very simple syllables.
In this regard, Eastern peoples may be able to do this easily because of the characteristics of their own languages.
There has always been an Eastern soul hidden under Rurik's body. He really understood Vilia's description of numbers, and converted it into Eastern terms, which is "1.75stika".
If you think about it for a moment, it seems like the Russians a thousand years later, maybe their superb mathematical level was tortured by the pronunciation of their extremely long numbers and the complexity of describing a long number.
In this aspect alone, perhaps the situation of the French is even worse. When describing a longer number such as "eighty", they are clearly just short-forming an arithmetic problem to explain that this is "eighty".
In the end, Villa measured the height of Rurik, who was only seven years old, which was barely 1.2stika.
She explained this result with a complicated description. Rurik's mind was very smart. He understood a precise value, but it was not clear whether the comparison between stika and "meter" was close.
"Perhaps, a seven-year-old boy who is 120 centimeters should be about the same size. European children should grow a little earlier than Easterners, and it shouldn't be too early."
"But food is still too scarce in this era. I will definitely not grow too tall, and there are no really strong men in the tribe."
"If it doesn't work, I will treat one stika as one meter in the future metric system?"
Rurik thought about it in his mind, and he couldn't believe that the error between two measurement units in different time and space was surprisingly small.
He tentatively thought that he was only 120 centimeters tall. In fact, he also realized that considering his age and the current living conditions of the tribesmen, it was quite good to be able to grow to his current height in a healthy manner.
Putting his own thoughts aside for the moment, Rurik suddenly asked: "Grandma, is this normal for me?"
"your height?"
"Yes! I'm still worried that I won't grow strong in the future. I hope to be taller and stronger than my father."
Vilia was very happy to hear this. She patted the child on the head: "You are very ambitious! You have to know that when you can show your strong arm muscles in public, you will gain the respect of many men and the hearts of many girls.
You are not very tall now, but you have great potential."
"For this purpose, should I eat more?"
"Yes. For example, eat more meat, my child." Villa breathed a sigh of relief, "In a few days, those people who went north to hunt will come back. Pray for your father, if he can catch
Live with more deer and you can keep eating meat until the frozen bays melt."
Rurik nodded deeply. Compared with seal meat or other fish meat, reindeer meat is more delicious.
In fact, regarding the aspect of eating meat, this is something Rurik feels is worth considering.
The Rus tribe needed a large amount of wool. When the climate was warm, many people rowed southward with their allies, trading wool with Roman silver coins obtained from Novgorod, or trading with beast hides. There was indeed a problem in this regard.
The "invisible hand" regulates the prices of various commodities.
The Ross tribe themselves will make wool from balls of wool without any processing, and then the women will weave it into sweaters. The sweaters obtained by this manual processing are internally digested, and no one will be willing to use sweaters as commodities. Similarly, purchase
They also made flax themselves into twine and further woven it.
For small-scale printing and dyeing of various wool and linen threads, the tribe has a very traditional and primitive "moss printing and dyeing technique", which is not suitable for large-scale printing and dyeing.
They obtained a lot of wool but rarely bought sheep, and cattle were even rarer. Southern allies raised sheep for wool and cattle for milk.
The absolute lack of productivity prevented the ancestors of the Swedes from eating these "grass-eating production machines" crazily. Unless a cold wave invaded, they would eat frozen cattle and sheep.
Roseburg is located further north, which means it is colder. Due to the lack of pasture, the cost performance of animal husbandry is very poor. Only ocean fishing and hunting of animals are the most stable ways to obtain meat.
Rurik knew the delicacies of mutton and beef very well. During the seven years since his birth, he had cherished both kinds of meat. On the contrary, it seemed that reindeer meat was easy to obtain, as if hunters went further into the north, where the forests and moss
The wilderness is filled with roaming reindeer herds.