It was mid-October in the blink of an eye, and Otopan's siege had lasted for January.
The long rainy season finally showed signs of leaving, and the long-lost clear sunshine ushered in the sky.
During this time, Shulot and Avitt compiled nearly a thousand commonly used Chinese characters and drew corresponding pictograms. At the same time, Shulot also taught these characters to the warriors who followed him.
These characters start from things in life, connect with each other through radicals, explain each other's meanings, and then gradually extend basic abstract concepts. For example, the official official "temple" built with "inch" and "tu", Then there is the time concept "hour" derived from studying the sun "day" in the "temple".
Later, Xiulote had an idea and got the craftsmen to work together to make the simplest and clearest timing device, a sundial. Then he proudly showed it to Avitt.
Avitt just smiled and told him that the Mayan ancestors had invented this kind of toy two thousand years ago. It was just because Shulot had not experienced long-term and formal priestly education, so he still knew very little about astronomy.
"According to the calendar we learned from the Mayans, a year has twenty months and a month has eighteen days. There are five bad days at the end of each year, and one bad day is added every four years."
Three hundred and sixty-five and a quarter days per year. Shulot thought, I know this too.
What comes next is what Shulot doesn’t know.
"The world was created by the gods. The gods came from the night sky where the seven stars gather, and they are far away and don't know their destination." Avitt sang a sacrificial song as he spoke.
"Twenty years is a year of Cal, and twenty years is a year of Berk. After sixty-four and one-half Berk years, it is the end of the reincarnation of all things, and the sun god returns to the origin of the seven stars."
An era is 25,800 years? Shulot calculated silently. The seven stars converge? Is it the Big Dipper? No, the Mayans should be observing the Pleiades star cluster. When the sun god returns to the seven stars? It takes about 25,800 years for the sun to revolve around the Pleiades star cluster!
Shulot couldn't help but put his hand on his forehead. A civilization as advanced as the calendar did not have writing. This technology was established by the tree.
"The sun is born and the sun dies, and there are five eras in one reincarnation. The protagonist of the first era is the giant, eating acorns, which is the era of four jaguars. The second era is the era of humans, eating pine nuts, and being the four winds. The third era is When people eat lotus seeds, it is the age of the four rains. The fourth era is when people eat water pudding, which is the age of the four waters."
What is this and what? Shulot rubbed his forehead and listened to the lecture on astronomy and mythology.
"The fifth era is now. The protagonist is still human, eating corn, and it is the era of the four movements. At the end of the era, it is the return of all things. The world is destroyed in earthquakes, living creatures die in floods, and the sun god returns to the kingdom of God. , that’s the end of the world.” Avitt chanted solemnly and mysteriously.
"The end of the world?" Shulot felt that this word was inexplicably familiar, "The end of the world for the Mayans? 2012!"
Shulot jumped up excitedly and grabbed Avitt, who was immersed in the myth and prophecy: "How many years are there until the end of the world?"
"Let me do the math. Don't worry, it's still early for the end of the world." Avitt smiled, slightly surprised by Shulot's reaction. "There are still one Berk year, six Calaph years, and eleven years before the end of the world."
Four hundred plus one hundred and twelve plus eleven, five hundred and thirty-one years? This year is AD 1481!
Shulot was so moved that he burst into tears. He finally knew the current year, and his memory of history (European Union) could finally be connected with this era.
In 1481 AD, it was eleven years before Columbus discovered America and thirty-eight years before the Spaniards invaded Mexico.
In this era, the center of the world is still in the Far East and Near East, where there is the densest population, the most majestic cities, the most prosperous markets, and the most powerful empire!
In the Far East, the Ming Dynasty was at its peak, and it was still in the heyday of the Chenghua New Style. It broke the desert in the north and Mongolia, conquered the Jurchens in the east, and suppressed East Asia. It was the undoubted protagonist of this world; the Kingdom of Korea was in the midst of a fierce internal struggle.
, the four major disasters started a wave of partisan disputes; Japan has just experienced the Onin Rebellion, the Warring States Period has begun, and troubled times have arrived;
In Southeast Asia, the Ayutthaya Kingdom was in a prosperous era under the rule of the White Elephant King and began a series of reforms; in the Java Islands, the Hindu Majapahit Empire began to decline, and the Christian Tammu Sultanate began to rise.
In Central Asia, the empire founded by the cripple Tamerlane has fallen apart, and Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, is about to emerge to conquer the chaotic Delhi Dynasty in North India; while in the Deccan Plateau in South Asia, the last one in history has
The second Hindu empire, Vijayanagar, was at the end of the first dynasty and was facing civil strife, losing its last chance to unify South India.
In the Near East, the protagonist of another world, the dazzling Ottoman Empire, is about to usher in its heyday. This year, Sultan Mehmed II, the conqueror of Eastern Rome, has just passed away. He has conquered half of the Balkan Peninsula and controlled
The Crimean Khanate invaded northern Iraq.
In the next hundred years, the expansion of the stars and the moon will never stop. The Ottoman Empire will continue to conquer Iraq, Syria, the Holy City of Palestine, Mamluk Egypt, and the entire Red Sea coast, until it completely controls the east-west trade and forces a new sea route in Europe.
exploration and development.
The waves of the Ottoman Western Expeditions moved forward repeatedly, conquering Romania, Wallachia, and the entire Balkans. Then they conquered Hungary, invaded Austria, and besieged Vienna, bringing unquenchable and long-lasting fear to Europeans.
On the grasslands of Eastern Europe, at this time, the Principality of Moscow had just become independent from the vassalage of the Golden Horde, and the Slavic nation finally ushered in the dawn of new life. After integrating into the culture and blood of the Tatars, the Slavic people expanded to the east.
It will last for half a thousand years, passing through the boundless grass sea of Central Asia, crossing the boundless Siberia, and reaching the cold Sea of Japan.
In Central Europe, the Kingdom of Poland is in the "golden age" of the Jagello dynasty. The prosperity of the noble estates is accompanied by the development of the noble parliament, which has maintained the loose power of the kingdom ever since; in the Holy Roman Empire, the great Maximilian I
About to become emperor, he planned arduous and long-term imperial reforms, and also used carefully arranged political marriages to carve out a broad future for the Habsburg dynasty.
In Western Europe, the Spanish Empire was born from the union of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, with the devout Catholic Fernando II becoming the first king. The eight-hundred-year Reconquista was coming to an end, and the Moors had been expelled back to North Africa. Spain
Human eyes, together with Columbus, will soon come to America, which is primitive and rich and full of future, with infinite greed for gold.
Even though Prince Enrique has passed away, the Portuguese exploration is still moving forward. They are about to discover the Congo, cross the Cape of Good Hope, colonize South Africa, establish trading posts in East Africa, and then meet the Ottomans again in the Red Sea, and finally reach the rich and scattered
India established a colonial empire with a population of only two million.
At this time, thanks to the lifelong efforts of the prudent Louis XI, the Kingdom of France finally annexed the Principality of Burgundy and completed the hard-won unification. The Spider King was about to die, leaving the French with the prototype of an autocratic monarchy.
For the English people who are far away from the mainland, the thirty-year War of Roses has not yet ended, and the unification of England still seems far away. There are also Wales, Ireland and Scotland on this small island. No one expected that there would be a future here.
's empire.
In West Africa, after capturing Timbuktu in Mali, the Songhai people finally established the empire of Black Africa along the Niger River, and then met Portuguese explorers for the first time on the coast of West Africa.
In East Africa, the Ethiopians are still under the rule of the Solomonic dynasty, and their long rule will last for another five hundred years, maintaining the only cross in the ocean of stars and moon.
"This year is 1481 AD, an era before anything has happened yet, an era full of possibilities!" Shulot thought, "At this time, the center of the world is in the east. Europeans have not yet obtained the wealth and land of the Americas, and they have not yet acquired the wealth and land of the Americas.
It has not opened up the counterattack in the Americas, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and even China. They have not become stronger yet!"
"I still have thirty years to unify Central America and welcome the colonists from afar." Shulot finally let go of his fear of the unknown, and the flames of conquest burned into flames. "Now that I'm here,
, is destined to change everything!”
"Shurlot?" Avitt looked at Shulot who had been standing for a long time with some confusion.
The young man finally returned to reality after a long period of thoughts, and then he laughed happily, rushed over, and hugged Avitt's waist passionately.
Avitt's smile froze instantly. He reached out and touched Xilot's forehead with a look of disgust. Well, he didn't have a fever. "You guy, what happened all of a sudden? That's just a myth. The end of the world will not come."
"Yeah." Shulot put his face against his friend's chest and murmured indistinctly. "The end of the world will not come, we will change everything..."
