Chapter 1,235 'The Water of the Nile Turns into Blood'
Of course you are right!
The Nile has stopped flowing!
And there hasn’t been a major flood in decades!
The plains of Egypt rely on the annual flooding of the Nile River to obtain good grain harvests, which can ensure three crops a year, keep people fed, and support hundreds of thousands of people. Even when the pyramids are being built, those who
Laborers were provided with daily supplies of bread, onions, and even meat!
But, it's gone now.
There has been no major flooding for decades. These decades have been a period of extremely stable river water, which is the most difficult year for Egypt to survive, and it often lasts for several years.
In recent years, the water level has even dropped, and then... it stopped flowing!
In Egypt today, natural and man-made disasters continue to occur. People starve to death every day. The Nile River has also dried up. Countless priests have taken advantage of the chaos to proclaim themselves kings. The Ninth Dynasty and the Tenth Dynasty face each other from the north to the south, and there are countless city-state monarchs in between.
Riding the fence.
People ate their children, and the next day swords fell on their heads to make them into food.
"The water of the Nile turned to blood."
The so-called first disaster of Egypt in the Bible, when the water of the Nile turned into blood, appeared at this time. Although there is no Bible yet, there is Azai.
Azai has already written this down.
Finneas is telling:
"As long as I can remember, I have never seen plump civilians. I can't imagine the harvest scene in the past when the Nile River flooded. All the people were skin and bones, and they were so hungry that they couldnibalize each other."
“The whole of Egypt was in a state of dying starvation, so that everyone began to eat their own children, human flesh being a rich delicacy.”
"The rulers drove the people to work, and the Ninth Dynasty was about to collapse internally. Before I was captured and made a slave, Upper Egypt was already fighting with Lower Egypt."
"Many places are in turmoil. The nobles and priests monopolize the rights of the upper class, but they pretend to provide gifts to the common people. In various carvings and stone tablets, they write their own achievements and tell how they helped the victims.
They did not persecute them because they wanted to die without being judged by Osiris."
"In the south of Egypt, the grass is disappearing, the sky is filled with sand, and the rain is no longer visible."
Finneas describes the situation in Egypt at this time.
She could see the look of astonishment on the face of the King of the East in front of her, and then she heard some praises that made her smile bitterly.
"I thought that land would be fertile all year round, the setting sun would shine on the top of the king's pyramid, and people's complexions would be ruddy and full."
"Now it seems that it is a slave-laden society after all, which is difficult to deal with large-scale natural disasters and lacks the necessary disaster relief capabilities."
This is a huge shortcoming of the slave dynasty. Unlike the feudal dynasty, the feudal dynasty has strong disaster relief and rescue capabilities. Even if an uprising breaks out in some areas, it can be put down and suppressed as soon as possible. However, the slave dynasty often has one or two major disasters.
After a large-scale vicious event, it begins to slide from the peak to the trough, and these vicious events often originate from God, not external enemies.
The same situation existed in the ancient East. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, there was a severe drought and a major earthquake occurred at the bend of the Yellow River. The Wei River, Luo River, and Yi River were all cut off. This was considered an ominous sign, so the major events that followed were,
It was King Wu who defeated Zhou.
During the Zhou Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty, the world entered the era of feudalism. Advanced social systems began to replace backward social systems, conforming to the changes of the times. The form manifested in the eastern land was the change of dynasties.
It's like a big reset, and then the cycle repeats itself, waiting for the next period of severe climate fluctuations to come, and then restart again...
The King of the East began to sound disappointed.
Finneas himself was disappointed.
In the past, countless priests and warlords boasted about the power of the ancient dynasty, but all this power depended on the Nile River. In fact, this great river was the source that made the land fertile and without war. Once
When the Nile River stops flooding and is in a period of calm, people will starve, and serious social unrest may even break out.
"It's amazing. There are also huge rivers in our land, three in total, and the northernmost river has a bad temper. Once it overflows, everything from west to east will be submerged in the flood, and grains will not grow.
All the people have become fish and shrimps.”
"We have worked hard to dredge the water in the river and regulate it so that it will not be turbulent for hundreds of years. But in your land, if the river does not overflow, you will have nothing to eat.
This is amazing!"
Yu Zai's words were full of emotion and exclamation. They were sincere and not ridiculing.
The world is magical. The climate and environment between the East and the West are different, which can even affect the direction of society. Floods, which are a headache in the East, are actually a blessing from God in Egypt.
In fact, many rivers in the world will cause floods once they overflow. However, the overflow of the Nile River will not be a disaster, but will be beneficial to irrigation.
Therefore, the work of Egyptian farmers is so easy. They don't even have to plow or hoe the fields. They only need to wait for the river water to fill the fields, and then they can sow seeds after the water recedes... Sometimes, they drive the pigs off the fields,
These fat guys were running around in the ground, and the seeds were firmly stepped into the soil, and the Egyptians just waited for the harvest.
That's why the ancient Greek scholar Herodotus later said with emotion that this river was a treasure given to Egypt by God.
In the East, successive generations have passed from the Three Emperors to the Five Emperors to the present day. How many people have died under the floods of the Yellow River, and how many leaders have worked hard to control the floods...
If ancient civilization wanted to develop quickly, it was really important to have an excellent birth point.
There are many resources around the big river, which is conducive to the rapid development of initial civilization, but it will also bring corresponding flood risks, but even so, the big river is the first echelon of spawn points.
If the place of birth is not good and the surrounding area is barren, then it is really difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without straw.
Today's Eastern land has ushered in the ancient times, the most prosperous era that a civilization can reach. Even without the promotion of Concubine, in the original historical route, Yao and Shun alternated, bricks and tiles appeared, handicrafts flourished, and Houji planted hundreds of crops.
Valley, Panyu improved boats, Dayu controlled the floods and united all the nations in Tushan, the Xia Dynasty was established, the world was unified, the mountains were connected, the four seas were united, and the nine rivers were channeled, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. This was also a prosperous age in ancient times!
However, the other two cradles of human civilization fell into great turmoil and great abyss respectively during this period. Sumer was better off, and its turmoil was continuous. The current dark age is a time when all nations are divided and belong to foreign enemies.
The war of invasion only caused changes in belief in gods and changes in political power, rather than natural disasters.
As for the Egyptian region, it was the real abyssal period.
In the words of the Orientals, at this time, "children were exchanged for food, and corpses were dissected for cooking"! When food and firewood were cut off, the people exchanged children for food, and cut up the corpses for firewood for cooking.
This is the extremely brutal "First Intermediate Period" in ancient Egypt!