It was mid-October in the blink of an eye, and the siege of Otopan 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, Schlott and Avitt compiled nearly a thousand commonly used Chinese characters and drew corresponding pictograms. At the same time, Shulot also taught these words 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 to basic abstract concepts. For example, the official official "temple" built with "inch" and "earth", and then the time concept "hour" derived from studying the "day" of the sun in the "temple".
Later, Xiulote had an idea and took the craftsmen together to make the simplest and clearest timekeeping 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's just that Shulot has not experienced long-term and formal priestly education, so he still knows 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 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 epoch is 25,800 years? Shulot calculated silently. Seven stars gathered? Is it the Big Dipper? No, the Mayans should have observed the Pleiades star cluster. The sun god returns to the Seven Stars? It takes the Sun approximately 25,800 years to complete one revolution 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 tree was the only one.
"The sun is reborn and the sun dies, and there are five eras in one reincarnation. The protagonist of the first era is the era of giants, eating acorns, and is the era of four jaguars. The second era is the era of humans, eating pine nuts, and being the era of 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 cattails, which is the age of the four waters."
It's all what 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 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 is 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. "We are now one Berk year, six Calaph years, and eleven years away from the end of the world."
Four hundred plus one hundred and two plus eleven, five hundred and thirty-one years? This year is 1481 AD!
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 is at its peak and is still in the heyday of the new Chenghua style. It breaks the desert in the north and Mongolia, conquers the Jurchens in the east, and suppresses East Asia. It is the undoubted protagonist of this world; the Kingdom of Korea is in the midst of a fierce internal struggle. , the four major disasters started a wave of partisan disputes; Japan had just experienced the Onin Rebellion, the Warring States Period had begun, and troubled times had arrived;
In Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Ayutthaya 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 lame Timur has fallen apart, and Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, is about to emerge to conquer the chaotic Delhi Dynasty in North India; and in the Deccan Plateau of South Asia, the last one in history has The second Hindu empire, Vijayanagar, was at the end of the first dynasty. Civil strife was imminent and the last opportunity to unify South India was lost.
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, had just died. He had conquered half of the Balkan Peninsula, controlled the Crimean Khanate, and 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 for Europe. exploration and development.
The wave of Ottoman Western Expeditions moved forward repeatedly, conquering Romania, Wallachia, and even the entire Balkans. Then he conquered Hungary, invaded Austria, and besieged Vienna, bringing unquenchable and lasting fear to Europeans.
On the grasslands of Eastern Europe, at this time, the Principality of Muscovy 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 Slavs' expansion to the east will continue for half a millennium, passing through the boundless sea of grass in 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, Maximilian I the Great 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 Fernando II, a devout Catholic, becoming its first king. The eight-hundred-year Reconquista was coming to an end, and the Moors had been driven back to North Africa. The Spanish eyes, together with Columbus, will soon come to America, which is primitive and rich and full of future, with their 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, with the lifelong efforts of the cautious Louis XI, the Kingdom of France finally annexed the Principality of Burgundy and completed the hard-won unification. The Spider King is about to die, leaving the French with the prototype of an absolute monarchy.
For the English people far away from the mainland, the thirty-year War of the 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 empire here.
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 were still under the rule of the Solomonic dynasty, and their long rule would 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. 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, I'm destined to change everything!"
"Xulot?" Avitt looked at Shulot who had been standing for a long time with some confusion.
After long thoughts, the boy finally returned to reality, and then burst out laughing happily. He was so excited that he couldn't control himself and hugged his teacher enthusiastically.
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 guys, what happened all of a sudden? That's just a myth, the end of the world will not come."
"Yes, teacher." Shulot put his face against the teacher's chest and murmured indistinctly. "The end of the world is not coming, we are going to change everything..."
