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Chapter 1235 "The water of the Nile turns into blood"

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    Of course you are right!

    The Nile River has stopped flowing!

    And there has been no major flood for decades!

    The plains of Egypt rely on the annual flooding of the Nile River to obtain good grain harvests, which can ensure that the crops are ripe three times a year, can feed people, can support hundreds of thousands of people, and can even build pyramids.  Laborers were provided with bread and onions and even meat every day!

    But, not anymore.

    There has been no major flooding for decades. These decades are a period of extremely stable river water, and they are the most difficult years for Egypt to survive, and they will often last for several years once they last.

    And in recent years, the water level has even dropped, and then stopped!

    In today's Egypt, natural disasters and man-made disasters continue to occur. People starve to death every day, and the Nile River dries up. Countless priests took advantage of the chaos to establish themselves as kings.  sit on the fence.

    People eat their children, and the next day swords fall on their heads to make them food.

    "The water of the Nile turned to blood."

    The so-called first disaster in Egypt in the Bible, when the water of the Nile River turned into blood, appeared at this time. Although there is no Bible yet, there is Azai.

    Ah Zai has written down this matter.

    Finnis is saying:

    "When I can remember, I have never seen a full-bodied civilian. I can't imagine the harvest scene of the Nile River flooding in the past. All the people are skinny and hungry, so hungry that they cannibalize each other."

    "The whole of Egypt was in such a state of dying starvation that all men began to eat their own children, and human flesh was a bountiful delicacy."

    "The rulers drove the people to work, and the Ninth Dynasty was about to collapse. Before I was taken away as a slave, Upper Egypt was already fighting Lower Egypt."

    "Many places are in turmoil. Nobles and priests monopolize the power of the upper class, but they also pretend to give gifts to the common people. In various carvings and stone tablets, they write their own achievements and tell how they helped the victims.  Never persecuted, they wanted to die without being judged by Osiris."

    "In the south of Egypt, the grass is disappearing, the sand is filling the sky, and the rain is gone."

    Finnis described the situation in Egypt at this time.

    She could see the astonishment on the face of the King of the East before her, and then she heard some compliments that made her smile wryly.

    "I thought that the land would be fertile all year round. The afterglow of the setting sun should shine on the top of the king's pyramid, and people's complexions should be ruddy and full."

    "Now it seems that it is a slavery society after all, it is difficult to deal with large-scale natural disasters, and it lacks the necessary disaster relief capabilities."

    This is a huge disadvantage of the slavery 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 quelled and suppressed as soon as possible.  After a large-scale vicious incident, it began to slide from the peak to the trough, and these vicious incidents often came from God, not foreign 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 Weishui, Luoshui and Yishuis were all cut off. This was considered an ominous sign, so the major events that happened next,  It was King Wu who defeated Zhou.

    In the Zhou Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty, the world entered the era of enfeoffment, and the advanced social system began to replace the backward social system, which conformed to the change of the times, and the form manifested in the eastern land was the change of dynasties.

    It's like a big restart, and then repeat the cycle again, waiting for the next period of severe climate fluctuations to come, and then another restart ?

    The tone of the King of the East began to be disappointed.

    Finnis himself was disappointed.

    In the past, countless priests and those warlords boasted about the power of the ancient dynasty, but all the power depends on the Nile River. In fact, this big river is the source of the land's abundance and no war.  If the Nile is no longer flooding and is in a period of peace, then people will starve and even serious social unrest will break out.

    "It's amazing. In our land, there are also huge rivers. There are three in total. The northernmost big river has a bad temper. Once it floods, everything from west to east will be submerged in the flood, and the grain will not grow.  The people are all fish and shrimp."

    "We have worked hard to dredge the water of the big river and control it, so that it will not be turbulent again for hundreds of years, but in your land, if the river does not flood, you will have nothing to eat,  it's really??Amazing!  "

    Concubine Zai's words are full of emotion and wonder, and they are sincere, not ridiculed.

    The world is magical. The climate and environment in the east and west are different, which can even affect the direction of society. The flood that is a headache in the east is actually a godsend of abundance in Egypt.

    In fact, once many rivers in the world overflow, they will cause floods, but the flooding of the Nile River will not become a disaster, but will be beneficial to irrigation.

    Therefore, the work of Egyptian farmers is really easy. They don't even have to plow and hoe the fields. They just need to wait for the river to fill the fields, and then they can sow seeds after the water recedesSometimes, they drive the pigs off the fields,  These fat guys scurry about in the fields, and the seeds are firmly trampled into the soil, and the Egyptians wait to harvest them.

    That's why the ancient Greek scholar Herodotus later said with a sigh that this river is a treasure given to Egypt by God.

    In the east, one after another, since the Three Emperors opened the world and the Five Emperors to the present, how many people have died under the flood of the Yellow River, and how many leaders have worked hard to control the flood

    It is very important for ancient civilizations to have an excellent birth point if they want to develop rapidly.

    There are many resources around the big river, which is conducive to the rapid development of the initial civilization, but it will also bring corresponding flood risks, but even so, the big river is also the first echelon of the birth point.

    If the birth point is not good and the surrounding area is barren, then it is really difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

    Today's eastern land has ushered in the ancient times, the heyday that a civilization can reach. Even without the promotion of the concubine, in the original historical route, Yao and Shun alternated, bricks and tiles appeared, handicrafts prospered, and Houji planted hundreds of thousands of people.  Valley, Panyu improved boats, Dayu ruled the water and united all nations in Tushan, the Xia Dynasty was established, the world was unified, the mountains were connected, the four seas converged, the nine rivers were dredged, the people lived and worked in peace, and it was also a prosperous age in ancient times!

    During this period, the other two cradles of human civilization fell into great turmoil and great abyss respectively. Sumer was better because its turmoil continued. The current dark age is the division of all nations and belongs to foreign enemies.  The war of invasion only caused the change of gods and beliefs and the alternation of regimes, not natural disasters.

    As for the Egyptian region, that was the real abyss period.

    In the words of the orientals, at this time, "change the sons to eat, dissect the bones and cook"!  When the food and firewood ran out, the people exchanged their children for food, and dissected the corpses and burned them as firewood for cooking.

    This is the extremely cruel "first intermediate period" of ancient Egypt!

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