Chapter 31 1. Blacklist
When the Zhou people created the well field system, feudal system, patriarchal clan system, and ritual and music system, many nations in the world were still stunned.In South Asia, the Harappan civilization created by the Dravidians has passed away, leaving a gap of hundreds of years.The Aryans, the protagonists of the future civilization, are crossing the Indus River by feeling the stones.In Western Asia, Babylon was in turmoil, and the Jews had just established their Hebrew Kingdom.In southern Europe, the Greeks finished the Trojan War, but they still stayed in the "Era of Yao and Shun".In Central America on the other side of the ocean, the Olmec civilization is like their giant stone statues, with only a head but no body.As for most of the places that now belong to the European Union, they are either deserted or inhabited by savages.North America and Oceania are basically barren land.
Comparable to Egypt and Assyria.
Egypt was the first to rule the world, 2,000 years earlier than the establishment of a national alliance in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and more than 2,800 years earlier than the establishment of a centralized empire in the Qin and Han Dynasties.In 3100 BC, Narmer (Menes) annexed Upper and Lower Egypt and established the "First Dynasty".This is not the same as Zhou Ge Yin Ming.The Zhou people made the small fish eat the big fish, while Narmer put the two fish together.But the problems encountered are the same: how to stabilize people's hearts and consolidate the political power.
Narmer's solution was to be crowned twice.He was originally the king of Upper Egypt, wearing a white crown, with the eagle as the protector and the lily as the national emblem.The king of Lower Egypt wears a red crown, with snakes as protectors and bees as national emblems.So Narmer was crowned once in Upper and Lower Egypt, and then wore different crowns on different occasions, indicating that he was both the king of Upper Egypt and the Lord of Lower Egypt.But the patron saint is still the eagle Horus.
This is of course very clever, but King Wu and Duke Zhou are more intelligent.They not only crowned themselves, but also crowned the princes from all walks of life, and also granted the princes the right to crown officials.As a result, all aspects, up and down, were celebrated with crowns and high-sounding.In contrast, Narmer only crowned himself, so he couldn't buy so many hearts.
What's more, who would not do this kind of thing of adding an official to himself?In the end, the crown was worn on the heads of Libyans and Ethiopians.
Look at Assyria again.
Assyria was also once the "king of the world" in the Mesopotamia, this is the original words of an ancient Assyrian king.When this king was alive, Shang Tang destroyed Xia Jie on our side, and the Middle Kingdom of Egypt was destroyed by the Hyksos.However, ancient Assyria, the "king of the world", did not last long, and it was ancient Babylon who really rose.
But in our Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Assyria suddenly became stronger than ever.Assyria successively conquered the eastern part of Asia Minor, Syria, Phoenicia, Israel and Babylonia, and later invaded the Arabian Peninsula, conquered Egypt, destroyed Elam, and became a mighty empire.This empire spanned West Asia and North Africa, and brought the two ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt under its rule.
This is the first time in world history that a country has so many ethnic groups and such a vast territory.
The challenge facing Assyria is no less than that of Zhou.
However, they seem to have only one solution: killing people.The cruelty of the king of Assyria is heinous, and the records of massacres and torture of prisoners are endless in history books.Assyrian inscriptions are full of such sentences: I cut off their heads like a mower, I stepped on the neck of the king of Babylon like a step stool, and whoever dares to rebel I will peel off his skin and spread it on the pile of dead people , I will fill the streets of the city with their dead bodies.They even burned down the city of Babylon, and took the ashes back as a souvenir to put in the temple.
What is the result?It was their civilization that perished along with their empire, and never to be resurrected.
The course of history is cruel.Ancient Egypt, Babylon, Harappa, Crete, Olmec, Hittite, Persia, Maya, etc., are on the "black list of civilization destruction", no less than twenty or thirty.
It is the Chinese civilization that stretches on and on, and it is the Greco-Roman civilization that is brought back to life.Although the Greek city-states and the Roman Empire ceased to exist, "human beings continue to perish and govern", instead, they developed magnificently into Western civilization.At the same time, the Islamic civilization was late-moving, rising rapidly, and sweeping the world.It is not difficult to predict that the future world will be dominated by Western civilization, Islamic civilization and Chinese civilization.
Why?
This is a "Sphinx mystery".
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