Chapter 1879： Maya is primitive?

In fact, there are more than one prehistoric relics circulating on the earth, such as Asan's stainless steel pillar.

In Maihalori near the capital of Assan, there stands a huge iron pillar. There is a clear historical record. The iron pillar has stood in the open air for more than 1,500 years. After numerous winds and rains, there is still no point. Traces of rust!

Some scientists analyzed the composition of iron pillars and found that it contains a lot of impurities. It is by no means pure iron, because pure iron does not rust, and iron with magazines rusts more easily than normal wrought iron.

Some people even say that this is the prototype of the golden cudgel in Journey to the West.

Asan believed that this was a product of prehistoric civilization, but it was the same as the memory characteristics of the Yue King Goujian, which could not be proved at all.

But it doesn't mean there is definitely not, otherwise how to explain the golden mask?

If the ancient Mayan pyramids were connected with the Egyptian pyramids, is it possible to guess that memory metal appeared on the earth during a certain period of time, and it happened to be discovered and used by the civilization of that era?

Is the technology not preserved just for some reason?

Yang Cheng sponsored Dick Gill's research, and his fundamental purpose is to explore more secrets about memory metal. If this ultra-modern technology is mastered by him, then the future of the Yang family will be completely stable.

As for the innocence of each other, Yang Cheng is not worried. For ordinary people, this is indeed worth worrying about, but the Yang family is not a persimmon.

Of course, the research is to mass-produce memory metal. If it cannot be used for civilian use, the production cost is still expensive, which is meaningless to Yang Cheng. After all, he is not going to conquer the world with this thing.

Safra was reading the information frantically, trying to find the connection between memory metal and ancient Maya.

He shook his head and said, "My memory is not wrong. Although I am puzzled, the Maya banned metal for practical use. They believed that metal was related to weapon manufacturing and could lead to war.

Therefore, the few metals are only used for agriculture, temple construction and ceremonial sacrificial vessels, while household knives are replaced by obsidian.

Not only metal, but also the wheel that exists as the origin of technology, are rarely seen in the life of the Maya.

In fact, the Mayans can make wheels, but they have never been used in real life. You must know that there are no roads or water sources for transportation near the large pyramid buildings, and the surrounding is dense rain forest. Then the pyramids and large squares need How are materials mined and transported?

This is what I have always wondered.

But one thing is certain, the Maya rarely used metal in their lives, let alone the magical technology of memory metal. "

After listening to Safra’s explanation, Yang Cheng couldn’t help saying, “First of all, we have to admit that the Mayan civilization is indeed a civilization with a high degree of development in some aspects.

For example, the characters of the Mayan civilization are very complex and exquisite, with hundreds of words with different structures, and different combinations of these words can be used to create long texts.

So far, archaeologists have discovered more than 10,000 passages written in Mayan script, mainly carved on stone tablets, door lintels and pottery.

Moreover, the Maya also established an extremely complex social system. In the Maya era, different Mayan states and tribes once formed very complicated vassal, tribute, and alliance relationships, and there were also multiple overlords in different historical periods.

We also know that the Mayan cities are very large, and the structures of some large buildings are also delicate and complex.

Later, in the Maya region, a theocratic rule system with the **** king as the core was formed, and various power struggles were staged in very complicated dramas.

At the same time, there are also distinct classes of nobility and common people in Mayan society. The two classes account for about 10% and 90% of the Mayan population respectively.

These all prove the achievements of the Maya in certain aspects, so before judging whether they have certain skills, they must not be partial. "

Yang Cheng's remarks surprised Safra, "You really did research."

I don’t know that this knowledge was heard from Dick Gill not long ago, and I’m selling it now.

There was no continuation, and he continued, "At the same time, the Mayan society seems to be a society that values ​​commerce very much, because according to some paintings carved on stone or pottery by the Maya, some Mayan merchants may belong to the noble class.

Moreover, during the Mayan civilization, trade between different regions was very frequent. For example, the Mayan core regions located in Mexico and Central America at that time imported gold leaf from Colombia in South America and turquoise from New Mexico in North America, and sometimes even nobles would personally. Lead the team to travel long distances and carry out remote business activities.

Therefore, it is definitely a wrong conclusion to say that the Maya’s life has nothing to do with metal. Gold is also a metal, or a valuable precious metal, and this happened in the Maya’s business activities. "

Zafra nodded thoughtfully, "You continue~"

"The most undeniable thing is that the Mayans have developed quite high scientific and technological achievements in some specific scientific fields.

For example, the Mayan digital and astronomical system, which is most widely spread today, can be said to be in a relatively leading position in the world before modern times.

I won't say much about this, I believe you know more than me.

In addition, the Mayan agricultural system is considered to be beyond that era.

The Maya’s main food crop was very high-yield corn. Although corn was native to the Americas, modern people cannot find a species close to corn in the Americas. What does this mean?

It shows that corn is a product carefully cultivated by the Maya from generation to generation, so it is very different from its wild relatives.

There are also high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers from the Americas. These high-yield crops can also be said to be the cutting-edge achievements of the highly developed American agricultural civilization represented by Maya.

In addition, the Maya also developed farming systems such as terraces with complex structures, which can largely avoid water loss and soil loss.

Not only that, the Maya made rubber very early, and rubber technology was used in many aspects of their society.

Even the Maya doctors would perform multiple types of surgical operations.

Do you dare to believe that a nation or a civilization has developed to this point, but the research on metals has stayed at a level close to zero? Still not using the wheel, a tool that can greatly promote technological progress?

I don't believe it anyway! "

Zafra immediately retorted, “You don’t want to believe that there is no. This is the fact. While you acknowledge that the Maya people are highly civilized in some aspects, it cannot be denied that the Maya civilization is always very important in other very important aspects. original.

The Mayans, like all other civilizations in the Americas, have never invented any kind of vehicle, not even a trolley, and the reason why they did not find a vehicle is very simple. They did not use wheels, even if it can be inferred from some data, they have The wheel was developed, but it was not used in daily life on a large scale.

Just at this point, positioning them as primitive people, there is no mistake at all. "

Yang Orange retorted, "You still haven't given evidence."

Safra said, “As a stone civilization, the most advanced metal smelting technology at the peak of the Maya civilization only processed gold, silver, copper and other metals into small beads, bells and flakes, which were mainly used like jewelry. Decoration, which means that they basically do not make any metal tools.

The various building stones and carvings of the Mayan civilization are all made of obsidian, or in fact, gems with super hardness.

The lack of practical metalwork means that the Maya’s weapon system is always very primitive.

The Maya did not have any metal weapons. Their most commonly used weapons were all kinds of darts and spears. The arrows were also hard stone tools such as obsidian.

Therefore, the most complicated war machine invented by the Maya is a 0.5-meter-long spear thrower, which can throw some darts a little farther.

In addition, the Mayans also used blowguns and bows, but because there were no metal arrows, these weapons were of limited use on the battlefield.

In the late Maya civilization, the Mayans also made swords with wooden sword bodies inlaid with obsidian blades, but they were relatively heavy and could only be manipulated with both hands.

So you have to believe that the primitiveness of Maya civilization in these aspects is beyond people's imagination. "

Yang Cheng questioned, “You said earlier that the Mayans banned the use of metal because you were afraid that metal would become the beginning of a large-scale war. The implication is that the Mayans don’t, but don’t want it. Your context is contradictory.”

Zafra waved his hand, "I explain one by one. First of all, regarding the wheel problem, the industry's general view is that this is related to the fact that there has never been a large mammal in the Americas.

Because the American continent and Eurasian and African continents were separated very early, only a few native large mammals existed in the American continent in a very early period.

But more than 10,000 years ago, shortly after humans entered the Americas through the Bering Strait, these animals also became extinct.

Therefore, the Americans cannot domesticate different livestock like humans in the Old World. The only domesticated alpaca is very small and does not play much role in production.

And because there were no large livestock, the Americans did not have livestock that could be used to pull carts. So the early tools such as very primitive wheels and animal carts could not show the efficiency advantage compared to humans’ own transportation of goods, so the Mayans did not Invent the power and demand of the wheel.

Furthermore, the Mayans were unable to give birth to the sprouting teeth of mechanical civilization, thus completely insulating them from the mechanical civilization that ultimately played a decisive role in the development of civilization in the Old World.

Are you satisfied with this explanation? "

Yang Cheng thought for a while, this explanation made sense, but what about metal?

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