Chapter 024: Egyptian Protoss
"Hopefully, you'll have figured it out by then." Snape sneered and waved.
The six children walked back indoors, their heads down, and they gathered for a discussion before running to question Bill, and then Harry, Hermione, and Ron dragged Bill out, while Pansy, Draco, and Brace stayed behind to continue the party.
Knowing that it was close to 12 o'clock, Bill and the three children were able to return, but the others were mostly caught up in the show and the games, only Theodore and Daphne were aware of it, but since the SG group didn't speak, they naturally didn't interfere.
After 12 o'clock on July 31st, Pansy once again asked everyone to congratulate today's birthday star, and when the white light hit him, Harry realized that he and Catherine's birthdays were only one day away from Neville. Catherine was in a relaxed manner, for when Pansy said that the pie would last until 2 a.m., she understood their intentions, but Harry had been kept in the dark by the other five.
A double cake half full of flames and half lake water was pushed between the two birthday stars, and the two silently clasped their hands together to make a wish, Harry hoped that the next month's challenge would not be too difficult, but Catherine hoped that the next month's challenge would make the SG team members really understand their limits, but fortunately, the content of the wish was needless to say.
After blowing out the candles, Charlie and Bill coaxed the birthday boy to dance, Catherine casually handed Snape her hand, and Harry had to shyly invite Ginny.
The four of them stood on the dance floor, and to outsiders, they were obviously two extremes, one pair was unusually mature, and the other pair was unusually green. One pair is unusually calm, and the other is unusually embarrassed.
"I really want to throw the cake at them. Let's see if they change their faces. The twins did what they said they would, literally throwing Neville's leftover cake at Catherine and Snape. Unfortunately, as soon as they made a move, the pair of dance partners bounced back, turning them into two cream sculptures, which caused everyone to laugh.
Fred and George looked at each other and rushed out to hug the others, which immediately caused chaos in the scene, with the Gryffindors screaming everywhere, the Slytherins panicking, and even the always determined Catherine and Snape felt helpless and had to use magic to clean up the two sources. lest you end up unlucky with yourself.
After the farce, everyone was tired, so after the cake was divided and the supper was eaten, the party duì was officially over, and everyone received the door key and went back to their rooms to wash and sleep.
Towards noon, the members of the tour group got up to freshen up and eat, and then took five minibuses to the Muqatam Hill on the eastern outskirts of Cairo. Because the Egyptian Ministry of Magic is located on the top of the hill in Saladin's castle, but this castle is home to wizards, Muggles, Muslims, and remnants of the ancient Persian Zoroastrianism, but there is little to see the power of the native Egyptian gods.
In fact, the power of the native gods of Egypt was still very prosperous before 525 BC, and the tall and ornate temples throughout Egypt are still showing their original prosperity to people. However, since the invasion of the Persian Empire, the power of Egypt itself has begun to decline significantly, and the power of ancient Egypt has disappeared like the water of a great river. And the cause of this qiē is due to the pyramids.
The ancient Egyptians believed that the soul would be resurrected in the underworld after death, so they took a fancy to their tombs. A king of the Third Dynasty named Josel decided to design a tomb that was majestic enough, and the pyramids appeared. And began to sweep the entire ancient Egyptian era, the pharaohs built large and small pyramids along the Nile, spent a lot of financial and material resources, a large number of slaves died on the construction site, but the Egyptian gods believed that this was a mortal affair, as long as there were people in the mortal world to continue to worship, the gods did not need to interfere, but they did not find that the influence of the gods had begun to weaken.
In 671 and 667 B.C., the Assyrians began to invade and eventually sack the temple of Thebes, which caused the wrath of the Egyptian gods, so they united with the Babylonian gods and destroyed Assyria. In 525 BC, the Zoroastrian Persian Empire, also known as Zoroastrianism or Zoroastrianism, invaded, and the pharaoh was captured, reducing ancient Egypt to a province of the Persian Empire.
Because the Babylonian protoss had been annihilated by Zoroastrianism at that time, the Egyptian protoss turned to join forces with the Greek protoss who were also occupied by the Persian Empire, but when Alexander the Great waved his army south, the Persians did not have any resistance, and they gave Egypt away, and the Egyptian protoss also recognized Alexander's rule over the mortal world, but the Greek protoss took the opportunity to gain an inch and repeatedly put forward various unreasonable demands.
So the Egyptian protoss joined forces with Judaism, Roman priests and sorcerers to annihilate the Greek protoss, but soon after the Roman priests cultivated a new protoss, Rome began to carry out the great cause of hegemony, Egypt was once again reduced to a province, and the status of the Egyptian protoss became awkward again. In the first year of the Common Era, the Egyptian Protoss secretly contacted Merlin, the leader of the sorcerers, and Jesus, the Son of God, and the three parties signed an offensive and defensive alliance in Cairo against the Roman Protoss.
It's just that in the process of annihilating the Roman Protoss, Jesus was unfortunately killed, Merlin was injured and returned to England, and only the Egyptian Protoss not only did not pay much damage, but also monopolized most of the benefits. This caused discontent among the Jews and the shamans, so when Rome introduced Christianity and began to purge the pagans, they all took a stand idly by and watched what happened to the Egyptian gods.
In 610 A.D., Muhammad revived Islam and established the Arab Empire, and after the westward expansion began, the Egyptian gods invited the Muslims to invade Egypt almost in a welcoming posture, because the Arab Empire did not require the infidels to convert to Islam, because the pagans paid higher taxes than the Muslims, but in order to avoid high taxes, the Egyptians took the initiative to convert to Islam.
The Egyptian gods, who had lost the support of the people, had completely fallen, and the Egyptians had lost the protection of the gods. But Christianity did not abandon Egypt, because Egypt controlled the communication between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and Jerusalem also fell into the hands of Islam, so the Holy See launched the Crusades.
Despite the fact that they were merely motley armies formed by the feudal lords of Western Europe, with the support of the Holy See, they achieved great results and even formed the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Saladin's Castle was built in 1183 to fight the Crusades, and later became Saladin's palace.
At that time, the Arab Empire was very fond of using Mamluk mercenaries, because they were slaves of Muslim origin, had no tribal background, and were extremely loyal to the monarch, and over time these Mamluks formed a powerful military group, but also irreconcilable contradictions with the original Muslim aristocracy.
During the Fifth Crusade, the Mongol Empire, which had risen from the East, began its march to the west, and the Mongol cavalry was far more terrifying than the motley armies that responded to the call of the Holy See, and the Muslim armies were defeated one after another, losing a large amount of territory and a large number of Muslim nobles losing their foundations.
Mamluk took the opportunity to rise to replace the Ayyubid Dynasty, but less than two years after the establishment of the Mamluk Dynasty, it ushered in the third western expedition of the Mongol Empire, and the war was still not smooth at first, until 1260, Mamluk curbed the pace of the Mongol Empire's westward expedition with fewer victories and saved the holy city of Jerusalem, so Egypt became the cultural center of Islam, and Saladin's castle also became an important gathering place for Muslims.
The Mamluks ruled Egypt for 500 years, and even after the Ottoman invasion and the fall of the dynasty, they still retained great power. When Napoleon invaded, even some of them became his mercenaries until 1811. Ali unleashed the Saladinburg massacre to completely annihilate the Mamluks.
Muhammad. The Khedive dynasty founded by Ali rose so quickly that it was even ready to ban the Ottoman Empire for a time, but was stopped by the Western European powers and had no choice but to submit. Between 1830 and 1848, he built a mosque at Saladin's Castle as his mausoleum.
In 1848, Muhammad. Ali died, and the Khedive dynasty began to decline;
In 1879, the Ottoman Empire and European powers joined forces to interfere with the Khedive dynasty;
In 1882, the British invaded and the regime fell; The British Ministry of Magic set up a branch in Saladin's Castle, and the Muslims had to retreat to Muhammad. Ali Mosque;
In 1922, Britain was forced to recognize Egypt's independence, and wizards who did not want to leave Egypt renamed the Egyptian branch the Egyptian Ministry of Magic;
In 1952, Egypt ended its monarchy, and shamans and Muslims agreed to join forces to govern the wizarding world of Egypt.
Although the Egyptian culture has been passed down through the Copts, the descendants of the ancient Egyptians, Egypt has been completely eroded by Islam from the inside out, and has completely lost its roots, so the Egyptian gods are completely to blame.
After some immigration formalities at the Egyptian Ministry of Magic, Pansy and Hermione led them to a courtyard in the inner city, where the four teenagers of the SG group and Bill were discussing something with five Muslims, and in the open space next to them was a small Arabian dhow, dhow, pointed bow, single deck, and small cabin, which at least looked little different from Muggle ships.
"Let me introduce you to you." Draco waved the group closer to him, "These five are spaceship pilots, and we will travel all of Africa by spaceship for the next month, and we will first visit Al-Azhar University and Hussein Mosque, and then go shopping at Khan Khaliri Market, and then gather at eight o'clock in the evening to take the spaceship to the hotel near the Pyramids of Giza." After introducing the itinerary, he began to explain the precautions, "You can put your luggage in the cabin when you go shopping, and the driver will help take care of it, but you must carry valuables with you." Now the first group is on board. ”
A middle-aged Muslim with a long beard waved a guardrail to the ground and turned into a staircase, and the four Hermione walked up with their luggage, Charlie hurriedly followed, and the pilot saw Draco nod to him before boarding the ship and turning the staircase back into a guardrail. (To be continued......)