Shortly after the ship left the battlefield, the lights in the engine room suddenly went out.

When the four passengers were taken aback, the starry sky appeared overhead, making people feel like they were camping in the quiet of a sunny night.

At this time, the starry sky was like a picture scroll covering the earth, and the stars in the sky were embedded in the deep black sky. A river of glowing clouds with countless stars stretched across the sky.

Suddenly, a meteor pierced the night sky, leaving a beautiful arc before disappearing into the lonely sky.

"It's the most beautiful night sky I've ever seen! Thank you Raco! Princess Yang exclaimed.

"You're welcome, enjoy flying under the stars." Raco said easily.

Daorong looked at the scene in front of him and was puzzled, and asked, "Rako, do you know magic?" How could the roof of the spaceship disappear in the blink of an eye? ”

There was a burst of laughter in the cabin.

Bass smiled: "Rong'er, we can all feel the wind blowing when we sit in the carriage today, our spaceship is now flying at least ten times the speed of the carriage, do you feel the wind blowing into you?" ”

Daorong stretched out his hands and felt it for a while, and said, "There is no wind!" ”

"This is because the top of the ship is still there, and all you see is an image of the starry sky received by the sensors in the ship's shell. ”

"But I felt like I was sitting in the garden and watching the stars." Yang said, and then asked, "Rako, if we keep flying forward like this, when will we reach Babylon?" ”

Raco replied, "Tomorrow we will enter the skies over a region called Mesopotamia in the west before dawn, but because our ship's navigation and positioning system is out of order, we will not be able to accurately locate the target in Babylon City. But we can find a safe place to land after discovering the first massive castle, and then enter the city to make a trade and find the location of the city of Babylon. ”

Bass added: "The main purpose of our trip to the Western world was twofold, the first was to trade silk for the gold we needed, and the second was to visit and communicate with Westerners. Although the Babylonian civilization is the main goal of our investigation, as long as we find a large castle like the capital of your Shu Kingdom, it shows that the local people are also very civilized, and we have to stop and take a look and make some trades, so that as long as we go to the West, whether it is Babylon or not, we can get detailed information about Babylon by talking to the locals. ”

"I'm a little nervous when I think we'll get to the West tonight, the princess and I don't know anything about it, Rak, if you have time, tell us about Babylon now, so that we can be a little prepared." Dao Rong said.

Raco said: "Okay, while you are watching the starry sky, I will read you the history of the Babylonian kingdom, but because the Babylonian civilization was passed down from the Sumerian civilization, and according to the information of the Rustians, the ancestors of the Sumerians were actually the descendants of aliens, so I will start with the history of the Sumerian civilization."

About 3,200 years ago in Earth world time, a group of 2,000 aliens came to Earth. They were the ancestors of the Sumerians, but they were forced to the earth by others, and the 2,000 Sumerians were all men.

They originally lived in the Sumerian star world in the eighth space of the Dopp Alliance, and their world was in the initial stage of human development at that time, but during this period, the Sumerian planet was invaded by another developed world near space, and the Dopp Galaxy Alliance had not yet been established at that time, so there was no corresponding law to protect these underdeveloped human planets.

Although the people of Tumer entered the ranks of developed planets, because they did not protect their planet effectively, the greenhouse effect caused the polar ice to melt and the ocean level to rise, which caused the low altitude areas on the planet's surface to gradually sink into the sea.

As the living environment deteriorated, the Tagues emigrated to other planets, and the Sumerian planet was their main target. After the Tagus invaded the planet Sumerian, they adopted a colonial policy, exterminating some of the Sumerians who did not obey their rule or threatened their rule, and secretly transferred to other underdeveloped planets to fend for themselves.

After this group of Sumerians was driven to Earth, in order to continue their life, they had to intermarry with the women of the native primitive human tribes on Earth and reproduce. They began living in a mountainous area, and after a few hundred years, as the population grew, they migrated to settle in what is now the plain of Mesopotamia.

Located at the confluence of two rivers, the Sumerians dug ditches in the southern part of the fertile and well-watered plain, gradually established an effective irrigation network for farming, and used the fruits of civilization brought to the planet Sumer to establish the Sumerian civilization of the earth world. Because of the lack of stone in the plains of Mesopotamia, they used clay to make adobe bricks to build cities, and used local mineral deposits to establish smelting and processing industries for gold, silver, copper, tin and other metals, and used clay to make colored pottery and other household items.

With the establishment of the city, the Sumerians gradually developed more than 20 industries such as linen weaving, jewelry, leather, etc., and introduced the cuneiform script used by the Sumerian planets, thus creating the first civilization in southern Mesopotamia.

About 1,800 years ago, the Sumerians had established twelve independent city-states on the Mesopotamian plains, and the Sumerians were a federation of cities.

A hundred years later, however, the Sumerians had been locked into a long period of internal strife, with cities fighting for water rights, trade routes, and nomadic tribute for a thousand years. Eventually, the Semites took advantage of the situation and conquered Sumerian cities and established the so-called Akkadian Empire, ending the history of the Sumerian city-states.

However, the Akkadian Empire lasted only 280 years before it was conquered by new foreign invaders, and the Sumerian city-states re-emerged one by one, until a city-state called your rose to unify the city-states once again and establish a pure Sumerian empire.

The Sumerian empire lasted for a hundred years before the Elamites from the east perished, and most of the Sumerians migrated west and east to escape the war in the later war years.

But the civilization created by the Sumerians did not disappear there, but spread to many parts of the Earth world with the outward migration of the Sumerians.

And in Mesopotamia, the Babylonians inherited and developed the Sumerian civilization.

Now let's read the history of Babylon.

About 120 years ago, the Amorites invaded the valley of the two rivers and destroyed the Third Dynasty of your, which was founded by the Akkadians and Sumerians.

The first Babylonian dynasty was founded a hundred years ago by an Amori chieftain named Sumu Abum, with the city of Babylon as its capital.

In the beginning, Babylon controlled only a small part of the surrounding territory and was always shrouded in the shadow of older and more powerful city-states, such as Assyria, Ilan, and Larsa.

However, after four generations of Babylonian kings, the current Babylonian kingdom has become one of the most economically powerful kingdoms in this region because it inherited most of the Sumerian civilization achievements, and because it was located in the commercial and trade center of the two river valleys, and the land was rich in water sources and fertile land.

This brief history of Babylon is based on the conclusion of the Rus's expedition about thirty years ago Earth time, and if nothing else, the kingdom of Babylon that we will see should have been more developed. ”

As soon as Rako finished speaking, Daorong said: "Rako, my master said that there are many gods and priests in the Western world, but you didn't say anything in the history of Sumer and Babylon just now. ”

Rako: "Your question is about the religious activities of the Babylonians, and I will inquire again. ”

Rako quickly found the relevant information and said to his companion, "The Russians did investigate the religions of the Sumerians and Babylonians, and they did a lot of it. I'll summarize it for you, and we'll take a closer look at their temple when we get to Babylon.

The Babylonians inherited the Sumerian religion, and they believed in many gods, the main god being Marduk, the god of wind.

Not only in Babylon, but also in the plains of Mesopotamia, including the northern Assyrian city-states, there were thousands of temples, large and small, each with priests presiding over various religious activities.

The most important of these were tributes and sacrifices to the gods, with the high priests presiding over the major sacrifices, the ordinary priests in charge of the day-to-day priestly activities, and the king and members of the royal family attending each major sacrifice.

In addition to the temple tributes and sacrifices, there were many religious festivals of various ethnic groups in Mesopotamia, during which the whole people participated in all-night revelry. ”

Daorong said happily: "Thank you, Rako, Master hopes that I can learn a few new priestly rituals to bring back to Shu after I arrive in the Western World." ”

Bass smiled and said, "Rong'er, you don't have to worry, when we finish the transaction of exchanging silk for gold, we will live in Babylon for a while, and then we will take you to visit the highest priest of the Babylon Kingdom, and we can give him some gold and let them accept you as a disciple in the temple for a short time." ”