Chapter 495: Blocks Removed
Wanmingstein is very bad. When the Evolutionary Officer entered this world, the balance of the world had been disrupted. If you compare the many evolved officers now, the three-legged world collapsed, and at the beginning, the Remuts had to bear a lot of responsibility. If they hadn't dragged the Watt Federation back decades ago, the Zhou Tian Alliance would not have had the guts to launch a decisive battle in the Indian Ocean. And after the balance was broken, no one made any compensation to Wanmingstein. As the ship tilts on the sea, the slope becomes larger and larger.
Now the situation with Wanmingstein is irreversible. This looks very unfair to Wanmingstein. If there were an evolutionary officer from the Middle East, it would never be like that. However, in reality, there is no room for evolution across multiple historical lines 541298 in the theater of operations, and there are originally few evolved officers from the Middle East who have been promoted to the highest level. This is not a cultural issue.
There are many evolutionary officers who believe in Islam in the evolutionary space, and in the staggered historical line, there are Eastern Europe centered on Vienna #Yena who are striding towards industrialization under the banner of Allah. In the plane of Rendi, Islam looks very extreme, not doctrinal extreme, completely forced to a poor rural place, you must know that in the Middle Ages, Christians were harvested by waves of the Black Death, and the followers of Allah, clean in diet and life, to some extent contained the plague. At that time, Islam was more civilized than Christians. In the 21st century, the halal living habits of Ren Di are actually a kind of civilization, a civilization of an era, but this civilization has not stepped into the industrial age like Western civilization, nor has it been able to step into the industrial age like East Asia. Therefore, the traces left by the past civilization, halal, in the new era, this culture does not develop in accordance with its own civilization characteristics with the industrial age because of solidification, and it looks more dogmatic.
Dogmatism, coupled with the fact that the place guarded is a zone with insufficient precipitation, well, extremes appear. This is very normal, when China is in a difficult situation and cannot keep up with the times, and is unwilling to withdraw from the stage of human civilization, it will break out in the Boxer Rebellion, which is instinctively xenophobic to all foreign things, whether right or wrong, and cannot compete with foreign countries in the progress of the times, so it wants to put an end to foreign impacts, so it is so.
Christianity is definitely not much better, in the Middle Ages, when material hardship and wars were frequent, the minds of the people at the bottom were led distorted by the church, and witches were burned wildly, which was several times more brutal than today's IS. Suppose Islam occupies a rich territory and enters the industrial age. Well, it's a different story.
In Ren Di's war zone, there are two famous time nodes in the West in the evolution space. These two time nodes have traces on the historical line where Ren Di is located, but the traces of excessive fluctuations have not completely reversed the historical track. The Siege of Vie#Na in 1529 and the Battle of Viye#Na in 1683, well, the outcome of these two battles is different on the historical line that there is in the 541298 theater of operations. This led to a series of situations.
The Ottoman Empire seized the territory of Eastern Europe, from the Baltic Sea, to the Great Plain of Eastern Europe, to the Black Sea, to the Caspian Sea, strategically forming an arc encirclement of Russia for several thousand kilometers. Orthodox Christianity was thoroughly suppressed.
In terms of transportation, the Eurasian Land Bridge Railway runs through Central Europe through Constantinople, allowing this power to control the entire Middle East and radiate the Indian Ocean. Unlike the British Empire, which used its fleet to support the global sunset, the Middle East was originally the crossroads of three continents: Asia, Africa and Europe. It is much easier to build a railroad and transport supplies from land than it is to build a large fleet. This is how Islam developed at a time when materials were developed and Christian countries were in abandonment.
However, it is still a coincidence that this kind of feat was accomplished in history, just like the Manchu Qing Dynasty easily took the East when they entered the customs. For most of the time, Islam retreated to the Middle East, preaching to the tropical dwarves in the Indian Ocean, but failing to establish itself in a region suitable for the development of civilization.
There are only two areas suitable for civilization to enter the industrial age, one is Europa and the other is the East. Of course, the American continent is also a piece, but the climate and pit of the American continent, from the perspective of a hundred years of time, the horror of this climate fluctuation is so terrifying that it can directly make a very advanced agricultural civilization, which is enough to support the budding agricultural civilization of capitalism, suddenly be beaten back to its original shape in a harsh climate. This harsh climate can only be withstood by industrial civilization.
Industrial civilization, the so-called stepping on the industrial civilization is not a country's use to reach the industrial age, but a complete industrial system, modern industrial materials, after the supply of foreign machine workers stopped, this system can continue to produce in the case of sufficient raw materials. Ren Di's plane, the West, the whole West together, is an industrial civilization, and the Western civilization that has entered the industrial age has priority on the blue star.
As for the East, before World War II, Japan could be regarded as following this path, but after World War II, under the control of the Yankees, it could only be a cripple. At this time, the West was very powerful, and it was able to block the opportunity for all other civilizations that were not Western civilizations to enter the industrial age and become industrial civilizations.
That's right, if according to the ideal state of the West, there is only one civilization that has entered the industrial age in this era, and that is the Western civilization, other ancient civilizations, such as Egyptian civilization, African tribal civilization, and Indian princely state civilization, these civilizations all exist, but there is only one protagonist of the era. Other civilizations want to use things from the industrial age. It is necessary to work under the baton of Western civilization. Once upon a time, industrialization and modernization were equal to Westernization. Mechanized large-scale production is tantamount to becoming the West.
Well, it's a pity that there is no great unification in the West, and the people of the Orthodox Church in the past have changed their thinking into Marxism-Leninism, and their doctrines have changed, but they and the people of God in the West just don't look at each other. It is not right to use ideology to explain that this is the cause of the conflict.
Neither Orthodox nor Marxist-Leninist is nothing more than a flag. On the battlefield, the reason why the two armies fought each other was not because the flags were different, but because the two armies were not the same group at all. The flag is not the same as the effect, and it is not the same group of people at all. Even if two flags designed by the army collide, they will not merge, and when they realize that the flags collide, they will immediately add two strokes to their own flags, which will become two different flags again, and then accuse the other party of revisionism.
The Orthodox gathering group did not die or fall. It's just that with a different flag, they still think of themselves as individuals, not as a group of people from the west side of Europe.
If you think that you are a group of people, even if the dialects between the two places are different, the thoughts of people who usually behave in the world are different, such as the cheerful in the north and the meticulous in the south. Holding flags is different, but people from the two places will take the initiative to find the similarities of their flags, and then summarize each other to form a unified flag to represent their own group. Like the provinces of the East. I usually hack each other, but I feel that my country must not lack seats in other provinces.
Therefore, the Western civilization, which is in the limelight, began to friction internally after the absence of external enemies. The Cold War came. The Cold War was an inevitable process after Western civilization gained superiority. There is no doubt that the East began to industrialize, and the natural soil of the East, first of all, North China, Jianghuai and other grain producing areas, is a monsoon climate, periodic type, and a climate with good stability. The climate that best allows a civilization to develop. Because the climate has cycles, there is a calendar, and with the calendar, this civilization has a sense of time. With a sense of time, we begin to think about the similarities and differences between the past and the present, and then look at the future time, and finally move towards the path that determines the future time.
Civilizations that can develop and reproduce on this path independently have the best population quality on the planet. Equatorial dwarves, African tribes, and South American hominids may have had calendars, but they did not have a monsoon climate that has been consistent for thousands of years, so they were broken.
In terms of quality, there is a guarantee, and then in terms of quantity, the North China Plain, the Jianghuai Plain, Huguang, the three major grain producing areas, support the population and quantity base. Two conditions are met, plus a little civilized enterprising. An enterprising spirit that is obsessed with the prosperity of the past. Well, Ren Di's plane can be regarded as a manifestation of Western civilization getting away with it in the later period.
This kind of thing in Ren Di's plane also happens in other planes, but the role is reversed, and it is Western civilization that is enterprising. Because Western civilization has the same similar conditions, the Mediterranean has convenient transportation links with half of Europe. In the same way, there is also the basis of industrial civilization. Simply want to suppress the destiny of civilizations at both ends of the Eurasian continent in the industrial age. It's very rare.
However, in the middle of the Eurasian continent, that is, in the Middle East, although there are many resources, the grain production areas are small and small. And this is a small piece, because the Middle East is located at the junction of three continents, that is, three areas of mixed population migration. The population environment of the entire Middle East is moving, constantly moving, although a large piece of land in Eastern China is also moving, but one or two thousand years of interaction with everyone, creating no sense of strangeness, the so-called so Shanxi people do not regard themselves as Jin people, and Shandong people do not consider themselves as Qi people. In the end, the people of this large vassal state of China failed to grasp their own characteristics, and in the end everyone simply referred to them as the descendants of Yan and Huang. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the concept of the descendants of Yan and Huang was the same as the concept of the so-called people of God in the West now, general, everyone should kill and grab territory, and when they should pit hundreds of thousands of people at every turn, their hands are not soft at all.
But the Middle East is different, whether it is Europe, Africa or Asia, these three places only communicate with each other through the small mouth of the Middle East. Each other maintains their own characteristics. However, in the Middle East where the exchange center is located, the aborigines here are in a state of curse of the Tower of Babylon, and there will always be strange peoples here, so there are many factions in the Middle East, which are inseparable from the culture since ancient times. (The Tower of Babylon is also known as the Tower of Babel.) God didn't want people to build the Tower of Babel, so he gave mankind a variety of languages. In the end, there was a dispute among mankind, and the Tower of Babel was not completed. )
Therefore, although the Middle East is the place where the legend of the Garden of Eden is located, there are many grain-producing areas, but it is divided by different people. As soon as the crowd is divided, things will be difficult to do, the foolish prince of the East can move mountains, and many ethnic groups in the Middle East will not be able to build the Tower of Babel. And this is the resistance to entering industrial civilization.
For all these reasons, even in the evolutionary space, there are still very few high-level evolutionary officers from the Middle East. So this Wanmingstein did not evolve the officer to join, it was not specialized.
At this point, the fleet of the Zhou Tian Alliance was firing in the Indian Ocean, and the Lantes were starting to move. Almost all sides are fighting against the weakest Vanmingstan. A seemingly unimportant building block in this world is about to be removed.