Chapter 370: South American Peaks
Du Lengqiu said lightly: "Heaven is a good reincarnation. You can't pity them. When the Europeans came to Oceania, there were 300,000 inhabitants of Oceania, and they occupied all the land. But wait until the twentieth century when Australia became independent. There was a mocking smile on his lips.
"Throughout Australia, the original inhabitants have been driven from all the bountiful places and have been relegated to the most inhospitable fringes of Western Australia. And the population has changed from a maximum of 300,000 to less than 20,000. ”
"On the contrary, it was the most annoying thing to be exiled in the first place, and the population multiplied from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions. What a ridiculous thing to do. If it weren't for the resistance of our Asian people, a scene here would have been staged in China. ”
"These white people are like a plague, and when they go there, there is no grass there. ”
Du Lengqiu gave a conclusion.
He slowly flew over the Western Australian highlands, and suddenly stopped in front of a huge statue. This is a gruff stone statue, which has stood for tens of thousands of years under the blows of wind, frost, snow and rain, and now, his face is blurred, but the traces of the stonemason's carving can be faintly seen.
In Oceania, there are many primitive religions, including the idea of a high god, totem worship, elf worship, idolatry, and witchcraft. Among them, totem worship is the most popular.
Clans and individuals can have totems, animals, plants, and inanimate creatures, and even the sun, moon, and stars can be used as totems. In addition to the totem ritual to simulate the totem image of the god dance, sometimes the totem is eaten in the hope of passing on its ability.
The original religion of the Maori people of New Zealand, including the belief in high gods and taboo (taboo) beliefs, is still part of their folk life today. The primitive religion of the Polynesian islands was dominated by the worship of high gods.
Oceania still has many giant cults of primitive religions. For example, the tall stone statues on Easter Island, the "calendar" made of about 40 tons of huge stones in Nukuavalo, the capital of Tonga, and the three-stone pagoda called "Haan Monga" made of 5-meter-high coral boulders.
And in this desolate Western Australian highland, there are also traces of religion of one kind or another.
Du Lengqiu smiled leisurely, "I don't know why the Sun God Emperor must have so many believers. And for the sake of those believers, he did not hesitate to start a war. ”
"Could it be that those hearts are the key to his strength?"
Although Du Lengqiu thought about it in his heart, he gave a possibility. But even he himself did not believe in this possibility. Countless sages in the spiritual world have already given the clearest judgments.
Faith is poison.
Touch it and die!
From Oceania to the west, all the way non-stop, flying over the entire South Pacific, half a blue star, before arriving in South America. In the process, he looked at Antarctica from above the white clouds and was very relieved to see that Antarctica was still covered with snow.
Beyond the ice, you can see South America in the distance.
South America, the word is relative to North America, and the word America is short for America. The name of the Americas is popularly said to be in honor of a famous Italian navigator named Amerigo Vespucci.
In 1499, Amerigo sailed from the sea to India with a fleet led by the Portuguese Ojeda, and they sailed along the route taken by Columbus, overcoming many difficulties to reach the American continent. Amerigo made a detailed survey of the northeastern coast of South America and compiled an updated map.
In 1507, his book Tales of Travels at Sea was published, which caused a worldwide sensation. In this book, the "discovery" of the New World is narrated in a fascinating way, and the continent is described and rendered in vivid colors.
Amerigo announced the concept of the New World to the world, and at once overwhelmed the system of the earth's structure formulated by Pudoremi, the absolute authority of Western geography in the Middle Ages.
As a result, several French scholars revised and supplemented Pudolemi's famous work "Cosmology" and named the New World after Amerigo in recognition of his outstanding contributions to mankind's understanding of the world.
After the publication of the new book "Cosmology", according to the materials in the book, the New World - America - was also added to the map. Later, according to the form of the names of other continents, "America" was changed to "America". Originally, the name was limited to the Americas, and by 1541 the map of Mercator included North America as part of the Americas.
Looking at South America from the clouds, Du Lengqiu was taken aback.
South America, which was originally wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and was the same as Africa, turned into a slender mountain peak, and from a distance, it looked like a giant dragon lying prone in the sea.
It is located in the Andes Mountains in western South America.
The topography of the South American continent can be divided into two longitudinal zones: the west is the Andes Mountains, and the eastern part of South America is a forest and plain with plains and plateaus.
In total, the plains of South America below 300 meters above sea level account for about 60% of the continent's area, the plateaus, hills and mountains between 300 meters and 3,000 meters above sea level account for about 33% of the continent's area, and the plateaus and mountains above 3,000 meters above sea level account for about 7% of the continent's area.
The Andes Mountains are composed of several parallel mountain ranges, with a maximum width of 400 kilometers and a total length of about 9,000 kilometers, most of which are above 3,000 meters above sea level, making it the longest mountain range in the world and one of the largest mountain systems in the world. There are many peaks in the Andes Mountains with an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, among which Mount Aconcagua is the highest peak in South America at 6,960 meters above sea level.
The eastern part of South America is distributed with plains and plateaus. From north to south, they are the Orinoco Plain, the Guiana Plateau, the Amazon Plain, the Brazilian Plateau, the La Plata Plain, the Patagonian Plateau, and the Pampas.
Among them, the Amazon Plain covers an area of about 5.6 million square kilometers, which is the largest alluvial plain in the world, with a flat terrain and an altitude of less than 200 meters;
The Brazilian Plateau is the largest plateau in the world, with an area of about 5 million square kilometers and an altitude of 300~1500 meters.
The average altitude of the whole continent of South America is 600 meters, but the impact plains and forests account for the vast majority, so today, in South America, only the Andes Mountains are like a giant dragon crawling.
In addition, only the Brazilian highlands in the east are still partially raised above sea level. It's like a dragon with an unhatched dragon egg.
Du Lengqiu carried Qi Xiaoxian and landed on the highest peak in South America.
The feet are covered with snow, the mountains are long in front and behind, and the endless sea is on both sides. Since ancient times, there has never been such a terrain.
Mountains, no matter what kind of environment they are, will be inhabited by living beings.
But humans are definitely not one of them.
Without rivers, without enough water, without enough food, humans die in the mountains after living in the mountains for less than a month. All mountain people in history have a common characteristic - they are scarce in number.
What would happen if tens of millions of people flocked to the same mountain range, and now the Andes Mountains provide the answer.
Looking from afar, it is impossible to understand the details.
Du Lengqiu Immortal Light rolled up, flew down Akong Jiagua Mountain with Qi Xiaoxian, and went straight to the low mountainous area.