Chapter 42: The Present State of the Declining Tribes

While the high priest of ancient Egypt was preparing to launch an attack on the Shin'ne-Nu, Hado was in the second tower (a new tower made of reinforced concrete) with a headache about the results of gathering information on the current state of the tribe. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 For many years, Hadu has been wandering for many years, and has not carried out drastic reforms and corrections to the tribe for thousands of years (the last time was when the steppes were unified), and just a while ago on a whim, he rode the big discus to make a tour of all the existing settlements of "Shin'ne-Nu", and found that there was a big mess.

The first is territory.

As a result of the many population transfers carried out by the "Shin'ne-Nu" in the past, a large number of scattered settlements radiated from the "Falie" mountain range to the surrounding areas, from the coast of the Sea of Blood in the west, to the upper Niger River in the east, from the heart of the Sahara Desert in the north, to the lower Congo River and Mount Kilimanjaro in the south, and the whole island of Madagascar - this is only its territory in Africa, not including the Indian settlements in northeastern North America and the tropical rainforests in central and eastern South America. It can be said that, with the exception of Central and South Asia in the southwest, where no news has been transmitted (Hadu did not cross the Himalayas due to his hatred of mountains), the known territory alone is 36,6247,9421,4527 square steps. The large territory and the backward mode of transportation have led to a rather sluggish communication between the settlements, and the settlements have also caused conflicts between settlements due to the increasing disambiguation of their human identities: the cultivated areas of the river valleys are safer and more stable than the grassland grazing areas, resulting in a rapid increase in the number of ordinary people in the valley areas, on the contrary, because the people of the grass and pastoral areas have been fighting with fierce beasts for a long time, the consumption of ordinary people is greater, and they have more promotion opportunities and more new leaders. This led to a gradual ideological divergence between the two regions, culminating in a fierce conflict in 4426 BC when the ordinary people of the settlements of the Niger Valley sent an army of 10,000 men against the large hunter clusters of the settlements in the central Sudanese steppe, and the new leaders, who had achieved great success, were surprised and outraged by the actions of these "disobedient" ordinary people, and after the commanders repelled the attack of the valley settlements, they gathered all the steppe cavalry to bulldoze the valley settlements. More than 17,600 people were killed in the riots, including most of the women and children who were unable to flee the tribe and the "Yijun".

The second is physique.

Influenced by Hado's predatory ability, the tribe and their descendants generally showed superior environmental adaptability beyond the average of their contemporaries—freedom from disease, long-term hunger and drought tolerance, courage to face danger head-on, and the same loyalty and cohesion. These constitutions are not only evident in the contemporaries, but also in their descendants. Of course, due to genetic diversity, the younger generations will be somewhat different from their predecessors in terms of physical prominence, and this also promotes the overall strength of the tribe to continue to grow.

However, because of the strong ability to adapt to the environment, the vision of the tribe in transforming the living environment is extremely low - I do not need to waver in the wind, rain, thunder, and thunder. Until 3600 B.C., most of the settlements were still living in camps made of rattan, tree trunks, and hay, and if it weren't for Hado's stumbling discovery a few decades later that molten iron could be made into long strips that could replace tree trunks as the main beams of houses, these settlements may still be inhabited by "temporary dwellings" that fall apart at the touch of a button.

Another thing that aroused Hado's alarm was the physical changes of the tribesmen: because they were no longer sick (and would not have symptoms such as poisoning, allergies, and infections), after many generations of inheritance, the original immune system showed a state of degeneration, and the atrophy of the liver, gall bladder, and spleen was the most obvious in the main organs, and when it was close to 3700 BC, the tonsils of the tribe basically completely atrophied, and then in the middle of the 32nd century BC, the body hair of the tribe basically disappeared, and at the same time there were sweat glands and sebaceous glands. In addition, the average life expectancy of the tribesmen has increased dramatically as a result of the increased individual capabilities, which has led to a significant decrease in their willingness to have children - no need to have as many children as they used to do in order to increase the tribe's level of pre-combat. By 3551 BCE, the average annual natural growth rate of the entire area of "Shin'ne-Nu" had dropped to 0.06%, by 2700 BC the growth rate of the tribes had been negative at -0.023%, and by 2401 BC when Hadu had collected all the settlement data and information, the growth rate had continued to decline to -0.05%.

What also needs to be paid attention to is the phenomenon of "the prevalence of deviantism" caused by super constitutions. Due to the ability to go without food for long periods of time (the longest record was 1 year, and the record holder was not Hado), the difficulty of hunting was extremely low (he was already a good hunter, and he was not afraid of the bite of fierce beasts), and Hado's role model (he had nothing to do) - he was originally in a desert camp and "Fare" In the camp, these tribesmen can still stay in the tribe with relative restraint, but after Hadu's encouragement to go out to explore and settle, it is like a wild horse that has escaped and never returned: at first, they only ran to all kinds of natural dangers to build nests, such as cliff tops, small islands in the middle of the river, deep wells and mines, and later hundreds or thousands of people went out alone, so that the originally crowded several river valley areas faced the crisis of uncultivated in 2600 BC. The helpless leaders had to split up to find these disobedient clansmen to come back to farm, if the descendants of these clansmen can still have obedient people to come back to work, then those leaders who disappeared as soon as they went out were really speechless.

Again, culture.

Even after a long period of time, the tribal culture of the "Shin'ne-Nu" is still extremely primitive, and after being plundered of primitive worship, the image description of the past can only be limited to the legends of the primordial gods, most of which have been very vague, especially the netherworld god "U-Cja'ar" and the moon god "Yin-ni" - on the contrary, due to Hado's introduction of small cats from the blue sea area, about the creator god "Ben-Mao'ol" The legend of "De-Dju", the god of joy, is still fairly clearly recited among the tribes, but more as a cultural tradition than a belief.

Another manifestation of the backwardness of the cultural system is the written word: after Hadu completely popularized the second generation of simplified characters, the system of symbols came to an impasse. After all, the number of words in the runes has not changed much over the past few thousand years, so that the pronunciation of the runes is still implemented using the same set of standards more than 6,000 years ago. However, in fact, due to the large differences in living environment, climatic conditions, and animal and plant species among the settlements, the original symbols are no longer applicable, or can not keep up with the needs of the times. And in the development of thousands of years, the function and role of the original Shenyin rune characters have been declining, resulting in the pronunciation of the original long sound (basic sound + Shenyin rune words) is redundant. For example, in the tribal name "Shin'ne-Nu", later generations have not been able to explain the difference between "Shin" and "Shin'ne" - it must also be noted that the pronunciation of the end of the word is actually a nasal "n" with an "e", which is a sound produced by the vibration of the vocal cords after the tongue is spread out against the teeth on both sides of the upper jaw, and it is very difficult to pronounce this sound clearly. Equally difficult to pronounce are "Far're" in "Fa Lie", which is pronounced with the tongue curled backwards (as if the tongue is being pulled), "Ye-Qum'me" in "Yijun", which is pronounced with the tongue against the lower incisors, and "Sar'ro", an onomatopoeia for throwing spears, which is pronounced after the sides of the tongue are curled in the middle. These boring and tooth-sore pronunciations make the younger generations extremely disgusted to try to read the names of the new leaders, and they also potentially solidify the contradictions between ordinary people and the new leaders. If the overall meaning of the sentence can not be affected, the clansmen would rather not read the Shenyin runes, which shows that the reform of the rune system has reached the imperative level.

The second is economic development.

When the traditional proportional food of livestock was used as a general equivalent in the grasslands, the primitive economic fire on the grasslands had already appeared, but because Hadu used his predatory power to dominate the grasslands and establish a large tribal management system, this newly ignited economic fire was extinguished.

In the next few thousand years, there was no need to use the general equivalent, and even when the "Nil-lo" was first exchanged, it was the use of barter, a more ancient form of trade, such as the exchange of breeding pigs for silk, the exchange of bronze tools (Hado forbids the flow of iron tools) for the removal of bitter salt (the basic purification of table salt, which removes the bitterness of sulfate and nitrate), Concentrated lemon root juice was exchanged for snail violet dye (a dye made from mucus secreted by the subbranchial glands of the snail snail, which was thought to have been used by the Phoenicians in the 16th century BC) due to the dating of ancient Egypt. Basically, all the rare goods of the two clans were negotiated by Hadu and the contemporary patriarch Brastid Egger, and the specific amount of reciprocity and the method of exchange were also determined. In this case, the emergence of general equivalents is even more groundless, and the concept of portable money has not been developed at all by "Shin'ne-Nu".

This led to the later period of the Uruk culture of the two river basins, mainly the Sumerians, when the nomads tried to trade with the "Shin'ne-Nu", and when paying for goods, the hunters of the "Shin'ne-Nu" refused to accept the "stones that looked golden but could not be eaten or used" to trade, and the Sumerians considered it insulted - this was a gold coin specially given by the great god king, and it was actually looked down upon by these backward primitive peoples. This led to a fierce conflict between the two clans, which ended with the hunters driving the trade team away.

Due to the lack of general equivalents, "Shin'ne-Nu" was completely unable to trade with other civilizations, nor could they obtain the unique properties of other civilizations, so in the end, Hadu had to infiltrate the other party's camp to "borrow", of course, this also caused Hadu to plunder more technologies, and one of the technologies seemed to be very dazzling - that is, coinage, of course, Hadu also thought that the minted gold coins had no use. But Hado also noticed something special about these glittering "stones": stability. Unlike other metals, which are exposed to the air and easily react with oxygen and water vapor to rust, gold retains its luster and suppleness for a long time, and has good ductility, making it a very good material for decorative items. As a result, gold, which occupies an important equivalent in other civilizations, was not accepted by the people here in the "Shin'ne-Nu", and all the gold was handed over to Hado: it was used as a wall decoration in the cave of "Fare".

In 3022 BC, Hadu went to the Valley of the Kings to loot gold, and in 2953 BC, when the high priest Akun Mo made another friendship agreement, the other party promised to give "Shin'ne-Nu" a friendly gift of one-fifth of the gold produced in the Luxor region, but Hadu refused - what a joke, it is not easy for him to ask for gold, just go and grab it. Anyway, Hado doesn't have to worry about the weight of the gold: not just because of his strength, but the point is that he can take away the weight of the gold, defining "the gold is as light as a feather when Hado carries it".

Again, there is the issue of the ratio of men to women.

For a long time, the steppe tribes were matrilineal, and the status of the Uma (mother) in the tribe was higher than that of the Uta (father), mainly due to the fertility cult of the primitive society. After Hadu unified the grasslands, the steppe tribes experienced a period of farming, when the tribe needed more men to do agricultural work (with higher muscle strength), so that the resources in the tribe were skewed towards men, and the mortality rate of male infants after childbirth was lower than that of female infants, resulting in a natural growth rate of about 50 years for females was 1% lower than that of males, making the number of males in the tribe higher than that of females.

During the desert dwelling period, the proportion of rice cultivation declined, animal husbandry flourished, and the need for more flexible limbs and a quiet personality when feeding domesticated wild animals greatly increased the color of female workers in the tribe, and the demand for the number of female specialized practitioners in the tribe increased greatly during this period, which also made the number of men and women in the tribe more balanced.

Later, various natural and man-made disasters, mainly geological disasters and wars, consumed the majority of the marriageable young men in the tribe, and the male-to-female ratio changed drastically from 100:106 to 100:237.6, and because the tribe has always adapted to monogamy for men and women, this made it impossible for many women to find a spouse (in this case, there was no polygamy or concubinage). The situation began to ease only when Hadu was almost done with the formation of a new leader, and the ratio of men to women dropped to 101:142.9.

When it came time for the tribes to return, after all, the tribe needed to carry out all kinds of infrastructure construction work on a large scale, so the tribe's resources were again tilted in favor of male babies, and the ratio of tribes to men finally hovered between 101:102.3 and 100:99.4 around 7700 BC.

After 5200 BCE, tribes began to gradually absorb and annex other human tribes, and the best way to conquer by force was through intermarriage. The extensive and scattered primitive tribes of West and South-East Africa mostly lacked females for further reproduction (males were the main force), and the "Shin'ne-Nu" The best way to annex them was to send a bride, which also increased the demand for female babies in the tribes, which peaked in 4100 BCE, and if you don't count the unconquered PaleoIndians (the native people of the tundra of Canada) and the pre-Aztecs (the ancestors of the modern Aztec people), there was a serious female overpopulation in the tribes, at one point reaching 100 men to 476.6. This situation did not alleviate until 3300 BC (mass "disappearances" of the tribesmen), but remained at a high ratio of 100:310.1 in the main population areas (major river valleys and major pastoral areas).

Hadu has never reconciled the ratio of men and women in the tribe, not only because people in this era do not have the awareness of the census, but more because the way of marriage in this era is either to show off muscles or show craftsmanship, and no one has ever considered the needs of gender equalization of the population, nor has he calmed down to consider the disadvantages and troubles that will be brought about by the unequal number of genders.

The next is the technical process.

Even after thousands of years of development, the technical process of "Shin'ne-Nu" has stopped thousands of years ago when the artisan system was first reorganized by Hado. Although the processing accuracy and processing density have increased, the imagination of the utensils and the ability to improve the process are extremely weak, and the exploration of new materials has almost stagnated.

Over the past 6,000 years, weapons have been basically shaped into long weapons, mainly long blades and spears, medium weapons, led by spears and axes, short weapons, with short spikes and hand axes first, and micro weapons, with throwing blades, flying blades, and pull back axes. In addition, there are few other weapon forms in the tribe, and even if they have received the chain mallets and siege towers presented by "Nil-lo", the craftsmen of the tribe have not attempted to imitate or reverse research work.

Not only that, except for armor and clothing made of animal skin, bones, horns, scales, and metal discs, there are no other related objects made of other materials in the tribe. Hado had considered inlaying the black hard mineral from the "Fa Lie" cave into his outer armor to increase his protective ability, but because he didn't have an opponent of the same strength in the first place, and his own skin toughness was almost equal to that of this material, there was no need to inlay this material, so the matter was finally over.

Turning our attention to the utensils of life, it can be found that, except for the slight development of sandbottle utensils, the tribe did not consider the development of any metal utensils, so there were no copper or iron water pipes, and even the more common waterwheels of the same period did not appear. This is mainly due to the fact that most of the tribal settlements are located close to water sources, and after 3,000 BC, the population of the settlements has declined so much that there is no need for such intensive and frequent domestic water supply. As a result, there were no remote water extraction facilities in the tribe, and even stone aqueducts could not be invented.

And after Hadu collected so much data and information, the first thing he felt was not decline, but boredom.

He was wondering how he could make the tribe more interesting.