Chapter 103: Cognitive Changes
Two crotch armor, also known as crotch, is a more popular armor during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
It has two kinds of nails. One is elongated and the other is scaly.
It is more common to use small scale carapaces on the thorax and dorsal part to facilitate pitching and movement.
The armor on the warrior figurine in front of him was exactly this shape.
However, the helmet worn on the head of the warrior figurine is not of the Oriental type, but of the Roman type.
Although the armor of the Romans was poor, their helmets were quite good in terms of shape and protection.
The helmet on the head of the warrior figurine in front of you is Romanesque.
The Romanesque helmet is significantly different from the Corinthian, Calcidi, and Boio helmets that were a little earlier than it.
The design of the Romanesque helmet fully considers the characteristics of the human head structure, and perfectly preserves the soldier's sense of sight and hearing.
Don't underestimate this, it can greatly improve the soldier's perception of the overall situation on the battlefield.
Moreover, the preservation of hearing naturally improves the efficiency of command and management.
Soldiers are able to hear orders from their superiors more quickly on the chaotic battlefield.
In addition to these, the Romanesque helmet not only protects the skull, but also has a specially designed eyebrow protector.
It's an inconspicuous thing, but it greatly reduces the chance of the sword hitting the bridge of the nose when slashing.
The cheek tabs on both sides of the helmet are also of excellent design, and the large and movable cheek tabs also provide quite good protection for the face.
The Romanesque helmet was also designed with the possibility of enemy attacks from behind, so it was not bad at protecting the back of the head.
The back plate of the Roman helmet provides near-perfect protection for the back of the head, in addition to avoiding the enemy's sword slash from the rear, when facing an enemy from the front, the soldier can also use the protruding back plate to form an angle after turning his head, reducing the chance of the weapon cutting into or piercing the back of his collarbone.
Judging from the statue of the warrior in front of him, the Teotihuacans not only have a connection with Zhuxia, but they should also have a connection with the Old World.
Lu Yuan is not surprised by this aspect, because the Atlantic Ocean is much narrower than the Pacific Ocean.
And the Atlantic Ocean is also much smaller than the Pacific Ocean.
Since the people of Teotihuacan were able to reach the farther Zhuxia, it was naturally normal for them to reach Rome, which was even closer!
The statue of a samurai in front of me is enough to overturn the previous historiography's understanding of the history of the exchange of the entire world.
Since the 18th century, the mainstream historiography has believed that the exchange between the Old and New Worlds throughout the world began with the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus.
When Lu Yuan was in school, he received the same kind of history education.
In the past, Lu Yuan had always wondered why historians in the 15th/16th centuries, who had just discovered the New World, no one thought that the exchange between the Old and New Worlds began with Columbus, but it was only three hundred years later that historians proposed that the exchange between the Old and New Worlds began with Columbus.
In particular, during a trip, Lu Yuan once saw a 10th-century map in a museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The map is said to have been left behind by the Vikings.
This map clearly shows Greenland and the northeastern part of the continent.
At that time, Lu Yuan was very puzzled by this.
After returning to China, Lu Yuan, who was indifferent, directly raised this question to his professor.
The professor simply told him that the authenticity of the map still needed to be studied.
It was also from this incident that Lu Yuan obviously felt that he was alienated by the professor.
It was precisely because of this that Lu Yuan gave up his favorite history and changed careers to other jobs after graduation.
After work, Lu Yuan, because his income has always been good, he has more rest time, which also gives him more opportunities to contact the outside world.
With the help of some friends, he came across a few more maps from before the Middle Ages.
In these maps, the continent of Rice Island is also depicted.
However, in mainstream historical circles, it has been advertised that these maps are forgeries.
Although Lu Yuan was skeptical about this, he was not sure whether there was communication between the old and new continents in ancient times.
Today, however, he was finally able to put aside this suspicion, as it turned out that exchanges existed between the Old and New Worlds before the Middle Ages.
In Lu Yuan's view, the reason why there will be a misunderstanding of Columbus's discovery of the New World in later generations.
Just like in the modern history of Zhuxia, it is said that Wei Yuan was the first person to open his eyes to the world.
In fact, as early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had already drawn a map of the world.
By the late Ming Dynasty, someone in Zhuxia had already made a globe.
These things are not just written in books, but there is tangible physical evidence handed down.
It can only be said that the Zhuxia people's understanding of the world has seriously regressed because of the 200-year blockade of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Many of the materials that were originally handed down were also lost due to the destruction of the ban for a long time.
Lu Yuan felt that the same was true of the Columbus incident, and there should be no doubt that there was a lot of communication between the Old and New World before the Middle Ages.
After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the Old World, which was ruled by Christianity, fell into a situation similar to that of the Zhuxia during the reign of the Manchu Qing dynasty.
There has been a serious regression in both culture and in the perception of the world.
After nearly a thousand years of blockade, most of the people of the Old Continent have forgotten the existence of the Rice Continent. That's why it's thought that Columbus discovered the New World.
At this time, Lu Yuan suddenly thought of a rumor, when Lu Yuan was traveling in the Old Continent, he had heard that when Magellan sailed around the world, he actually held a sea chart handed down from the ancient Roman period in his hand.
Magellan actually just sailed as shown on the charts.
Now it seems that this statement is also likely to be true.
And Lu Yuan suspected that the legendary sea chart was probably drawn by the Teotihuacans.
Judging from the fact that the Teotihuacans were able to reach Zhuxia and the Old World, their seafaring skills at that time should have been the highest in the world.
If they were able to travel back and forth with Zhuxia and Ancient Rome many times, then there must have been a sea chart.
"So somewhere in this ancient city, are there any charts left by the Teotihuacans?"
The more Lu Yuan thought about it, the more excited he became, he rested for a while, and then checked the third statue.
The armor worn by this statue is different.
Lu Yuan judged from the two very conspicuous heart guards on the armor that this armor should be carved based on the Mingguang armor of the Sui and Tang dynasties.
I believe that anyone who has seen the picture of Mingguang Jia will be deeply impressed by Mingguang Jia.
The two heart glasses on its chest are so distinctive that everyone who sees it can't help but think of modern feminine products.
As the best armor in the world from the 6th to 8th centuries, it is not uncommon for it to be collected and imitated by the Teotihuacans.