Aztec Eternals

In the blink of an eye, it was mid-October, and the siege of Ottopan had lasted for a month.

The long rainy season finally showed signs of leaving, and the long-lost sunny sunshine ushered in the sky.

During this period, Shulot and Avitt sorted out nearly a thousand commonly used Chinese characters and drew the corresponding pictograms. At the same time, Shulot also taught these words to the warriors who followed him.

Starting from the things in life, these words are connected with each other in radicals, explain each other's meaning, and then gradually lead to basic abstract concepts. For example, the official government office "temple" built with "inch" and "soil", and then the concept of time "time" derived from studying the sun "day" in the "temple".

Later, Xiulot had an idea, and he pulled the craftsmen to work together to make the sundial, the simplest and clearest timing device. Then he proudly showed Avitt.

Avit just told him with a smile that the Mayan ancestors had invented this kind of toy two thousand years ago. It's just because Shulot has not experienced long-term and formal priestly education, so he still knows little about astronomy.

"According to the calendar we learned from the Mayans, a year has 20 months, and a month has 18 days. At the end of each year, there are five unlucky days, and an extra day is added every four years."

Three hundred and sixty-five and a quarter days a year. Xiulot thought, I know this too.

What happened next was what Shulot didn't know.

"The world was created by the gods, and the gods come from the night sky where the seven stars gather, far away." Avit sang a sacrificial song as he spoke.

"Twenty years is a card year, and a twenty card year is a berk year. After sixty-four and one-half berk years, it is the end of the cycle of all things, and the sun god returns to the origin of the seven stars."

An epoch is 25800 years? Xiulot calculated silently. Gathering of seven stars? Is it the Big Dipper? No, the Mayans should observe the Pleiades star cluster. The sun god returned to the seven stars? It takes about 25,800 years for the sun to revolve around the Pleiades star cluster!

Xiulot couldn't help but put his hand on his forehead. A civilization as advanced as the calendar has no writing. This is a technological tree.

"The sun is born and the sun dies. There are five epochs in one reincarnation. In the first epoch, the protagonist is a giant, who eats acorns, and is the era of the four jaguars. The second epoch is the era of man, who eats pine nuts, and is the era of the four winds. The third epoch is People eat lotus seeds, which is the era of the four rains. The fourth era is the era when people eat water cattails, which is the era of the four waters."

It's all what and what. Shulot rubbed his forehead, listening to astronomy and mythology.

"The fifth era is now, the protagonist is still human, eating corn, and the era of the four movements. At the end of the era, all things return to ruins, the world is destroyed in earthquakes, creatures die in floods, and the sun god returns to the kingdom of God , that is the end of the world." Avit sang solemnly and mysteriously.

"The end of the world?" Shulot felt inexplicably familiar with the word, "The end of the world for the Mayans? 2012!"

Xiulot jumped up excitedly, and grabbed Avette who was immersed in the myth and prophecy: "How many years are we left before the end of the world?"

"Let me do the math. Don't worry, the end of the world is still early." Avit smiled, slightly surprised by Shulot's reaction. "It's one Birke year and six card years and eleven years from the end of the world."

Four hundred plus one hundred and twelve plus eleven, five hundred and thirty-one? This year is AD 1481!

Shulot was so moved that he burst into tears. He finally knew the current year, and his memory of history (European Universal) could finally be connected with this era.

In 1481 AD, there were eleven years before Columbus discovered America, and thirty-eight years before the Spanish invaded Mexico.

In this era, the center of the world is still in the Far East and the Near East, where there are the densest population, the most majestic city, the most prosperous market, and the most powerful empire!

In the Far East, the Ming Dynasty is at its peak, and it is still in the prosperous age of Chenghua New Wind. It breaks Mobei Mongolia in the north, conquers Jianzhou Jurchen in the east, and coerces East Asia. It is the undoubted protagonist of this world; the Kingdom of Korea is in a fierce internal struggle. , the four major disasters opened up a wave of factional disputes; Japan has just experienced the Onin Rebellion, the Warring States Period has begun, and troubled times have arrived;

In Southeast Asia, the Ayutthaya Kingdom was in the prosperous era ruled by the White Elephant King, and a series of reforms began; in the Java Islands, the Hindu Majapahit Empire began to decline, and the Tanmu Sultanate of the Xingyue Sect began to rise.

In Central Asia, the empire created by the lame Timur has fallen apart, and Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, is about to emerge to conquer the chaotic Delhi Dynasty in North India; The second Hindu empire, Vijayanagar, is at the end of the first dynasty, and civil strife is approaching, losing the last chance to unify South India.

In the Near East, the protagonist of another world, the glorious Ottoman Empire is about to usher in its heyday. This year, Sultan Mehmed II, the conqueror of Eastern Rome, had just passed away. He had already conquered half of the Balkan Peninsula, controlled the Crimean Khanate, and invaded northern Iraq.

In the next hundred years, the expansion of the stars and the moon will never stop. The Ottoman Empire will continue to conquer Iraq, Syria, the holy city of Palestine, Mamluk Egypt, and the entire Red Sea coast until it completely controls the trade between the East and the West, forcing Europe to open new sea routes exploration and development.

The wave of Ottoman conquests moved forward repeatedly, conquering Romania, Wallachia, and even the entire Balkans. Then conquered Hungary, invaded Austria, and besieged Vienna, bringing long-term fear that the Europeans could not suppress.

On the grasslands of Eastern Europe, at this time, the Principality of Moscow had just become independent from the vassals of the Golden Horde, and the Slavic nation finally ushered in the dawn of a new life. After integrating the culture and blood of the Tatars, the expansion of the Slavs to the east will last for half a thousand years, passing through the boundless sea of ​​grass in Central Asia, crossing the boundless Siberia, and reaching the cold sea of ​​Japan.

In Central Europe, the Kingdom of Poland was in the "golden age" of the Jagiello dynasty. The prosperity of the aristocratic manors was accompanied by the development of the aristocratic parliament, which has maintained a loose and strong kingdom since then; in the Holy Roman Empire, the great Maximilian I He was about to become emperor, and he was planning a difficult and long-term imperial reform, and he also used carefully arranged political marriages to open up a broad future for the Habsburg dynasty.

In Western Europe, the Spanish Empire was born from the merger of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, with Fernando II, a devout Catholic, becoming the first king. Eight hundred years of Reconquista were drawing to a close, and the Moors had been driven back to North Africa. The eyes of the Spaniards, together with Columbus, will come to America, which is primitive, rich and full of future, with infinite greed for gold.

Even though Prince Enrique has passed away, the Portuguese exploration is still moving forward. They are about to discover the Congo, cross the Cape of Good Hope, colonize South Africa, establish a commercial station in East Africa, and then meet the Ottomans again in the Red Sea, and finally reach the rich and scattered India, established a colonial empire with a population of only two million.

At this time, under the lifelong efforts of the prudent Louis XI, the Kingdom of France finally annexed the Duchy of Burgundy, completing the hard-won unity. The Spider-King is dying, leaving to the French the rudiments of an absolute monarchy.

For the English who are far away from the mainland, the 30-year War of the Roses has not yet ended, and the unification of England seems to be still far away. There is also Wales, Ireland and Scotland on this small island, and no one expected that there would be a future empire here.

In West Africa, after capturing Timbuktu in Mali, the Songhai people finally established an empire in Black Africa along the Niger River, and then met Portuguese explorers for the first time on the coast of West Africa.

In East Africa, the Ethiopians are still under the rule of the Solomon Dynasty, and the long rule will last for five hundred years, maintaining the only cross in the sea of ​​stars and moons.

"This year is AD 1481, an era in which nothing has yet happened, an era full of possibilities!" thought Schlott, "at this time the center of the world is in the east. Europeans have not yet acquired the wealth and land of America, and It has not opened the way to the Americas, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and even China. They have not yet become stronger!"

"I still have thirty years to unify Central America and welcome the colonists from afar." Shulot finally let go of the fear of the unknown, and the flames of conquest burned into flames. "Since I am here, I am destined to change everything!"

"Sholot?" Avette looked at Shulot who had been standing for a long time with some doubts.

The boy finally returned to reality after a long thought, and then let out a happy laugh. He was so excited that he couldn't restrain himself, and hugged his teacher enthusiastically.

Avette's smile froze instantly, and he reached out to touch Shulot's forehead with a look of disgust, um, he didn't have a fever. "You guy, what happened all of a sudden? That's just a myth, and the end of the world won't come."

"Yes, teacher." Shulot put his face on the teacher's chest and murmured indistinctly. "The end of the world is not coming, we are going to change that!"