Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 404: Slavery society
The same applies to the entire Tapstar. Although humans and Tepus are different species, the logic at the bottom is still a creature driven by interests. The behavioral logic of Tepu civilization is not difficult to understand for humans.
Looking at this planet, although some large livestock can be domesticated, their physical fitness is not strong due to the evolution of high gravity.
They can run very fast in a short time, but they are not good at long-term work.
An animal called ‘membrane’ can be regarded as a large creature that is very suitable for domestication, but it can only cultivate 1 acre of land a day, but a human cow can cultivate 3 acres. The two species eat almost the same amount of food, which is the difference brought about by the high gravity environment.
In a high gravity environment, short-term bursts are far more important than endurance. If the ‘membrane’ is allowed to plow the land every day without rest, it will soon fall ill.
It takes years to raise a head of mask from childhood to adulthood, and it is impossible to let it work to death.
Even the Taipu people themselves are also very difficult to adapt to the sunrise, and the manual labor at sunset, often requires a day off after a day of work. As a result, it becomes even more difficult to farm the land honestly.
There is no real farming culture. In ancient times, the Taipu people could only hunt, gather, and nomad. Such food sources were not stable enough, and it was impossible to gather a large number of people, and it was difficult to form a real country.
"Therefore, a large amount of archaeological evidence believes that the Taipu civilization has lingered for at least a million years in the Stone Age."
The conference room sounded another round of discussions, that is to say, if the Enlightenment civilization really patronizes this planet, they will face a civilization that has been in the age of tribes for a long time and cannot give birth to a farming culture. There is no way to make progress because of the objective environment.
"So, what will the enlightener do?" Zhang Yuan asked with interest.
Li Zhendong said: "If it were me, maybe I would modify the genes of the native species and modify the organisms that can be cultivated."
"Your thoughts are not natural. Such creatures are difficult to adapt to the local environment and will quickly become extinct. In this high gravity environment, how can there be a species with explosive power and strong endurance? Such a species has long been the so-called Superman."
Obviously, in the next development, there will be no such genetically modified organisms.
Or perhaps, the enlightener believes that such a wandering is normal, and one day, it will break through that barrier.
"Higher-level civilizations focus on more than just the present. Initiator civilization may not care about the wandering of millions, because wandering does not mean a complete stop."
The pictures on the big screen continue to describe the following history.
Since the population that can be fed per unit area of land is limited, conflicts between tribes and wars over the territory naturally erupt very frequently. Especially after the development of animal husbandry, the fertile grassland has become a battleground for military strategists. Since you are too lazy to cultivate the land, you can be animal husbandry, and animal husbandry is much simpler than cultivated land!
Many civilizations, at the most primitive stage, always have such a common thread. In other words, species that truly admire truth, goodness and beauty have been wiped out in primitive times.
But this kind of competition in ancient times is not meaningless. Tribes that can win must have their advantages, perhaps in terms of system, or in terms of wisdom and force.
In long-term practice, as long as there are no natural and man-made disasters, these tribes that can exist for a long time will always have some experience passed down and made a little progress. Medicine, agriculture, animal husbandry, handicraft...
Progress accumulated by experience, although slow, but effective.
One day, some victors of the Taipu civilization gradually discovered that it was far more cost-effective to demote the captives of the enemy tribe into slaves than to kill them. Slave means a scarce labor force, even if you die, you don't feel distressed, just... it can be used to farm!
So, the most basic slave thought... just formed!
The archaeologists of the Taipu civilization once discovered hieroglyphics 22,000 years ago in an ancient ruin named "North", thus confirming the initial wisdom of the entire civilization.
These hieroglyphs record a tribal victory at that time and also record the slavery system at that time. In order to survive, the defeated prostrate on the ground, willingly become slaves, and slaves for generations, while the tribe's victors are frantically selecting slaves.
In a particular period of time, the formation of classes can indeed promote the development of civilization.
Teppers are indeed not good at long-term physical labor, but for slaves, there is no big problem.
Slaves have no human rights. As long as they can produce more food, what if they are exhausted?
This slave tribe that gave birth to a new system is getting stronger and stronger, constantly expanding its territory to the outside world, conquering one primitive tribe after another, and finally forming a unified great country, creating an unprecedented prosperity...
"North" is also the first real country on the planet!
The expert standing on the podium commented: "...The so-called heyday is based on the labor and life of a large number of slaves. It is impossible to feed all the population by animal husbandry alone. It must rely on real agriculture. , This kind of long-term farming can only be done by slaves and a kind of livestock called'membrane'......"
"Due to the physiological structure of the Taipu people, they are not suitable for endurance labor, so the average life span of slaves is often less than 30 years old. As long as there is a little disease, they can take their lives~IndoMTL.com ~But we cannot deny that this cruel and harsh system has promoted the progress of the entire civilization. Without the dedication of slaves, there would be no current Tap civilization."
one by one slide shows, Zhang Yuan is also shaking...
Indeed, if there is no slavery, no class distinctions, and the Taipu people who are born with physical defects, they can only form small tribes with clans as the unit.
If a real country is not formed and a large population is not gathered, it will be difficult for a civilization to truly progress.
Slavery is definitely credited.
The entire slave age lasted for a long, long time, and then slowly entered the Bronze Age, and even the Black Iron Age. The tools of labor have gradually changed, which has gradually improved the efficiency of arable land. However, slavery has never been abolished, and even up to now, certain small countries in Tapstar still retain this tradition.
"So, is there any credit for the enlightenment of civilization here?"
of course not, because the time is not suitable, the rise of the Taipu people was 22,000 years ago, not 150,000 years ago. Their thoughts are miscalculated. Civilization has its own tenacity. In the whole process, even without external forces, it can still develop slowly.
Moreover, the help of enlightened civilization is usually to change the unfavorable objective environment very obscurely, rather than hand-in-hand to guide a certain low-level civilization to implement a certain social system. Therefore, there is a high probability that the emergence of this kind of slavery society is the natural evolution of the entire civilization.