I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 598 The Athenian Empire Assimilated the Mayans

The outcome of the battle between Metis and the Feathered Serpent God Ieqtel is naturally beyond doubt.

The Mayans who worshiped the Feathered Serpent God Iekotel are still a tribal civilization stuck in the Neolithic Age.

Even if Metis can't show her full strength in the New World, her strength is still enough to reduce the dimensionality of the Feathered Serpent God Ekotel.

Before the battle between Metis and Ekotel was decided, Roy commanded the Athens soldiers who landed and began to occupy Haiti Island.

The Mayans had never seen bronze ware, let alone iron ware. Seeing Athenian soldiers wearing iron armor and holding iron weapons, the Mayans directly regarded the Athenian soldiers as soldiers of the gods, and they had no resistance in front of the Athenian soldiers.

Even if the Mayans saw that the Athenian soldiers were human beings like them, they had no intention of resisting.

Because the Mayans knew instinctively that the Athenian soldiers had a strength they could never fight against.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance--

Roy agrees with this statement very much.

So Roy did not subdue the Mayans by force, forcing the Mayans to work as slaves.

Thousands of Athenians came to land and began to use various iron tools to reclaim wasteland, cut down trees, build houses, and dig wells.

These strange and novel tools with huge functions soon attracted the attention of the Mayans.

Seeing that the Athenian soldiers could easily saw off the big tree with a chainsaw and dig a two-meter deep pit with a shovel, the Mayan tribal leader knelt down in front of Roy and Philomela excitedly, praying for Roy and Philomela Ra gave them these artifacts.

That's right!

These Mayans really regarded iron tools as artifacts.

After all, compared with the stone tools they used, the functions of iron tools are really incredible.

"There is nothing free in the world."

Looking at the Mayan leader full of fanaticism in his eyes, Roy said with a smile.

"Even the gods will not let you get something for nothing. I can let you master these advanced technologies and tools, but you have to pay the price."

"What sacrifice do you want?"

The Mayan leader said without hesitation.

"I can offer my daughter or my wife, or even myself, to the great god."

"I have no interest in your daughter or wife!"

Roy shook his head and said.

"The price you need to pay is not sacrifices, but your labor. As long as you accept the work arranged by the Athens Empire, you can get everything you want."

Exchange labor for artifacts——

For the Mayans, this is no different from giving away for free.

In order to obtain the artifact - iron, the Mayans happily joined the construction of the Athenian Empire in Haiti.

Seeing the harmonious relationship between the Mayans and the Athenians, Roy is confident that the Athenian Empire will assimilate the Mayans.

When night falls.

Athenian soldiers also prepared a sumptuous meal for the Mayans.

Tasting the delicious food containing spices, sugar, salt and other seasonings, the Mayans, men, women and children all cried.

It was the first time they tasted such delicious food.

And this is just an ordinary dinner for the Athenians.

the next day.

To supplement the excess food consumed, Roy bought some corn and sweet potatoes from the Mayans with salt, sugar and spices.

While corn and sweet potatoes were high-yielding crops, the Mayan tribe near the port was a small tribe of thousands.

Such a small tribe can provide only a drop in the bucket for the Athenian army.

Moreover, the hard currency such as salt, sugar, and spices of the Athens army is not unlimited.

In order to allow the Athenian army to have unlimited salt to trade with the Mayans, Roy sent a thousand Athenian soldiers to the island of Cuba and asked them to use the coast of Cuba to make sea salt.

A blink of an eye.

The time comes to 1596 BC.

April.

The Athenian army built a town named Haiti City by Roy in the northern port of Haiti Island.

Because the number of houses in Haiti City is enough to accommodate 2 people, not only the Athenian soldiers, but also the nearby Mayans entered Haiti City and became residents of Haiti City in the Athenian Empire.

The first Mayans to be assimilated by the Athenian Empire numbered about 5000.

About 3000 Mayans were assimilated in several salt fields in Cuba.

It was a natural consequence that the Mayans were assimilated by the Athenians, who had mastered advanced civilization and technology.

The most important thing is that Roy was very generous to the Mayans, not only bringing them a better life, but also giving the Mayans an unimaginable reward for their labor.

without any exaggeration--

Roy's kindness to ordinary Mayans was ten times better than that of Mayans' own leaders.

April is planting time for corn and sweet potatoes.

In order to open up wasteland and farm, Roy built dozens of workshops for smelting iron farm tools on Haiti Island and Cuba Island.

When Roy lent iron farming tools to the Mayans for free so that they could reclaim more farmland and harvest more food, almost all the Mayans in Haiti were assimilated by the Athenian Empire, and half of the Mayans in Cuba were also assimilated by the Athenian Empire .

In another world history, before the arrival of the Spanish, the island of Cuba was inhabited by the Taino, Siboné and Guanaja da Baiy peoples.

Their ancestors wandered from the American continent.

The Taino mastered pottery and farming.

The Guanajada Bayi were more backward, cave-dwelling hunter-gatherers.

In a similar situation on Haiti, the natives hunted birds, fish, rodents, and cultivated the land.

They plowed with stone axes and plowed with wooden shovels.

The main crops are cassava and sweet potato.

This is the situation that people from the Old World came here around 1500 AD.

Now 3000 years ago - 1596 BC, the technology of the Maya civilization will only be worse than 3000 years later.

As the Athenian Empire assimilated the Mayans, of course there was bloodshed.

After all, the tribal leaders or nobles of the Mayans were definitely unwilling to give up their power and wealth to become commoners.

The Athenian Empire will strike mercilessly against unenlightened leaders and nobles.

Those leaders and nobles who have awakened in the face of the force of the Athenian Empire and voluntarily gave up their power and wealth can also get some compensation.

May.

The construction and cultivation of the Athenian Empire on the islands of Haiti and Cuba have been completed, and thousands of Mayan men have become the labor force of the Athenian Empire. The time for the Athenian Empire to expand its territory in the New World is ripe.

Roy's gaze naturally looked towards the Yucatan Peninsula.

The Yucatan Peninsula faces the Caribbean Sea in the east, the Gulf of Mexico and the Bay of Campeche in the west, and faces Cuba across the Yucatan Strait in the northeast, covering an area of ​​about 20 square kilometers.

Agriculture is the main source of income here, and the crops include corn and sugarcane. It is one of the birthplaces of ancient Mayan culture.

Roy regards the Mayans as the primary target of conquest, and is not interested in Mayan civilization. He just thinks that the Mayans are a group that worships the goddess of the earth, and it is easier for the Athenian Empire to assimilate the Mayans.

If the Athenian Empire had made the Olmecs who worshiped Tezcatlipoca or the Aztecs who worshiped Vezilopochtli their primary target, it would have been far more difficult to conquer than the Mayans.

After all, Roy's first request to the Olmecs and Aztecs was to get them to abandon the gods they had always worshiped.

(End of this chapter)