Rise of Rurik

　　 Until now, Rurik felt that he had memorized all the records on the board, and he had a general context about the migration of the Ross tribe.

　　 But there are still many problems bothering him, such as the precise latitude of Roseburg.

If he knows this data, Lurik, who is a graduate of engineering, can consciously use physical knowledge to accurately measure the location of Roseburg in the Baltic Gulf of Bothnia, and even use a wooden board to describe the migration distance of the former Rus tribe, and infer their former homeland. s position.

　　 At present, Lurik can accurately know every day of the Julian calendar from Veria. For example, today is November 27, and I also know that one day in the future, the sun will not rise for the first time.

　　 Roseburg, there are always one or two days without nights every year, and there are always one or two days without light.

　　Lurik almost instinctively believes that Roseburg is very close to the Arctic Circle. If the exact dimensions are measured, it is still very helpful to the tribe. Because the latitudes of many regions were measured, Rurik felt that he could draw a map of the region.

　　 For any ethnic group that desires development, accurate regional maps can often promote the development of the ethnic group.

Rurik is indeed no ordinary person. He remembers the basic outline of the modern world map in his mind. When drawing a map of Europe, he dare not say whether the details can be reproduced well. He can at least draw the outline relatively accurately, as much as possible Engraving certain details, that is, specific proportions, can only be surveyed through astronomical and geographic re-mapping.

　　 In this era, no one has conducted a detailed map survey of the Baltic Sea.

　　 Any geographic surveying and mapping must be guided by astronomical observations. After all, the sky full of stars is changing at an extremely slow speed that humans can perceive. In the sense of the ancients, the stars are eternal.

　　The unmoving stars are a good reference, and the Romans who inherited Greek scientific knowledge have long recognized that the world in which humans live is a huge ball.

　　The wise men of Eastern Rome inherited the scientific heritage of ancient Greece. They knew how to use tools to measure the angle between the star and the instrument to determine their approximate position. Unfortunately, this kind of knowledge was not widespread.

　　 Western Europe in the ninth century was a real-world area with sparsely populated areas. The poor productivity level made the population less than 15 million.

In the various barbaric countries established on the ruins of Rome, the masses of civilians cannot access advanced knowledge from the outside world at all. In order to survive, they can only be tied to their respective villages, harvesting little grain with extremely rough farming methods, and handing them over After the noble tribute, lived a hungry and full life.

　　Compared with the poor farmers in Western Europe, the life of the Ross tribe is indeed much better, because the gift of the huge Gulf of Bothnia to feed thousands of people is no problem. What's more, there are hundreds of thousands of wild reindeer on land. Of course, their active area is extended to the north by human interference.

　　 A new leader is about to ascend his throne.

　　Lurik boldly asked for a treasure from Villa: "Grandma, I have a big idea. I need your rope ruler for a special measurement."

　　 "Measure? What are you going to do?"

　　 "Hmm..." Originally, Rurik wanted to explain the truth, but now, maybe it's not right. He deliberately said vaguely: "I just want to know whether the tree of the world is real."

　　 "So, do you believe him to be true?" Veria asked casually, and she didn't show any more emotions.

"Maybe that is just an ancient story. Our world is not a flat ground lifted by a big tree. My father told me that our world Midgard is like a bird's nest lifted by a big tree, and we are the bird's nest. Birds in China. If this is true, why do people in the south, especially the Romans, have different interpretations from ours?"

　　 Hearing this, Villa couldn't help but raise interest.

　　 At this age, many things she had determined for now have been confused by herself, especially when she was young when she came into contact with the men in black from Rome. The young Veria obeyed the words of the elderly. She believed in the tree of the world, in the twelve gods of Asgard, and believed that human beings live in cold places.

　　 The Romans claimed to live in a warm place, and claimed that an endless and great existence created all of this, but that existence was not Odin.

　　 Maybe, the great **** Odin has different names in different people?

　　 Until the person in black clearly pointed out that the world is definitely not lifted by a big tree. The world is a huge ball, and the stars in the sky revolve around this ball.

　　Although the young Vilia did not agree with the people in black, she did not selectively forget.

　　 Today, the immature Rurik raised such a question, which naturally awakened her dusty memory.

　　Villa ordered his subordinates to cut a little more bacon, and then sit directly on the animal skin, cross-legged, hoping to hear what special insights the child in front of him has.

　　 "My child, sit down now. I have a question, do you already know the Roman interpretation of the world?"

"I……"

　　Lurik was shocked, and indeed he shouldn’t understand the “Roman’s interpretation”.

　　 He had an idea and deliberately said: "That Roman book! Thanks to Odin for giving me the ability, I understand part of the content. Those Romans claim that our world is a huge ball."

　　 "Wait!" Vilia's squinted eyes suddenly opened wide, and the aging wrinkles seemed to burst because of her emotional excitement.

　　Lurik never expected the priest to be so excited.

　　 "I...I saw such content. I am very curious. Because the book also says that our world is not only a ball, but also a ball that tilts and spins..."

　　Heliocentric theory, this theory can be said to have existed since ancient times, but this theory was too alternative in the Greek classical era.

　　 The geocentric theory still dominates the mainstream, because it conforms to the simplest beliefs of the most people.

　　Perhaps after entering the agricultural civilization, people everywhere need to believe in a great existence, because primitive agriculture depends on the sky for food. If the "great god" gets angry, it will lead to a shortage of food, and the whole family will starve to death.

　　 People are always facing despair of hunger and natural disasters, and at the same time they are always weaving hope for a better future.

　　People always believe in God's love for themselves, and they deliberately create a world for humans to multiply, and God also needs human respect.

　　 This kind of thought is almost inevitable, so with this kind of thought, the land under my feet is the center of everything, so the thought is logical.

　　 Greek philosophers bound the geocentric theory with mythology, and Rome further carried forward this idea. The destroyers of Western Rome and Eastern Rome directly bound the geocentric thinking with the legitimacy of their rule.

　　 But as early as the Greek classical period, some Peloponnese scholars believed that the sun was the center of everything.

　　 The two theories are actually the conclusions made by ancient scholars based on their own observations of astronomy and geography, and they disagree due to different observation angles. They attacked each other, the heliocentric advocates of the city-state era failed completely, and Aristotle and Ptolemy won.

Of course, both theories are wrong, because the concept of "world" eventually becomes a huge scale that humans cannot understand in light years. There is no definite center in the universe, and even the earth itself is like sand on the beach, extremely Small.

　　 But this is unimaginable in the ninth century, even ordinary Viking farmers and fishermen.

　　 After all, the two ancient doctrines have many overlapping parts. In the areas ruled and still ruled by Rome, those who have known the ancient classics at least believe that the world is a big ball.

　　Villa felt a strong touch in his heart. In the past thirty years, he found the second person who claimed that "the world is a ball". Moreover, isn't the appearance of this person a miracle?

Veria tried to suppress the excitement in his heart, and said: "A long time ago, the Romans I met said the same. They gave me some examples to try to prove what they said, but unfortunately I didn't understand it. It’s been too long, what the world is like, maybe when I die and become a Valkyrie, I can really see it in the sky, haha."

　　Villa said here, there was a lot of ridicule in his words, and he regretted that he could not understand the true meaning of the world alive.

Rurik took advantage of the relay: "Haha, then you will see that the world is a ball at high altitude. Maybe the stories I heard are only part of the truth. Perhaps one of our ancestors a long time ago, he already knew everything, But worrying that ordinary people like us will not be able to understand, I will explain it with a set of rhetoric that we can understand. After countless generations of word of mouth, the story has gradually divorced from reality."

　　 Although the child is young, he speaks logically, maybe he can never treat him as a child.

　　Villa was also inspired by these words, and she had to doubt a lot.

　　 The priests will deliberately fabricate some stories to stabilize people's hearts, but also to maintain their own interests, so that the clansmen will continue to worship their priests. So in the fabricated myth, how many private goods have been added by the priests of the past? No priest will publicly declare that he is making up a lie.

　　Villa will not cause the worldview to collapse because of one or two sentences, she is a little skeptical at best.

　　 "Well, maybe our world is a big ball lifted by the tree of the world. Because we have never seen the whole picture of the tree of the world."

"It may also be held by something we can't see." Rurik had an idea and said with a deliberate smile, "For example, air? After all, without the nourishment of air, all living things will die. People must Breathe. Maybe the ancestors just wanted to describe a tree of the world to show that our world is nourished by something, like a big tree."

　　 "Subtle explanation!"

　　 Facing each other, Rurik could clearly feel Villa’s excitement, as if his nonsense was trying to outline a new worldview system.

That being the case, Rurik let go of the courage: "Asgard should be in the sky, they must be one of the stars. They have been watching us, and every winter will send the Valkyrie to inspect us. They may still I will go to see the Romans, and send messengers named Angel into the crowd to guide the outstanding ones to build merits."

　　 There is no child who can say such complicated things. Now, Veria, who is sitting cross-legged, is seventy out of three. She is a child today.

　　Rurik’s remarks are trying to describe that the Viking-style Nordic beliefs of the Rus tribe are not much different from the Romans in principle.

　　 After all, if the integration of the Ross tribe into the Slavic world is historically inevitable, then it is also inevitable to have a cross to obtain a double-headed eagle.

　　 In order to meet this inevitability, reinterpreting the World Tree~www.readwn.com~ may be the most correct choice.

　　 However, everything needs to prove that the earth is a ball.

　　 For this, Rurik needs at least a rope ruler. The next step is to use the most primitive level to select the test site, and then it is as simple as the vertical pole photometry.

　　 Through a large number of measurements, the shadow length of the day at noon on the winter solstice was calculated. Of course, on the winter solstice, Roseburg has fallen into the extreme night.

　　 After many days of measurement, we finally figured out the possible studios for the winter solstice. This kind of operation finally calculates a basically correct sun angle, and can basically calculate the precise latitude of Roseburg.

In fact, as long as the latitude can be calculated, the explanation of “the tree of the world is holding the land of mankind” may be shaken. The final result is that it is almost the same as hunting, fishing, smelting, fighting, and boating. The ignorant residents of the Ross tribe know that the world is a ball.

　　Because the so-called prosperity of the Ross tribe can never be a "great leader", prosperity requires the joint efforts of all the units that make up the society.

　　Liulik, or Liu Li, what he thinks of prosperity should be. In layman's terms, when ignorant people become wise and knowledgeable, they begin to actively think about the meaning of their existence, which means that they no longer think about the meaning of their existence. There is a total outbreak.

　　In ancient society, even a small number of technological explosions will bring a huge leap to this ethnic group.

　　 And what can bring the longest leap is often the most basic thing. For example, let the Vikings in the ninth century generally believe that the world is first of all a ball.

　　 They believed this and might dare to think about the feasibility of circumnavigating the world.

　　, after all, the great geographical discovery is only 600 years later.