Ancestral Legacy
Time flies, thousands of years, ten thousand years, one hundred thousand years have passed.
The Green Star civilization has long since left this starry sky and gone to cause trouble elsewhere. At this stage, humans walked out of the African savannah and gradually entered the Paleolithic Age.
As a result, another intelligent civilization was born on Planet Karina.
Intelligent creatures and hemispheric civilization were born in the second era!
When Zhang Yuan saw this line of text, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
It is not unusual for a planet suitable for the evolution of life to develop two different intelligent creatures. Just like the small earth, Homo sapiens, that is, human beings, is a relatively clear intelligent species.
But humans are not the only intelligent species.
Just like Thai macaques, West African chimpanzees, Brazilian black-banded capuchins and white-faced capuchins, these species may also have transitioned to the Paleolithic Age. In the distant future, if there is no human intervention, they will have certain Probability of evolving into intelligent species.
This is no joke.
These clever monkeys use rocks as tools to crack nuts, dig dirt, and hold food. That is to say, they have certain learning ability.
Using stone tools is not something you are born with, but is learned through social factors. Give them more time, and monkeys may not be able to learn more things.
These monkeys also have their own language, and the last step away from intelligent beings is just the use of fire.
If they are given enough time and certain opportunities, the monkeys may be able to develop a real civilization hundreds of thousands of years later.
But if humans on Earth don't perish, monkeys will never have a chance.
The reason is not that humans are afraid of the emergence of another intelligent life and will not allow them to develop. But...the ecological environment of monkeys is completely controlled by humans. They can only live in the same environment forever and cannot survive outside their habitat.
When the environment is extremely stable, there is no mobility, which means there are no variables. Monkeys can live well as long as they maintain their current lifestyle. In this way, the society composed of monkeys will inevitably become involuted and the society will stop progressing.
The mediocre theory of the universe is universal and applies to interstellar civilizations as well as to the most primitive monkey natives. Comfort and satisfaction are the factors most likely to lead to mediocrity.
Therefore, the development of civilization requires internal factors as well as changes in the external environment. If there are no changes, you must find changes yourself. This is also the main reason why the new human fleet keeps wandering in the universe.
Closer to home, the intelligent creatures Hemispheres appeared in this world in the second era. They are close relatives of the Multispheres. Now that the people from the Multisphere are extinct, the people from the Hemisphere have gone through hundreds of thousands of years of the Stone Age and have been very lucky to come to power. However, because the time was still the same, they did not know that there had been an intelligent civilization in the First Age.
With the development of the times, the people of Hemisphere also gave birth to a splendid civilization, created their own language and characters, and established feudal dynasties one after another.
But they face a very big dilemma - no fossil fuels.
There is no oil, no coal, no natural gas, not even flammable ice under the ocean.
No, nothing.
These fossil fuels were exhausted by the multi-sphere people of the First Era. It was impossible for a drop of oil or a piece of coal to be produced in just a few hundred thousand years.
Without enough fossil fuels, people in this hemisphere will be in misery. No matter how smart they are, they will not be able to enter the industrial age. The cost of relying solely on burning plants to provide energy is too high. To produce charcoal, a large number of people are required to mine it, and the productivity is limited. After all, the growth of plants depends on photosynthesis. The total amount of growth every year is fixed, and it is impossible to take and demand it like coal.
Under such conditions, the accumulation of capital is too slow, and science and technology will naturally not develop.
The people of the Hemisphere, who have not been able to enter the industrial age for a long time, have slowly become a mediocre civilization...
They have been stuck in the traditional handicraft era. Hemisphere people can use charcoal to smelt some metals, but the cost is too high, making it very difficult to further large-scale steelmaking.
Large-scale steelmaking is one of the very important conditions for industrialization.
This slow era lasted for at least 50,000 years, and many historical data have been lost. Compared with the same era of mankind, it seems to be too long.
But a long period of exploration can always accumulate production experience. During the long period of division and integration, the idle upper class began to prefer some spiritual enjoyment, such as mathematics, art, and... archaeological culture.
Archaeological culture is the biggest variable on Kalina Planet.
In fact, people in Hemisphere can often dig up strange and weird things in their daily lives, which are the so-called "ancestral heritage".
Like rusty steel bars, concrete bricks, and some very strange things. The confused Hemisphere people always thought that these were the traces of life left by their ancestors, and would collect these things.
Kalina is a planet rich in oxygen. Over a long period of time, the oxygen has corroded most of the heritage of the First Age. Therefore, the people in the hemisphere who have stayed in the feudal era for a long time have never considered them as treasures. .
Common people picked up interesting garbage, and those with metal content were directly smelted. Those that looked valuable were sold to merchants who collected antiques.
The merchants then sold the collectible antiques to the nobles.
The nobles compared each other's collections of antiques and suddenly discovered that modern arts and crafts were not as refined as ancient ones. This fact puzzled them.
How come the handicraft industry has developed to this day and is still not as good as in ancient times? They know what life was like in ancient times.
In particular, there has been no way to decipher the various ancestral writings. There are a lot of these writings and they are completely different from what they are currently using. Out of curiosity, some idle nobles began to organize manpower to decipher these words.
It wasn't until an archaeological expert initially deciphered the language of the "super-ancient civilization" that the entire upper class suddenly realized it!
"They are not our ancestors!"
"But... there was a super ancient civilization in the world, and they were far more developed than us!"
"What is this? Magic?"
"The place where we live is called a planet. The planet is round! There is a universe outside!"
The discovery of this fact shocked everyone in the hemisphere.
Immediately afterwards, the news spread throughout the kingdom, and the nobles began to frantically grab antiques and collect valuable things.
A vigorous archaeological operation took place on the planet Karina. The fanatical hemisphere people dug almost three feet into the ground of the entire planet. In this high-oxygen environment, only some shelters buried underground could be preserved.
Just like digging ancient tombs, every time one is excavated, it is a big harvest. You can hear news everywhere that someone has dug up a treasure and made a fortune overnight.
Although a lot of the heritage of the entire planet has been lost, the total number of them adds up to a lot. These crazy nobles even went overseas to make massive purchases, and thus launched wars of aggression again and again to rob the wealth of other countries.
But it is these archaeological data that provide a solid foundation for future development.
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