1840Indian rebirth

1845, June.

About a year has passed since Ma Shao created Apache writing.

During this year, he served as a teacher for hundreds of people. The teaching content was extremely simple, basically elementary school content, but the teaching pressure was unprecedentedly huge.

Giving lectures to a group of people from the Stone Age, the students' weak foundation and communication difficulties were something he had never seen before in his previous life, and had never even thought about it.

Coupled with the students' age and uneven progress, it was fortunate that Ma Shao was a professional teacher, otherwise he might not have been able to persist for even a month.

But everything is difficult at the beginning. After persevering through this most difficult beginning, the situation finally gradually improved.

There is basically no need for Ma Shao to intervene in the lower grade and literacy classes. There are many outstanding graduates who can take on the teaching work for him.

Now the senior class has finally welcomed its first batch of graduates, with only five people in total: Rainy Day, Long Stick, Feng Sheng, Prairie Wolf, and Hunter.

They are all undoubtedly talented. After studying for at least one year, they have reached a level of mathematics equivalent to that of the upper grades of elementary school in later generations. They are more than enough to solve a system of linear equations in two variables.

Being able to solve a system of linear equations in two variables is already quite powerful. In the current Indian mathematics community, not to mention Dou Di, Dou Sage can still be called a Dou Sage.

Not to mention being an Indian, even in later generations, there are still people using this persona as a scholar.

The most important indicator used by Mashao to measure the knowledge level of senior students is mathematics scores.

The next content that these five graduates will learn is also mathematics and physics. Ma Shao calls it a "mathematics and physics advanced course". In this advanced course, he will teach the compressed middle school science knowledge to five people, mainly junior high schools.

As for high school knowledge, it is not necessary to teach it all, especially those contents that are highly test-oriented. Most people will forget them soon after leaving school.

From now on, Mashao's main teaching job is to "open a small stove" for these five people in the chief's hall, and the teaching of the upper grades is left to these five people, which suddenly makes him feel a lot more relaxed.

"...The geometric knowledge I'm talking about today comes from ancient Greece two thousand years ago. The "Elements of Geometry" that explains this knowledge is the model and originator of all scientific knowledge in later generations. In the following studies, you will gradually understand the greatness of

'axiomatic ideas', and the source of white people's power..."

Ma Shao narrated to the five people.

As a centurion in the army, Steppenwolf has a temperament that refuses to admit defeat. He couldn't help asking his own question: "Teacher, I can't understand why science was first mastered by white people, and two thousand years ago?"

"Yes, are they really a superior race as some white people said?" Hunter also sighed.

"Of course it's not because white people are superior." Ma Shao blurted out.

Hunter asked: "Then why did they invent science?"

"Because of the ocean and commerce." Ma Shao said, "Water transportation is the cheapest transportation. Places with developed water transportation can not only exchange goods at a lower cost, but also exchange knowledge at a lower cost."

"To send a book to Navajo, we may need to consume a cart of fodder and a bag of dried meat on the way; but to send a book to Crete, Athens may only need a bag of bread... This is

Like learning the same knowledge, we need to pay more tuition."

Several people were thoughtful, but still had questions: "But ancient Greece is not the only place in the world with developed water transportation, right?"

Ma Shao nodded: "Indeed, but business in ancient Greece was also very different."

"What's the difference?"

"The environment in ancient Greece was not suitable for agriculture, so they needed to import a large amount of food from outside. In other words, no force could stop them from opening up to the outside world and developing business. Business was a necessity for them to survive," Mashao said.

"In contrast, in places that can be self-sufficient, commerce becomes insignificant... If that place is not only self-sufficient, but also has a government that knows how to protect farmers, the situation of businessmen will be even more humble."

People were silent for a moment.

"Why are we so backward?" Feng Sheng asked, "I feel that we are the most backward civilization in the world."

Ma Shao patted him on the shoulder: "Be more confident and remove the word 'I feel'."

"..." The wind was silent.

Ma Shao thought this joke was quite funny. Unexpectedly, no one in the room laughed, and he felt a little embarrassed: "Ahem... The reasons why we are lagging behind are very complicated, such as the isolation of the American continent, for example, well... Actually, I haven't either

Think about it clearly, and when I think about it clearly, I will explain it to you slowly."

In fact, he had already thought it through.

In the first year of his rebirth, he repeatedly searched through the memories of "Guns, Germs and Steel" in his previous life in the real Indian society, and thought clearly about many issues, including naturally the reasons for the backwardness of the Indians.

But it was hard to explain clearly at this moment, so Ma Shao felt that he should write a book.

The name of the book is still "Guns, Germs and Steel", and the content is roughly similar. The biggest difference lies in the author.

"Okay, that's it for today's class. Remember to finish your homework."

Except for the horse whistle and Rainy Day, the other four people left the chief's hall one after another.

The two of them will continue their teacher-student activities here, but they have reversed their positions. On rainy days, they will be the teacher and the horse whistle will be the student. The main content of the teaching is the language and profile of the various Indian ethnic groups.

After the rainy days came, the whistle stopped looking for the long-haired Comanche.

After all, Rainy Day is not only proficient in Comanche, but also seven other Indian languages, and his understanding of the various Indian tribes is far superior to others.

The class continued until a warrior came in and reported: "Great Chief, another clan has arrived!"

Ma Xiao and Yu Tian immediately got up and went out to greet them, and then saw a group of men, women, old and young riding horses in the distance carrying various sundries.

Naturally, they responded to the chief's order and moved to Mian Xiong's clan.

Due to the Battle of Arapaho, the horse whistle already had a high prestige, and now that he was the chief, these clans were more willing to obey.

Of course, the more important thing is that the horse whistle told them that building a city can bring more food, clothing, and better defense against foreign enemies.

After Mianxiong officially changed its clan into a city, this was the third clan to move in, and it looked like there were more than a hundred people there.

However, when Ma Shao came into contact with this clan, he unexpectedly discovered that they did not belong to the Plains tribe, or even to a certain extent, the Apache.

"Are you Navajo?" the horse whistle asked in surprise.

The chief of the clan was an old man. He turned over and dismounted from his horse. He smiled and said, "Dear Chief Mashao, we heard about your order from our brother clans and we also want to move to Mianxiong City."