3.8 The modern history of steam (nearly 1,000 years), continental geopolitical changes.
Since the end of the God-given era, the geographical distance between the East and the West has been in isolation.
The highest latitude: the Hela people and a series of nomadic peoples. Artificially created interruptions in the trade route
At mid-latitude: the huge moon basin and the surrounding ring moon mountains create geographical isolation.
At the low latitude equator: are sea humans that occupy shallow sea islands.
Therefore, for a long time after the fall of human scientific and technological civilization, there was little social and cultural exchanges between the East and the West.
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But a thousand years ago,
The mainland entered the steam calendar, and the Oka Empire began the industrial revolution on the west coast peninsula of the western continent, and then rose, bringing changes to the world.
The Industrial Revolution created the expansion of military and economic strength of the Oka Empire. When they were the strongest, that is, the period from 400 to 600 years of steam, they were all in the Mediterranean.
The St. Sok Empire was still struggling to guard the Black Sea bathtub. The fief of the Dragon Ya family was not in the empire and did not serve allegiance to the empire.
The sea fleet of the Oka Empire was not limited to the Mediterranean.
At that time, they were extremely strong in their country and decided to open up the sea and land that expanded to the east. After the end of the God-given era, the first economic communication in the East and West Continents began.
In the 300th year of the steam cycle, the Oka Empire easily opened up the East-West trade routes with its strong ships and cannons.
In the process of opening up the Southern Ocean, the first one they crushed was the human race in the Southern Ocean.
This nation is not a race like the sirens of the ancient magic era. In fact, if they were to confuse this nation with the sea tribe of the ancient magic era, this race would be very angry. They considered themselves the most orthodox humans since the God-given era.
Like the humans in the sea, the humans in the land, they lost a lot of civilization and technology after the end of the God-given era, but the basic civilization remains.
Before the arrival of the Oka Empire, they lived by taming dolphins and planting seaweeds. They could fire porcelain, build glorious palaces on islands in the South Ocean, and inlaid with gold. Their history on ceramic plates also recorded the era of God’s gifts, and had certain prejudice against land humans. Therefore, the era of sailing warships failed to open up navigation and transportation lines.
Some history enthusiasts in the Western Continent now always like to assume that if the Oka Empire, which had a strong national power, treated the sea humans in a better way after the war, then what would the relationship between the land humans and sea humans now be like.
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But history has no assumptions. What God gave to the times is not only the end of human science and technology, but also the end of human civilization.
Humans after the end of the God-given era are full of prejudice, which makes humans exterminate all non-human intelligent species after their fall.
At that time, the iron-clad ships of the Oka Empire directly swept across six sea human kingdoms, massacred, destroyed, and robbed a large number of zoos transported to the Western Continent. At that time, the senior officials of the Oka Empire naturally believed that the strength of the country must be unscrupulous to step on another country, humiliate another nation, and show off the exquisite works of art stolen from another civilization to demonstrate their strength.
After the Oka Empire easily opened the Nanyang route at that time, it never thought that it would leave serious historical problems for itself and even the humans in the entire Western Continent.
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After crushing the sea humans, the Oka Empire fleet arrived in the East. After just arrived in the Eastern Continent, the Oka Empire was still very careful. Because although there was no economic exchange between the Eastern Continent and the Western Continent, they still maintained intermittent cultural exchanges. The three major superior professions in the Western Continent also have them in the Eastern Continent.
But just ten years later, the Oka Empire discovered that they did not need to be so cautious in the Eastern Continent.
Because the Eastern Continent was still in the era of beast control technology at that time, gunpowder weapons had already appeared, but the flintlock rifle and front-mounted cannon could not shake the position of the powerful beast control war.
Moreover, the Eastern Continent was in an era of fighting for hegemony at that time. Please note that the starting point of this era of fighting for hegemony was earlier than the rise of the Oka Empire.
After the arrival of the Oka Empire, the sudden intensification of conflicts between countries in the East Continent cannot be said to be created by the Oka Empire, but rather it was a conflict between the people of the Oka Empire who were quickly discovered and exploited by the people of the Oka Empire.
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ps: The long period of the Eastern Continent's hegemony was directly led to the fact that many families in the Eastern Continent passed the Moon Basin and Moon Mountains that were still very dangerous at that time and came to the Western Continent.
The Qingjun family belonged to the family that fled from the Eastern Continent. They were the unpopular puppet master family from the Eastern Continent at that time. When they crossed the Moon Fallen Mountains for 1,600 years, they seemed to have experienced something, and the family curse appeared directly.
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After decades of exploration and local management.
With its advanced firing guns, rear-loading cannons, and cement brigades, the Oka people began to colonize large-scale Eastern Continent.
After decades of colonization, with generations of radical Oka's young men coming here, Oka's policies in the East became more and more radical. At that time, Oka's new generals, seeing the military power in their hands getting stronger, changed the policies of the previous generation to policies that they thought were more capable of obtaining military merit, but these policies also became more wool.
The initial colonial policy first became a battle for hegemony to intervene in the Eastern Continent, and finally directly became a model of imitating the conquering sea humans to try to engage in a racial war on the Eastern Continent.
The arrogance of the Oka Empire directly caused the anger of the countries in the East Continent. A wide alliance was formed on the East Continent.
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Finally, three hundred and fifty years ago, the Eastern countries began to fight Oka in the Eastern colonies and carried out many large-scale battles.
Among them, the largest Jingdong Battle: six countries in the Eastern Continent were led by the royal clan of the Jingchuan Empire. A 200,000 coalition forces defeated Oka's main corps from the local area in front of the battle. The coalition forces used 7,640 large-caliber artillery of more than 70 mm and eight armored trains. In addition, the Eastern Continent dispatched more than 40 superior professionals in the battle.
That super battle cost the Oka people 70,000 people, and Oka changed to a defensive posture in the Eastern Continent. Relying on the bastion defense group to defend.
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However, it was a change in the Southern Ocean that ultimately made the Oka people abandon the Eastern Continent colony.
Humans of the sea are civilized and civilized races. They are beaten up when they are backward in technology and have the ability to learn.
The humans in the Southern Ocean also began to explore the wreckage of sunken ships in the Oka Empire, and at an extremely fast speed, they developed steam technology and steam battleships.
On the sea surface, the sea humans are not fighting a battle. Their steam engine technology is not enough to support high-speed heavy armored battleships. They use low-speed battleships to ensure sea and land passages, and fortified the islands in the Southern Ocean one by one, cutting off the traffic lines of the Oka Empire.
In the Steam Calendar, in 384, the Oka Empire fleet was forced to start the largest fleet duel since the Steam Calendar. The result of the war was that the sea fleet of the Oka Empire and the low-speed iron turtle of the sea humans were bombarded for two days, and finally they were not allowed to withdraw from the battlefield in disgrace.
When they fled, they were finally hit by the destroyer of high-speed lightning strikes by sea humans. In the end, only 30% of the warships returned to the western continent.
After the sea humans won the victory, the East-West maritime economic channels opened by the Oka people were once again blocked.
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Oka's Age of World Empire ends here.
But the end of this era has had a huge impact on the East and West continents
First of all, let’s talk about the influence of the Western Continent:
The Oka Empire and the countries in the Eastern Continent were engaged in a fierce war of attrition.
During the thirty-year war, Oka consumed a lot of economic resources and successively lost one million military members (except the army, including logistics). More than 30 high-ranking professionals died and were captured in the war. The median professionals lost nearly a thousand, and the lower professionals were conservatively estimated to exceed 20,000. After the war, many families were in a tight position.
Even though the Oka Empire was so strong back then, it could not stand such a large number of casualties. The lack of professionals directly caused the Oka Empire to be in a serious period of weakness. This gave many competitors in the Western Continent the opportunity to turn the tables.
After the Oka Empire retreated from the Eastern Continent, an anti-Oka alliance quickly formed on the Western Continent.
This war of "stop your life while you are sick" breaks out
Almost all the Western Continent countries were involved at that time and cut off the Oka Empire. Oka was paralyzed for two hundred years, and it was not until nearly a century that they began to restore their national strength.
During the decline of the Oka Empire, many Western continent countries took the opportunity to fill the space. It can be said that Saint Sauk was the biggest beneficiary and snatched half of the Mediterranean.
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Let’s talk about the influence of the Eastern Continent.
The war between the countries in the East Continent and the Oka Empire was almost both sides of the defeat, and all the countries in the East were cut aside in the war. When the traditional power of the East Continent was fighting against the Oka people, it gave a country that was originally relying on the West to develop.
The Taiyun Kingdom was established 3,500 years ago, and 1,600 years ago, the Taiyun Kingdom was still a small country. Four hundred years ago, the national strength gradually rose.
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The eastern border of the Saint Sark Empire is the endless Moon Fallen Mountains, but the Moon Fallen Mountains that the Saint Sark Empire contacted is only part of this huge mountain range.
From a planetary perspective, the Moon Flowing Mountains is a huge crater with a diameter of one thousand kilometers in the central basin and a continuous mountain range around the edge of the basin. If the St. Sok Empire wants to cross the numerous mountains to reach this center, it needs to cross the huge central area of the mountain.
This sank area was the territory of ancient forest elves hundreds of thousands of years ago. At that time, this huge basin was called the Blessed Land of Moon God. The name of Moon God was named 20,000 years ago. The prediction of humans in the God-given era at that time was that there were two moons on the planet 60 million years ago. Now there is only one moon, and the other moon fell and fell into the center of the continent and became the central basin.
According to literature records, the ancient elves civilization completely declined 140,000 years ago and suffered heavy damage again 50,000 years ago. After a brief resurrection of the dead 30,000 years ago, but the population was very small. It was completely incorporated into rule in the Age of God-given and was assimilated in large quantities. However, after the end of the Age of God-given, this race was destroyed together with the old human magic family.
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After tens of thousands of years of change, the huge forests in the past have become plains with lakes and lakes in the age of God, and mankind has flourished here in the age of God.
However, after the end of this God-given Age, the most intense place in the Shenyu War was here.
Although it has become lush again in hundreds of years after the Shenyue War.
However, animals entering here will become very strange and deformed after several generations. Including humans entering here to settle, they will become abnormal after several generations. Within ten thousand years of the Shenyu War, this place is also called the Curse Land.
However, harsh governments are more powerful than tigers. Although there are a large number of horrifying legends in the Moon Basin, some people still pass through the Moon Basin, and some people still settle in the Moon Basin.
After the steam calendar, a large number of explorers in the East seemed to have become accessible. After nearly a hundred years of joint investigation by scholars from the East and West (explorer professions) from the mainland, the West (explorer professions) found that in the Moon Basin, even in the villages established near the death glass hills, the probability of giving birth to cursed sons (deformed children) is only one in ten thousand.
Of course, this one in ten thousand chance of Curse Son will also give terrible panic to the place of human settlements. Until six hundred years ago, the villages here were all villages and no large settlements were formed.
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In the past thousand years, the Taiyun Empire and the Saint Sok Empire were separated by huge geographical obstacles, and there was almost no possibility of contact between the two sides.
However, with the wars in the Eastern Continent, especially the large-scale invasion of Oka, it caused a large number of famine civilians to pour into Taiyun.
Taiyun's royal family had to turn their attention to the Yueyue Basin.
However, in the past seven hundred years, the Taiyun Kingdom has been constantly exploring, constantly marking the dangerous areas in the glass dead hill, and cutting off the rivers passing through the glass dead hill with water conservancy projects.
Taiyun built a circular dam blockade around the fluorescent pile of glass dead hills, allowing dangerous substances in the dead hills to no longer leak through natural water sources. The Curse Son has been reduced to millions of probability.
The demonized veil of the Moon Meteor Basin was gradually removed, and now is the time to harvest the Taiyun Empire.
In the past hundred years, the Taiyun Empire will have a large-scale moon basin. With the approach of geographic distance, and trade demand from the East and the West.
Chapter completed!