Chapter 2621 partake (thirteen)

In 52 BC, Paris was still called Lucotecia at that time. After Caesar arrived, he renamed the place Lutecia, which is close to lutum in Latin, which means mud, or luto in Gaul, Namely swamp. The city was born out of a swamp.

Before the Romans came, there was no land road at all, and most of the houses of the Gauls were built in hidden forests or beside rivers, and the rivers were their transportation. Whether it is a dangerous swamp or a dense forest, those who live nearby are familiar with these places. On the contrary, the Roman legion came from afar, and the indistinguishable roads in the dense forest did not allow large groups of people to enter.

The ancient Roman legion has always been famous for its strict formation of phalanxes. Letting legionnaires go to the forest will not give full play to their advantages. On the contrary, the Gauls, after harassing and looting the Roman soldiers, can rely on Escape from forests and valleys for a day, and then change to another place to hide overnight.

But the Gauls were not monolithic. Caesar took advantage of the contradictions among the Gauls and urban life to attract a group of defectors, and encircled and suppressed other surrounding tribes.

The Romans brought roads, baths, opera houses, and the Colosseum, and Lutecia gradually became a city highly assimilated by the Romans, becoming the Rome of Gaul. Unlike Rome, where bloody dramas are staged every day, or the blood of gladiators in the Colosseum, or the blood of politicians like Caesar, this place is unexpectedly calm, although the Roman residents in the city find it difficult to adapt to the muddy and Unreliable swamp.

The land of Rome is solid, and the climate of the Mediterranean has always been warm, and there is no snow even in winter.

Here, there are rough Gauls and harsh winters. The river will freeze like a marble slab. In order not to be frozen to death by this ghost weather, the Romans lit many open-air braziers.

There was a Roman governor who lit a brazier but closed the doors and windows, as if he thought it would make the room warmer. This caused him to almost suffocate to death, but luckily he yelled before falling into a coma, and the slaves hurriedly carried him to the courtyard, where the fresh air revived him, but he didn't know it was those still smoking The charcoal nearly killed him.

Even after an open flame has been extinguished, sparks can still be deadly. The Gaul region is filled with a large number of Franks and Goths. The Romans have always held a contemptuous attitude towards those tribes who lack the concept of citizenship and live on the other side of the Rhine. Although they also have excellent civilization, they are still regarded as the future The land of enlightenment.

Building a magnificent Rome required a lot of slaves and wealth, which led to a bad relationship between Rome and what they called "barbarians" around. In 410 AD, the Visigoths invaded the city of Rome, opened the city gate with the help of slaves in the city, and plundered away. After that, the Visigoth Kingdom was established in the Western Roman Empire.

After another 66 years, the Germans, the leader of the Roman mercenaries, deposed the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The Western Roman Empire fell, and Western Europe entered the era of so-called barbarian rule. The towns built by the Romans were owned by the barbarians.

These barbarian rulers are not good at governing the city. The roads in the city are as muddy as in ancient times, and the sewage has not improved. With the increasing population concentration, the Eastern Roman Empire, on the contrary, still maintains a certain degree of prosperity and integrity.

But they don't enjoy peace, even if Attila is gone, there are still Persians. When Western Rome fell into chaos, the Eastern Roman Empire was overwhelmed. However, fighting on the vast plains, the "barbarian" fighting method relying on forests and terrain will not work. Compared with the threat of barbarians, the Eastern Romans were more afraid of other things.

In the history written by Byzantine scholars, the people of the Eastern Roman Empire at that time had no concept of the British Isle. They only knew that its land was roughly triangular, covered with rivers and bushes, and it was not different from before Caesar conquered Gaul. big.

According to the records of "History of England" and Hume's exposition, in the nomadic era when people in Britain were recovering from injuries, they used animal skins as clothing and hid in the forest. Their lives were turbulent and they didn't know a refined life. Very crude.

Druids hold great power. In addition to presiding over sacrificial ceremonies and guiding religious affairs, they also control the education rights of young people.

They will tell these young children that once they violate the teachings, they will be punished, and those who violate it will be excommunicated, that is, they will be excluded from public sacrifices and feasts, and those who come into contact with them will be stigmatized , thus being abandoned by the same race. He is no longer protected, lives in misery and humiliation, and only death can set him free.

This means that he will return to the arms of God Dis, although it is not "heaven".

Kant once published a short article in the "Berlin Monthly" entitled "What is Enlightenment?" ".

Kant believed that enlightenment is the escape of human beings from immaturity that they have imposed on themselves. Immaturity consists not in a lack of reason, but in a lack of courage and determination to use one's own reason without the guidance of others. Have the courage to use your intellect, that was the watchword of the Enlightenment.

This is also the pity of Harry Potter. Since he can muster up the courage to go to death under the condition of being "guided", why can't he have the courage to use his own reason to judge?

But Harry was guided by Albus himself, plus Snape.

Speaking of the Pantheon, she thought of Voltaire, and mentioned a passage in Voltaire's "On Manners". The "Koran" admits that angels and demons originated from the ancient Persians. From these monks and their Jannati teachings, Muhammad got the idea of ​​heaven.

Zhannati means "paradise" in Arabic, and it is the paradise after death, where the resurrected people have complete faculties, and they use these faculties to enjoy various pleasures.

This is the biggest difference between the ghosts of this world and the ghosts of Hogwarts. They also have a variety of feelings, although not everyone is enjoying themselves.

But after all, this is not a real paradise, but an "artificial paradise", and it is inevitable to have shortcomings.

She was almost lost in it, just like everyone else. Although in the Greek opera, Medea said that the misfortune of women is to live for love, whether it is Queenie or Irene, for love, they followed their Muggle husbands to live in places where Muggle women do not want to go.

She is not that great, the banquet will always end, and some guests will even leave early before the end of the song, so she does not "participate".

She blesses Bonaparte, hoping that he will find a better girl than her next time, because she is still influenced by that Slytherin from the mire after all.

She is no longer "innocent", and it is estimated that she will not be able to go to heaven, even if it is man-made.

As for where to go, I hope I can go to limbo in the future and be with Albus.