In fact, it is quite helpless, I was originally just a collector who likes coin collection, originally I wanted to open a number to exchange coin collection with my friends, and now I am about to be forced into a troll by public knowledge.
Regarding cultural carriers, one of the two most classic remarks of the Western blowers is that at least (note that the word "at least") was used in large quantities in ancient Egypt and exported to neighboring countries in large quantities in the third millennium BC (some "experts" even believe that more than 12,000 years ago). For example, the papyrus of ancient Greece and Rome came from Egypt. The second is that in the sixteenth century BC, Egypt and hittites signed the world's earliest peace treaty. And the Egyptian pharaohs and Hittite monarchs maintained long-term correspondence. Strong evidence is that the Hittite Empire unearthed a lot of clay tablets with specific communication content on them.
These two sentences are actually not a problem. But! Put together, that's a big problem! It's hard to bear to look at it!
Let's do a simple math. From 3,000 years BC to the 16th century BC, it is 1,500 years! In other words, fifteen hundred years after the extensive use and export of papyrus in ancient Egypt, the correspondence with the Hittite Empire was still using clay tablets!
Let's compare two images, one of a communicator holding (and possibly carrying) a heavy clay board, and the other of a correspondent carrying a thin few pages of papyrus. The same is to walk thousands of miles, which is easier? Not to mention that thousands of years ago there were no smooth roads, and mud slabs were easily damaged. Why is Chinese porcelain sold to Europe at a sky-high price? The damage rate is too high. Even now, the damage rate during the transportation of porcelain glass is not too low.
Moreover, the clay plates used for communication are not the same as porcelain. It's an orphan, just this one. It is impossible for the monarch to mass-produce a batch of clay plates to send to the other party, right?
For this question, I have asked questions in the headlines and Zhihu
But the headlines have only two answers, and they have nothing to do with the question.
I know that it is more funny, and there are many answers, but only two answers are somewhat related to the topic.
It can also be seen from here that even if you like to boast about the public knowledge of ancient Egyptian civilization, you cannot explain this phenomenon.
I know that these two answers are almost identically explained from a literal point of view: the Hittite Empire used Akkadine, a kind of cuneiform script, which could not be written on paper...
This answer really refreshed my understanding, it turns out that there are words in this world that cannot be written on paper, and it seems that the cuneiform script I have seen in the history books before must be fake, because it is written on paper.
After I questioned it, the gentleman actually explained it this way.
Know what I had in mind? My first reaction was that a person told me straightly: I know that meat is delicious, but I just like to nibble on the bark of the tree. (More vulgar examples dare not be cited, everyone imagines themselves)
Another well-known is that from the perspective of anti-counterfeiting, it is believed that mud plates can be anti-counterfeiting. Excuse me, excuse me, is it difficult for me to recreate a clay board?
For this question, people say that Egypt has archived before sending the clay tablets, and it is easy to find the original after remaking. So since there are archives, is it still important to write what to write? Redecoating the clay board will be discovered, is it possible to rewrite a piece of papyrus paper to hide the sky? What logic is this called?
The Western blowers also say what historical inertia
So your historical inertia is also too big, right? Haven't changed it in more than a thousand years? Looking at China, after the Han Dynasty, you basically can't see the Bamboo Jane Book, almost no inertia!
Asked urgently, the Xifu people directly began to declare that migrant workers are not worthy of talking about history.
Oh, co-authored you have read so many foreign adult books, even the most basic "equality for all" have forgotten?