Chapter 206 (1/2)
Red cloud came to the map on the wall and looked at it carefully. After a long time, she swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked, ”guardian, are you sure you didn't draw wrong? Are we Cherokees just occupying a little bit of this land? How can it be
The stone bear gave a smile, and then said in a very positive tone: ”sacrifice, I can be sure that I drew right. As a matter of fact, even if I draw like this, I will make the territory occupied by our tribe a little bigger. ”
The stone bear didn't talk nonsense. After all, this map of America is only a very rough map, only the general shape of the American continent, most of the details are not drawn at all.
But even so, if this map was shown to those European colonists, it would be absolutely amazing.
Moreover, in order to highlight the Cherokee, the stone bear slightly enlarged the area occupied by the Cherokee.
But even so, the entire Cherokee community now occupies only a small part of this map.
Li Lei, they also came up and saw the map with an incredible face.
After a long time, Li Lei asked: ”guardian, I admit that the map you drew is very shocking, but what is it about us? Even if the scale of our tribe expanded ten times or even a hundred times, we could not occupy all of such a large area. And what we discussed before was whether to let the big green hill tribe return. What do you want to explain when you suddenly draw this map? ”
The stone bear smiles again when he hears Li Lei's words. It has to be said that Li Lei is really afraid of himself now. Even if he raised his objection, he said it euphemistically.
But Shi Xiong doesn't want to be so tactful with them. He can expand the strength of the tribe as soon as possible, which can't be delayed at all. It is necessary to improve the strength of the tribe as soon as possible.
So the stone bear said simply, ”do you know how many of our people live in this land?”
”Our people?” Hong Yun asked, ”do you mean our Cherokee people?”
The stone bear shook his head. ”I'm talking about aborigines like us who have lived in this land for a long time, not just us Cherokees. Although they are not a tribe or even an ethnic group with us, they have black hair and yellow skin just like us. Compared with the golden haired, blue eyed and white skinned vasichus, although they are far away from us, they are our compatriots because they share a common ancestor with us. ”
A few people nodded their heads.
”How many of our compatriots were there before? About 25 million! That's 300 times the number of our entire Cherokee people! ”
In the middle of the 18th century, there were about 80000 or 90000 Cherokees living in the Appalachian Mountains. Anyway, there were no more than 100000. The exact number of stone bears was not clear. He only learned about it when he looked at the data in his previous life.
In fact, this number is in the top of the Indian population in the whole North American continent. But the huge Appalachian Mountains not only blocked the outward development of the Cherokees, but also the number and scale of Cherokees.
In terms of population size, after more than 200 years of recuperation, the Cherokee population is no less than that of the Iroquois alliance in the north and the seven color flame alliance in the northwest, that is, the Soviet Grand Alliance.
The number that Shi Xiong said made several tribal leaders confused again. With their level of education, how can they understand the concepts of 25 million and 300 times.
Looking at the confused look of a group of tribal leaders, Shi Xiong sighed helplessly and explained: ”what's the concept of 25 million? Let's compare it with our tribe. There are about 300 people in our tribe, and there are about 300 tribes like us, which is about the same number as the whole Cherokee people. ”
This let red cloud they good calculate, the result again don't understand, then one by one of the head began to imagine, but finally one by one all defeated. For them, it's hard to imagine the scale of 300 tribes.
”Is that a large number? Too big for you to imagine? ”