Chapter 172 The Little-Known History of Magic

The wizard society of Olympus rebelled and became the leader of the Roman Republic, and ancient Greece perished.

The Roman mythology system does not have the legend of the gods fighting like the Greek one. Instead, humans played the main role, and the gods occasionally intervened, all because wizards had become the high and mighty behind-the-scenes leaders.

Under the leadership of the magic world, Rome was thriving, and the political system, territory, military, economy, agriculture, handicrafts, language, literature, law, philosophy, culture, history, natural science and architecture, etc., were all developing steadily.

The public baths, water supply and drainage systems alone surpassed the later Dark Ages.

With so many systems that benefited all Roman citizens and municipal projects that benefited their descendants, why did the Roman Empire eventually fall?

According to the history books compiled by Muggles, Rome, which practiced slavery, gradually lost its fighting power, slaves colluded with barbarians, and the Huns came from the east, and it was powerless to turn the tide under the attack from several sides.

In addition to secular wars, there were also wars in the magic world at that time. The overfed wizards started factional struggles, and they didn't even care about the civil war in the secular world. In just 50 years, 26 people were crowned emperors by the Senate.

Roman wizards had long intermarried with Muggles, and their combat power was steadily declining. The factional wars lasted for more than a century.

Quality was declining; quantity was dying.

After the fierce battle, this group of wizards continued to clash intermittently for several centuries, either burning down the castles of the enemy factions or cutting off the inheritance of others.

Is this cruel?

Even more despicable was to poison the wizards' partners to make them infertile, and attack their children to make their magic gradually dissipate. They used every possible means.

In the end, the civil war in the secular world was ended by Constantine I, who inherited the status of the only emperor, moved the capital to Byzantium, and named it New Rome.

He was angry that wizards only cared about factional wars, causing the secular people to suffer, and from then on he conspired to "conquer witches".

Successive new Roman emperors also invested a huge amount of manpower and material resources to study ways to conquer wizards, and eventually shared the results with the later Holy Roman Empire.

It was this loose Holy Roman Empire that overturned the lofty Western European magic world. In this dirty and chaotic dark period, they formed a secular union, allowing the knights to launch the first witch hunt in history with their numerical advantage, physical strength and faith.

This inefficient and backward feudal system happened to be the nemesis of the magic world. Even if the wizards assassinated the emperor, the kingdoms, principalities, counties and cities and other administrative units continued to hunt witches. Kill all the baron's family members, and there are side branches to take over. If there are no side branches, the original subordinate knights will take over.

Without a supreme leader and a unified command, it is like a group of starfish, which can survive even if they are cut off everywhere.

The wizards who have been fighting for centuries have already regressed in combat power, far worse than their ancestors in Olympus.

Hogsmeade was founded around 990, and its builders settled here to avoid persecution from Muggles.

Hogwarts, which was built at the same time as the village, also set up unmapped magic to protect teachers, students and the school from external harm.

The external harm came from wizards from the European continent? No, it was backward and barbaric Muggles.

The Holy Roman Empire was established in 962, and then it took a generation to establish an anti-witch system, and the witch-hunting strength of the secular union broke out. It took exactly 35 years to train a qualified knight from birth, which is very close to the history of Hogwarts.

Witch hunting spread from the heart of Europe to England.

In secular history, the witch-hunting war began in the 12th century, or to be more precise, it was from then that the news blockade was abandoned.

The establishment of Beauxbatons at the end of the 13th century marked the transition of French wizards from offense to defense, because if they did not focus on protecting wizard children, the French magic world, which was a major disaster area for witch hunting, would collapse.

Witch-hunting was originally about hunting witches. In the early days of the war, the ratio of hunting male witches to hunting female witches was the same. It was not until the publication of the witch-hunting manual "The Hammer of Witches" written by Heinrich Kramer and Johann Sprenger in 1487 that the entire European society directed the witch-hunting to women.

The book claimed that "the devil knew that women loved physical pleasure, so he lured them to loyalty with sexual pleasure, and thus mastered witchcraft", but the real reason was that as long as more witches were killed, fewer and fewer pure-blood wizards would be born.

The secular federation knew that the purer the bloodline, the stronger the wizard's magic power. As long as witches were continuously killed, the bloodline of the magic world would continue to deteriorate, and the combat power would continue to decline. This trick did kill many Muggle women by mistake, but it was really very effective.

From the moment the "International Statute of Secrecy" was signed in the 17th century, almost all pure-blood families had more or less mixed Muggle blood, otherwise they would not be able to pass on.

The reason why the British magic world became the strongest single magic world in Europe was that it took advantage of the location.

The Knights focused on purging wizards from the European continent, so the number of troops deployed in Britain was not large. Many desperate wizards also fled to the remote British Isles, and the British magic world was the first to establish an orthodox magic school to protect underage wizards, so that they could protect themselves well, learn to hide better, and understand stronger means of counterattack.

Therefore, it is not that the proportion of monks born in China is too high, but that the West has hit pure blood too hard.

In addition, the Eastern monk world still maintains the concept of having more children, giving birth to more pure-blood children, even if the blood of mixed-blood monks is stronger than that of ordinary wizards.

These factors added together, multiplied by China's population base, are the number that beats the world, and the quality that beats the world except for the two East Asian countries.

In the early 17th century, in Sweden, which ended the witch hunt earlier, King Gustav II armed his army with spring-wheel firearms and achieved excellent results in the Thirty Years' Muggle War, making linear tactics attract the attention of all of Europe.

After the International Statute of Secrecy came into effect, European countries embarked on a path of self-destruction, gradually equipped with firearms, replacing the traditional knight training and national mobilization system.

Then came the familiar colonial era of strong ships and powerful guns.