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Chapter One: Where am I? Part 1: Weird History

Chapter One: Where am I? Part 1: Weird History

I stand up, I was wearing a pajama, I never saw it before and I found it a little strange, I always hated this color and why am I wearing it? I'm used to sleeping naked not mentioning waking up early.

I changed into a T-shirt and a jean went outside of the room.

"Take this 20 dinars, go buy some onion, tomatoes, potatoes, Lettuce, chicken, and paprika. I'm gonna make Pasta and French fries today"

That meal is weird. I took the money and went outside. In the street, I saw Roads full of Diesel cars, this is too old and I know that it didn't last too long, it's in the past. Did I just time travel?

I went to the nearest Supermarket, it wasn't hard to find it even though I'm not from here. I got what the woman that looked like my mom told me to buy.

"Hello, I would like to buy this, please"

The man stared at me weirdly.

"I didn't know you are kind. that would be 13 dinars"

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"Here's your change"

"thanks, see you later"

"Have a good day, tchao"

I took the bill and went outside the supermarket, I looked at the paper and found that today is 12.03.2018, that's the same Monday I left to Mars. That means I didn't time Travel. I think I just wake up in a parallel Universe.

I know how to go back to the house I wake up in. But I figure out that exploring the Area is better, so I made a Tour in the Block.

I was shocked by what I saw, this is very weird and disturbing. Weird ideas written on the walls like "Fall to the government" and " Immigrants should get out of this country". Why are humans hating each other?

"Wearing a foulard is a foreign Culture, it doesn't belong here so you don't belong here, get out!!" a Man said that to a woman while I was passing by.

This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

This did happen in my world but in the past, human brain developed enough to figure out that we are all the same and cultures have the same goal, to make us live better and happy. So all cultures belong to humanity. You can solve mathematical problems with different methods and you can live your life in different Cultures. No culture belong to anybody, it belongs to everybody.

In my world, hate was in the past, when people were fighting to make the world under one religion, there were too many of them, so the fight could be forever but instead thanks to the knowledge share, people figure out that we are all the same and with solidarity we can achieve our goals better, faster and make the impossible possible. So peace ruled the world for centuries.

But this world is different, it's catastrophic, I need to know what happened, to do that I need to get access to the internet and do some research to get some information.

So I went back to the house I woke up in, gave the groceries to my mom and went straight to the room which must be mine. I opened a device looked like an old ass computer. We had internet in the house but it was too slow, 1GB/ sec, it would take hours to download a game or a database with that speed.

I found a website called " Wikipedia", someone made a website to share information in it, that's cool in a world like this.

I started looking for historical events. the ancient history is the same, the beginning of the Middle ages too but the point where all began to change is the Mongol invasion of the Abbasid caliphate which led to the destruction of one of the most famous libraries in the history of Mankind "Dar el Hekma" (House of Wisdom)

"With all other libraries in Baghdad, the House of Wisdom was destroyed by the army of Hulagu during the Siege of Baghdad. The books from Baghdad’s libraries were thrown into the Tigris River in such quantities that the river ran black with the ink from the books."

Those books were meant to be translated in many languages and start some revolutionary movements like the Renaissance which I found out it happened in this world but slow and late which made this world 2 centuries or more late.

I kept searching, I found out that too many events happened in the age of Rising like plagues, world wars, and colonization which divided this world to 195 nations, in mine, we were united.

There are some weird problems in this world like overpopulation, we didn't have that issue, maybe because we exploited more resources from the earth and other planets, out population is 6 times this world's population, 50 billion to be precise.

The bad thing in this world, Humans here are in desperate need to develop scientifically faster which would be easier if they unite. we predict that earth will face massive destruction events in the next century, we are safe in my universe because we have the tools to prevent the predicted danger but here, they don't.

If humans here don't change they will face extinction.