(Herodotus) Civ Game 2: Electric Boogaloo

(Herodotus)

Ladies, gentlemen, men and women of all ages, this is a tale of the time before time, the primordial ages. In the beginning there were seven humans, each assigned a portion of the world to take patronage of. In the south was King Max of Africa, in the east was King Adam of Babylon, in the north were King James of the Assyrian hordes, Queen Grace of Asia and Queen Kirby of Thrace, in the west was Emperor Connor of Italia, and in the center was King Quillin of the Isle of Crete. And this was the Beginning.

In the years after the beginning the world leaders began propagating their lands and expanding so as to increase their land. Of particular note in this age was King James' migration towards The Levant in his desire to take Crete, which in his Envy he believed belonged to him. This caused much unease for the neighboring leaders, especially Queen Grace and King Adam, who believed that King James was intruding upon lands that rightfully belonged to them. Once King James reached the coast he ordered his men to cut down entire forests to provide the boats needed to sail to Crete. Once he landed upon the island King James suffered massive losses still managed to drive the Cretans from their homeland. However, despite his victory, King James was struck by enlightenment and realized that he had given into the devil by indulging his negative inclinations. It was after this enlightenment that King James realized the only way to appease God was to kill ALL of his men, which he then promptly did, after which he committed suicide himself. This is where most theologians agree that The First Age ended

The second age of this world is what we call The Age of Terrors, a thousand years of death and destruction wrought by God upon the cities of the world. It all started with the earthquake that destroyed the ancient and holy Thracian city of Byzantium, after this was the civil war in Babylon, where Italian defectors took many of the cities of the Babylonian heartland and proclaimed them their own. After many years of war between the two factions, there was a great flood and all of the Italian rebels were wiped out,a blessing sent to Babylon seemingly by god. At nearly the same time there was another great civil war, this time in the kingdom of Africa, where much of the eastern African kingdom declared themselves Assyrians and declared war on the African King. After many years of this fighting, there was a great famine in both Assyria and Africa, wiping out many of the armies on both sides. Also at this time was another flood in the Babylonian heartlands, though this time the effect was less severe to due to clever Babylonian building techniques. After this the great tide of calamities finally subsided, and most historians consider this the end of The Age of Terror. Despite it's rather ominous name, this age did see the development of many new technologies by all of the kingdoms, particularly the Africans and Babylonians, whose capitals were cultural and technological marvels at the end of the Age. 

The beginning of the third and current age is marked by a great vote amongst the nations, a vote on who would be the one civilization to rule them all. There was much intrigue between the nations leading up to this vote and many unexpected decisions were made. The two leading nations were Babylon and Africa, and nearly all expected that one of these two would win this vote. However, the Cretans unexpectedly gave their vote to the Assyrians due to a favor owed to by the Cretan King to the Assyrian King. The Italians also gave their vote to Assyria due to an alliance with the Italians. The Babylonians voted for themselves, obviously, and also secured the Assyrian vote due to some slightly less than legal trades. However, the ultimate winner was Asia due to comparatively undeveloped country receiving both the Thracian and African votes for reasons that this historian simply cannot figure out. Dissatisfied with the result of the vote the Babylonians vowed to lead themselves and never be lead by the Asians, a decision which will likely have severe repercussions in the years to come. 

(Polybius) history as a whole

Civ 1 

I am told by all I am surrounded by in the cannibalistic city state known as Crete that before my time there were only 14 humans in existence, each paired off creating 7 groups of 2. Over the course of 3000 years Emperor Adomos of Rome founded his first city which was named Rome and Jamible of the cannibals crafted the first boat by killing 2 people and tying them together with vines.  After 1000 years the other societies began to follow in the steps of Rome and away from the steps of the cannibals. Queen Grace of Thrace created a boat actually made out of wood rather than corpses yet somehow it was just as effective as the raft. King Quillable of Africa built a boat out of wood and created their first city. Crete and Egypt made their cities around the same time. After the cities were built a group of Africans migrated to Sicily which angered the romans. The people of Thrace starve as they go to battle with Babylon and at the same time the Africans are battling with the romans over Cyprus. The forces of Africa and Rome unite and lead a charge against Egypt. Crete lost two cities from a volcano and a famine that occurred at the same time. The famine also occurred in Egypt and the people of Egypt lost one city. While the war raged on in Egypt there was a plague that wiped out all of the Egyptians. The world rejoiced at the death of the warmongers. jams was found dead in his tent by Pegan min. Pegan min becomes the new leader by killing all feral citizens and making cannibalism (finally) illegal. Let us hope no civilization to follow will repeat these mistakes. Pegan min allowed the people of Crete to learn music. All was looking in the right direction for Crete until an epidemic struck and was transferred to Thrace and Babylon. Both leaders were very displeased by this and declared war on Pegan min for occupying their land and killing a majority of their population. After this war is declared the African nation has a civil war when an Egyptian faction rises from their ranks. Crete at this point had all but three of the superpowers of the known world coming for their ruler’s head. After a huge assault on Crete there is a light for the idiotic warmonger that comes in the form of roman pirates that raid and destroy two of the Egyptians cities. After this Africa and Rome ally with Crete forming the allies while Thrace, Illyria, and Babylon join forces creating the AON (alliance of neutrality). The Cretans hold off the Egyptian invaders. Crete is ended by a famine that starved all the citizens to death. In Rome a guild of music lovers rose from the culture left from Crete. Rome had no music so they were divided culturally and one day the music lovers of Rome were tired of being persecuted by the roman citizens and peacefully left the roman legion and formed the Cretin Bards with two cities in Africa, one city in Crete, and one city in Cyprus, for a total of four cities. Their troops are located from northern and Eastern Africa, Crete, Greece, Cyprus, and northern Italy. Seeing the horrors of the war ridden world around them the bards fled to the homeland of the Cretans after many hardships they made it. They were safe and free.

 

Diplomacy

To keep those who are incapable of avoiding such mistakes as those of our ancestors out of power I will write down the events that took place between the Spring of 1901 and the Fall of 1906 to shed light on the European conflict known as the great war. In the Spring of 1906 the Eastern Alliance was formed from the combined forces of Russia, Turkey, and Austria-Hungary who vowed to conquer those who opposed their combined might. The Eastern Alliance was not the only group to be formed at the beginning of the so far cold war, The English France Coalition also sprung into power when the general of France took the monarch of England under his wing. If not for the German/Italian barrier between them the conflict between the two Factions would have begun much sooner, instead the English and French began taking northern coast cities from Germany causing the General to hold her position and fortify her countries defenses while Russia annexed Norway and Sweden. Once Norway and Sweden were under Alliance control the remaining two members made a land bridge that was between the Turkish and the Austrian-Hungarians by capturing Greece, Bulgaria, and Romania leaving the entire eastern part of Europe to the Alliance. The English and French gained more and more ground from the German coast so Russian troops in Sweden were ordered to support the German soldiers in Denmark to not let the enemy get to close. During this time of English invasion and of Russian defense the French were securing a new base even further west; France took Spain with no trouble in the least. The Eastern Alliance used the troops of Turkey and Russia to invade Italy while the Austrian-Hungarians guarded the boarder and slowly moved in. The words that the leader of Turkey spoke to the foolish leader of Italy were to be his undoing weather or not he followed the instructions “Vacate Italy”. As the army of Italy evacuated their home country leaving the Turkish to invade the French supported their supply point in Spain. The evacuation of Italy was a fool’s move that should never be repeated. Italy’s troops flee to North Africa and are followed by the French and Turkish. Turkey, Austria-Hungary, and France at this point are racing for the supply points in Italy while England continues to raid the coast of Germany. In the Fall of 1904 The Russian troops sail to northern England and take Edinburg for the Eastern alliance. The Italian troops are destroyed in their final charge against the Turkish. After Germany is left as the only neutral nation two Russian troops march into Germanys land but the leader of Russia is able to talk Russia out of conflict with Germany while he is still invading England. The English troops retreat from the German coast and moves his remaining fleets to his homeland to try to fend off the Russian invaders. Before anything can be done Liverpool is taken into Russian control and both supply points are heavily guarded. Tensions settle down in the spring of 1906 and finally resolve themselves in the fall of 1906 when a cease fire was voted for and the war ended before anymore had to suffer.

Civ 2

While the armies of the other civilizations settle and build cities while the Assyrian hoard marched to the island of Crete. Once the army made it to the shore they built ships and sailed to the Cretan city. The soldiers tried to make their way in the walls but died trying. More soldiers marched and brought down the city. After this the leader of Babylon stated “no girls allowed in Babylon” this made the Asian leader a bit cross. There was then an epidemic that caused Asia to lose all of its cities. After a famine and an epidemic that bled over from other civilizations the people of Assyria became mentally broken and decided to commit mass suicide. Nearly three quarters of Assyrians died before the civil war in Babylon that caused nationalistic roman rebels to take control of far too much. One final famine destroys the Assyrians and leaves their culture unguarded and unprotected from the harsh world. Babylon then kills the rebels after mourning the loss of a neighbor empire. A civil war in Africa brings the Assyrian rebels to life, the gardeners who just want to plant. They hold out for a long time until they are wiped out by the Africans and the Italians. After many famines and earthquakes there is yet another gardener revolution in Africa and then Asia won??

(Xenophon) The All Mighty Africans

Africa thrived from the beginning off the land abandoned in the Nile Delta by the nonexistent Egypt. In a blink of an eye it seemed, Africa had developed 9 cities that its leader was able to successfully sustain. Africa stayed neutral from the majority of conflict except that of the evil Assyrians. The evil Assyrians took over the Africans' land during civil war after Assyria's empire had already fallen. One would think that Assyria would be thankful to have a new empire after their self destruction. BUT NO. That is untrue. Assyria took advantage of receiving cities and men adjacent to Africa. Assyria attacked the innocent Africans who had been through so much during the civil war. Assyria continued frequently to invade Africa's territory out of pure hatred. Assyria's hatred got in the way of its success. Their leader was willing to put it all on the line in order to take out Africa. This meant killing even more of its innocent people. This was wrong. Assyria's invasion deflected any chance of improvement in their civilization as well as them becoming the least technologically advanced city. Assyria's personal strategy affected their success on land and in technology in addition to murdering so many innocent people. The Africans never let this get to their head and remained strong throughout. They continued to rebuild following civil war and advanced technologically. Africa did not go after Assyria but put up a front in order to save its people and success. Follow the African leader's ethics, he knew what to do.

(Livy)History isn't fun without war

The few decades or centuries of the development of these civilizations have been uneventful and boring. The only major events were the Assyrians rising, falling, rising, and falling again. Africa and Assyria kept minor conflict during these times, but out of their hatred of each other. Most of this fighting was personal and not at all to strengthen their civilization. This was definitely not the best route to go. Taking your hatred over your civilization can cause the destruction of that civilization. The only reason that Assyria was able to come back so many times from the dead was because of the multiple civil wars occurring in multiple civilizations. Although Assyria would gain land, they would soon be wiped out from famines or epidemics in other civilizations. Assyria did not realize at the time that its actions affected the other nations' views of him. They soon all banned together to get rid of Assyria. From the beginning, this had occurred. So everyone remember your actions can affect your future especially the death of your people in civilization.

(Thucydides)Civilization finale

Italy has prospered over the past couple of days, besides the other cultural groups finding more land and resources to help their culture grow into a civilization Italy has prospered in funding their city's building cities and making deals with their neighbors. Such as when Italy gave up Sicily just so Africa and Crete could coincide. And they were pretty good at helping out their neighbors from their enemies, like when Italy wiped out the last of the fake Cretans. But unfortunately Italys race to culture ascension was some how beaten by the Asians. They say that history is written by the victors, then surely I have the right to say that I have won the battle against the occult known as the Assyrians.

(Tacitus) Goodbye

The Afro-Assyrian rebels attempt to stay alive and work with the other civilizations, but most of what they get is just violence and disappointment. Asia continues to rebuild and successfully gains medicine for its people and astronomy for its sailors and navy. It also stays out of a lot of conflict, as Babylon is primarily concerned with developing its civilization as Asia is. Thrace and Asia have always been on good terms so there was never any conflict between the two to begin with. The death of the Assyrians by the Italians at Sicily marked true end of any important development by all the civilizations. The two most advanced of all of the civilizations were Babylon and Africa, but Asia, Thrace and Crete were all fairly advanced as well. In the end, what makes a civilization(or civilizations) great is not by conquering all the land but by working with other civilizations to advance for the good of all.

(Livy)The beginning, the end, and then the beginning again for Assyria

It all began with the argument. Who should be the leader of Crete? Former leader of Crete wanted to be able to lead again. We know in past history this leader failed at leading the empire of Crete. The United Civilizations (later becoming the United Nations) made an unanimous decision to ban him from leading Crete again. Leader James decided to become Assyria following all the others leaders' decisions. From the beginning, Assyria hunted and ran after Crete. This was the beginning of the fall of the Assyrian empire. The desire to take over Crete led to the death of innocent people of Assyria and later the total self destruction of its empire. The first bad strategy was to avoid building cities or bringing improvement into its civilization and just move all troops toward Crete. This led to overpopulation and the death of many people. I think that Assyria should not have put its desires of the needs of its civilization to thrive. Later the Assyrian leader learned that he would be unsuccessful in taking over Crete. Following, he started the destruction of his own empire and killing off its population. A famine was the last straw and wiped out the entire empire. One would think this was the end for Assyria, but that would be wrong. Assyria returned following a civil war in Africa. This led to them taking parts of the Nile Delta. With Assyria's past, they had problems sustaining the cities they took during the civil war. Hopefully Assyrian leader will act and think rashly in the near future.

(Xenophon) The Return of Empires: Round 2

All started with the development of the empires of Italy, Thrace, Asia Minor, Assyria, Babylon, Crete, and Africa. The slowly but surely development of these empires had their events, rises, and falls. From the beginning, there was a hatred from Assyria over the land of Crete. The Assyrian king desired that land with all of its heart and would do anything for it. Assyria never got a break on its venture toward Crete. Their leader kept getting in people's territory especially with Babylon. Africa quickly rose to the top, this was with the consideration and strategy of taking advantage of the Nile Delta. Africa also took advantage of building a city on Sicily and later made an agreement with Crete to share Sicily. Africa, in this time, did a good job at expanding across the region from Sicily to the Nile Delta, as well as, kept good relations with many of its fellow empires. Africa did have some conflict with Assyria in order to back Africa's ally, Crete. Assyria failed at its one desire to make Crete a part of its empire. Assyria decided to kill off its people. ALL OF ITS PEOPLE. This came as a surprise to all of the other empires. It was unnecessary and without reason. The leaders tried to talk him out. Assyria did make a return from a civil war in Africa although did not seem likely to be successful and able to sustain its new land. What was going on in Assyria's mind? Maybe the future will tell.

(Xenophon) Is One Land Mass Not Enough?

The leader of the Italy (or what used to be Italy) was in complete utter outrage.  Turkey came in and forced an all out surrender of Italy with no warning. Turkey just wanted power and it got it. But even after taking Italy, its leader decided it had to have more. Being greedy as usual. The greedy Turkey leader went after the last Italian supply center of Tunis. This wiped Italy out. In my opinion, there was no need for this annihilation of the Italian nation. Even after taking Italy's homeland, Turkey still desired more. Italy never did anything to Turkey. Russia, at around the same time, decided to go after England without warning. Russia desired more which happens in almost all of history. In this part, Russia wanted more supply centers, more armies, and more fleets even if that broke alliances. Both leaders were determined to get as many supply centers as possible. This is a good strategy if you were not concerned about peace at the time. In these years, Germany and Austria remained completely neutral. You can see this in records as they avoided all conflict and at the same time never got attacked. Although they did not get involved with conflict, they sustained a moderate number of supply centers. In the end of 1906, the nations decided on a draw and a truce. End of everything.

(Livy) Giving Up Isn't The Best Thing

Following the surrender of the Italian empire prior to 1904, three different nations decided to invade Italy. Turkey was the first to convince Italy to leave, although it did not take much to do so. Turkey invaded one of former Italy's supply centers. Austria and France followed suit. I believe these to all be good strategies to strengthen their forces. Turkey decided they had not taken enough from the Italian empire, so in Fall of 1904 Turkey invaded Tunis. Tunis, at the time prior to the invasion, belonged to the Italian empire and was their last standing supply center. Following this, the Italian empire was knocked off the map. Turkey and Russia held the best strategies in these times since they expanded and did not hold back. Russia invaded England in a surprise attack. Russia took over the supply center in Edinburgh in Fall 1904 and moved its army into Liverpool. Expansion was the best strategy in the first decade. We can see this the records of Russia and Turkey's expansion and gain of supply centers. Turkey and Russia also were exclusive as to who were their allies. They avoided having complete neutrality, like Germany and Austria did. Both Russia and Turkey did not have more than one or two allies with this came more territory to attack. They fulfilled their attacks not only by depopulating the region, but also taking their supply centers. I believe Russia and Turkey's strategies are ones that we should look at in the future as reference to gain advantages.

(Thucydides) peace preach speech

I The leader of the Roman Empire would like to preach peace to the Babylonians for the incident of taking your cities. My men had wandered off somewhere with out warning anyone from our camps and took the strongest and valuable weapons from the camp without permission as well. I'm afraid to say that they are yours to do with as you please. I know your people want to go to war but I ask for peace. For the sake of our families for the sake of our children don't ask for war.

(Tacitus) The Asia Strikes Back

Asia, in its beginnings, had really only one true enemy, and even that is a stretch. Assyria's main quibble with Asia was that Assyria must return to "their homeland", which is Crete, and it wanted to march through Asia minor, claimed to be the sacred land of Asia. Crete, though, is a fairly peaceful  and kind land, shown through its proactivity of asking Asia if it may have the islands surrounding Asia minor before going there. The Empress of Asia is quoted as saying, "The islands are not my business." The Empress did not want to get involved in the scuffles between Assyria and Crete, as early war could create stagnation in the advancement of her civilization. There were many scuffles between Assyria and Crete, with Crete generally succeeding in defending their homeland. The Empress of Asia soon asks its other neighbor, Babylon, if Asia may build a city near Babylon. Babylon's King responds with, "I am building there. No girls allowed." This makes the Empress laugh and there is no grudge held towards Babylon. Then, when things were looking amazing for Asia, an earthquake demolishes a city and then an epidemic from Africa wipes out the remaining cities. This almost crushes the morale of the Empress, but she realizes that her people can rebuild and push through. This epidemic also hits Assyria, destroying the population, as Assyria had no cities. This pleases Crete. Meanwhile, an rouge African naval officer makes his way over to the Assyrian coast and destroys the Assyrians where they landed. Babylon continues to protect its lands from Babylon as Asia rebuilds. A civil war in Babylon brings out the Italian sympathizers, who claim three cities. Though this rebellion is quickly squashed by floods and fighting. The Assyrian civilization falls at the same time as Asia enters into the Late Bronze Age and the Asian people feel a sense of sweet retribution. This does not last long however, as the former leader of the Assyrians rises again from a civil war in Africa.These African-Assyrian rebels get a small part of the Eastern African Empire, and is soon to be attacked by the Western and remaining parts of the Eastern African Empire. The leader of the Afro-Assyrian rebels made a speech to his followers: "Today gentlemen and women, we fight not for domination of the land, but for the right to plant our beautiful flowers. Roses, daisies, sunflowers and anything else the land could hold. For we Assyrians have gone down the path of violence and it has led us to ruin. History will remember us as the civilization that fought not for Crete, but for the peace of our people."
The mighty Assyrian leader seems to think that the African leader will really let him sit there in his territory when he has been shown to be violent and aggressive towards other civilizations.

(Herodotus) Civilization 2: Judgement Day

(Herodotus)

This, my children, is the final tale of the days of yore, when the world was still young and all of God's peoples struggling to become supreme when they knew that only one could in the end. It was ultimately the will of God that propelled the Roman peoples to heights they had never even dreamed of and cast down the other pretender civilizations. The time that we now refer to as the Final Ages officially began with the sacking of an Illyrian city by Egyptian pirates, who had gone so long without seeing the light of God that they knew not even how to work metals and instead fought with their teeth and nails. In this age even though there were great advancements made by the Africans and Romans in the fields of culture and philosophy, heresy and iconoclasm ran rampant amongst the lesser civilizations, with entire cities turning their backs on god and then being struck down by His might. In the finals years of this age the only safe places to hide from heretics, pirates and the many dangerous beasts of the world were the African and Roman empires, and both seemed destined to continue their glory forevermore. However, the African king known only as The Quill soon took power after his father's untimely demise, and he proclaimed himself, as the leader of the largest empire in the world, as being God's equal. This hubris did not go unnoticed and soon the African Empire was beset by plagues, entire cities destroyed by great volcanic eruptions or captured by savage Egyptian pirates. Next came the famines and pestilences, which all but wiped out the African peoples and soon only the Romans were left, rewarded for their obedience with 1,000 years of peace and prosperity. And that, my children, is how the story of the First Nations came to its close. 

(Herodotus) Like WWI, but not

(Herodotus)

In the spring of the year 1901 an event occurred whose repercussions would shake the world, the king of France was murdered by spanish assassins who were later revealed to have had backing from the Italian monarch. This naturally called for war, so the new king of France called his longtime ally the king of England against the Italians, who called on the aid of the Queen of Germany. In fear of being conquered by the newly formed military alliances The Eastern Coalition was formed by the Ottoman, Austria-Hungarian and Russian empires, the EC vowed to remain neutral in the conflict and only step in if things truly got out of hand.  

The first year of the war mostly consisted of the alliances consolidating their power, with the Ottoman Empire annexing Bulgaria and Greece, The Austria-Hungarian Empire annexing Rumania, the Russian Empire annexing Norway and Sweden, Italy conquering Tunisia and Germany. France also invaded Spain in retribution for the assassination and decided to take Portugal as well. The British-French Coalition also attempted a policy of containment on their German neighbor, annexing Belgium and Holland.  

In 1902 the war began in earnest with the German attempted invasion of holland, which was handily repulsed by British ground troops aided by the French navy. However the real highlight of 1902 was when, on august the 17th, the Ottoman navy arrived in Naples and declared property of the Turks, thus breaking the Eastern Coalition's vow of neutrality and situating Italy between two hostile forces, an incredibly large scale pincer attack. The Ottoman Emperor ultimately managed to convince the Italian king to withdraw all of his troops from mainland Italy in exchange for Italy retaining control of Tunisia, which the king of Italy spent much of 1903 doing. Thus ended the first years of what would come to be known as The Great War. 

It was in 1904 that the next paradigm shift in the war occurred, again brought about by a member of the Eastern Coalition. Despite the chaos that would occur later in the year the first half of 1904 was relatively uneventful, with the main event being the divvying up of Italian territory between France, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. The ultimate agreement that was Naples would go to the Ottomans, Rome to the Austrians and Venice to France. It was the latter half of 1904 that was truly interesting though, and it all began with the Italian sneak attack on marseille as the retreat from Italy was underway. Not much later Turkish troops landed in Tunisia and proclaimed it the territory of the Ottoman Empire, marking the second time in the war that the Ottoman Empire had betrayed a promise in favor of gaining land from the Italians. While the world was still reeling from the shocking invasion of Tunisia, the Russian Empire launched it's own surprise attack, this one targeting Edinburgh. This attack obviously outrage the British-French coalition, who immediately changed tactics in favor of regaining the Isles.  

In 1905, the war started petering out, with France reclaiming marseille from the Italian occupiers. Later that year the Russian troops in Edinburgh moved south and took Liverpool and the English attempt to retake Edinburgh was repulsed by the Russian navy. In December 1905 the very last Italian army was finally defeated and the great powers of the world drew up a preliminary cease fire. 

(Thucydides) Just another world conquering/ war pt.2

It is now the fall of 1906 the European age of conquest is over, we have not taken the amount of land that we wouldev liked though. It turns out that Russia had betrayed the alliance we had and took Edinburg and York all that we had was London and Belgium. France was at our side once they attacked but could do little to help due to their distance and killing off Italy. But when the war ended those damn commies stepped in some deep mud! As they heard that the rest of their army had left them the rest of their army was wiped out. The leader of that battalion: Vladimir James Putins escaped the conflict back to Russia where later he became known and arrested as the red ripper. He was known as the red ripper because of him murdering men, women, and eating the children alive. And they lived happily ever after. The end.

(Tacitus) The "End" of Diplomacy, or was that actually diplomacy?

The Italians were wiped from the face of the Earth after the evacuation of Italy and the colonization of Northern Africa, due to the attacks from the Ottomans. The Ottomans then took North Africa for themselves. Eventually, Russia makes a clever tactical move to move into Edinburg after Britain leaves to help defend France from Germany. This frightens both the French and the British, so they attempt to defend the island, but end up making a strategic misstep and Russia gains another supply center in Liverpool. Afterwards, attempts to have Austria-Hungary join Russia in an invasion of Germany, but Austria declines this and informs Germany of this plan. It is unclear if Germany felt that this invasion would happen though, as Russia did move two troops into Eastern Germany and there were no German forces. Austria-Hungary struck a deal with France and Ottoman Empire and gained Rome for itself. Eventually, Austria-Hungary got tired of all this waiting around and felt that it would be eventually invaded, so the leader Archduchess Grace Gracen proposed that there should be a full truce between all of countries, to which there was a full agreement to. Archduchess Grace Gracen is known as the Truce Master.

(Tacitus)Whose the best?

Out of all the accounts, I believe that Adam's(Herodotus's) accounts were the best for a historian, just because he goes into a lot of detail about the events that happen, their causes and effects and covers all of the different civilizations as well as his own. Although, he often explains the causes of events and history as mythical/mystical. For example, when Rome decides to help Africa defeat Egypt, Adam describes that this decision was made because the archangel Gabriel came down and told him that it was God's will for him to intervene.

(Livy) The Start of War..Eww

It all began in 1901 when Turkey, Italy, Austria, France, England, Russia, and Germany started expanding and going to war. The Spring and Fall of 1901 were pretty smooth with the leaders strategizing on where to expand to and who were their allies. France's strategy seemed to be to take over the supply centers in the areas surrounding it. In Spring 1901, France took over Belgium in order to strengthen its forces in France. Since with the more supply centers there comes more forces, France decided to take over Spain and Portugal. I believe this to be a very smart move since the only threat would be Italy which you will later learn about. In Fall 1901, France gets power over Spain and later Portugal. England allies with its close pal, France. Since England is an island country, their leader realized that it has to be almost entirely dependent on fleets. England took over Holland after Germany failed to write their orders correctly. England was unable to expand more after Russia's good strategy of taking over Sweden and Norway. England continued its support for France for the three years that has occurred. With England and France having taken Holland and Belgium, Germany took Denmark in order to get another supply center. I am unsure about Germany's strategy of avoiding war with Russia since they took Sweden and Norway. I think that Germany's leader may need to reconsider since both Sweden and Norway contain supply centers which would strengthen forces in Germany. Austria did the obvious strategy of expanding the adjacent neutral areas to gain supply centers. Italy was a special case between the years of 1901 to 1903. Their leader decided to take the African coast with a supply center in Tunis. I believe this to be a good move, but then late 1902 and spring 1903 happen. Turkey decided to take over Italy without giving any aid to Italy. Italy's leader vacated Italy without a fight or asking for anything. I believe this was a terrible idea, Italy left its home country with nothing and only one fleet left. This tactic of leaving gave Turkey three supply centers along with the couple that it had gained in the neutral territory. By vacating, Italy was left with only Tunis on the African Coast. This gave Turkey full advantage to the treasures in Italy and strengthening its forces. Russia took over Sweden and Norway during this time which caused them to gain two supply centers and strength. There has been alot of expansion and land is running out, so conflict is sure to occur in dew time.

(Xenophon) It all started in 1901

A new journey occurred for the leaders of now new countries. With the past behind them, the leaders embarked on a whole new adventure. This one being warfare. Those with a war mindset was excited for this since the new countries now entered war. France made the first war tactic by taking the Belgium base next to Germany. Germany's strategy was to take over at least Holland and possibly even Belgium. This was changed after the allies of France and England took both. Germany's incorrect orders led to the lose of Holland which was taken by one of England's fleets. Russia moved westward toward Sweden and Norway. Their leader strategized to get these two countries quickly so that no one else would. Turkey and Austria banded together to divide up the neutral territory near their countries such as Budapest and Rumania. Italy moved westward toward the African coast which led to the weakening of forces in its country. This weakened defense led to Turkey's invasion. Turkey strategized and persuaded Italy to surrender its homeland. This was less strategy and more manipulation as well as Italy not holding its ground. But Turkey was also evil in even taking over Italy, but did this because of all the supply centers it would receive. France's leader strategized to get Spain and Portugal although it seems that Italy could invade from the African coast at any moment, since it is so close. There was some conflict in Spain between Italy and Spain, but Italy did not withhold enough power to take over France. France and England continuously supported each other especially in Holland and Belgium in fear that Germany could invade. Germany took Denmark to receive another supply center, although their leader continuously had an eye out for Holland and Belgium. Let the invasions continue, hopefully with more conflict.

(Thucydides) Just another world conquering/ war pt.1

The starting year of conquest began on the spring of 1901, almost all of Europe is in seek of conquering land not of their own. I am apart of the English army to conquer any land for the taking. We eventually sided with the French army, we vowed to not invade or take any land that either of us want or to attack each other for land. So far the French have been very good to our men, they even took down one of their supply stations just so we could build one. I now know why we trust them so much. Our mission is to conquer I think it was 18 supply stations on any land that we make our own. We recently made a treaty with turkey and Russia but I fear that either one of them may turn on us at any time.

(Tacitus) Two years in two hours

The Austrian Hungarian Empire has allied itself with both The Ottoman Empire and Russia to form the Eastern alliance. At this same time, France and England have formed an alliance as well, which is strange for two countries with a history like theirs, so this comraddery is very suspect. What could they be planning? Austria-Hungary is attempting to stay out of any conflict or war, which so far has gone very well. Russia's expansion and conquest of the Nordic countries will, inevitably, lead to conflict or even war with England and France. It is not clear if Germany will aid Russia in the event of conflict, as France and England took Belgium and Holland, which boarders Germany and Germany wanted to expand into those lands. The reason for England and France taking Holland and Belgium is so England can have armies on mainland Europe, as England is isolated from the rest of Europe by ocean. Eventually, Italy was forced out of Italy and pushed into North Africa by the Ottomans, who have already collected a lot of power. There was no Italian resistance to this invasion. Italy's inaction is suspicious, as in early 1903 it planned to conquer Spain, but was foiled by the French naval forces that reside there. Soon, both alliances, the Eastern Alliance and the British-Franco alliance came an agreement to spilt the land of Italy. Austria-Hungary already controlled the land of Apulia, and was promised Venice by the Ottomans. But France told Austria-Hungary that they would give them Rome. However, BOTH of these lands were taken by France and the Ottomans. France took Venice, as agreed, but the Ottomans took Rome and clearly did not tell the other that Austria-Hungary was allowed both lands. France was very apologetic to Austria-Hungary about the Ottomans seizing Rome, but the Ottomans did not really say anything on the matter. Austria-Hungary hopes it can have a supply center somewhere in Italy as promised, and is ready to have some discussions with France and The Ottomans about this matter. Meanwhile, Germany and Austria-Hungary have kept peace and not trampled into each other's land. This is most likely because there is full, clear conversation between the two countries about expansion and boarders.

(Livy) Civil Wars Can Make Or Break You

From the beginning of civilization, Illyria and Thrace have always been allies and peers discussing strategy. Bothh leaders took each others' moves and powers into consideration. During the later eras, Both Illyria and Thrace were hit by civil wars in their territories. Luckily at the time, all other empire were still on the map although some were not very powerful. Thrace was hit first by a civil war. Thrace retained the large faction in the civil war after both illyria and thrace strategized through so that Thrace would have enough cities and people too keep them sustained and not have a surplus. Shortly after Thrrace's civil war, Illyria was hit by a civil war. Again the two allies thought through what was a reasonable amount to give to Thrace. I believe that when both discuss then there can be conflict avoided and cities can stay sustained. Civil War can really help fellow civilization. Another during this time was the Italian Civil War which brought Crete back onto the map in Crete, Cypress, and the Nile Delta. Before the Italian civil war, Crete was nonexistent after many calamities and conflict after invading Illyria and Thrace without asking. We know in previous history how a civil war brought back Egypt after being destroyed by three different civilization in the absence of their leader. Civil War can make or break you, without careful strategizing you may give up alot of your population, but without that population you are unable to sustain those cities that remain. In the end after all the ages and calamities, Italy stood most powerful with being the most techonologically advanced. 

Comeback and absurd killing of itself

(Xenophon)

Following Crete's absurd and wrongful strategies of invading Illyria and Thrace and leading to them dying, Crete comeback from an Italian civil war. If Crete had not been wiped off the map, I believe the land and territory would have gone to Italy's long standing ally, Africa. Crete received land and people in Crete, Cypress, the Nile Delta, and the coast of Illyria. Although Crete got a large sum of land, this did not last for long as the leader's absurdity and impromptu strategies will return in later events. Although its leader (James) say he will not go to war anymore, Illyria and Thrace do not believe him and refuse to allow him on their land. Once Crete gets its land, their leader goes mad since he disagrees with many of the other civilization of where he can go. There is disagreement with his placement in the Nile Delta since both Africa and Italy want to withhold that land from themselves. Italy and Africa agree to assist Crete in water transportation, but there is not many place to go without conflict occuring. While all these events with Italy, Crete, and Africa occur, Thrace became quite powerful with the maximum of nine cities, enough people to sustain those cities, and the majority of the Asia Minor territory. A civil war occurred in Thrace and their leader gives the people and land to its long standing ally of Illyria. This will later change when Illyria gets a civil war and give the land back. Although Crete made a comeback, their insane leader then tried to kill itself with a large amount of calamities. This was wrong of their leader he is killing and destroying his innocent people for no apparent reason. I do not understand the strategy or excitement over calamities and weakening its empire. In the end, Italy becomes most powerful from having the most superior technology as well as a wide expanded empire across the map. I think that Italy's strategies were right and staying quiet and away from conflict was in its best interest. 

(Thucydides)Divine Death Ensemble pt. 3: finale

(Thucydides)
Egypt quickly regrouped their soldiers and forced them to breed so their population could grow for more soldiers. While Italy focused on bringing his people above all of the other cultures around him. To be the master race. Italy may actually accomplish that goal with a little more discoverys and creations. While the Cretans wanted the same goal, they couldn't because they were almost uncivilized and at one point ate each other and made ships out of their own people's corpses because of one natural disaster that wiped out an island full of their inhabitants. The Thracians at first wanted full on conquest, in time they realized that would be impossible due to the numbers of the cultures around. Instead the Thracians formed an alliance with Illyria and Babylon to help out if anyone attacked either of them and to stay as neutral as possible. while later The cretins the Italians and the Africans formed an alliance to take as much land and to help Italy rise above the other cultures. Nothing much really happened to Egypt, but when Italy finally rose above Egypt's ingenuity let them to stay in the Stone Age. Babylon stayed in the early iron age. Thrace and Illyriaboth made it to the late Iron Age. Africa nearly made it toThe early bronze age but was beaten by Italy. Out of all of these cultures I think Italy turned out to be the most authoritative. Because if they said they wanted to build a city in Babylon's territory they would've had no choice but to let him due to The number of soldiers Italy had and the power they have gained over the last couple of days.

(Tacitus) The actual final round: Italy conquers, but Thrace thrives on.

This round, Egypt is still not yet defeated, only small factions of the Egyptian rebellion forces exist and occupy the area near Crete, Illyaria and Thrace. The reason for no civilization going to destroy him was the fear that he would rise, as he has before, from a civil war. There was a civil war in Thrace, and Queen Grace of Thrace gave the western half of her empire to Illyaria, for the only other person it could go to would be the leader of the Egyptian rebels, who is still unnamed. Queen Grace of Thrace did not trust the Rebel Leader to not invade her and the other civilizations and trusted Queen Kirbia to maintain the Western Empire and not attack Queen Grace of Thrace from the inside, due to their long standing alliance that has never been broken or compromised. However, a civil war broke out in Italy, with the rebels being musicians who were upset that there was only drama and theatre in Italy and wished to start their own musical country. This rebellion is led by the former leader of Crete, but Emperor Adomos helped the leader of Crete, James, get back to Crete. This assistance was likely given because Emperor Adomos wanted James out of his land and off the boundary with Illyaria. However, later, Crete started working his way onto Cyprus, the Babylonian coast, into Illyaria's outer coastline and near Thrace. The colonization of Babylon's coast was first marked(according to Italy and Crete)by an earthquake, killing many Createn troops. The Createn army then sent heretics into Connor's land, toppling two cities. However, the Babylonian offcials say that the heretics came before the earthquake, which brings up a certain moral quibble; was it right for the, if we trust Italy and Crete's story, for the Createn's to attack in revenge of an earthquake? An earthquake is a natural event and Babylon cannot control that.  But if you look at it from Babylon's side, Crete did begin colonizing on Babylon's coast without any real negotiation with Babylon. So they kind of started it. Crete, on the East Thracian coast, eventually struck a deal with Thrace that Crete may occupy a small portion of Thrace's land for a brief period of time as long as they give Thrace good crops and exports and Crete will take Thrace's bad crops and exports. The reasoning for this is, I believe, is that the population of Crete would decrease so that the population could fit on the Createn homeland, or home island I should say. Alas, this gift from the Thracians didn't really matter in the end, as Crete suffered a famine and an epidemic, brutally killing off his people, weakening his state greatly. The final blow was a volcanic eruption, which killed many people, and then a famine rose from that explosion, destroying the last standing cities of Crete. This depopulation also allowed Thrace to take back her states, allowing more Thracian flourishing. A bit before this, a civil war in Illyaria gave Thrace her Western Empire back and an island off of her eastern coast, as the two's alliance has caused them no strife towards each other and Kirbia had no real use for Thrace's land. Afterwards, Queen Grace of Thrace dictates that all the people in her land shall be educated in the language of their people; learning how to read and write. When Queen Grace of Thrace was at her most calm and content, something incredible happened, the Createns rose again from another civil war. To quote the inner monologues of Queen Grace of Thrace, "Those Createn's could be nuked and still survive, like cockroaches. Ew, cockroaches." They rose from Africa, and had some number of African cities, but were soon then destroyed by Babylonian pirates, most likely as retribution for the heresy the Createns sent into Babylon. Egypt, too, rises from another revolt in Africa, almost taking all but two of King Quillable's cities, but King Quillable realized he miscounted his men(and taxes) and defended his cities, and lost only two to the Egyptians. In the end, Italy was the most advanced of us all, likely because they made peace early with the Africans, focused on developing their nation and fighting Egypt and were not subject to any invasions of their land, unlike Thrace, Babylon and Africa.

A Change in Philsophy, Going from Neutral to All Out War

(Livy)
Today, there was a major change in the mindset of Illyria's leader after the surprise and very very UNNECESSARY invasion of its land by Crete. Apparently there was thought of talk about the Illyrian land, but there was no such thing according to Illyria'e leader. Illyria's leader was against starting or being involved in war as I spoke of in my previous. But this all changed with the unnecessary and bad decision making of the Cretian leader to come into Illyria's land. Illyria and Thrace continue their truce that they have established from the start. This meant that both Illyria and Thrace decided to declare war on Crete and destroy as much of it as possible. This was successful with the strong reinforcements, navy, and large population. Egypt's war based philosophy was involved in Illyria and Thrace's decisions, and Egypt strategized with us. A famine from Illyria finally wiped Crete off the map, after many conflicts and calamities. Italy has stayed quiet recently and advanced more in technology such as medicine. Babylon, in addition, has stayed quiet although their leader did conspire with Thrace and Illyria to take over Crete. Africa continues to spread and their leader say weird sayings every once in a while. Africa brought Egypt back onto the map after they had a civil war. Africa works with Egypt for a while by assisting them to transport their people away from Africa. Africa later decides to help and become allies with Crete, although this can not help the small population of Crete. In the end, Illyria has changed and you can blame that on Crete, if he had not invaded Illyria would still be neutral and a pacifist. Now its war Crete.

Waiting and Waiting Until A Civil War

(Xenphon)
The return of the Egyptian leader led to conspiracy and drama in the following events. After the disappearance of the Egyptian empire from the leader being gone, Egypt's leader decided while waiting for another empire to get a civil war which would bring back the empire that he would conspire and assist Thrace and Illyria to become warlike countries. After many events of no conflict from Illyria, an intrusion from its neighboring empire, Crete, led to the mandatory fight against Crete even though it broke Illyrian leader's philosophy of no warfare. Along with the invasion of Illyria, Crete also invaded its other adjacent neighbor, Thrace, since apparently there was a misunderstanding of who's land was what. Thrace and Illyria used their long standing alliance to fight against Crete. These two strong empires slowly but surely wiped out Crete after anger continued with Crete's leader's invading. Finally after all the waiting, Egypt was brought back into the fight from a civil war in Africa. Even though Egypt was back, this did not stop the want to destroy Egypt again. Crete did everything in its power, although having barely any, to destroy Egypt or convince others to band together to fight Egypt. Crete was losing his mind and outraged. Many were confused on Crete's intentions of invading fellow neighbors and desire to destroy Egypt. What has Egypt ever done to Crete. During all this conflict and war, Italy and Babylon stay mostly neutral and Italy becomes the most advance while holding the most cities. Italy still maintains the Nile Delta even though Egypt desires to go back, and EGYPT WILL RETURN. There will be more eventful information to come.

(Herodotus) Trouble in the Suez

(Herodotus)

Now children, gather round the fire pit and listen closely to a tale of revolution and intrigue, bravery and betrayal, pirates and potato famines. It all began with a relatively, at least in the grand scheme of history, uneventful outbreak of sickness in Cretan controlled Asia Minor. Despite the deadly calamity's effect on his people the Cretan King Jaman Min, who had taken control of Crete after the last leader was eaten, deliberately spread the plague to Thracian border towns and then moved in his own citizens when the Thracians died off. Naturally the leader of the Thracians, Queen Grace XXIX of Thrace, responded poor and she and her ally Queen Kirbia of Illyria declared war on the Cretans to reclaim the lost land. Also at this time, the last remaining member of the Egyptian royal family, a man known only as The General, wandered out of the Egyptian ruins, given a second chance at life by God. The General wandered the desert for 15 years before being picked up by a Thracian trade ship and brought to the capital of Thrace. Once there The General offered aid to the Thracian-Illyrian Alliance in their war against Crete, which the queens gladly accepted. But the heart of The General was not pure and he, like his ancestors, lusted for power and wealth and it was not long before he set his eyes upon the African colonies in Crete, they would be his. 

Also in this fabled time was the Roman and African Golden Age, brought on by the addition of fertile land from the Nile River to their respective empires. During this time the African empire stretched from Tunisia to Crete to Egypt and the Roman Empire spanned from Sardinia to Cyprus. Many great technological marvels were discovered in this time, and it was one of these that set off the chain of events that would lead to one of the greatest wars this world has ever known. Specifically when the Africans developed what they call "Engineering" that their Cretan colonies became rather dissatisfied with their African overlords. 

This was just the chance that The General needed and he immediatly set to work on instigating a rebbellion with him as the leader. This caused much unrest in Rome and Africa, as the two nations had sworn that no Egyptian leader would ever again be allowed to control land, as the Egyptians were simply too much of a warmonger. 

Now surrounded on all sides by enemies, Crete was quickly forced out of Asia Minor and Jaman Min and some of his most loyal followers fled to the North African Coast, where they later starved to death. Now that the Cretan war was no longer a concern for the African rebels with their Egyptian leader, Rome worried that The General would begin expansion into the Nile delta, land traditionally belonging to Egypt. To solve this problem before it became one Rome commited a most sneaky act and sent warships disguised as traders to raze the rebelling African cities to the ground, cutting off The General's source of income and leaving him with a paltry few troops, which he then used to sack a nearby Illyria city in an attempt to "Go out in a blaze of glory". A wish that was easily granted as The General lost roughly 70% of his remaining men in the siege. 

Also in this time was the fabled bardic rebellion, where the eastern Roman Empire, which believed music to be the highest form of art, revolted against their Italian masters, who believed theater to be the highes form of art. 

(Tacitus) This land is not your land, this land is my land. GET OFF

This round was very filled with war, resurgence and betrayal. My statement before about the state of Crete's ruler was in fact quite correct, not only did King Jannabis kill himself, but the new King, Jaman Min, began to encroach on Thrace's and Babylon's land. Jaman Min was very coy about leaving this territory, causing the two civilizations to plan defensive measures just in case. Then, an epidemic came into both Thrace and Babylon, which came from the cretin invaders. This epidemic destroyed two Babylonian cities and one Thracian city. This angered Thrace, Babylon and Illyaria, so they began to attack Crete and push its forces away from Thrace's land. Meanwhile, a civil war in Africa gave rise to a new leader for Egypt, whose name is still pending. This new leader discuss's with Queen Grace of Thrace, Queen Kirbia and King Connorabi about pushing against the Cretan forces, and helping him rebuilding the greatness of the former Egyptian empire. Queen Grace of Thrace is conflicted on this: on the one hand, she remembers how much time and energy was spent by the other civilizations to destroy Egypt for the greater good, but she knows that she needs to move the Cretan forces off her land, and only the leader of the African rebels would provide her any assistance in this matter. As she pushed the Cretan forces out of her land, Emperor Adamus of Italy was busy developing his civilization, focusing on Medicine and Engineering, however it did suffer from a horrific volcanic eruption that took down Rome, though it was rebuilt in a day. Crete eventually joined the "Allies", along with Italy and Africa, in order to end the African rebels. They wanted Thrace to join, but the tension with Crete made Thrace stay neutral. Queen Grace of Thrace negotiated her neutrality with Emperor Adamus; the terms were that Crete would get off her land immediately. All Ally civilizations agreed, but Crete was quite slow in getting off Thrace. The process however, was expidited by a famine in Illyaria which destroyed many of the Cretan forces and cities, and eventually led to the destruction of Crete itself. Which brought great joy to the people of Thrace and they held many festivals with their sister civilization Illyaria. But this joy and festivities is short lived, as Jaman Min has risen again, this time, from a civil war in Italy. Queen Grace of Thrace is very concerned that he will attempt to get onto her land again, as Emperor Adamus is giving him Cyprus and Adamus himself is beginning to colonize the Babylonian coast. This time of peace is comforting to Queen Grace of Thrace, but she is also quite concerned about her and King Connorabi's land.

(Thucydides)Divine Death Ensemble pt. 2: Betrayal

(Thucydides)
In an attempt to rebuild from what was left of society the Thracians, Babylonians, and Cretan communitys successfully regained their civilization. It turns out Italy, Africa, and Illyria had no major problems except for a couple of loses in troops. Until a civil war broke out in Italy that's when things finaly whent awry. When the civil war ended in Italy, the Egyptian leader had built two cities and regrouped what was left of the Egyptian army under the noses of all the groups. Then an epidemic struck the Cretan population. With limited options the Cretans sent a small number of their sick to where Babylon and Thrace were and contaminated two of their cities and some troops near by. Thrace and Babylon were both outraged by these actions, eventually both Thrace and Babylon decided to have each others back and go after the Cretans. Babylon won one battle against the Cretans, Thrace lost only one battle but only to reclaim their land by winning two more fights, and the Cretans were no more due to an earthquake. Italy later sent pirates to deal with the rest of the Egyptians. Two Egyptian cities destroyed only two soldiers remain.

(Herodotus) The Rise and Fall of the Egyptian Empire from the Perspective of a Roman Citizen

(Herodotus)

Friends, Romans, countrymen lend me your ears that you may learn the truth of our enemy of a thousand years, the accursed sons of King Maxen Toten I, or as they are commonly called by the fisherfolk and traders, the Egyptians. Ten thousand years ago in the far away land of Africa, the chieftain Quillable of the African tribesmen was visited by his pagan shaman advisor and told that his heathen gods willed him to take the isle of Sicily, then possessed by the ancient Romans. Though god willed the pure hearted roman citizens of Sicily towards victory, the African invaders were monstrous and vicious, standing eight feet tall and with the strength of six roman soldiers. Eventually the isle was taken and impregnable African fortresses erected. At the same time both the empire of king Maxen Toten VIII and the tribes of Africa lived on the border of the Great Sahara, the desert that never ends, and many conflicts ensued over what land belonged to whom. Ultimately the ancient Egyptians and our Roman predecessors signed a pact that they would see the end of the African tribes, even if it took all of their power to defeat the superhuman invaders. After centuries of fighting with no land gained but neither any lost by either side the Egyptian emperor Maxen Toten XXIV grew greedy and proclaimed his intention to rule nothing less than the world, an intention containing naught but the most sacrilegious hubris. After learning of the Egyptian emperor's intentions through the chieftain of the cannibal tribes of Crete, the Roman emperor Adamus XVII was plagued for many a fortnight with indecision about how to handle the savage Africans and power hungry Egyptians. One night however, Adamus XVII was visited by the archangel Gabriel, who told the emperor that god willed he ally himself with the African tribes to strike down the heretical Egyptian king. The Roman Empire immediately declared war on the Egyptians, taking as allies the savage yet noble Africans, the cannibal tribes of Crete, the illustrious and pacifistic Illyrians and the great Thracian empire as well as their longtime enemies the Babylonians. With the very armies of god poised against him the heretical Egyptian king stood no chance and his kingdom was obliterated through a series of divine plagues. Such is both the history of the relations between Egypt, Africa and Rome and a cautionary tale against the deadliest sin of all, pride.  

Alliances. Backstabbing. Who knows?

(LIVY)

In the beginning, the newly appointed leaders or emperors of their land embarked on a conquest of alliances, destruction, neutralization, absence, and back stabbing. From the start of this journey that everyone was new to, Thrace and Illyria banded together as the only two female leaders and created an alliance based on coexistence and strategizing together. Illyria's main strategy throughout this was to keep peace and avoid war at any cost. This strategy came from Crete's leader's apparel in which it includes the phrase, "Don't make war, make cornbread." With this in mind, Illyria continued creating cities and soon had 9 at one time. While this neautralization was happening from Illyria, Thrace began invading and conquering Babylon which later resulted in an alliance with Italy, Africa, and Crete to destroy Egypt in the absence of their leader. From the beginning, there was tension between Africa and Egypt and conflict occurred frequently. In addition, Italy and Africa had disagreements on the island of Sicily causing some conflict. This later developed a treaty between the two empires and caused them to band together to invade the Nile Delta. All empires except Illyria used the advantage of Egypt's leader's absence to their benefit. The downfall of Egypt was majorly the leader's absence along with the frequent famine from its country along with other countries' famines that affected Egypt. From the start, Crete regretted its island lifestyle but soon strategized with Illyria to explore the main land and build cities there. Italy was the first to use his astronomy card to his advantage and ventured from Italy to the Nile Delta to overtake the Egyptian empire. Babylon throughout this time stayed quiet with two to three cities and few conflicts between Thrace. The main event of this time was the downfall and death of the Egyptian empire along with the alliances built throughout this history so far.

(Thucydides) Divine Death Ensemble #1: Egypt

(Thucydides)
In the beginning Thracian soldiers at war in Armenia with Babylonian forces, babalon eventually loses the battle with in minutes, while Africa Egypt and Italy whent to war. Over night they all planned there next strategy of attack. The next morning Thrace made a treaty with babalon, Africa and Italy made truce as well. They then realized the Egyptian leader was no where to be found like George Bush II during the Iraq war. Realizing the leader had the most troops and looked to be the biggest threat on the map the rest of the other groups (Italy, Thrace, and babalon) decided to join forces together along with Crete and Illyria joining their cause to take Egypt down. It wasn't easy for all of the groups to go against a strong culture such as Egypt's many of their soilders either got lost in the land, starved, or killed off by natural disasters such as floods, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. Crete was affected by a volcanic eruption that nearly killed its entire population. The result, canibalism and making their boats out of their own corpses.Babylon didn't really have an issue except for losing too many men in an attempt to destroy one of Egypt's cities. Babylon also sacrifice one of his cities so that Thrace could fortify that part of the land. Effort to build a lot of cities but lost due to a flood. Italy was making an assault on Egypt's forces so that Babylon could push forward. Illyria suffered from a famine which somehow took out the rest of Egypt's soldiers. End of part one...

What happens when you fall sick on the job: The fight against Egypt

(Tacitus) 

  In the beginning as is now, Thrace, ruled by Queen Grace of Thrace, is next to its sister Illyaria, ruled by Queen Kirbia,and the two have peaceful coexistence and expand their territories towards the the Aegean Sea, then Thrace expands deeper into Asia Minor soon coming into contact with Babylon. Egypt's ruler, King Maxen Toten, comes forth to both Illyria and Thrace and proposed an alliance, first to destroy Babylon ruled by King Connorabi, then Crete, Chief Jannabis, and then Africa. We agreed and later contacted Emperor Adomos of Italy to join in on our alliance and embargoed Africa, ruled by King Quillable, though Thrace remained neutral due to growing mistrust of Maxen Toten. After many skirmishes between Italy, Africa and Egypt, Italy broke its alliance due to lost men and growing concern for King Maxen Toten's power. Africa and Italy began a trade treaty and struck a boundary line on their primary battle field, Sicily. Thrace continues to expand near Babylon and now into the Ionian Pennisula, concerning Chief Jannabis,causing him to become more subservient to Thrace, even offering Queen Grace of Thrace one of his boats. After discussion with Emperor Adomos, Queen Kirbia, King Connorabi and Chief Jannabis about turning on Maxen Toten, due to his lack of existence and him peeving many of the other civilizations, Queen Grace of Thrace takes this time to make peace with Babylon and take hold of their land as the Babylonians move towards Egypt. Many of the other civilizations begin to move towards Egypt; Africa, already being so close to Egypt, begins to make cities and invade Egypt's cities. Italy joins in on the battle, sailing across the ocean, accomplished by his understanding of Astronomy. Chief Jannabis at this time is rallying the countries to take down Egypt, but does not participate as he attempts to colonize more land. However, Crete suffers two catastrophic events: first a volcanic explosion, wiping out troops, second, a famine that kills much of his population. This famine also hurt Egypt, killing many. Chief Jannabis, at this time, becomes more and more paranoid of the other civilizations, this paranoia was sparked by the Italians landing on Crete asking for cities and because of the calamities that suddenly came upon his land. Chief Jannabis agreed to the request, giving Emperor Adomos the original two cities on the island of Crete. However, Emperor Adomos says that the island of Cyprus is his "divine right" and asks Jannabis to not build there. Jannabis does anyways. Emperor Adomos is furious about this, and tells Jannabis to get out, Jannabis declines and they argue. Emperor Adomos asks Queen Grace of Thrace if she would come to her ally if he were to fight Jannabis for Cyprus, Queen Grace of Thrace says she has "no business in Cyprus", retaining her neutrality. Adomos gives Jannabis an ultimate of two or three turns to get off the island before he forces him off. Jannabis complies, but secretly tries to get King Connorabi to secretly fight with him against Adomos. King Connorabi declines, valuing his peaceful state and wanting to actually finish off Egypt. Jannabis is upset by this, and asks Queen Grace of Thrace to wage war on Babylon, but she declines with the knowledge that she and Connorabi's states finally co-exist peacefully after many years of violence. A flood devastated Egypt, killing more and more troops and took away a few of his cities. A final famine destroyed what remained of Egypt, marking a dawn of a new era for the six remaining civilizations.

Author Introduction: Thucydides

                                     
My name is Thucydides. I was born in Alimos Greece between the years 460 and 455 B.C. and passed on between the years 411 and 400 B.C. I was known for the book that I sort of wrote which was called History of the Peloponnesian war which covered the details of the war between Sparta and Athens. I apparently died while in the middle of one of my sentences in the book, no one knows how I died, I whent out with great achievements such as these quotes!


"War is the teacher of violence" -Thucydides
"The secret to happiness is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage" - Thucydides
"We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness"-Thucydides
"When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are"- Thucydides
"Things exist for people, not people for things"- Thucydides

Author Introduction: Tacitus

Hello! My name is Tacitus, I am a Roman historian who was born in 56 CE in Gallia Narbonensis(now known as Southern France) and died in 117 CE. My father was wealthy and apart of the elite class of Romans, so I was a privileged boy. I was sent to Rome to study Rhetorics so that I may be able to join the Roman Senate. The early years of my time in Rome were filled with disaster; Nero, the tyrannical emperor, the aftermath of the fire that destroyed the city and finally a civil war that resulted in the rise of Vespasian. This new emperor was the revitalization of my career, I became the quaestor(Roman magistrate) in the early 80 CE's. Afterwards I joined the Senate, and under the reign of Domitian, I was praetor(similar to a judge), but later between 89 and 93 I was away from Rome, and though the Senate and the emperor were at odds, I kept my position and received continued patronage from the emperor. In 97 CE, I was appointed as consul. In 98 CE, two of my books, Agricola and The Germania were published. Agricola and The Germania both spoke about the corruption and greed of the Empire and how they poisoned the liberty of the native Britons and Germanians. I also wrote the Annals and the Historiae(look them up, they are quite famous). I had never visited the Germanic lands, but don't worry, I knew a guy who used to control that land, he told me everything. The subject matter on which I wrote was definitely cultural, historical and political, my style is described, in a word, concise. Though flowing and eloquent, it is brief. Some may call me a "pessimist" in my history by showing different perspectives in events. I try to separate myself from bias or anger, but the historians of your age seem too idiotic to understand that, ingrates. Thought they consider me to be very careful and accurate with my sources, they still don't seem to trust my neutrality.
Some great quotes by me are: “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
 “All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.”
 “It is a principle of nature to hate those whom you have injured.” 
“A bad peace is worse than war.” 
“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.” 

author introduction: Polybius

I Polybius am a historian who was born in Arcadia but both witnessed and took part in the rise of the roman republic. My beliefs about the government being split into multiple branches made its way into the U.S. Constitution. I believe a historian and journalist can only report or write about events they witnessed in person. I witnessed the battle of Carthage and wrote of it justly. I am good friends with the roman general Scipio Aemilianus and became the tutor of the two sons of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus. I'm known for my books the rise of the roman republic, and the histories. 

“If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.” 

― Polybius, The Rise of the Roman Empire

“There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.” 

― Polybius

“The order of battle used by the Roman army is very difficult to break through, since it allows every man to fight both individually and collectively; the effect is to offer a formation that can present a front in any direction, since the maniples that are nearest to the point where danger threatens wheels in order to meet it.” 

― Polybius

“They want the centurions not so much to be venturesome and daredevils, as to be natural leaders, of a steady and reliable spirit. They do not so much want men who will initiate attacks and open the battle, but men who will hold their ground when beaten and hard-pressed, and will be ready to die at their posts.” 

― Polybius

“Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and

brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?” 

― Polybius, The Histories

Author Introduction: Livy

Hello, My name is Titus Livius but you can call me Livy. I am a famous Roman historian who was born in Patavium, Italy. I was either born in 64 or 59 B.C. There is some confusion as to the year I was born. In the wealthy city of Patavium where I was born and raised, there were civil wars in my teenagers years and I got to experience this history firsthand. These civil wars prevented me from receiving a higher education which is evident in my works and grammar. Someetime in the 30s, I went to Rome and this became my new home. During this time, I started my work as a writer and historian. In Rome, I never held a political profession which was uncommon for historians at the time. Although I did not hold a political position, my works led to Emperor Augustus seeking interest in me and my work. His interest in my work led to me supervising his son, Claudius, who was the future emperor of Rome at the time. During my career, I was educate in philosophy ad rhetoric which I showed through my writings and recitations to small audiences. My most popular work was "History of Rome" which was a complete history of the Roman empire from the beginning foundation to the death of Augustus. This complete history that I wrote consisted of 142 books. There are many comments about my work specifically questioning it since I wrote about history long before my time. As well as, critics question if I was biased in my work since I mostly emphasized the victories of Rome and since I was writing under and friends with emperor Augustus. My work of "History of Rome" was very popular at my time. I was married and had two kids, but much of my personal life I did not document so very few know. I died in 17 A.D. in Patavium. 

Below are three of my most famous and favorite sayings:

“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see: and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.” 

“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.” 

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.” 

"We can endure neither our vices nor their cure."

"It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another."

Author Introduction: Herodotus

Greetings dearest readers, it is I, your humble historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the father of history, father of lies. I was born sometime around 484 BCE and do appeared to have died in 425 BCE, a tragic loss to the world if I do say so myself. What I am best known for is the creation of The Histories, a document considered to be the earliest work of historical nature, as can be seen in its name. The Histories is an account of the history of many Greek city states as well as the Persian Empire, and ultimately the conflict between the two. Of course I wasn't actually there for any of that, war is simply no place for a scholar, but I did collect the firsthand accounts of many who were, and though modern historians may say that many are nothing more than fantasy I know them to be absolutely true. I also collected the folk tales from many areas of Greece, so that readers of my work might have an idea of the history of the Greek people. Much like the many tales that I collected my works were known to have a sort of folktale-ish style to them, often containing morals and fantastical elements. Now, I believe the only proper way to end off this introduction is to list several of the best quotes by yours truly.


"In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons."
"From great wrongdoings there are great punishments from the gods"
"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."
"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power."
"This is the showing-forth of the inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, so that neither what has come to be from man in time might become faded, nor that great and wondrous deeds, those shown forth by Greeks and those by barbarians, might be without their glory"

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Author Introduction: Xenophon

Hello my name is Xenophon. I was born in Athens in the year 430 BC and lived until 354 BC. I was a historian, a soldier, and a mercenary. Some of my works include Apology, Memorabilia, Symposium, and Oeconomicus but my most famous history "Anabasis" was about my adventure into Persia as a mercenary in the army of the Achaemenian prince Cyrus the Younger who was attacking the Persian king Artaxerxes II. After the attack failed, I helped 10,000 men back to the Black Sea. My writing tends to be shorter and more to the point and I helped influence the autobiographical genre.

"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."
"The sweetest of all sounds is praise."
"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything."
"The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril."

"He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce."