(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.