(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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. 

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

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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.

Alliances. Backstabbing. Who knows?

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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.

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."