Mongolia: The Sweeping Horde

Difficulty: Regent
Large Map
Pangea (60% water)
Arid/Temperate/5 billion years

Only domination and conquest victories
11 Random enemies, linked culture start.

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CHAPTER ONE: ANCIENT/BRONZE AGE

Temujin had ruled over the wandering peoples called the Mongols. The people had been highly nomadic and had traveled across a large desert to come upon a land of insurmountable wealth. The Mongols had recently been attracted to a riverside, and had discovered the ability to plant and cultivate crops. Agriculture.

Within several generations the mongols had developed a warrior code, which governed how a warrior was supposed to act. The warrior became one of the focal points of the Mongolian culture not before long. However the mongols also began a rich taste in pottery, which they had learned due to the copious amounts of clay along the river’s banks.

Not before too long the people settled together in one city called Karakorum, and Temujin declared the Mongolian people as one united state.

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Brave Mongolian warriors known as “scouts” then began an age of exploring the surrounding landscape. Not before too long the Mongolian scouts encountered people known as the Zhou. The Zhou were very similar to the Mongolians culturally, but had created a system of ceremonial burial for their peoples which they quickly taught the Mongolians.

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For the next few centuries the Mongol nation continued on it’s ways of farming for generations. Workers had created roads and had placed new works called “mines” in the mineral rich countryside to gain access to the vast resources which surrounded Karakoram. Roughly 18 generations after the founding of the city, c3550 bce, scholars decided that the culture value of the Mongols had expanded, further increasing the borders of the lands the people could work on. This included wild animals known as “cows” which the mongols quickly domesticated and gained precious meat and milk from.

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Roughly 100 years later the Mongols met a tribe known as the Kushans who, like the Zhou, had many characteristics similer to the Mongols. The Kushans so amazed by the culture and strength of Mongolia, quickly became an ally and provided warriors to the Mongolians. The Kushans quickly became a large portion of the then relatively small Mongolian army. Near the same time a large tribe to the east was discovered, though it’s name is lost to history. These people who they themselves were migrants traveling across the same large desert the mongols had crossed centuries before. They quickly gathered their meager things and began a long trip west joi nthe Mongolian nation.

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The scouts who had traveled out across the Great Desert discovered an advanced society of people who were very different from the Mongols. These scouts had discovered the Americans. The vast distance (and with having nothing to offer) provided a lack of trade to occur between the two peoples. The Americans were discovered to also be expansionist, but were industrious compared to the militaristic Mongols. As such they had no warrior code, or ceremonial burial, but the Americans did know about something called “Masonry.”

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Comparing the civilizations of the world around 3000bc, the scholar Bede has determined a list of the top 8 most powerful nation. The Mongols are ranked number 7 on his list, with the title “Hopeless”. Comparatively the Americans are ranked number two, just behind the number one nation: The Incas. Not long after 3000 bce, the Mongols discovered how to work Bronze by combining tin and copper. This sparked a new age of Mongolian life as Bronze tools and weapons quickly replaced the stone and copper of old. At the same time scouts had discovered a tribe known as the Uzbeks east of America. They too had knowledge of Masonry and readily passed it on to the Mongols.

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--CHAPTER ONE CONTINUED


It was around 2800 after the discovery of bronze, a migration out of Karakoram, and the arrival of the lost desert tribe in which 2 new cities were formed by the Mongols. Ta-Tu was created by the Lost Tribe southeast of Karakoram in a plains area located next to a forest, and most importantly, an area of large elephant activity. These beasts soon became a major target due to the ability to make ivory from their tusks. Meanwhile settlers from Karakoram rached the source of the river which provided the capital with it’s water. They settled next to the source, a large mountain. Quickly however the farmers discovered sugar in the plains to the west. Wild sugar grew in abundance here and quickly farmers began to work in sugar fields and sweeten up the Mongolian diet.

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Then came a long period of relative calm and peace. The Mongolian scouts were soon to discover many more cultures and civilizations over the next millennium. The Tartars, a tribe to the great west, taught the ability to make and use Wheels (c2600). The Ottomans, who were just across the Southern desert. The Ottomans quickly traded away vast amounts of gold in order to learn the secrets of the Wheel. The English were discovered far west of America, behind a mountain range. The English taught the Mongols their alphabet, and in return learned how to do masonry. Bede’s “Glorious” Incans were met and provided a belief in Mysticism as they learned the Mongol/English alphabet in return. The scholar Livy has chronicled the size of the civilizations and their lands since the dawn of time. By c2000 bc, the Mongols ranked 8th as “Forgotten.” The Americans were 5th; “puny”. The Incans 3rd and the ottomans 2nd. The English were even smaller than the Mongols at the time.

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From 2000bc, over the next 500 years, Mongolia would rapidly change. The relocated Zhou tribe taught the Mongols Horseback Riding, followed by the plundering of the Toltecs, greatly increasing the Mongolian coffers. The Aztecs were met c1600. Their capital lay on a vast flood plain, a city teeming with agriculture. They also had access to ivory as well.

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In 1500bc the Mongols discovered Iron Working. By this time 4 more cities had been founded. In the far east, the city of Tabriz dominated the mouth of a river and it’s sugar. To the north was Hovd, located on a peninsula. To the northwest was Ulaanbaatar, which lay on the coast and was nestled next to great fields of tobacco. Finally there was Almarikh; located next to another mountain, some forests, and some hills, and great wheat fields. The Mongolian Empire was rapidly expanding.

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A NESer written story?

Picture intensive?

Mongolia?

Civ3?

Wow. :goodjob:

Don't forget theres words between dem dar pictures.

Wow, killer story. Looking forward to next update. ;)

Nice story so far, I like the pics.

Keep it up!

I like your way of telling the story.

Btw, nice job.

Everything looks good so far, keep it up.

CHAPTER TWO - LATE ANCIENT AGE/IRON AGE

The Mongolian expeditions to discover the 4 corners of the earth continued to provide more and more information about the world that surrounded them, and more importantly the people. In c. 1300 bc, the Mongols met the Viking. The Vikings were also a hardy, militaristic people who lived in a vast wooded land. Their culture had also developed an intense love of the sea and were considered some of the best mariners of the world. The Vikings were anything but savages however. They were one of the first nations to developed a unified form of writing, and they would soon teach the mongols it in return for helping them learn the art of pottery.

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At the same time the nations of which Mongolia had long since known were soon interested to learn how to write down their alphabets onto something. A surely revolutionary idea. The Americans pressed the hardest to gain access to learning this ability. They quickly sent many priests over to learn the script of the Mongols. As the Mongols soon became followers of the American version of polytheism. The attraction to the religion however would be negligible for several centuries.

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The next 150 years would continue as the majority of Mongolian history to be one of slow advance, but would have several key impacts. The first was c1225 bc when the Yue-Chi tribe located near the Vikings would teach the Mongols the joy that is Literature. 25 years later, the first documentation of Mongolian history occurred when a scouting party wrote down their attempts to communicate with a new peoples known as the Dutch. The Dutch lived not far from Mongolia, and it is a wonder that it took the Mongols so long to establish contact with these people, when they had already established contact with nations on the other side of the continent. The Dutch like the English and Vikings were a seafaring people who had placed a great emphasis on agriculture. The Dutch however were less advanced than the Mongols and would receive a “lowered” status among nations for over a millennium.

Fifty years later Spanish explorers found their way to Mongolia and soon made contact with Temujin’s court. In an agreement between their people the Mongolians would send priests to teach them how to write, as well as the glory of polytheist gods; in return for the advanced advances in Mathematics the Spanish had made. As a result Spain soon grew to be one of Mongolia’s closest friends(geographically and politically).


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In c1150 bc the Mongolian nation was faced with it’s first series of crises. In that time the Americans approached the Mongols demanding how to achieve literature. Temujin quickly declared one of his most favored quotes “Literature is not an object that can be traded as gold is, but is of a value intangible by any man.” The Mongols were able to learn literature through the Yue-Chi through studying their writing techniques and copying it. A similar method could have been used with the Americans, but Temujin had disremembered his own past in his own beliefs that literature had to be inspired and not learned. The Americans soon rescinded their demand when it was clear that their pompous attitude of being the world’s sole hope was rejected.

The crises was not over, however, and soon the Incans pressed the Mongols to teach them Literature. Declaring the Mongolians a meek people, and quoting one of his cultures beliefs of the meek honoring the strong, he demanded Temujin send scribes to teach the Incans of literature. Once again Temujin refused. The Incans in an effort to keep their honor intact and teach a ‘meek’ nation a lesson, declared war. The Mongol-Incan war had begun.

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...CHAPTER TWO CONT'D...

The Mongolians in an effort to try and gain support against the Incans sent embassies across the globe to the majority of nations they had met. The Mongols began a rushed attempt to try and stop the Incans from launching any sort of invasion of the Mongolian homelands. No nation was willing however to deal with Livy’s “Fine” sized Inca or Bede’s ‘Glorious’ powerful Incans.

To further upset things; in 1025 bc the Mongolian mystics were the first people to create philosophy and quickly the main philosophy to surface was the idea of Monarchy. Temujin ruled over a Mongolian nation, but it was heavily divided into almost tribal loyalties. Each city acted with a large amount of self-governance and there was much rivalry and competition. Temujin grasped the idea of Monarchy and quickly ran with it. He declared the city leaders, who were almost like tribal chiefs, to remove their powers. He also ordered all himself be dubbed King, and that a royal court be created.

The cities quickly refused citing they were the true power of Mongolia, and that a council of the cities should remove Temujin as head Chief for his act of betrayal against them. For the next 75 years a bitter civil war would rage across the entirety of Mongolia. The tribal chiefs were unable to keep power for long, and most cities fell into Temujin’s hands. Only several (those in disorder) stayed the course against the self-proclaimed King. The King was able to over the years gain the heart of the people and many wanted the chiefs to give up their lost cause. The chiefs began to fall one after another. Finally in 789, the remains of their forces arrived in the Chieftain stronghold of Hovd, almost due north of Karakoram. For the next 14 years a bitter siege and several skirmishes left the chiefs to weak to resist. In 950 bc, the city fell and the new Monarchial government of Mongolia was announced.

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Once again a period of relative peace began. The Incans although officially in hostilities seemed unable to send an army up to crush the Mongols. The Uzbeks, who had been continually forced farther and farther away by the Incans joined the Mongols c775 bc. Contact were made with the Mayans not 25 years later. The Mayans like the Dutch were an agricultural people, but they also had deep roots in industry. Word came just a few years after that, that the Mayans had constructed a grand Pyramid in their capital of Chichen Itza.

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The war was not long after back on everyone’s minds when in 730 bc the Iroquois peoples declared their allegiance with the Incans against Mongolia. Temujin however was unafraid. We sent ambassadors to meet with Pachacuti, the leader of the Inca. For several years messengers would go back and forth from one empire to the other to try and make a peace agreement. Finally in 710 bc, the Incans agreed to peace in return for a little over a quarter of the Mongolian treasury. The Iroquois were left infuriated at their so called allies who had just shoved them into a war which they now had no reason to being in. Still Hiawatha refused to meet with any Mongolian envoys to discuss peace.

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...CHAPTER TWO CONC...

With relative peace was again insured, the Mongols continued with their slow advancements. In 670 bc the King in an attempt to further solidify his power, created a Code of Laws which would govern the legal system of all of Mongolia. Before hand, it was all left up to locally appointed judges to decide punishments for what locals declared crimes, or arguments.

In 550 bc after nearly 200 years of de jure war, Hiawatha agreed to peace.

That same year (well really building began earlier, but I wan it to ‘start’ with the first constructions so it doesn’t seem like a temple takes centuries to build), the now 700 year old American polytheism which had been a relatively minor component of the Mongolian population. In fact the majority of the population still believed in the old ways of mysticism. However when Temujin declared a Mongolian pantheon of Gods, the idea of polytheism swept the nation. Soon a rush was being done to see which city could build the grandest temple to the gods. In 470 bc Karakoram would be the one who would win the spotlight for all of history. It was that year in which the Statue of Zeus was constructed in the nation’s capital. The gigantic gold and ivory statue cost an estimated 1600 units of gold (hurrying is x8 the shield cost in gold) to build. Although more temples would be constructed across the empire, none would become so grand as this.

Quickly the Temple of Zeus became the center of a new elite military order known today as the Ancient Cavalry. The temple not only proved to be a cultural icon of Mongolia, but a military capital as well. For the next 600 years the Mongolian culture would quickly rise and become the largest in the world. (There was a rise on the histograph between roughly 600 bc and 30 ad before evening out again)

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470 would not only mark the completion of the symbol of the Mongolian nation, but also the push into a new era of man. It was the year that the first real source of iron would be linked with the rest of the Mongolian Kingdom truly ushering in the Iron Age. It would also be the year that currency would be adopted across the Kingdom. It was also the year the English learned about Monarchy from Mongolia in return for teaching the Mongols of the art of construction. It was with this trade and the development of currency, as well as all other technological advances that Mongolia made to mark the Mongolian entry into what historians have dubbed The Middle Ages. Pliny also made a list of what he considered the most advanced nations on the planet. Once again Mongolia was number 7, although all nations except the number one of the Ottomans had the same advances Mongolia had.

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The beginnings of these Middle Ages were relatively the same as just before the start of them and as such the Mongols were still considered to be in the Iron Age. Especially when they had just begun the massive implementation of it due to a vein being connected next to the city of Darhan and the creation of a road system to transport it across the kingdom. It would be 390 bc that marked a true exit of the past into the future. It was this year that the Mongolian Kingdom was threatened by an opposing army for the first time. The barbarian horde known as the Circassians. They had already (for the purpose of story) pillaged the Ottoman city of Antalya and the Dutch city of Arnheim when they turned their attention towards the far eastern Mongolian city of Erdenet. The garrison at Tabriz were soon rushed up to stop any barbarians, not from attacking the city, but from moving further into the Mongolian Kingdom by cutting them off.

The Barbarian Invasion had begun.

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Just wait until chapter 3, then the action begins ;)

Noce update. Kill the INcans

It is always in your best interest to target nations that have declared war on you. You do seem to be progressing faster than the other civs, so good job!