OOC: I was working on the update, but I wanted to do a summary, and it grew. I will try to do these every 10 updates.
Hopefully this will tide you over for the five or so hours it takes for me to update!
Summary I: A Time for War
2000-1000 BC
1000 years have now passed since we began observing this puny human society. Not much has changed. Humanity is still disunited, and still kills each other often. Most of the population is uneducated and underfed, and without a voice. Pathetic metals are the highest level of technology any civilization has yet attained. The vast majority of the world is free from any civilizing influence. Diseases still ravage the world. Only the most primitive mathematics has been developed, and there is no biology, chemistry, or physics at all.
Still, things have changed enough to require a summary of the last millenium.
In northern Europe,
Prussia has grown from a mere tribe to a massive empire, subjugating all other tribes under them and trading with their neighbors--Noricum to the south and the island civilizations to the west. They are currently trying to expand into Denmark and working on a revolutionary road system.
The British Isles have become both civilized and pacified.
Brittania has conquered their entire island, destroying the Tin Route in the process.
Eirehann has changed name and government structure several times, becoming a nationalistic centralized monarchy after centuries of war. The two countries have formed an unofficial alliance.
In recent centuries, Iberia has become a home to civilization. On the Atlantic coast are the seafaring
Maar. The important trade state of Tartessos is located at Gibraltar. And the
Iberian Confederacy is rapidly unifying the interior of the peninsula.
The central Mediterranean is home to a trio of relatively powerful but unique states.
Carthage finally managed to replace the Berbers and is beginning to embrace trade, while working on becoming a republic. Syracuse still controls most trade in the central Mediterranean after the demise of Minoa, and is beginning to found colonies. And the
Roman republic has recently discovered iron, rendering irrelevant the lack of tin.
The eastern Mediterranean has the most nations and the most complex relationships.
Sparta managed to destroy the first Athens and is currently attacking the Byzantine attempt to found a new one, as tensions rise with
The League of the Sea Peoples after they founded a colony on Sparta's border. The League fought a centuries-long war with Egypt which recently ended in a stalemate, but was more successful in its other war against the Hittites and managed to annex all of former Troy. To the north is the peaceful trading state of
Atyria, which has prospered while its neighbors fight.
Southeast of Atyria are
Medea and
Ur, who originally teamed up to conquer Elam and Babylon, but are now bitter enemies. Although still stalemated, the war between them has come to a head in the last century, as Ur has conquered all of the former Hittite lands, while the Medes have succeeded in splitting Ur in two.
South of the Fertile Crescent are three Arabian trading states. Dilmun is an ally of Ur, and The Hedjaz is a major trading partner with Egypt, but
Magan is still unalligned and growing in power.
Skipping over the as-yet unknown states of India and China, we come to Japan. Japan is a mess of patchwork states, but most noteworthy are Toyama, by far the largest and most powerful Japanese state, and
Yamato, the small state which has managed to resist invasion thus far by use of clever tactics.
Finally, in the far south is the isolated state of
Srivijaya, which is slowly spreading within their island, and thus far is alone in the world.
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