Rise of Rome

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Rise of Rome

This is my first attempt at a story on this website. Here are my settings:

Map Type: Medium and Small
Size: Small
Climate: Temperate
Sealevel: Low
Continents: Normal Continents
Islands: Islands
Civilization: Rome
Leader: Augustus Ceaser
Special Conditions: Time Victory Disabled

I'm going to write simalar to a history report, but not as boring.
 
Part 1
Early Beginnings


Chapter I
The Founding of the Glorius City of Rome​

_ In the year 4,000 BC, a group of nomads, known as the Romans, decided to abandon their vagabond traditions, and settle thier first city. The women and children stayed behind to begin a new city, called Rome. All the men that were of age went to explore the surrounding terrain.
_ By 3520 BC, the Romans had trained a group of men to protect the city. Knowing that they were safe, the people of Rome began training a group of people to work the land around their flourishing city. In the same year, they met their neighbor, Justinian I of the Byzantines.
_ Around the year 3280, the now thriving Roman people had taught themselves how to mine, fish, farm, tame animals, build roads, and hunt. These advancments soon led to the completions of the "Roman Worker Group." Around that time, a group of villagers on the outskirts of Rome's cultural reaches gave the secret of horseback riding to the much adored Roman neighbors. This inspired the people to move into the an entirely new era. The Romans decided to build a ceremonial Wonder in their city in memorial to this auspisious occasion. They named it Stonehenge.
 

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Chapter II
The Early Classical Era​

_ In the year 2360 BC, the Roman exploration group discovered another civilization just on the outskirts of the Roman borders. The people called themselves the Spanish, and were led by their "beloved" queen, Isabella. They believed in the teachings of the Buddha. Meanwhile, inside of the borders of Rome, the Roman Worker Group had completed building farms to harness the nearby source of corn, and camps in regions where vast amounts of wild elephants roamed.
_ It was the year 2280 BC, and the Romans had finally done it. They had made a wonder, one of a kind in the world; Stonehenge. The Romans were so proud that they decided to build a monument in Rome, and all other cities, which they believed would come soon. They decided to start training a small group of people to go out into the wild and build a new city!
 

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Chapter III
Rome Becomes an Empire​

_ In the 2120 BC, the Roman people made yet another advancment; the ability to work bronze. Along with this discovery, the city hierarchy decided to begin to use the practice of slavery. Unfortunatly, the people that were being made into slaves disliked the disision, and revolted. This period of anarchy lasted for several years. When it was finally over, the Roman scientist began researching how to use a more effective metal that bronze. They called it Iron.
_ In exactly 2000 BC, a group of people, escorted by a small group of warriors left the city of Rome to found a city in the jungles to the northwest of the glorious city of Rome. Around that time, it came to the attention of the Roman peoples that there were many uncivilized, brutish "people" running around in the wildereness that would seek to destroy the Roman way of life. They mumbled something that sounded like "bar, bar, bar..." constatly, which earned them the name Barbarians. To keep these so called barbarians, barbs for short, the Romans set out to build wall unlike any other, The Great Wall of Rome.
_ After many years, and many perils, the group of settlers that set out from Rome finally reached their destination. A small plot of land on the coast. It had many jungles, but also nearby Rice, and abundent Dye, which was thought to be very useful in the future. By 1840 BC, the city was established, and growing. Rome was now an Empire. The Roman Empire.
 

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Chapter IV
The Empire Grows​

_ In the year 1760 BC, the Roman Worker Group set out to build a road through the hills and jungles between Rome and Antium. While they were only about half-way through, the Roman builders finished the wall that would protect them fron the barbarians. They called it the Great Wall of Rome.
_ In 1520 BC, the Romans completed their quest to find ways to work with Iron. The Imperial Scouts had found 2 sources of Iron near the empire's borders. One was just south of the borders of the friendly neighborhood heathens, the Spanish. The other was on a pennisula to the south east of Antium.
_ A good while later, in 1480, the citizens of Rome celebrated teh beginning of it's fishing industry. The local fishermen were going to start taking advantage of the numerous clams in the Bay of Rome. With that completed, they once again got expansion on their minds. In the same yearl, the Roman Worker Group completed the Antium Road. This inspired the people of Antium to begin their own worker group to improve their land.
_ By the year 1400, farmers were finally taking advantage of the Rice to the east of the growing city of Antium. The empire had discovered preisthood, and was beginning to look into a technique called "archery." Everything was going well for the empire, and it was about to get better.
_ In 1240 BC, a group of brave settlers, accomponied by a small group of warriors left Rome to settle on the southern penninsula where the iron was. The original plan was for them to found their city to the north, between Rome and Antium, but the vile Spaniards had commited an outrage. They founded a city on the very fringe of the Roman Empire, very close to the source of Iron! This angered many Romans, Plebians and Patritians alike. They began to call for war. Quickly an archery division was formed in Rome to protect it.
 

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Part 2
The Empire Goes to War


Chapter V
Preperations​

_ 1000 BC was a good year for the Romans. The city of Cumae was founded on the end of what was now called the Cumaean Pennisula, just to the west of vast iron deposits. Work was began immediatly to mine the iron. A group of elite archers had just arrived from in Antium from Rome. The Antium citizenst had completed the Antium Work Group, and they had began on a new invention. It was called a granary, and was made to store food. In Rome, a prophet was born. He was named Saint Patrick and had said he that he felt called by God to dovote the his life to the Roman governments bidding. Only one forboding hung over the year. The heathen Buddhist of the Spanish Empire had spread their religion over the borders into Antium. This angered many more Romans, and strengthened the cries of the war hawks.
_ By the year 825, their was a steady flow of iron in Rome, and the city had just completed a training ground for their troops, called Barracks. The city quickly began to train a group of elite sword weilding soldiers. The rage toward the Spanish had inspired the troops to train even harder than usual. As a result of this, Roman swordsmen gained the reputation of being more powerful than the average soldier. They were populaly called Preatorians.
_ The year 725 sent shock through the empire. An intelligence report showed that Spain had completed the art of archery, and had began to mine the source of Iron that Rome had originally claimed. They had been too slow in preparing for the war! A take-over would be very complicated now that the enemy cities were defended by something besides men wearing loinclothes with sticks!
_ The war plans were almost called off, until the first legion of Preatorians was completed. Their obvious mastery of their weapons, and undying loyalty to each other convinced the general populace that the Roman Empire could not be beat!
 

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Chapter VI
WAR!​

_ It was 600 BC. The Roman people had been calling for war with the Spanish for hundreds of years. The time had finally come. Even though their were doubts about attacking an enemy with axes, swords, spears, and even chariots, the only weapon the Roman milatary had not mastered itself, the cries of revenge out numbered the cons.
_ In the mid-spring of the year 600 BC, a legion of Roman Praetorians crossed the Roman/Spanish border into the hills where the Spanish mined for Iron. They burned it to the ground, killing anyone that resisted. Once their iron mines were confirmed to be destroyed, another legion moved in against the city of Seville, the city that began the whole problem. The attack was an utter failure. The Romans were systematicly slaughtered by the Spanish axes. All future attacks on the city ended in a simalar, dismal failure.
- Around that time, it came to the attention of the Roman officers that their was a sect of people in the city of Cumea that were following the teachings of a man named Confusius. After listening to him preach, the government decided to adopt Confusianism as the state religion of Rome. After hearing about the new religion, the Roman soldiers in the field were inspired. After that, the Roamn Army made a comeback. It is only a few days until Seville is captured, and the army was on the march towards Madrid, the capital of Spain, and holy city of both Buddhism and Judaism.
_ The city was fairly lightly defended and fell easily to the Roman swords. The Spanish queen, Isabella, fled the city the minute the Romans Praetorians could be seen over the horizen. She fled to the city of Barcelona, which quickly was captured by the Romans even swifter than Madrid. From there the forces were split. Half went after a small group of settlers that had fled north during the battle. The city was promptly razed. The other half went to the coastal city of Cordaba and kept it for themselves. During the war, a Great General emerged. His name was Bernard Montgomery. He was sent to Rome to train future generations of troops.
_ The Romans had proven thimselves in the field of battle, totally annihilated their enemies, and the citezens of the empire thirsted for more power. All eyes fell to the Byzantines to the north-west. Unfortunatly, the milatary was stretched thin from the Spanish War, but a new advanment promised to revolutionize warfare for the rest of history. Construction would allow the Romans to build catapults, which were very effective at lowering a cities defences.
 

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Nice stort, but what difficulty is on?

I'm playing on Warlord, and incase anyone cares, I'm using CivGold, but I preset it to just use vanilla/BtS civs. I just wanted the improved city and unit graphics.

Any other feedback?

EDIT:
These screenshots wouldn't fit in the other posts. They go with Chapter VI.
 

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Chapter XII
The Second War Begins​

_ What had been began by St. Patrick hundreds of years ago was finally finished. The war had slown the progress, but it was finished. The Kong Miao had been built in Cumae. Several years after its completion, a young preist, Tipu Sultan, was making a visit to the holy shrine. While there, he passed out on the floor just outside of the holiest inner room of the building. When he awoke, he claimed to have had a vision. He immediatly made a pilgramige to the city of Madrid, the city that was held to be holy by both Buddhist and Jews. When he got there, he attempted to rally the Spanish, Buddhist slaves to assist him in building a shrine to Buddha. Initially, the Roman governers of the city refused, and even beat Tipu Sultan, but after proposing to them the possibility of charging addmission to the shrine, they began to relent. In 350, the Mahabodi was complete, and bringing a nice profit to the city.
_ In the meanwhile, it had come to the attention of some Roman scouting parties that the Byzantines were beginning to expand to the north of the Empire, in some of the ex-Spanish lands. The Roman military stratagist, who had been planning war withe the Byzantines since shortly after the Spanish War, saw this as an opertunity to, once again, anger the citizens into calling for war. The Roman Army mustered at the western border, just outside the town of Andrinople. In 560, the Roman Army once again marched across their enemies borders. This time though, the Romans had more confidence as they marched. Unlike the Spanish, the Byzantines had no iron.
_ The Army reached the coastal city of Andrinople after only 1 days march. The Romans had recently perfected the art of Construcion, which allowed them to build machines that could hurl rocks at enemies citeis. They called them catapults. Unfortunatly, the catapult production in Rome's major cities had been slowed, and they were not to the city in time. The generals decided to atack without the catapults, saving time and utilizing the element of surprise, but possibly sacrificing Roman lives. Around noon, the Roman Praetorians began to pour into the city. The Roman casualies were surprisingly little. During the battle, a paticular general was noticed by the highest Roman commanders, Gustav II Adolphus. He was ordered to open a military academy in Rome, working alongside Bernard Montgomery, the hero of the Spanish War.
 

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Sorry, I've been gone from the computer for several days. Expect an update sometime this weekend.

Yeah good story, but how did you build academies so early without education?

I've actually been confused about that before too. I'm playing BtS, and I've always been able to build Military Academies the whole game. I don't get why it says that Military Science(I think it was Science, not Tradition) let you build Miliatry Acedemies. I probably need to ask on the Quick Answer/Newbie Question thread.
 
Chapter VIII
The Fall of Constantinople​

_ In 720 the Roman researchers completed their project. They had developed a new social structure called Feudalism. They had also improved the classic bow and arrow design. They called the new design the Longbowman. They were much more accurate and much better at city defense, which would be extremely helpful in the war effort. The Roman government realized after they heard about the new governing style that some of their ruling practices were outdated. They changed to using Hereditary Rule, Vassalage, and Organized Religion. This led to a revolt in many of the Roman cities. Fortunately, the government still had control over the military.
_ Luckily, before the anarchy, many of the catapults had been finished, and the Army began to amass on the Byzantine capital of Constantinople. Two weeks later, when the army reached a small hill outside the Byzantine capital, the city had constructed a formidable defense. Without hesitation, the catapults began to bombard the cities fortifications. On the second day, the catapults again attacked. After four more days of the bombardment, the wall was totally obliterated. The catapults were then able to engage in attacking the defending army itself. This plan was looked down on by many Roman generals. They said that the plan was suicidal, and that the catapults would not stand a chance in battle against the Byzantine Archers, but they were swiftly proven wrong. The rocks from the catapults wounded many Byzantine battalions, making way for the Praetorians to storm into the city and kill any surviving soldiers that would dare oppose the might of the Roman Army!
 
Chapter VIX
The Byzantines Fall​

_ After the fall of their capital, the Byzantines’ were left with only two of their former major cities, and several of the cities in the frozen tundra that’s founding had caused the whole war. The Romans decided that it would take too long to move the massive Roman army from city to city, laying siege, and then waiting to heal the wounded once inside the city. They ordered some of Rome’s major production cities to begin working on more military units, especially the agile chariots. The plan was to use the small, agile forces to attack the small, less defended cities of North Byzantine. The plan, like so many other plans the Roman strategist had came up with over the years, worked. In 960, the city of Nicomedia was captured by the renegade Roman forces, and was burnt to the ground. Later that year, another group of Chariots successfully attacked Antioch, falling its weak defenses. Soon afterward the main regiment of the Roman army reached one of Byzantines oldest cities, Thessalonica. The process used on Constantinople was used once again, with the catapults proving their worth, yet again. The only city left for the Romans was small, but was located on the third of the Three Peninsulas. They were the three landmasses protruding from the southern end of the continent. The first held the glorious city of Rome itself; the second was where Cumae had been founded. On the third stood the city of Nicaea. It was the one possible blunder of the campaign. After the capture of Adrianople, it was decided to ignore the city, and march directly north to Constantinople. It took many years for the army t reach its destination, but in the year1080, the forces finally reached the city. The city, along with the last hopes of the empire, fell the next day. During the Final Battle, as it would come to be called, yet another general rose to greatness, Robert E. Lee.
_ The destruction of Byzantium meant many things for the Roman People. It meant that they head many new cities to maintain, and to build more modern infrastructures in. It meant that the Roman cities no longer had to work on training troops, and that they could work on their own infrastructure, which led to what historians would call the Forge Revolution, a period during which almost all Roman cities were trying to complete a new building, called a forge. It meant that the Roman military was more dominant that either of the two previous civilizations they had met. It also meant that they had killed anyone who dared stand against them, and to prove it, they had the whole continent to themselves. What lie beyond was a mystery.
 

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Part 3
Pax Romana


Chapter X
After the War​


_ The period after the Roman conquest of the continent has come to be known as Pax Romana, or Roman Peace in English. The war had greatly damaged the Roman economy, and many cities were badly defended. Many people felt that the empire should become peaceful, and avoid building up any more military, The higher Roman officials stilled feared an attack from some unknown peoples across the seas. To prepare for this, the city of Rome began training people with the new weapon, the Longbow and garrisoning them in all the cities of the Empire. Also, the Roman offensive army was sent back to Rome, but was kept ready should they be needed again, and the general Robert E. Lee was sent to Madrid to train future troops; just in case the officials told the people. They also ordered many cities to build markets. Many of the intellectuals of the cities would come to these markets to discuss matters such as politics, philosophy, mathematics, and literature. The markets became a place for discussion as much as a place to buy things. Eventually they went from being called markets to Forums. The biggest one, in Rome of course, was given the initials CFC before it, but to this day no one knows why.
_ The period of peace was also a time that inspired many beautiful architectural wonders. In 1190 the Hanging Gardens of Madrid was completed. The former Spanish capital also built a work called Chitzen Itza. In The former Byzantine city of Adrianople, a statue was built in the harbor. It came to be known as the Colossus, and greatly increased the revenue from the bay that surrounded the city. The cityIn Rome, a man named Julius Rosenberg applied to the Roman Bureau of Investigation (RBI) and quickly rose through the ranks as a spy. He joined the city only two years after getting a job there.
_ In 1220, the Roman researchers completed Bureaucracy. They also used their knowledge of machinery to build a new weapon, the Mace. The government insured the people that they would not need it, and did not train any troops to use it, but the people still didn’t trust the government.
 

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