Realism Invictus, large map, Perfect World generator, random civ, and we get: the Koreans.
Since ancient times, the Koreans have been the hunter gatherers who live along the banks of the Mal Gang, the Horse River. Year after year, they set up their seasonal hunting encampments along the banks and track the herds of horses and sheep that wander the surrounding steppes. Over time, they begin to keep a permanent presence for their families at Hanseong - Fortress City - while continuing to send out hunting parties.
Quickly, they become master irrigators and wheat farmers, and, out of thanks to the gods for the blessings of the hunt and the harvest, Korean priests and artisans decorate the flatlands outside of Hanseong with massive stone drawings of horses, sheep, and other beasts of the steppe: the Nazca Lines.
Thousands of years have passed, Hanseong has grown tenfold, and Korea has even expanded to the south with a new city at Gyeongju - Celebratory County - initially a retreat for Korean kings, now a thriving city in its own right, collecting potatoes and wild marsh grasses from the surrounding floodplains. Meanwhile, Korean emissaries and explorers have traveled far to the west to meet the Egyptians, a primitive people of little consequence, who will never produce any monumental works as great as the Nazca Lines. To the southwest, a second mountain range rises, and nestled in its foothills are wondrous things: grape vines, copper veins that stick straight out of the hills, and good-quality stone.
Despite its growth, this is a difficult time for Korea. Barbarians from the surrounding mountains make constant raids into the Mal Gang valley, ruining fields and well-tended pastures. Even so, Korea manages to build its first permanent settlement off the river, in the western hills, at Jeonju - Perfect Region, so called because of the mild dry climate and local tradition of producing podoju - grape wine.
With the Great Barbarian Invasion over, a new general, Gwon Yul, inspires Korea into a new kind of government, a Republic based on traditional Korean values and a monastic vision of Buddhism, where sunims (monks) can easily spread the religion throughout the kingdom.
At the dawn of the classical era, Koreans have met many flavors of barbarians, though none of them impress the Korean senators very much. Macedonians live in the hills to the west and worship a false Jewish god. Polish emissaries have also passed through, talking about their great warlord who believes in the one Tao girding the universe. Plus there are still Egyptians to the northwest, without so much as a great river to build their monuments near. Amidst the obvious superiority of Korean civilization there comes a great engineer, Choe Yun-ui, who trained on the monastic crews maintaining the Nazca Lines and now has a new idea for a massive Parthenon dedicated to the Buddha, and he whips the population into such a frenzy that they build it within two seasons.
Since ancient times, the Koreans have been the hunter gatherers who live along the banks of the Mal Gang, the Horse River. Year after year, they set up their seasonal hunting encampments along the banks and track the herds of horses and sheep that wander the surrounding steppes. Over time, they begin to keep a permanent presence for their families at Hanseong - Fortress City - while continuing to send out hunting parties.
Quickly, they become master irrigators and wheat farmers, and, out of thanks to the gods for the blessings of the hunt and the harvest, Korean priests and artisans decorate the flatlands outside of Hanseong with massive stone drawings of horses, sheep, and other beasts of the steppe: the Nazca Lines.
Thousands of years have passed, Hanseong has grown tenfold, and Korea has even expanded to the south with a new city at Gyeongju - Celebratory County - initially a retreat for Korean kings, now a thriving city in its own right, collecting potatoes and wild marsh grasses from the surrounding floodplains. Meanwhile, Korean emissaries and explorers have traveled far to the west to meet the Egyptians, a primitive people of little consequence, who will never produce any monumental works as great as the Nazca Lines. To the southwest, a second mountain range rises, and nestled in its foothills are wondrous things: grape vines, copper veins that stick straight out of the hills, and good-quality stone.
Despite its growth, this is a difficult time for Korea. Barbarians from the surrounding mountains make constant raids into the Mal Gang valley, ruining fields and well-tended pastures. Even so, Korea manages to build its first permanent settlement off the river, in the western hills, at Jeonju - Perfect Region, so called because of the mild dry climate and local tradition of producing podoju - grape wine.
With the Great Barbarian Invasion over, a new general, Gwon Yul, inspires Korea into a new kind of government, a Republic based on traditional Korean values and a monastic vision of Buddhism, where sunims (monks) can easily spread the religion throughout the kingdom.
At the dawn of the classical era, Koreans have met many flavors of barbarians, though none of them impress the Korean senators very much. Macedonians live in the hills to the west and worship a false Jewish god. Polish emissaries have also passed through, talking about their great warlord who believes in the one Tao girding the universe. Plus there are still Egyptians to the northwest, without so much as a great river to build their monuments near. Amidst the obvious superiority of Korean civilization there comes a great engineer, Choe Yun-ui, who trained on the monastic crews maintaining the Nazca Lines and now has a new idea for a massive Parthenon dedicated to the Buddha, and he whips the population into such a frenzy that they build it within two seasons.
