International Relations in the Ancient World
Enric Romero
... the first contact ever done between nations of each side of the Atlantic Ocean was between the nations of Florida and Tartessos, considered by most the most powerful nations in each side of the ocean. Florida was arguably the most powerful, as it controlled practically the whole of the Floridean Sea's northern coast, as well as all the islands in there and the enormous region of Mexico. Tartessos, on its part, didn't have as much territory as Florida, but it had been in the middle of a war against the piratic nation of Carthage and had all but wiped out them, as the remaining ships remained enclosed in the island of Sardinia while the Tartessian Army conquered with great efficiency mainland Carthage.
At first, the contact was really frictioned, as several Floridean ships launched raids against the small coastal towns of Lusitana and some units of the Iberian Army clashed in minor skirmishes with the Floridean Iberic Army, which fortunately didn't come to more.
It would take several years before, in the year 660, they started to make diplomatic contact in order to stop the fights and negotiate who would get what parts from the region the Florideans had taken. Although first attempting to expel them, in the end Tartessos conceded a trading post in the city of Corunia and recovered nearly all the region of Campustella in the famous Treaty of Corunia, that established the first relationship between Americans and Europeans.
The two original copies of the Treaty, of for each Florida and Tartessos, were both lost in accidents: the Florida copy was lost in a flooding in the city of Miami in the year 2367 of the Kingdom, while Tartessos lost his when the Official Archives were burned down by a psycopath in the year 2551 of the Kingdom. However, several more copies, made many years after the signing of the treaty, allow us to understand the type of agreement that the two nations signed, which allowed them to fight next to each other in the First Gaian War, using the city of Corunia as a safe harbour for their ships and in which the Guerrilleros Corps amazed more than one Floridean as they fought against many enemies and conquered cities with easiness.
Many historians have wondered how did the Florideans managed to find the way from the mainland to Iberia passing through the islands of Bermuda and the Azores without missing a step. It is known that even the captain of the fleet that traversed the Ocean for the first time was surprised at how lucky they had been, as they had managed to find many islands in which they could rest before keeping the travel towards the east. Had they just gone a few grades towards the North or the South, it was very probable that the sailors would have died before reaching land or they would have arrived to a place already taken by the Tartessian Kingdom.
This stroke of luck was attributed to the Lighthouse that currently rests in the city of Orlando, although after the advent of the DRAPOR, it's no more in use, although many tourists still visit it, amazed at the genius of the Florideans...
