The Tribes of Euria in the Fourth Millennium BCC
Iroquoia
The
Iroquois were a turbulent, restless people whose national character was formed along the banks of the turbulent, restless Hudson River. They called themselves the Haudenosaunee, but other nations, influenced by the belligerant Celts who loathed them, called them "Iroquois" or "snake men." As the annual flooding and seasons of disease and rampant wild predators plagued them, they were the first peoples of the world needing to develop sturdy earthen buildings to sustain themselves against the elements of a volatile environment. Through periods of sudden expansion and violent unrest, the Iroquois developed the arts of masonry from combining native reeds and the clayish soil of the Hudson Valley.
Still, violence and uncertainty plagued their lives. They adopted the practice of ceremonial burial from the Navajo bands to their west. Long before 3500bc, a population explosion in the fertile Hudson-Connecticut Valley led to the development of government to control the unrest and violent animosities of peoples competing for resources.
Spreading Iroquois culture eventually led to war with the Teotihuacan people along the Abinaki Coast in 3100bc. The first, legendary contact between the Iroquois and the Celts occurred at this time, as Celtic hunters crossed the Green Hills in search of game, adventure, and plunder. Back in Salamanca, crowded townships adapted their masonry for constructing buildings with second floors to maximize space.
Gaul
Originating as cave dwellers in prehistoric times, the
Celts were brilliant game hunters who adapted to village life late in antiquity after chasing their beloved game into the busy Emerald Forest area around 3750bc. From ancient times, Celt cavers had uncovered the plentiful deposits of precious stones found in the Wicklow Mountains.
In later centuries, the Celts spread out across the open southern plains, following migrating game and adventure across the continent. About 3100bc huntsmen began traversing the Green Hills and followed rumors of a lush kingdom they called "Iroquoia." Almost immediately the two civilizations took a dislike to each other. The Iroquois responded to Celtic animosity by spreading word of the barbaric nature of the Gaulish men, but in fact the Celts were a refined poetic people and the first nation to innovate in the distillation of grapes into wine.
In some of the earliest examples of intercultural trade, the Byzantines and Celts seem to have learned ceremonial burial and bronze metalworking from each other around 3000bc. Celtic ceremonial knives began to adopt Byzantine designs at the same time they began adding the proper proportions of tin to their copper weapons.
Byzantium
The
Byzantines were resource poor northerners who revered trade due to the historic poverty they endured in the cold Dardanelle River Valley. By 3700, sparse settlements had moved up river along both the Dardanelle and its tributary, the Hellespont River.
Adversity led to innovation. Advanced tool making by Byzantine craftsmen provided some of their warriors with the distinctive Byzantine spears by 3350. With their superior wits and martial discipline, the Byzantine tribes came to dominate their neighbors along the arctic coast both to the west (Anatolia) and to the east (Thrace). Many neighbors either adapted Byzantine culture or were assimilated by Byzantine bronze.
In 3100 Anatolian traders must have encountered Celtic huntsmen, for they too were known to cross the Green Hills at the center of the Eurian Continent, so well traveled by the semi nomadic Celts. In some of the earliest examples of intercultural trade, the Byzantines and Celts seem to have learned ceremonial burial and bronze metalworking from each other around 3000bc. Byzantine burial tombs at this time began to reflect Celtic customs such as the burial of bodies with favored jewelry and personal effects.
This is more than one thing. First, it is the story of a planet. Just below that, it is the story of a game. It is a game that takes all cultures, land, astrophysics, religions, dreams, technologies, arts and passions of humanity and drops them in blender. Then you stay up all night doodling with it.
I'm obsessed with this game. I want to see it be more like real history. The difference between real history and Civ 3 is that in Civ 3 you only get to see the world from one nation's vantage point. So this is also an experiment in seeing a Civ 3 planet's history from a global perspective. I've known time and again what it looks like from my point of view. This is an attempt to see it objectively by using multiplayer mode. 
Of course most modern philosophers and cognitive psychologists will tell you there is no way to see something objectively—that is, to see something is inherently a subjective process. So instead I try here to see the world as Sid Meier recreated it, but see from eight different subjective points of view. In each case, then, it's necessary to maintain my separate subjectivities, to try and not see this world through my own eyes, what John Keats called 'negative capability,' to immerse into each of the eight civilizations own uncertainties and limitations. 
So this is one story, but it is also eight stories. Or it is one story about my own ability to not be. Also, it has pictures.
...These natives deserved it, however.
They finished them off by 2000bc.
