alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
The Founding Fathers would have approved ^_^
Preview Thread: TNESII - Et In Arcadia Ego
- Thread starter Thlayli
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Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
I would hope so.
Running totals:
New World Stats are 95% done.
European Stats are 90% done.
African Stats are 50% done. (Though all the colonies are finished.)
Near Eastern/Levantine Stats are 60% done.
Far Eastern/Central Asian Stats are...eh. 45% done.
NK, you are officially a lifesaver for helping me categorize everything.
Whenever das returns, he will be subject to my great displeasure for essentially forcing me to fly blind on a lot of these. Even so, this is going to be a great NES.
I will be returning story bonuses (capped at 2 per turn) and featuring the Spotlight again.
Running totals:
New World Stats are 95% done.
European Stats are 90% done.
African Stats are 50% done. (Though all the colonies are finished.)
Near Eastern/Levantine Stats are 60% done.
Far Eastern/Central Asian Stats are...eh. 45% done.
NK, you are officially a lifesaver for helping me categorize everything.
Whenever das returns, he will be subject to my great displeasure for essentially forcing me to fly blind on a lot of these. Even so, this is going to be a great NES.
I will be returning story bonuses (capped at 2 per turn) and featuring the Spotlight again.
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the semi-finalized cast of characters for what will undoubtedly be one of the finest NESes of the summer, thanks to your participation.
Players who have not yet confirmed, i.e. Yui, Luckymoose, and Swissempire, have 48 hours to tell me what's up or they will be dropped from the list.
Karalysia, if you still want Norway, let me know.
ADDITIONAL PLAYERS ARE STILL WELCOME, and will be even after the NES begins. (Especially since I need a Japan.)
Holy Roman Empire - CONFIRMED - Dachs
Flemish Empire - CONFIRMED - Azale
Holy Kingdom of France - CONFIRMED - North King
Republic of Italy - CONFIRMED - Flavius Aetius
Kingdom of Sicily - CONFIRMED - a_propagandist
Portuguese Empire - CONFIRMED conehead
Kingdom of Denmark - CONFIRMED - Adrogans
Kingdom of Sweden - CONFIRMED - Reno
Kingdom of Norway - CONFIRMED - Karalysia
Poland - CONFIRMED - Justo
Kingdom of Tver - CONFIRMED - Shadowbound
Grand Principality of Chernigov - CONFIRMED - alex
Empire of Serbia-Romea - CONFIRMED - Lord Iggy
Kingdom of Arcadia - CONFIRMED - Kraznaya
Republic of New Albion - CONFIRMED - Theige
Oklahoma - CONFIRMED - Contempt
Tawantinsuyu - CONFIRMED - foolish_icarus
Most Christian Kingdom of Egypt - CONFIRMED - Insane_Panda
Despotate of Ionia - CONFIRMED - Espoir
Republic of Adana - CONFIRMED - Supermath
Kingdom of Angora - Luckymoose (?)
Mustafid Shahate - CONFIRMED - Andis
Imperial Shogunate of Japan - (!?!)
Australian Confederation - CONFIRMED - Kal'thzar
Qing Empire - CONFIRMED - flyingchicken
Kingdom of the Xin Ming - CONFIRMED - Ninja Dude
Siamese Empire - CONFIRMED - LightFang
Bengal - CONFIRMED - Abaddon
Knights of the Nile - Swissempire (?)
Golden Horde - CONFIRMED - bombshoo
Second Malinese Empire - CONFIRMED - Charles
Ethiopia - Yui (?)
TOTAL CONFIRMED PLAYERS: 28
TOTAL PLAYERS: 31
Players who have not yet confirmed, i.e. Yui, Luckymoose, and Swissempire, have 48 hours to tell me what's up or they will be dropped from the list.
Karalysia, if you still want Norway, let me know.
ADDITIONAL PLAYERS ARE STILL WELCOME, and will be even after the NES begins. (Especially since I need a Japan.)
Holy Roman Empire - CONFIRMED - Dachs
Flemish Empire - CONFIRMED - Azale
Holy Kingdom of France - CONFIRMED - North King
Republic of Italy - CONFIRMED - Flavius Aetius
Kingdom of Sicily - CONFIRMED - a_propagandist
Portuguese Empire - CONFIRMED conehead
Kingdom of Denmark - CONFIRMED - Adrogans
Kingdom of Sweden - CONFIRMED - Reno
Kingdom of Norway - CONFIRMED - Karalysia
Poland - CONFIRMED - Justo
Kingdom of Tver - CONFIRMED - Shadowbound
Grand Principality of Chernigov - CONFIRMED - alex
Empire of Serbia-Romea - CONFIRMED - Lord Iggy
Kingdom of Arcadia - CONFIRMED - Kraznaya
Republic of New Albion - CONFIRMED - Theige
Oklahoma - CONFIRMED - Contempt
Tawantinsuyu - CONFIRMED - foolish_icarus
Most Christian Kingdom of Egypt - CONFIRMED - Insane_Panda
Despotate of Ionia - CONFIRMED - Espoir
Republic of Adana - CONFIRMED - Supermath
Kingdom of Angora - Luckymoose (?)
Mustafid Shahate - CONFIRMED - Andis
Imperial Shogunate of Japan - (!?!)
Australian Confederation - CONFIRMED - Kal'thzar
Qing Empire - CONFIRMED - flyingchicken
Kingdom of the Xin Ming - CONFIRMED - Ninja Dude
Siamese Empire - CONFIRMED - LightFang
Bengal - CONFIRMED - Abaddon
Knights of the Nile - Swissempire (?)
Golden Horde - CONFIRMED - bombshoo
Second Malinese Empire - CONFIRMED - Charles
Ethiopia - Yui (?)
TOTAL CONFIRMED PLAYERS: 28
TOTAL PLAYERS: 31
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Well given that his name is a series of clicks, he had better be.
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Supermath, excellent!
Nordstream has PM'ed me expressing interest in Japan. I will probably give it to him if no additional applications surface soon.
I have received word from das that he is working on a timeline now.
Nordstream has PM'ed me expressing interest in Japan. I will probably give it to him if no additional applications surface soon.
I have received word from das that he is working on a timeline now.
alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
I've missed das a lot. 
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Nordstream/silver has promised me that he will conduct diplomacy and stories by PM. Since he first expressed interest in Japan about 2 months ago, I'm going to confirm for him Japan.
Here are some preliminary stats to tide you over. Some things are missing, such as stats for Norway and Sicily, a description for Tver, and an updated colony list for Portugal.
NATION STATISTICS:
The New World:
Kingdom of Arcadia/St. George
King Geoffrey II (Lord Chancellor Richard Heron)/Kraznaya
Size: Large
Government: Parliamentary (Constitutional) Monarchy (+3)
Bureaucracy: Organized
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (6/5/6) (-8 upkeep) = 9 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: High
Confidence: Respecting
Army: 10 divisions (Veteran), 15 divisions (Good)
Navy: [15 squadrons – Newcastle-upon-Charles* (Veteran)], [20 squadrons – Portsmouth (Veteran)] [5 squadrons – Kimberley** (Veteran)] *Boston **Angola
Military Description: Well trained citizen-soldiers with an ample reserve force. Excellent naval forces, on par with Flanders and Portugal as the finest in the world.
Technology: Particularly in the Northeastern Corridor that stretches from St. George to High Stratford, Arcadia resembles a European nation in advancement. Further west towards the Mississipus and the plains, agriculture predominates, though industrial centers are present.
Colonies: Great Britain [Crown Jewel/Medium/Admiring/20 divisions (Good)]
The Canary Islands and the Azores [Outpost/Tiny/Respecting/1 division (Tolerable)]
Arcadian Northwest Africa [Unimportant/Small/Tolerating/3 divisions (Tolerable)]
Greater Kimberley* [Backwater/Medium/Tolerating/2 divisions (Green)] *Angola
Arcadian Caribbean [Viable/Small/Respecting/5 divisions (Decent)]
Society: Anglican, industrializing, tolerant, restorationist, anti-French sentiment, anti-Portuguese sentiment, patriotic, growing labor movements, westward migration, dominant Conservative majority in parliament.
Nation Description: The Kingdom of Arcadia is the largest successor state to the Kingdom of Britain, and the British Empire, though it wasn't an official empire. The main line of the House of Northumbria still rules in Arcadia, (which ruled England since the Rising of 1388), which had simply fled to the colonies during the Fifty Years War (1724-1774). The problem was that when the British Isles were reconquered, they were in such a terrible state (the French occupying authorities had made sure to cripple Britain's economic potential as much as possible and generally wrecked things beyond recognition) that it was decided to rule on from Arcadia, which had by then gained considerably in population thanks to the constant stream of refugees and immigrants. Not all the other colonies accepted this, however. That mostly brings us to where we are today. Arcadia has the challenge of competing with both foreign powers and other post-English states in order to restore the Crown’s dominance, all the while managing the industrializing world and the difficulties represented therein.
Argentine Protectorate of Arcadia/Fairport
Lord Protector Edward Stevenson/
Size: Medium
Government: Constitutional Monarchy (+3)
Bureaucracy: Competent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (2/2/1) (-2 upkeep) = 3 ep/turn
Taxation: Balanced
Quality of Life: High
Confidence: Respecting
Army: 10 divisions (Normal), 5 divisions (Tolerable)
Navy: [10 squadrons – Fairport* (Better)] *Argentine and Arcadian naval forces are integrated.
Military Description: A home-grown militia force, trained by Arcadian advisors. Superior to neighboring colonial militia, but more suited to defensive roles.
Technology: Long a prosperous colony of Britain, Argentina industrialized somewhat after its’ temporary independence, and after reuniting with Arcadia it has remained fairly advanced.
Colonies: None
Society: Multicultural, Anglican, Gaelic minorities, Flemish minorities, some industrialization,
Nation Description: “The Argent Lands” were an English colony, with small but prevalent Flemish and Gaelic minorities. They have had a fairly uneventful history, mostly involving peaceful expansion, the extermination of local tribes, and a brief period of independence and industrialization before reuniting with Arcadia.
Republic of New Albion
First Director Hampstead Godwin/Theige
Size: Small
Government: Republic (-1)
Bureaucracy: Corrupt
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (2/1/2) (-3 upkeep) = 2 ep/turn
Taxation: Light
Quality of Life: Tolerable
Confidence: Tolerating
Army: 5 divisions (Green)
Navy: 2 squadrons (Tolerable)
Military Description: Mostly a collection of self-armed border militia. Standing armies are distrusted and only called out in wartime.
Technology: New Albion is rapidly advancing thanks to migrants from Arcadia, Australia, and the more “settled” places of the world.
Colonies: None
Society: Religiously divided, frontier settlements, uncertain balance of power, anti-Portuguese sentiment, rapid population growth.
Nation Description: New Albion is a British “shard state” that assembled itself from a powerful collection of landowners during the Fifty Years’ War, when central British rule was abruptly terminated. Australia has officially guaranteed the Republic’s independence, and despite Albion’s corruption and disorganization, neither Arcadia nor Portugal wish to risk a war with the Confederates…yet. It is home to much competition between Arcadian and Australian influences, in both religion and politics.
Oklahoma/Kalhoma
/Contempt
Size: Small
Government: Tribal Republic (+1)
Bureaucracy: Inconsistent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (2/0/0) (-1 upkeep) = 1 ep/turn
Taxation: Light
Quality of Life: Fine
Confidence: Respecting
Army: 3 divisions (Veteran)
Navy: None
Military Description: Levied tribesmen, mobile light cavalry equipped with rifles. Additional braves can be called up during wartime.
Technology: The Plains Indians live without modern technology entirely, but have adapted western gunpowder for their uses.
Colonies: None
Society: Agrarian, nomadic, animist spirit-worship, tensions with white settlers in the borderlands.
Nation Description: In the haphazard collapse and reorganization of the New World following the Fifty Years War, westwards and northwards encroachments of Arcadian and Portuguese settlers caused the Plains Tribes of Oklahoma to band together in a loose alliance. After several massacres of encroaching settler parties, both Portugal and Arcadia saw the need for a buffer state between their frontier territories, and accords were signed and honored with the natives. However, occasional violations of Oklahoman neutrality have caused the tribal councils to be aggressive in defending their borderlands, and skirmishes are common.
Tawantinsuyu
/foolish_icarus
Size: Large
Government: Divine Monarchy (+3)
Bureaucracy: Organized
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (4/0/2) (-2 upkeep) = 4 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: Poor
Confidence: Admiring
Army: 5 divisions (Better), 30 divisions (Green)
Navy: 10 squadrons (Tolerable)
Military Description: Ill-equipped levies make up the majority of the Incan military, but they are supplemented by some guard regiments with European weapons and training.
Technology: Backwards by choice, now attempting to modernize.
Colonies: None
Society: Cult of personality, traditional polytheism, persecution of Christianity, largely agrarian, commencing modernization.
Nation Description: Portuguese explorers, hands full with suppressing rebellions in the Mexica, never attempted to penetrate into the Sun Kingdom. Recovering from a round of disease and power struggles, the Tawantinsuyu imposed a strict policy of self-isolation and limited trade to keep the “poisonous” ideals of Flemish and Portuguese traders from infecting Incan society. However, recent skirmishes with Flemish migrants prospecting for precious metals showed the inadequacy of the Sun Kingdom’s forces, and a belated modernization program has begun.
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Europe:
Holy Roman Empire [of the German Nation]/Fulda
Emperor Frederick VI, King of the Germans/Dachs
Size: Large
Government: Federative Empire (+2)
Bureaucracy: Competent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (4/7/3) (-4 upkeep) = 10 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: Decent
Confidence: Admiring
Army: 5 divisions (Professional), 20 divisions (Veteran), 20 divisions (Good)
Navy: [10 squadrons (Better) – Kiel] [5 squadrons (Better) – Hamburg] [3 squadrons – (Normal) – Veneto] [5 squadrons (Better) – Humboldt*] *Capital of Imperial Orinoco
Military Description: Excellent land military technology, particularly in artillery. Good morale and notable leadership. Naval power is middling for a European power, not very large but fairly modern.
Technology: Heavy industrialization on the domestic front, steam powered vehicles and excellent infrastructure. Advanced chemistry and metallurgy, large military-industrial complex.
Colonies: Deutsch-Orinoco [Valuable/Medium/Respecting/5 divisions (Better)]
Deutsch-Westafrika [Insignificant/Tiny/Tolerating/2 divisions (Normal)]
Society: Broader German Identity contrasted with lingering regionalism, half-assimilated Czech minorities, dissatisfied Italian and Polish minorities, widespread patriotism, Roman Catholic, militaristic, urban discontent, rapid industrialization.
Nation Description: <see first page - cut for size>
Holy Kingdom of France/Tours
King Henri V (Cardinal Théophile Araigne)/North King
Size: Above Medium
Government: Theocratic Authoritarian Monarchy (+1)
Bureaucracy: Organized
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (4/4/2) (-3 upkeep) = 7 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: Tolerable
Confidence: Respecting
Army: 10 divisions (Veteran), 30 divisions (Good), 10 divisions (Green)
Navy: [20 squadrons (Good) – Brest], [10 squadrons (Better) – Barcelona], [5 squadrons (Good) – New Leon]
Military Description: France’s armed forces are excellent, but lacking the new weaponry of the HRE and Flemings, or the colonial reach of Portugal and Arcadia. Morale and discipline are very high.
Technology: Infrastructure is adequate in France, less so in Iberia and Africa. Scientific development is tightly regulated by the increasingly conservative ACC. (Avignon Catholic Church)
Colonies: Algerie [Productive/Medium/Tolerating/10 divisions (Good)]
Nouvelle Leon [Viable/Small /Admiring/2 divisions (Veteran)]
Society: Theocratic, xenophobic, ultra-nationalistic, frustration among younger army officers/officials, puppet king and pope, some urban discontent, major rural conservatism, smuggling, mostly-assimilated Iberian minorities, dissident Leonese minorities, major conscription, skilled secret police.
Nation Description: Unlike the Eastern Uniate Catholics which remain in full communion with the church, the schism between Rome and Avignon was complete. A divided Europe gradually fell away from the Avignon Catholic Church, resulting in an increasingly bitter (and isolated) France. Both the Avignon Pope and the King gradually lost their power to an influential cabal of Cardinals, the most notable of which, Cardinal L’Azyr, prosecuted the Fifty Years War ending in the Sack of Britain, the Rape of Flanders, and the formation of the Kingdom of Arcadia. While France managed to push back a coalition of enemies and keep her core territory intact, it remains a strictly controlled, semi-feudal society as the tide of industrialization washes across Europe. Additionally, it has no strong allies, as even Hungary has returned to the Roman Catholic fold after its’ subjugation by the HRE. While the military is ruthless and strong, loyalties are divided between the symbolic power of the King and the real power of the ACC. The newest Cardinal could prove to be a cunning diplomat who restores French primacy, a tyrannical despot causing an Arbeitist rebellion or a military coup, or perhaps even a reformer. Only time will tell.
Flemish Empire/Antwerp
King Hendrik II (Executive Treasurer Isenbrant van der Linde)/Azale
Size: Large
Government: Constitutional Parliamentary Republic (+3)
Bureaucracy: Efficient
Income (Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade)): (2/3/8) (-7 upkeep) = 6 ep/turn
Taxation: Balanced
Quality of Life: High
Confidence: Loving
Army: 10 divisions (Veteran)
Navy: [20 squadrons (Veteran) – Rotterdam], [15 squadrons (Good) – Nieulande*], [10 squadrons (Good) – Malaya] *Nieu Zeeland
Military Desciption: Land military is high quality, emphasis on colonial support/training, mobility and flexibility. Advanced nautical skills are on par with the best, i.e. Arcadia and Portugal.
Technology: Advancing, experimentation with steam power on sea and land. Good urban infrastructure/design. Major disparity between Flanders/Brazil and the African/Asian colonies. Excellent medicine, optics, and theoretical physics.
Colonies: Nieu Zeeland* [Wealthy/Huge/Respecting/10 divisions (Tolerable)] *Flemish Brazil
Gouden Kust [Productive/Tiny/Tolerating/3 divisions (Normal)] *Flemish West Africa
Vlaams Kongo [Minor/Small/Tolerating/2 divisions (Normal)]
Vlaams Zambezi [Unimportant/Small/Respecting/2 divisions (Normal)]
Vlaams Indië [Productive/Medium/Discontent/5 divisions (Veteran)]
Vlaams Maleisië [Wealthy/Small/Tolerating/3 divisions (Veteran)]
Society: Commercial, maritime, diverse colonial ethnic populations, Flemish diaspora, Roman Catholic, moderate, democratic, conservative-leaning countryside, liberal-leaning port cities, anti-French sentiment, institutionalized racism in Brazil, booming colonial trade, upkeep issues. Growth of labor organizations and steam power.
Nation Description: The Flemish state has existed in its’ current form since seceding peacefully from Imperial power in the later Middle Ages. Except a brief interlude when it was fragmented by French invasion in the Fifty Years War, it has remained mostly united and peaceful, integrating many Dutch cities into the common Flemish culture. Colonized in the 16th and 17th centuries, New Zeeland has proven an excellent investment, the core of a far-flung colonial empire which helps maintain the exceptional wealth and prosperity of the Flemish homeland. The constant threat of French invasion keeps the nation fairly conservative and defense-minded, however. Further abroad, a colonial rivalry with Portugal is now starting to heat up, with commercial competition and proxy wars in Asia causing increased tensions. Despite its’ small size, Flanders is a great power to be reckoned with on the European stage.
Portuguese Empire/Lisbon
Empress Maria I/conehead234
Size: Huge
Government: Absolute Monarchy (Colonial Viceroyalties) (+2)
Bureaucracy: Competent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (5/3/10) (-9 upkeep) = 9 ep/turn
Taxation: Moderate
Quality of Life: High* (Colonial levels vary by colony and ethnic treatment)
Confidence: Respecting
Army: 10 divisions (Veteran)
Navy: [20 squadrons (Veteran) – Lisbon], [10 squadrons (Good) – Tavira*], [5 squadrons (Good) – São Inácio**] [10 squadrons (Good) – Goa] *Eastern Coast of Mexico **Southern Africa
Military Description: Generally excellent, though some colonial garrisons are undersupplied. Portuguese steelmaking is the best in the world, and their ship design is first-class.
Technology: Advanced but disparate, due to incredibly far flung colonies. Mexica and the homeland have burgeoning industry. Experiments into long-range communication and aeronautics are beginning.
Colonies: Mexica [Valuable/Huge/Respecting/5 divisions (Veteran), 10 divisions (Normal)]
Edmundsland [Viable/Medium/Discontent/7 divisions (Veteran)]
Malagasy [Backwater/Small/Tolerating/2 divisions (Normal)]
Zanzibar [Viable/Small/Tolerating/3 divisions (Normal)]
Gujarat [Wealthy/Medium/Discontent/5 divisions (Better)]
Java [Valuable/Medium/Unhappy/3 divisions (Better)]
Canton [Valuable/Large/Discontent/7 divisions (Veteran)]
Society: Racial diversity, communication/logistics issues, Roman Catholic, maritime power and excellence, English/Flemish minorities, Asian subject populations, ongoing industrialization.
Nation Description: Queen of the seas, Portugal is mistress of the largest colonial empire in the world, with outposts on every continent but Australia. During the Fifty Years’ War, several colonies were captured from Flanders and the crumbling Kingdom of Britain. In order for the empire to keep from collapsing under its’ weight, several viceroyalties were created, some semi-autonomous from Lisbon. Despite the threat of stagnation, Portugal maintains one of the world’s strongest and largest militaries. They’ll need it for the coming conflict, especially as tensions rise with Japan and the Xin Ming.
Principality of Montferrat/Montferrat
Prince Rudolphe III/
Size: Tiny
Government: Traditional Monarchy (+3)
Bureaucracy: Competent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (1/0/1) (-1 upkeep) = 1 ep/turn
Taxation: Moderate
Quality of Life: Rich
Confidence: Admiring
Army: 2 divisions (Better)
Navy: [1 squadron (Better) – Varelle-sur-mer]
Military Description: A small, well-maintained military aimed primarily at protecting the person of the Prince. Exclusively on a defensive posture.
Technology: Pleasantly backwards. Medieval crenellations still adorn the capital, and the countryside is lost in time.
Colonies: None
Society: Agrarian, semi-feudal, aristocratic, Roman Catholic.
Nation Description: An old medieval principality, Montferrat survived by cultivating a strong alliance with the Holy Roman Empire, and making itself a pleasant alternative to France for French exiles. It has accumulated a large amount of wealth, and her gambling houses are notorious with Europe’s nobility.
Republic of Italy/Rome
President Vittore Castiglioni/Flavius_Aetius
Size: Medium
Government: Presidential Republic (-1)
Bureaucracy: Wasteful
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (2/1/2) (-2 upkeep) = 3 ep/turn
Taxation: Light
Quality of Life: Poor
Confidence: Discontent
Army: 10 divisions [Tolerable], 10 divisions [Green]
Navy: [5 squadrons (Tolerable) – Genoa], [3 squadrons (Tolerable) – Nuova Vicenza]
Military Description: The navy is small and ineffectual, while the army has poor armaments and is ill-supplied. Italian forces are not beyond hope, but need major reforms.
Technology: Early Industrial. German efforts to modernize Italy were cut short after revolution. Balkanized and semi-modern, steadily falling behind.
Colonies: Nuova Vicenza* [Minor/Small/Tolerating/3 divisions (Tolerable)] *Africa
Sapienza* [Insignificant/Tiny/Respecting/1 division (Tolerable)] *Persian Gulf
Society: Growing urban radicalism, conservative countryside, Roman Catholic, anti-German sentiment, anti-Sicilian sentiment, poverty, corruption, political disunity, urban crime, strong nationalism.
Nation Description: Italy had long served as a battleground between the Imperial ambitions of Germany and Egypt, with German victory instituting a puppet state over the country. But the glorious casting off of German oppression some decades ago did not, unfortunately, lead to an Italian golden age, as Italians have yet to rule themselves effectively. Urban squalor and a corrupt political leadership have aggravated political tensions. Successions of presidents have been forced from power, and a growing divide between political factions may culminate in violence. The Papacy has renounced all claims to physical power, but the current government has failed to bring Italy prosperity. Some Italians wish for a return to papal leadership, while others advocate military rule, a stronger Republic, or even a new socialist order...
Kingdom of Poland/Cracow
King Zygmunt I/Justo
Size: Medium
Government: Parliamentary Monarchy (+1)
Bureaucracy: Decent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (2/1/1) (-1 upkeep) = 3 ep/turn
Taxation: Moderate
Quality of Life: Tolerable
Confidence: Admiring
Army: 10 divisions (Normal)
Navy: None
Military Description: Doctrine and equipment are partially scavenged from the HRE and somewhat backwards. Tactics are oriented towards defense of the homeland.
Technology: Somewhat backward and rural, efforts are being made to emulate Tverian industrialization. Infrastructure is solid, and future advancement is possible.
Colonies: None
Society: Patriotic, revanchist, pro-Tverian factions, pro-neutrality factions, anti-German sentiment, Roman Catholic, largely rural.
Nation Description: A small, post-revolutionary state, Poland broke off from the Holy Roman Empire in a violent rebellion about twenty-five years ago. It has made moves to align with Tver, but is afraid of upsetting the fragile balance of power between the two rival empires. It remains a destabilizing influence on Polish minorities in Tver and the HRE, who habitually agitate for independence.
Kingdom of Sweden/Stockholm
King Gustav IV/Reno
Size: Small
Government: Moderate Parliamentary Monarchy (+3)
Bureaucracy: Efficient
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (3/1/1) -2 upkeep = 3 ep/turn
Taxation: Heavy
Quality of Life: High
Confidence: Loving
Army: 10 divisions (Normal)
Navy: 5 squadrons (Better)
Military Description: Largely a peacetime force with some ceremonial functions. Ill equipped for war; some German advisors are working to improve matters.
Technology: Sweden remains somewhat backwards outside of the major cities, but innovations have been seen in agriculture and chemistry.
Colonies: None
Society: Tolerant, peaceful, half-assimilated Finnish minorities, pro-German sentiment, Roman Catholic, minor Arbeitist agitation, largely pre-industrial.
Nation Description: Sweden is a quiet nation with a peaceful history. The Finnish territories were peacefully integrated some centuries ago, and since then the Swedes have backed down from any possible conflict with Norway or Denmark. It is increasingly pushed around by its more aggressive neighbors, and is increasingly leaning towards the Holy Roman Empire, being under strong German cultural influence and in dynastic ties with the Leiningens as of right now. Sweden’s main goal is to avoid the new conflicts which threaten to engulf Europe, but she will stand with her ally if necessary.
Kingdom of Denmark/Copenhagen
/Adrogans
Size: Small
Government: Autocratic Consular Monarchy (+2)
Bureaucracy: Decent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (1/3/1) (-2 upkeep) = 3 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: Meager
Confidence: Admiring
Army: 10 divisions (Good), 5 divisions (Better)
Navy: [10 squadrons (Normal) – Copenhagen]
Military Description: The recently reformed army is aggressive and mobile, after the Tverian model, buta slight strain on the economy. The navy is modern and growing, but not well led.
Technology: Rapidly advancing, at an almost unsustainable pace. Denmark is a net exporter of weapons and finished goods, but may require more raw materials (i.e. colonies) to sustain her growth.
Colonies: None
Society: Patriotic, anti-Swedish sentiment, anti-German sentiment, xenophobia, major conscription, rapid industrialization, suppressed labor movements.
Nation Description: Poor and militaristic, Denmark has waged several unsuccessful wars against Germany, attempting to reclaim their lost empire. Failure in these has left the kingdom scarred, embittered, and fiercely nationalistic, hoping for revenge against the HRE. Formerly backwards, Denmark is in the midst of a rapid and slightly unsustainable crash industrialization program and military buildup, seeking to keep pace with their southern “neighbor”. Militaristic rhetoric has been ramping up in recent years, but there is a distinct feeling among Denmark’s leadership that her diplomatic isolation has to end…and initial contacts with some like-minded European nations have been favorable.
Kingdom of Tver/Tver
Tsar Mikhail IX/Shadowbound
Size: Large
Government: Authoritarian Parliamentary Monarchy (+2)
Bureaucracy: Competent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (2/6/3) -4 upkeep = 7 ep/turn
Taxation: Balanced
Quality of Life: Tolerable
Confidence: Respecting
Army: 2 divisions (Professional), 15 divisions (Veteran), 20 divisions (Good)
Navy: [15 squadrons (Better) – Kronengrad]
Military Description: The Tverian army is the finest in Eastern Europe. Skilled leadership prefers aggressive doctrines and use of light cavalry for scouting and intelligence. The navy is also improving.
Technology: Steam power, mechanization, and mass production are all areas of Tverian specialty/leadership. Munitions are good but not up to the German/Danish level.
Colonies: None
Society: Politically diverse, militaristic, aggressive, highly patriotic, anti-German sentiment, anti-Chernigovan sentiment, growing social democratic movements, urban poverty, military-industrial complex, industrialist mentality.
Nation Description:
Grand Principality of Chernigov/Chernigov (ceremonial), Odessa (administrative)
Grand Prince Mstislav V/alex994
Size: Large
Government: Oligarchic Parliamentary Princedom (+2)
Bureaucracy: Organized
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (4/3/2) -3 upkeep = 7 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: Decent
Confidence: Respecting
Army: 25 divisions (Good), 10 divisions (Normal)
Navy: [15 squadrons (Better) – Theodosia]
Military Description: An aged levy scheme is being replaced with a more current conscription system, and overall Chernigov’s military is fairly strong. Her Black Sea fleet is also unchallenged.
Technology: While not as industrial as Tver, Chernigov is the breadbasket of Europe and in tandem with Sweden, new technology for harvesting and processing crops has been developed.
Colonies: Trebizond [Viable/Tiny/Tolerating/3 divisions (Good)]
Society: Non-Uniate orthodox, patriotic, rural/urban divisions, some industrialization, moderately prosperous, large aristocracy, Buddhist Tatar minorities, Muslim Caucasian minorities, Jewish minorities.
Nation Description: Descended from the old Polonian princes that once unified the South Rus in ancient days, Chernigov coalesced during the early middle ages as a decentralized state under the nominal rule of the Grand Prince. Fighting off and then allying with the Mongols, Chernigov gradually centralized, successfully colonizing the south once the Mongol threat had receded. Advances in agriculture have made Chernigov the breadbasket of Europe, though her industrial development still continues. Chernigov’s old ambitions to control the Balkans and the Straits have met with resistance, first from the (now defunct) Hungarian Empire and Bulgarian Principalities, and now from Serbia-Romea. Additionally, relations with Tver are awful, as Tver’s ambitions are decidedly pointed towards unifying Eastern Europe.
Empire of Serbia-Romea/Tsargrad
Emperor Stefan II/Lord Iggy
Size: Medium
Government: Imperial Autocracy (+1)
Bureaucracy: Decent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (3/1/2) -3 upkeep = 3 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: Tolerable
Confidence: Tolerating
Army: 10 divisions (Good), 15 divisions (Normal)
Navy: [10 squadrons (Normal) – Tsargrad/Constantinople]
Military Description: Strongly modeled after Germany, with a general staff and integrated cavalry/artillery support.
Technology: Rapidly advancing, though balkanized like the rest of the country, Serbia and Tsargrad are the most advanced areas.
Colonies: None
Society: Uniate Orthodox, large Greek, Bulgarian minorities, assorted smaller minorities, suppression of non-Uniates, militaristic, settler colonies.
Nation Description: Serbia Romea is a Uniate Serbian kingdom that, during the Third Balkan War (1868-1873), won big thanks to the Holy Roman Empire's assistance. Moving its capital to Constantinople, it assumed the identity of a "Byzantine successor state", in order to cement the unity of the Balkan Peninsula, which remains a complete ethnic mess; are you really surprised? Serbia Romea has to balance a multiethnic nation with external pressures from the other Roman Empires of Germany and Egypt, potential revanchist ambitions of Chernigov and an Anatolia brimming with young, aggressive new empires.
Kingdom of Croatia
/
Size: Tiny
Government: Traditional Monarchy (+3)
Bureaucracy: Organized
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (1/0/1) - 1 upkeep = 1 ep/turn
Taxation: Balanced
Quality of Life: Decent
Confidence: Admiring
Army: 5 divisions (Good)
Navy: 3 squadrons (Good)
Military Description: The Croatian military emphasizes quality over quantity. Troops are remarkably disciplined and have served as mercenaries for other nations.
Technology: Transportation links to Germany have allowed Croatia to begin modernizing, but a traditional lifestyle remains dominant outside of the capital.
Colonies: None
Society: Roman Catholic, nationalist,
Nation Description: Croatia, long threatened by Hungarian imperialism, attached itself instead to the Holy Roman Empire, and has served as a devoted German ally since then.
Kingdom of Hungary
King Jákob II/NPC
Size: Small
Government: Puppet Monarchy (-2)
Bureaucracy: Inconsistent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (2/0/1) (-2 upkeep) = 1 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: Decent
Confidence: Discontent
Army: 5 divisions (Normal)
Navy: None
Military Description: Artificially small, and under German supervision. Low morale and poorly supplied.
Technology: While Hungary is very urbanized, the death of the empire has caused decay and the exile of many professionals. Some machinery is produced in Budapest, however.
Colonies: None.
Society: Mostly Roman Catholic, anti-German sentiment, anti-Serbian sentiment, widespread unhappiness, Arbeitist presence.
Nation Description: Once a mighty empire, hegemon of the Balkans, Hungary has finally been laid low by the Germans. Partially occupied for several years, Hungary lost most of her core lands and was forced to sign a humiliating treaty with the HRE. The ruling dynasty is viewed with much distaste by the old aristocracy and the lower classes alike. As in some other nations, revolution seems inevitable…
Here are some preliminary stats to tide you over. Some things are missing, such as stats for Norway and Sicily, a description for Tver, and an updated colony list for Portugal.
NATION STATISTICS:
The New World:
Kingdom of Arcadia/St. George
King Geoffrey II (Lord Chancellor Richard Heron)/Kraznaya
Size: Large
Government: Parliamentary (Constitutional) Monarchy (+3)
Bureaucracy: Organized
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (6/5/6) (-8 upkeep) = 9 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: High
Confidence: Respecting
Army: 10 divisions (Veteran), 15 divisions (Good)
Navy: [15 squadrons – Newcastle-upon-Charles* (Veteran)], [20 squadrons – Portsmouth (Veteran)] [5 squadrons – Kimberley** (Veteran)] *Boston **Angola
Military Description: Well trained citizen-soldiers with an ample reserve force. Excellent naval forces, on par with Flanders and Portugal as the finest in the world.
Technology: Particularly in the Northeastern Corridor that stretches from St. George to High Stratford, Arcadia resembles a European nation in advancement. Further west towards the Mississipus and the plains, agriculture predominates, though industrial centers are present.
Colonies: Great Britain [Crown Jewel/Medium/Admiring/20 divisions (Good)]
The Canary Islands and the Azores [Outpost/Tiny/Respecting/1 division (Tolerable)]
Arcadian Northwest Africa [Unimportant/Small/Tolerating/3 divisions (Tolerable)]
Greater Kimberley* [Backwater/Medium/Tolerating/2 divisions (Green)] *Angola
Arcadian Caribbean [Viable/Small/Respecting/5 divisions (Decent)]
Society: Anglican, industrializing, tolerant, restorationist, anti-French sentiment, anti-Portuguese sentiment, patriotic, growing labor movements, westward migration, dominant Conservative majority in parliament.
Nation Description: The Kingdom of Arcadia is the largest successor state to the Kingdom of Britain, and the British Empire, though it wasn't an official empire. The main line of the House of Northumbria still rules in Arcadia, (which ruled England since the Rising of 1388), which had simply fled to the colonies during the Fifty Years War (1724-1774). The problem was that when the British Isles were reconquered, they were in such a terrible state (the French occupying authorities had made sure to cripple Britain's economic potential as much as possible and generally wrecked things beyond recognition) that it was decided to rule on from Arcadia, which had by then gained considerably in population thanks to the constant stream of refugees and immigrants. Not all the other colonies accepted this, however. That mostly brings us to where we are today. Arcadia has the challenge of competing with both foreign powers and other post-English states in order to restore the Crown’s dominance, all the while managing the industrializing world and the difficulties represented therein.
Argentine Protectorate of Arcadia/Fairport
Lord Protector Edward Stevenson/
Size: Medium
Government: Constitutional Monarchy (+3)
Bureaucracy: Competent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (2/2/1) (-2 upkeep) = 3 ep/turn
Taxation: Balanced
Quality of Life: High
Confidence: Respecting
Army: 10 divisions (Normal), 5 divisions (Tolerable)
Navy: [10 squadrons – Fairport* (Better)] *Argentine and Arcadian naval forces are integrated.
Military Description: A home-grown militia force, trained by Arcadian advisors. Superior to neighboring colonial militia, but more suited to defensive roles.
Technology: Long a prosperous colony of Britain, Argentina industrialized somewhat after its’ temporary independence, and after reuniting with Arcadia it has remained fairly advanced.
Colonies: None
Society: Multicultural, Anglican, Gaelic minorities, Flemish minorities, some industrialization,
Nation Description: “The Argent Lands” were an English colony, with small but prevalent Flemish and Gaelic minorities. They have had a fairly uneventful history, mostly involving peaceful expansion, the extermination of local tribes, and a brief period of independence and industrialization before reuniting with Arcadia.
Republic of New Albion
First Director Hampstead Godwin/Theige
Size: Small
Government: Republic (-1)
Bureaucracy: Corrupt
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (2/1/2) (-3 upkeep) = 2 ep/turn
Taxation: Light
Quality of Life: Tolerable
Confidence: Tolerating
Army: 5 divisions (Green)
Navy: 2 squadrons (Tolerable)
Military Description: Mostly a collection of self-armed border militia. Standing armies are distrusted and only called out in wartime.
Technology: New Albion is rapidly advancing thanks to migrants from Arcadia, Australia, and the more “settled” places of the world.
Colonies: None
Society: Religiously divided, frontier settlements, uncertain balance of power, anti-Portuguese sentiment, rapid population growth.
Nation Description: New Albion is a British “shard state” that assembled itself from a powerful collection of landowners during the Fifty Years’ War, when central British rule was abruptly terminated. Australia has officially guaranteed the Republic’s independence, and despite Albion’s corruption and disorganization, neither Arcadia nor Portugal wish to risk a war with the Confederates…yet. It is home to much competition between Arcadian and Australian influences, in both religion and politics.
Oklahoma/Kalhoma
/Contempt
Size: Small
Government: Tribal Republic (+1)
Bureaucracy: Inconsistent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (2/0/0) (-1 upkeep) = 1 ep/turn
Taxation: Light
Quality of Life: Fine
Confidence: Respecting
Army: 3 divisions (Veteran)
Navy: None
Military Description: Levied tribesmen, mobile light cavalry equipped with rifles. Additional braves can be called up during wartime.
Technology: The Plains Indians live without modern technology entirely, but have adapted western gunpowder for their uses.
Colonies: None
Society: Agrarian, nomadic, animist spirit-worship, tensions with white settlers in the borderlands.
Nation Description: In the haphazard collapse and reorganization of the New World following the Fifty Years War, westwards and northwards encroachments of Arcadian and Portuguese settlers caused the Plains Tribes of Oklahoma to band together in a loose alliance. After several massacres of encroaching settler parties, both Portugal and Arcadia saw the need for a buffer state between their frontier territories, and accords were signed and honored with the natives. However, occasional violations of Oklahoman neutrality have caused the tribal councils to be aggressive in defending their borderlands, and skirmishes are common.
Tawantinsuyu
/foolish_icarus
Size: Large
Government: Divine Monarchy (+3)
Bureaucracy: Organized
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (4/0/2) (-2 upkeep) = 4 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: Poor
Confidence: Admiring
Army: 5 divisions (Better), 30 divisions (Green)
Navy: 10 squadrons (Tolerable)
Military Description: Ill-equipped levies make up the majority of the Incan military, but they are supplemented by some guard regiments with European weapons and training.
Technology: Backwards by choice, now attempting to modernize.
Colonies: None
Society: Cult of personality, traditional polytheism, persecution of Christianity, largely agrarian, commencing modernization.
Nation Description: Portuguese explorers, hands full with suppressing rebellions in the Mexica, never attempted to penetrate into the Sun Kingdom. Recovering from a round of disease and power struggles, the Tawantinsuyu imposed a strict policy of self-isolation and limited trade to keep the “poisonous” ideals of Flemish and Portuguese traders from infecting Incan society. However, recent skirmishes with Flemish migrants prospecting for precious metals showed the inadequacy of the Sun Kingdom’s forces, and a belated modernization program has begun.
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Europe:
Holy Roman Empire [of the German Nation]/Fulda
Emperor Frederick VI, King of the Germans/Dachs
Size: Large
Government: Federative Empire (+2)
Bureaucracy: Competent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (4/7/3) (-4 upkeep) = 10 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: Decent
Confidence: Admiring
Army: 5 divisions (Professional), 20 divisions (Veteran), 20 divisions (Good)
Navy: [10 squadrons (Better) – Kiel] [5 squadrons (Better) – Hamburg] [3 squadrons – (Normal) – Veneto] [5 squadrons (Better) – Humboldt*] *Capital of Imperial Orinoco
Military Description: Excellent land military technology, particularly in artillery. Good morale and notable leadership. Naval power is middling for a European power, not very large but fairly modern.
Technology: Heavy industrialization on the domestic front, steam powered vehicles and excellent infrastructure. Advanced chemistry and metallurgy, large military-industrial complex.
Colonies: Deutsch-Orinoco [Valuable/Medium/Respecting/5 divisions (Better)]
Deutsch-Westafrika [Insignificant/Tiny/Tolerating/2 divisions (Normal)]
Society: Broader German Identity contrasted with lingering regionalism, half-assimilated Czech minorities, dissatisfied Italian and Polish minorities, widespread patriotism, Roman Catholic, militaristic, urban discontent, rapid industrialization.
Nation Description: <see first page - cut for size>
Holy Kingdom of France/Tours
King Henri V (Cardinal Théophile Araigne)/North King
Size: Above Medium
Government: Theocratic Authoritarian Monarchy (+1)
Bureaucracy: Organized
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (4/4/2) (-3 upkeep) = 7 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: Tolerable
Confidence: Respecting
Army: 10 divisions (Veteran), 30 divisions (Good), 10 divisions (Green)
Navy: [20 squadrons (Good) – Brest], [10 squadrons (Better) – Barcelona], [5 squadrons (Good) – New Leon]
Military Description: France’s armed forces are excellent, but lacking the new weaponry of the HRE and Flemings, or the colonial reach of Portugal and Arcadia. Morale and discipline are very high.
Technology: Infrastructure is adequate in France, less so in Iberia and Africa. Scientific development is tightly regulated by the increasingly conservative ACC. (Avignon Catholic Church)
Colonies: Algerie [Productive/Medium/Tolerating/10 divisions (Good)]
Nouvelle Leon [Viable/Small /Admiring/2 divisions (Veteran)]
Society: Theocratic, xenophobic, ultra-nationalistic, frustration among younger army officers/officials, puppet king and pope, some urban discontent, major rural conservatism, smuggling, mostly-assimilated Iberian minorities, dissident Leonese minorities, major conscription, skilled secret police.
Nation Description: Unlike the Eastern Uniate Catholics which remain in full communion with the church, the schism between Rome and Avignon was complete. A divided Europe gradually fell away from the Avignon Catholic Church, resulting in an increasingly bitter (and isolated) France. Both the Avignon Pope and the King gradually lost their power to an influential cabal of Cardinals, the most notable of which, Cardinal L’Azyr, prosecuted the Fifty Years War ending in the Sack of Britain, the Rape of Flanders, and the formation of the Kingdom of Arcadia. While France managed to push back a coalition of enemies and keep her core territory intact, it remains a strictly controlled, semi-feudal society as the tide of industrialization washes across Europe. Additionally, it has no strong allies, as even Hungary has returned to the Roman Catholic fold after its’ subjugation by the HRE. While the military is ruthless and strong, loyalties are divided between the symbolic power of the King and the real power of the ACC. The newest Cardinal could prove to be a cunning diplomat who restores French primacy, a tyrannical despot causing an Arbeitist rebellion or a military coup, or perhaps even a reformer. Only time will tell.
Flemish Empire/Antwerp
King Hendrik II (Executive Treasurer Isenbrant van der Linde)/Azale
Size: Large
Government: Constitutional Parliamentary Republic (+3)
Bureaucracy: Efficient
Income (Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade)): (2/3/8) (-7 upkeep) = 6 ep/turn
Taxation: Balanced
Quality of Life: High
Confidence: Loving
Army: 10 divisions (Veteran)
Navy: [20 squadrons (Veteran) – Rotterdam], [15 squadrons (Good) – Nieulande*], [10 squadrons (Good) – Malaya] *Nieu Zeeland
Military Desciption: Land military is high quality, emphasis on colonial support/training, mobility and flexibility. Advanced nautical skills are on par with the best, i.e. Arcadia and Portugal.
Technology: Advancing, experimentation with steam power on sea and land. Good urban infrastructure/design. Major disparity between Flanders/Brazil and the African/Asian colonies. Excellent medicine, optics, and theoretical physics.
Colonies: Nieu Zeeland* [Wealthy/Huge/Respecting/10 divisions (Tolerable)] *Flemish Brazil
Gouden Kust [Productive/Tiny/Tolerating/3 divisions (Normal)] *Flemish West Africa
Vlaams Kongo [Minor/Small/Tolerating/2 divisions (Normal)]
Vlaams Zambezi [Unimportant/Small/Respecting/2 divisions (Normal)]
Vlaams Indië [Productive/Medium/Discontent/5 divisions (Veteran)]
Vlaams Maleisië [Wealthy/Small/Tolerating/3 divisions (Veteran)]
Society: Commercial, maritime, diverse colonial ethnic populations, Flemish diaspora, Roman Catholic, moderate, democratic, conservative-leaning countryside, liberal-leaning port cities, anti-French sentiment, institutionalized racism in Brazil, booming colonial trade, upkeep issues. Growth of labor organizations and steam power.
Nation Description: The Flemish state has existed in its’ current form since seceding peacefully from Imperial power in the later Middle Ages. Except a brief interlude when it was fragmented by French invasion in the Fifty Years War, it has remained mostly united and peaceful, integrating many Dutch cities into the common Flemish culture. Colonized in the 16th and 17th centuries, New Zeeland has proven an excellent investment, the core of a far-flung colonial empire which helps maintain the exceptional wealth and prosperity of the Flemish homeland. The constant threat of French invasion keeps the nation fairly conservative and defense-minded, however. Further abroad, a colonial rivalry with Portugal is now starting to heat up, with commercial competition and proxy wars in Asia causing increased tensions. Despite its’ small size, Flanders is a great power to be reckoned with on the European stage.
Portuguese Empire/Lisbon
Empress Maria I/conehead234
Size: Huge
Government: Absolute Monarchy (Colonial Viceroyalties) (+2)
Bureaucracy: Competent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (5/3/10) (-9 upkeep) = 9 ep/turn
Taxation: Moderate
Quality of Life: High* (Colonial levels vary by colony and ethnic treatment)
Confidence: Respecting
Army: 10 divisions (Veteran)
Navy: [20 squadrons (Veteran) – Lisbon], [10 squadrons (Good) – Tavira*], [5 squadrons (Good) – São Inácio**] [10 squadrons (Good) – Goa] *Eastern Coast of Mexico **Southern Africa
Military Description: Generally excellent, though some colonial garrisons are undersupplied. Portuguese steelmaking is the best in the world, and their ship design is first-class.
Technology: Advanced but disparate, due to incredibly far flung colonies. Mexica and the homeland have burgeoning industry. Experiments into long-range communication and aeronautics are beginning.
Colonies: Mexica [Valuable/Huge/Respecting/5 divisions (Veteran), 10 divisions (Normal)]
Edmundsland [Viable/Medium/Discontent/7 divisions (Veteran)]
Malagasy [Backwater/Small/Tolerating/2 divisions (Normal)]
Zanzibar [Viable/Small/Tolerating/3 divisions (Normal)]
Gujarat [Wealthy/Medium/Discontent/5 divisions (Better)]
Java [Valuable/Medium/Unhappy/3 divisions (Better)]
Canton [Valuable/Large/Discontent/7 divisions (Veteran)]
Society: Racial diversity, communication/logistics issues, Roman Catholic, maritime power and excellence, English/Flemish minorities, Asian subject populations, ongoing industrialization.
Nation Description: Queen of the seas, Portugal is mistress of the largest colonial empire in the world, with outposts on every continent but Australia. During the Fifty Years’ War, several colonies were captured from Flanders and the crumbling Kingdom of Britain. In order for the empire to keep from collapsing under its’ weight, several viceroyalties were created, some semi-autonomous from Lisbon. Despite the threat of stagnation, Portugal maintains one of the world’s strongest and largest militaries. They’ll need it for the coming conflict, especially as tensions rise with Japan and the Xin Ming.
Principality of Montferrat/Montferrat
Prince Rudolphe III/
Size: Tiny
Government: Traditional Monarchy (+3)
Bureaucracy: Competent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (1/0/1) (-1 upkeep) = 1 ep/turn
Taxation: Moderate
Quality of Life: Rich
Confidence: Admiring
Army: 2 divisions (Better)
Navy: [1 squadron (Better) – Varelle-sur-mer]
Military Description: A small, well-maintained military aimed primarily at protecting the person of the Prince. Exclusively on a defensive posture.
Technology: Pleasantly backwards. Medieval crenellations still adorn the capital, and the countryside is lost in time.
Colonies: None
Society: Agrarian, semi-feudal, aristocratic, Roman Catholic.
Nation Description: An old medieval principality, Montferrat survived by cultivating a strong alliance with the Holy Roman Empire, and making itself a pleasant alternative to France for French exiles. It has accumulated a large amount of wealth, and her gambling houses are notorious with Europe’s nobility.
Republic of Italy/Rome
President Vittore Castiglioni/Flavius_Aetius
Size: Medium
Government: Presidential Republic (-1)
Bureaucracy: Wasteful
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (2/1/2) (-2 upkeep) = 3 ep/turn
Taxation: Light
Quality of Life: Poor
Confidence: Discontent
Army: 10 divisions [Tolerable], 10 divisions [Green]
Navy: [5 squadrons (Tolerable) – Genoa], [3 squadrons (Tolerable) – Nuova Vicenza]
Military Description: The navy is small and ineffectual, while the army has poor armaments and is ill-supplied. Italian forces are not beyond hope, but need major reforms.
Technology: Early Industrial. German efforts to modernize Italy were cut short after revolution. Balkanized and semi-modern, steadily falling behind.
Colonies: Nuova Vicenza* [Minor/Small/Tolerating/3 divisions (Tolerable)] *Africa
Sapienza* [Insignificant/Tiny/Respecting/1 division (Tolerable)] *Persian Gulf
Society: Growing urban radicalism, conservative countryside, Roman Catholic, anti-German sentiment, anti-Sicilian sentiment, poverty, corruption, political disunity, urban crime, strong nationalism.
Nation Description: Italy had long served as a battleground between the Imperial ambitions of Germany and Egypt, with German victory instituting a puppet state over the country. But the glorious casting off of German oppression some decades ago did not, unfortunately, lead to an Italian golden age, as Italians have yet to rule themselves effectively. Urban squalor and a corrupt political leadership have aggravated political tensions. Successions of presidents have been forced from power, and a growing divide between political factions may culminate in violence. The Papacy has renounced all claims to physical power, but the current government has failed to bring Italy prosperity. Some Italians wish for a return to papal leadership, while others advocate military rule, a stronger Republic, or even a new socialist order...
Kingdom of Poland/Cracow
King Zygmunt I/Justo
Size: Medium
Government: Parliamentary Monarchy (+1)
Bureaucracy: Decent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (2/1/1) (-1 upkeep) = 3 ep/turn
Taxation: Moderate
Quality of Life: Tolerable
Confidence: Admiring
Army: 10 divisions (Normal)
Navy: None
Military Description: Doctrine and equipment are partially scavenged from the HRE and somewhat backwards. Tactics are oriented towards defense of the homeland.
Technology: Somewhat backward and rural, efforts are being made to emulate Tverian industrialization. Infrastructure is solid, and future advancement is possible.
Colonies: None
Society: Patriotic, revanchist, pro-Tverian factions, pro-neutrality factions, anti-German sentiment, Roman Catholic, largely rural.
Nation Description: A small, post-revolutionary state, Poland broke off from the Holy Roman Empire in a violent rebellion about twenty-five years ago. It has made moves to align with Tver, but is afraid of upsetting the fragile balance of power between the two rival empires. It remains a destabilizing influence on Polish minorities in Tver and the HRE, who habitually agitate for independence.
Kingdom of Sweden/Stockholm
King Gustav IV/Reno
Size: Small
Government: Moderate Parliamentary Monarchy (+3)
Bureaucracy: Efficient
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (3/1/1) -2 upkeep = 3 ep/turn
Taxation: Heavy
Quality of Life: High
Confidence: Loving
Army: 10 divisions (Normal)
Navy: 5 squadrons (Better)
Military Description: Largely a peacetime force with some ceremonial functions. Ill equipped for war; some German advisors are working to improve matters.
Technology: Sweden remains somewhat backwards outside of the major cities, but innovations have been seen in agriculture and chemistry.
Colonies: None
Society: Tolerant, peaceful, half-assimilated Finnish minorities, pro-German sentiment, Roman Catholic, minor Arbeitist agitation, largely pre-industrial.
Nation Description: Sweden is a quiet nation with a peaceful history. The Finnish territories were peacefully integrated some centuries ago, and since then the Swedes have backed down from any possible conflict with Norway or Denmark. It is increasingly pushed around by its more aggressive neighbors, and is increasingly leaning towards the Holy Roman Empire, being under strong German cultural influence and in dynastic ties with the Leiningens as of right now. Sweden’s main goal is to avoid the new conflicts which threaten to engulf Europe, but she will stand with her ally if necessary.
Kingdom of Denmark/Copenhagen
/Adrogans
Size: Small
Government: Autocratic Consular Monarchy (+2)
Bureaucracy: Decent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (1/3/1) (-2 upkeep) = 3 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: Meager
Confidence: Admiring
Army: 10 divisions (Good), 5 divisions (Better)
Navy: [10 squadrons (Normal) – Copenhagen]
Military Description: The recently reformed army is aggressive and mobile, after the Tverian model, buta slight strain on the economy. The navy is modern and growing, but not well led.
Technology: Rapidly advancing, at an almost unsustainable pace. Denmark is a net exporter of weapons and finished goods, but may require more raw materials (i.e. colonies) to sustain her growth.
Colonies: None
Society: Patriotic, anti-Swedish sentiment, anti-German sentiment, xenophobia, major conscription, rapid industrialization, suppressed labor movements.
Nation Description: Poor and militaristic, Denmark has waged several unsuccessful wars against Germany, attempting to reclaim their lost empire. Failure in these has left the kingdom scarred, embittered, and fiercely nationalistic, hoping for revenge against the HRE. Formerly backwards, Denmark is in the midst of a rapid and slightly unsustainable crash industrialization program and military buildup, seeking to keep pace with their southern “neighbor”. Militaristic rhetoric has been ramping up in recent years, but there is a distinct feeling among Denmark’s leadership that her diplomatic isolation has to end…and initial contacts with some like-minded European nations have been favorable.
Kingdom of Tver/Tver
Tsar Mikhail IX/Shadowbound
Size: Large
Government: Authoritarian Parliamentary Monarchy (+2)
Bureaucracy: Competent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (2/6/3) -4 upkeep = 7 ep/turn
Taxation: Balanced
Quality of Life: Tolerable
Confidence: Respecting
Army: 2 divisions (Professional), 15 divisions (Veteran), 20 divisions (Good)
Navy: [15 squadrons (Better) – Kronengrad]
Military Description: The Tverian army is the finest in Eastern Europe. Skilled leadership prefers aggressive doctrines and use of light cavalry for scouting and intelligence. The navy is also improving.
Technology: Steam power, mechanization, and mass production are all areas of Tverian specialty/leadership. Munitions are good but not up to the German/Danish level.
Colonies: None
Society: Politically diverse, militaristic, aggressive, highly patriotic, anti-German sentiment, anti-Chernigovan sentiment, growing social democratic movements, urban poverty, military-industrial complex, industrialist mentality.
Nation Description:
Grand Principality of Chernigov/Chernigov (ceremonial), Odessa (administrative)
Grand Prince Mstislav V/alex994
Size: Large
Government: Oligarchic Parliamentary Princedom (+2)
Bureaucracy: Organized
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (4/3/2) -3 upkeep = 7 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: Decent
Confidence: Respecting
Army: 25 divisions (Good), 10 divisions (Normal)
Navy: [15 squadrons (Better) – Theodosia]
Military Description: An aged levy scheme is being replaced with a more current conscription system, and overall Chernigov’s military is fairly strong. Her Black Sea fleet is also unchallenged.
Technology: While not as industrial as Tver, Chernigov is the breadbasket of Europe and in tandem with Sweden, new technology for harvesting and processing crops has been developed.
Colonies: Trebizond [Viable/Tiny/Tolerating/3 divisions (Good)]
Society: Non-Uniate orthodox, patriotic, rural/urban divisions, some industrialization, moderately prosperous, large aristocracy, Buddhist Tatar minorities, Muslim Caucasian minorities, Jewish minorities.
Nation Description: Descended from the old Polonian princes that once unified the South Rus in ancient days, Chernigov coalesced during the early middle ages as a decentralized state under the nominal rule of the Grand Prince. Fighting off and then allying with the Mongols, Chernigov gradually centralized, successfully colonizing the south once the Mongol threat had receded. Advances in agriculture have made Chernigov the breadbasket of Europe, though her industrial development still continues. Chernigov’s old ambitions to control the Balkans and the Straits have met with resistance, first from the (now defunct) Hungarian Empire and Bulgarian Principalities, and now from Serbia-Romea. Additionally, relations with Tver are awful, as Tver’s ambitions are decidedly pointed towards unifying Eastern Europe.
Empire of Serbia-Romea/Tsargrad
Emperor Stefan II/Lord Iggy
Size: Medium
Government: Imperial Autocracy (+1)
Bureaucracy: Decent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (3/1/2) -3 upkeep = 3 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: Tolerable
Confidence: Tolerating
Army: 10 divisions (Good), 15 divisions (Normal)
Navy: [10 squadrons (Normal) – Tsargrad/Constantinople]
Military Description: Strongly modeled after Germany, with a general staff and integrated cavalry/artillery support.
Technology: Rapidly advancing, though balkanized like the rest of the country, Serbia and Tsargrad are the most advanced areas.
Colonies: None
Society: Uniate Orthodox, large Greek, Bulgarian minorities, assorted smaller minorities, suppression of non-Uniates, militaristic, settler colonies.
Nation Description: Serbia Romea is a Uniate Serbian kingdom that, during the Third Balkan War (1868-1873), won big thanks to the Holy Roman Empire's assistance. Moving its capital to Constantinople, it assumed the identity of a "Byzantine successor state", in order to cement the unity of the Balkan Peninsula, which remains a complete ethnic mess; are you really surprised? Serbia Romea has to balance a multiethnic nation with external pressures from the other Roman Empires of Germany and Egypt, potential revanchist ambitions of Chernigov and an Anatolia brimming with young, aggressive new empires.
Kingdom of Croatia
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Size: Tiny
Government: Traditional Monarchy (+3)
Bureaucracy: Organized
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (1/0/1) - 1 upkeep = 1 ep/turn
Taxation: Balanced
Quality of Life: Decent
Confidence: Admiring
Army: 5 divisions (Good)
Navy: 3 squadrons (Good)
Military Description: The Croatian military emphasizes quality over quantity. Troops are remarkably disciplined and have served as mercenaries for other nations.
Technology: Transportation links to Germany have allowed Croatia to begin modernizing, but a traditional lifestyle remains dominant outside of the capital.
Colonies: None
Society: Roman Catholic, nationalist,
Nation Description: Croatia, long threatened by Hungarian imperialism, attached itself instead to the Holy Roman Empire, and has served as a devoted German ally since then.
Kingdom of Hungary
King Jákob II/NPC
Size: Small
Government: Puppet Monarchy (-2)
Bureaucracy: Inconsistent
Income (Agriculture/Industry/Trade): (2/0/1) (-2 upkeep) = 1 ep/turn
Taxation: Significant
Quality of Life: Decent
Confidence: Discontent
Army: 5 divisions (Normal)
Navy: None
Military Description: Artificially small, and under German supervision. Low morale and poorly supplied.
Technology: While Hungary is very urbanized, the death of the empire has caused decay and the exile of many professionals. Some machinery is produced in Budapest, however.
Colonies: None.
Society: Mostly Roman Catholic, anti-German sentiment, anti-Serbian sentiment, widespread unhappiness, Arbeitist presence.
Nation Description: Once a mighty empire, hegemon of the Balkans, Hungary has finally been laid low by the Germans. Partially occupied for several years, Hungary lost most of her core lands and was forced to sign a humiliating treaty with the HRE. The ruling dynasty is viewed with much distaste by the old aristocracy and the lower classes alike. As in some other nations, revolution seems inevitable…
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Regeneration In Process
And I missed you all too. Anyway, stats critique PM'd, posting rough timeline:
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9th Century: Start of the Medieval Warm Period. End of the Maya Classical Period. Unification of the Anglo-Saxon states around Wessex. Establishment of Danelaw in northeastern England. Formal establishment of Charlemagne's Holy Roman Empire, eventually followed by the partition of the Carolingian Empire in Western Europe. Rise and start of decline of Great Moravia; arrival of the Magyars to the Pannonian Plain. Establishment of the Bulgarian Empire in the Balkans. Establishment of Varangian dynasties in Novgorod (Rurikids) and Kiev (Askoldids). Retreat of the Byzantine Empire's borders before Bulgarian and Arabian attacks. Continued political disintegration of the Caliphate; establishment of independent North African and Central Asian dynasties. Breakup of the Tibetan Empire. Peasant rebellions in Tang China.
10th Century: Rise of the Toltec Empire in northern Mexico. Complete unification of England by Wessex. Settlement of the Normans in northern France. Start of the Capetian dynasty in France. Peak of the Caliphate of Cordoba's power. Establishment of the Ottonian Holy Roman Empire centered in Germany. Magyar raids and defeat thereof by HRE Otto I. Establishment of Polish and Croatian kingdoms. Spread of Greek Christianity to Kievan Polania. Decline of the Bulgarian Empire; rise of Askoldid Polania, successful wars in the Balkans and eventual personal union with Bulgaria (establishment of the Pereyaslavian Polano-Bulgarian Empire). Civil war in the Byzantine Empire, conquest of the Balkans and northern Anatolia by the Pereyaslavian Empire, complete collapse of the Byzantine Empire and emergence of quarreling despotates in Anatolia. Rise of the Fatimid Caliphate, with unification of North Africa, naval supremacy in the Mediterranean and expansion into Syria; conquest of the southern corner of Italy, Aegean Sea islands and southern Anatolia. Rise of the Buwayhid Dynasty in Iran; reduction of the Abbasid Caliphate to puppet status. Rise of the Ghaznavid Dynasty in Central Asia. Collapse of the Tang Dynasty, eventual establishment of the Song Dynasty after decades of infighting.
11th Century: Viking explorers reach North America. Rise and fall of the Canutian Empire in England, Norway and Denmark; civil war in England and ultimately unsuccessful Norwegian and Norman attempts to conquer it, overall decline of royal authority. Feudal infighting in France; failed attempts to strengthen royal power by the Capetians and to seize the throne by Normans and Angevins. Collapse of the Andalusian Ummayad Caliphate into Taifa states, revival of northern Christian kingdoms and rise of the Almoravid Dynasty. Inconclusive Imperial-Fatimid wars over southern Italy. Adoption of Catholic Christianity by the newly-established Kingdom of Hungary and Rurikid Slavania. Consolidation of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Establishment of independent Serbia. Decline and partial fragmentation of the Pereyaslavian Empire, attempts to rebuild the Byzantine Empire under the leadership of the Patriarch of Constantinople (and connected to this, the West-East Schism), temporary ascent of Rurikid Slavania with campaigns against all nearby states and subsequent disintegration and feudal collapse. Oghuz Turkish migration into/invasion of central Middle East; rise of the Seljuk Sultanate in Persia and clashes between it and the Fatimid Caliphate. Ghaznavid incursions into and conquest of northwestern India. Zenith of the Chola Dynasty's power and influence in southern India and the Bengal Bay.
(After this point bolding the divergences from OTL becomes pointless, as between direct ripples and the butterfly effect the divergence becomes virtually all-permeating, especially in western Eurasia)
12th Century: Collapse of the Toltec Empire. Ascent of the Flanders dynasty to power in England. Ascent of the Angevin dynasty to power in France; consolidation and centralisation of French royal authority. Collapse of the Almoravid Dynasty; failure of Christian Spanish kingdoms to take advantage of said collapse due to infighting and French meddling. Gradual decline of the Holy Roman Empire due to dynastic infighting and strenghthening of regionalistic feudal tendencies. Overall zenith of universalist Papal authority; start of the Papal reconquest of southern Italy with help from the malcontent poor German feudals. Personal union between Hungary and Croatia. Final collapse of the Byzantine Empire; temporary revival of the Kievan Principality in southern Russia and eastern Balkans, followed by its own disintegration into Polanian and Bulgarian principalities. Start of the Crusades on the joint initiative of the Pope and the King of France and with strong Venetian and Genoese support, aimed against the decrepit and weakened Fatimid Caliphate; limited success in Anatolia, establishment of French-dominated Kingdom of Jerusalem and Norman Kingdom of Egypt. Collapse of the Fatimid Caliphate; brief revival of the Seljuk Empire. First (unsuccessful) Venetian efforts to enter the Arabian Sea markets. Rise of the Ghurid Empire on the ruins of the previous Ghaznavid Empire; continued Muslim advances into northern India. Rise of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty in northern China; start of the Southern Song dynasty in southern China. Establishment of the Kamakura Shogunate in Japan. Zenith of the Khmer Empire.
13th Century: Establishment of the Inca state. Conflicts between Anglo-Saxon feudals and the Flemish ruling dynasty; establishment of a constitutional feudal arrangement based on the Golden Bull; English conquest of Wales. French subjugation of separatist Norman and Flemish feudals; growth of French influence in Italy; partly successful crusades in Spain and North Africa, conquest of Christian Aragon. Start of the von Holland/Wittelsbach rivalry over the Imperial throne, further disintegration of German central authority. Consolidation of Papal secular authority in central and southern Italy. Start of the crusades in the Central Mediterranean, and the conquest of Muslim-held islands, Cyreneica and Tunis by assorted lesser German and north Italian feudal adventurers. End of feudal anarchy in Poland; reunification under the Silesian Piasts and start of Saxon and Polish crusades against the assorted Baltic tribes. End of the Arpad dynasty of Hungary; its replacement by a junior branch of the Angevin dynasty and start of Hungarian predominance in the Danube basin; conquest of Galicia, Moldavia and Wallachia. Emergence of the Principality of Chernigov as the strongest Polanian state. Expansion of the Kingdom of Jerusalem into Syria and northern Hejjaz. Rise of the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan; conquest of northern (and eventually southern) China, southern Siberia, Central Asia, Persia (destruction of the Seljuk Empire; this led to a new wave of Turkish migration-invasions to the west, and in particular to the establishment of a syncretistic Turkish state in Central Anatolia), Iraq, Khazaria, Volga Bulgaria, Georgia and Armenia, raids into Slavania, Polania, Syria and India. Eventual partition of the Mongol Empire into three uluses after a series of civil wars, with the preeminence of the China-based Yuan Empire. Establishment of the Delhi Sultanate; start of its southward expansion. Final decline and demise of the Chola Empire. Failed Yuan invasion of Japan.
14th Century: End of the Medieval Warm Period. The Black Death (somewhat later and milder than in OTL). Foundation of Tenochtitlan by Aztecs. Brief suppression of noble liberties in England and conquest of eastern Ireland and southern Scotland under Robert III Rufus; rebellions against his son Robert IV lead to the loss of control over Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and culminate the Great Rising of 1388, after which the House of Flanders is overthrown and a more moderate and conciliatory regime is established under the native House of Northumbria. Ascent of Castille and Portugal as Iberian powers; revitalisation of the up to then lackluster reconquista efforts and expansion of the Christian powers southwards. Growing disputes between the Pope and the King of France, both having pretensions of universalism and secular disagreements in Central Mediterranean; its culmination in Geoffrey V's Italian War and the Rape of Rome (1344), followed by the establishment of a rival Papacy at Avignon (and eventually, the Avignon Catholic Church) and the beginning of the Great Western Schism with the associated religious wars that see France, Hungary, Denmark and occasionally Leon and some German and Italian states on one side and the Papal State, HRE (especially the von Holland dynastic empire and the League of Stuttgart), Castille, Norway and England on the other, with Poland shifting back and forth between the two sides while pointedly ignoring the religious side of the question; the wars continue on and off without a decisive conclusion, but French ambitions in Italy and the Mediterranean are largely deterred, and the Roman Papacy recoalesces (losing some of its temporal authority, especially in Central Italy) and enters a period of religious reform. Growth of Danish incursions into northern Germany, capture of some coastal and border regions and extortion of tributes from free cities. Completed Polish conquest of Prussia and Lithuania; establishment of secular German principalities in the eastern Baltic region. Failed Hungarian attempts to conquer the Balkans. Start of the ascent of the Principality of Tver in Slavania. Establishment of definite and official Chernigovian hegemony in Polania Proper. Zenith of the First Malinese Empire. Start of the Egyptian Renaissance; reconstruction of Alexandria, consolidation of (parliamentarily-limited) royal authority, expansion into Upper Egypt and beyond and overthrowal of Jerusalemite "patronage". Establishment of a permanent Venetian presence in Soccotra, the Horn of Africa and southern Arabia. Start of active Ethiopian expansion at the expense of nearby Muslim states. Consolidation and golden age of the Despotate of Ionia; Christianisation of Anatolian Turks. Revival and expansion of Armenia. Collapse of the Il-Khanate in Persia and establishment of the Tutushid Empire; near-collapse of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and reconquest of southern Anatolia, Syria and Hejjaz by the Tutashids. Zenith of the Mamluke Sultanate of Delhi's power: conquest of central Deccan and eastern Bengal; start of its decline and collapse soon after. Overthrow of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty in China and rise of the Ming Dynasty. Establishment of the Muromachi Sultanate in Japan. Zenith of the Majapahit Empire in Indonesia.
15th Century: English rediscovery of North America (Arcadia). Peak of the Aztec and Incan empires. Continued religious wars in Europe; France loses most of its allies and is gradually exhausted, but after a new series of religious, political and social reforms aimed at the consolidation of centralised power and overall militarisation becomes even more opposed to the rest of Europe and conquers Castille after two decades of brutal warfare, paving the way for the colonisation of much of Iberia by the poorer French nobles; also, devastating new invasions of Imperial Flanders and Italy are attempted, after the failure of which an uneasy peace ensues. Elevation of the House of Leiningen as the leader of the Roman Catholic League of Stuttgart. The Roman Catholic Church finally succeeds in its aim of formally reuniting with the Greek and Coptic Orthodox Churches, after several failed attempts in the previous centuries. Peak of Poland's power and influence; attempts at establishment of a true absolute monarchy in Poland. Consolidation of Hungarian influence in northern Serbia and Bulgaria. Gradual unification of northern Russia under the Prince of Tver; establishment of a strongly centralised feudal monarchy with emergent bureaucratic elements. European conquest of remaining Muslim outposts in North Africa (other than those in Morocco). Near-destruction of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and its lesser Levantine allies by the Tutushids and their eventual absorption by Egypt; start of new anti-Tutushid crusades and the reconquest of Syria. Temporary decline of Ethiopia after earlier gains. The Golden Age of Venice, connected to Venetian naval supremacy in the Indian Ocean, the establishment of close contacts with Ethiopia and several Indian principalities, and the capture of a few key ports. Start of the Indian Ocean crusades, aimed against the resistant Swahili city-states and southern and eastern Indian principalities; conquest of Ceylon by the Knights of the Nile. Collapse of the Sultanate of Delhi; emergence of the Sultanate of Hyderabad and the Gurkha-ruled Malla Empire. Start of the Ming Empire's stagnation after a brief commercial and cultural flowering, due to corruption and debilitating Mongolian and pirate raids. Deterioration of Japan into full-on feudal chaos and peasant uprisings.
16th Century: Beginning of serious English colonisation of mainland Arcadia; clashes with French, Imperial Flemish and Norwegian competition. Portuguese arrival to the new Western Continent; conquest of disease-ravaged Mexico and several other territories. Late in the century, start of Flemish colonisation of Brasil and earliest arrival of North German merchants and colonists to Orinoco. Further reforms and the establishment of a broader parliamentary monarchy in England. Personal union with Wales and permanent conquest of Ireland after failed attempts of French intervention in Irish infighting; a series of indecisive wars with Scotland and Norway. Decline of genuine royal authority in France, partly due to inbreeding; rise of the clerical-aristocratic Council of Regents as a permanent institution. Restart of the French religious wars with a series of invasions of Lorraine and Italy, which go on without much of a result while France also continues to conquer southern Spain and North Africa, now also clashing with Portugal and Egypt. Ascent of the House of Leiningen to the Imperial throne and inheritance of the eastern von Holland fiefs; beginning of the Imperial Reform and the reconquest of certain Danish- and Polish-held northern and eastern Imperial territories; official annexation of the Ostsee Principalities into the Holy Roman Empire. Consolidation of the autonomous Flemish Union within the Holy Roman Empire, reaching into northwestern Netherlands. Collapse of Hungary to civil war with strong dynastic and religious undertones; ensuing Polish and Venetian "crusades" against the Kovacsist heresy, that end up simply seizing desireable contested territories, drawing northern Balkan statelets into their respective spheres of influence and letting the radical heresy destroy itself in Hungary Proper, after which Hungary returned to the fold of the Roman Catholic Church under a native dynasty. Fortification (via diplomacy and military force) of Venetian influence in northeastern Italy, western Balkans, Greece and the Aegean Sea in addition to the Indian Ocean holdings. Establishment of a prominent Portuguese presence in West Africa. Malinese conquest of the emergent state of Songhay. First Egyptian construction of the Hectorian Canal (named after Hector IV). Ethiopian conquest of Adal and several other nearby countries; formation of a closer alliance with Egypt, aimed at the defense of the Nile region from Muslim rebels and Saharan tribes. Spread of the Venetian influence to East Asia. Continued stagnation of the Ming Empire and start of endemic and bloody peasant uprisings. Rise of the Christian-, Italian-friendly reform-minded Kato Shogunate in Japan after a bloody civil war; implementation of military reforms and successful conquest of Korea. Discovery of the passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
17th Century: English conquest of much of the Arcadian sea-board; establishment of colonies and outposts further inland and along the Mississippi. Start of political consolidation of the German colonies in Orinoco within the HRE. Failed European-inspired reforms in the Incan Empire; backlash after this and an opportunistic invasion by a nearby Portuguese governor leads to the establishment of a regime of strict self-isolation, with only sporadic and limited contacts with foreigners in some of the port cities. Conquest of the Greater Gold Coast in Africa by various European powers. English conquest and integration of Scotland; incipience of the Industrial Revolution. Overall decline and stagnation of France, loss of most American colonies and several North African and other gains. Failed attempts at reforms and reconciliation with the Roman Catholic Church (the latter in particular backfired badly, resulting in a new religious reaction and the start of the Age of the Cardinals, a time of more centralised theocratic government) after a final failed attempt to reclaim naval supremacy on the Mediterranean; attempted alliance with Egypt during the Great Mediterranean War. New bout of Imperial Reform in the HRE; establishment of a hereditary bureaucratic monarchy with the retention of various local liberties in a considerably curbed form (except for the Flemish Union, which later separates from the HRE on good terms); establishment of a new Imperial Army. Temporary reconsolidation of Papal power over most of Italy, under pretenses of an Italian Union. Decline of Poland after a joint Imperial-Tverian invasion; start of Imperial-Tverian infighting over the Ostsee Principalities; Tverian expansion in Finland at the expense of Sweden. Recuperation of Hungary; annexation of Serbia and Wallachia, establishment of hegemony over the Bulgarian Principalities. Establishment of a strongly centralised autocratic state in Chernigov after brutal purges; renunciation of the Patriarch of Constantinople's Union with the Roman Catholic Church and the creation of a rival Non-Uniate Patriarchate in Kiev; start of southeastwards and westwards expansion, colonisation of Crimea and nearby regions. Breakup of Mali under the pressure of barbarian invasions. Creation of the Portuguese-influenced Asante Empire in West Africa and the incipience of the Rozwi tribal "empire". Military coup d'etat in Egypt after a dynastic crisis (1683); rise to power of Alexander I; extensive reforms and establishment of an absolute monarchy; confiscation of all Venetian property; subjugation or disbandment of resistant orders, nobles and guilds, forceful economic modernisation and establishment of a quasi-egalitarian society; start of the Great Mediterranean War: conquest of Anatolia, the Balkans, Iraq, South Arabia and Africa up to Tunis. Egyptian invasion of Italy and Hungary, and the start of the direct war with the Holy Roman Empire and its allies in Hungary and Chernigov, with France siding with Egypt. Ultimately inconclusive warfare and a compromise peace (partition of Italy with a secular republic in the center, Egyptian withdrawal from Hungary Proper). Reforms aimed at the integration and unification of conquered territories, clashes between Egyptian secularism and Islamic revivalist movements in Asia. Establishment of a strong centralised state in Ethiopia. Final collapse of the decrepit Tutushid Empire. Arrival of the Portuguese (and, much later, of the English and the Flemings) to the Pacific and Indian Oceans; establishment of new colonial empires on the ruins of that of Venice and on newly-available lands such as the Cape; English discovery of Australia and start of its colonisation by convicts and the red monks (Ricardians), followed by various more normal colonists. Collapse of the Ming Empire due to peasant rebellions, semi-successful Manchurian (Qing) invasions and Portuguese and Japanese infiltration of the coastal areas; start of the scramble for China between the latter three powers as local warlords are defeated or coerced to serve the invaders as puppet rulers; partition of all coastal and northern areas, start of steady Qing expansion southwards after failed invasion of Japanese Korea. Rise of the Takeda Shogunate in a military coup d'etat (1635). Establishment of a Japanese-Portuguese partnership after the Venetians are driven out and all their property in Japanese territory is confiscated; new wave of all-around (military, social, political, economic) reforms aimed towards partial modernisation without the destruction of the overall social structure.
18th Century: The Portuguese force the Incans to open up to their trade; this is later rescinded when Portugal is distracted by European matters, despite some anti-isolationist uprisings in the coastal regions. Start of a naval and colonial conflict between England on one side and Flanders (with Imperial backing) on the other; this war goes on inconclusively, though dramatically, before both sides are interrupted by an opportunistic French invasion. Consolidation of Imperial power in Central Europe and its annexation of Poland and expansion into southern Italy in the wake of the collapse of Alexander's empire (this too is partly interrupted by the French). Consolidation of central power in France and a new bout of military reforms, naval build-up and forced economic mobilisation under Cardinal L'Azyr; conquest of long-resistant Morocco; start of the Fifty Years War (1724-1774) with an unexpectedly successful French invasion of England and Flanders, helped by Celtic uprisings in the former and social unrest in both; occupation of Flanders and much of the British Isles, and their subsequent devastation by policies aimed explicitly towards the crippling of their economic potential; formation of an Imperial, Norwegian, Portuguese, Leonese anti-French coalition, start of a brutal war on many fronts combined with anti-French uprisings in the British Isles; Tverian and Danish involvement on the French side, coupled with anti-German rebellions in Poland and Bohemia. Eventually, France loses most of its colonies and suffers damage to its fleet, being forced to withdraw from Flanders and then from the British Isles, but not before annexing Leon and making a new incursion into Italy and southern Germany. Eventual uneasy truce after nearly two more decades of war of exhaustion on the land and the sea. Mass exodus of Englishmen and other war-struck or otherwise impoverished Europeans to the colonies; collapse of the English Empire and reformation of its core European and North American regions as the somewhat more autocratic Kingdom of Arcadia (and later, establishment of a loose protectorate over the old English colonies in the Plate: the Argentine Protectorate), with a separate, state-ran Anglican Church; secession of New Albion and Australia; political crisis in the Flemish Union, resulting in its reform and the creation of more clearly-defined and powerful central institutions and an actual constitution. Establishment of Pax Germanica in central and eastern Europe; golden age in the Holy Roman Empire, start of a new cultural and intellectual flowering, recommencement of the rudely interrupted Industrial Revolution in German territory. Military, political reforms and economic modernisation in Tver. Rise of the Second Malinese Empire; military, social and economic reforms with foreign assistance, outwards expansion to the west and the east. A period of decline and infighting in Egypt after Alexander's death; loss of most distant gains, revival of the Hungarian presence in the Balkans, Armenian and Angoran expansion in Anatolia, eventual establishment of the Adana "republic" by a local Arabic sect helped by westwards-migrating Kurds and (Muslim) Syrian Turks; start of a radical, puritan reformist Islamic movement in Arabia, led by the influential Jadfdi sect. Religious and tribal infighting in Iran and Iraq; defection of the Egyptian governor-general in the latter and the brief establishment of a Westernising secularist state, later swept away by tribal uprisings. Reunification of the Mongolian, Turkic and other Siberian tribes into the Golden Horde towards the end of this period. Temporary decline of the European presence in Africa and the Indian Ocean (it rebounds in the last decade). End of Malla military hegemony in northern India; rise of the Sultanate of Gujarat, the Rajput tribal confederacy and Greater Bengal; start of wide-reaching western-inspired social, religious and military reforms in the latter. Consolidation of State Shinto in Japan and start of a bloody anti-Christian reaction (with the retention of technological advances gained and social reforms undertaken previously); a series of ultimately inconclusive wars between Japan and a desperate Portuguese-Qing alliance, expansion into inland China and conquest of unprotected English trade outposts in northwestern America. Shift of Portuguese support to Siam, and, after some complications and infighting, start of reforms therein driven in part by the growing Burmese threat. Beginning of a new wave of Christian mission activity in the Indian Ocean region, spearheaded by the Noahite Order.
19th Century: Continued spread of the Industrial Revolution throughout Europe and the more advanced settler colonies, and to some of the more advanced non-European countries. Emergence of the Arbeitist movement, and continued growth of nationalist sentiments, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. Coalescing of the neutral native Oklahoma Confederacy. Consolidation of central authority in Arcadia and integration of the more distant frontier regions; continued reconstruction and administrative reforms in the British Isles; rapid industrialisation and internal colonisation, restoration of naval supremacy, establishment of new African colonies and a renewed colonial competition with Flanders. Comparative decline and stagnation followed by new moderate reforms in France (local self-governance and some limited degree of religious freedom); this does not end the cold war between France and all of its neighbours (there has been some cooperation with Tver and Denmark, though, especially in the 1840s Border War with the HRE). A series of wars in the Balkans, driven by Hungarian attempts to reclaim hegemony over the peninsula and Imperial (and, at first, Chernigovian; later the war became that of the HRE and Chernigov scrambling to fill the balance of influence) attempts to prevent that, result in a considerable amount of exhaustion for the HRE, total collapse, territorial loss and revolution for Hungary, Imperial-sponsored independence for Croatia and the establishment of a Balkans-wide Serbo-Romean Empire after the defeat of Chernigovian ambitions in Bulgaria. The 1870s-1880s then see imperial overstretch, war expenses and growth of various dissent in the HRE culminate in the Time of Troubles: a succession crisis, a barely thwarted coup d'etat, arbeitist and constitutionalist uprisings, and nationalist rebellions in Italy, Poland and Bohemia; the former two are successful, with the establishment of a rump Polish Republic and a somewhat more intact Italian Republic, as well as the vassal (since the collapse of the Alexandrian Empire) German kingdom of Sicily simply deciding go on its own way, aligning itself with Egypt. After military suppression of most uprisings at home and the reconquest of Bohemia, partial social and political reforms commence, as do belated attempts to leave the diplomatic isolation the HRE had put itself into by the virtue of being too powerful. Growth of Chernigovian influence in the Caucasus, interrupted by a native rebellion and unsuccessful wars with Serbia (see above) and Tver. Start of extensive military and political reforms in Chernigov; movement of the capital to Odessa. Serbian and Chernigovian expansion into northern Anatolia at the expense of local statelets. Overall growth of direct European presence in Africa; beginning of inland expansion, establishment of new colonies, Flemish conquest of Kongo, Benin and some lesser native kingdoms. Resurgence, industrialisation and political reforms in Egypt; repair and reconstruction of the Hectorian Canal; consolidation of African and coastal Arabian holdings despite a successful Jadfdid uprising in Inner Arabia led by a descendant of the sect's founder. Emergence of the heavily militarised Nguni tribal empire in southern Africa towards the end of this period. Start of Tverian economic infiltration of the Golden Horde. Reform and consolidation of the Adana Republic into a genuine, unified state with a strongly anti-Egyptian agenda. Creation of a Shiite Arabic sultanate in Iraq and a Sunni Turkish empire (the Mustafid Shahate) in Iran and southern Central Asia. Military occupation and establishment of a Portuguese protectorate over the Sultanate of Gujarat. Conslidation of the Rajput tribes into a somewhat more centralised and modern Rajput Empire, consolidation of Rajput hold over Punjab and Sindh, defeat of Central Asian incursions there. Rise of Bengal and Siam as new, expanding, modernised powers; Bengali conquest of Burma and efforts at establishment of a colonial empire; Siamese unification of much of Indochina and resulting clasehs with Bengal and backwards, freshly reunited after a prolonged dynastic civil war, Japanese-backed Vietnam. A series of anti-foreign Chinese rebellions, culminating in the the Ming Restoration (1858); rise of the Xin Ming Dynasty, reconquest of much of inland Central China and Flemish-assisted military reforms; continuous on-and-off wars with Portugal and Japan. Consolidation of Portuguese hold on their Indian Ocean colonies; start of Portuguese competition with the expanding Australian Confederation.
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Anything I missed, I will elucidate on if needed.
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9th Century: Start of the Medieval Warm Period. End of the Maya Classical Period. Unification of the Anglo-Saxon states around Wessex. Establishment of Danelaw in northeastern England. Formal establishment of Charlemagne's Holy Roman Empire, eventually followed by the partition of the Carolingian Empire in Western Europe. Rise and start of decline of Great Moravia; arrival of the Magyars to the Pannonian Plain. Establishment of the Bulgarian Empire in the Balkans. Establishment of Varangian dynasties in Novgorod (Rurikids) and Kiev (Askoldids). Retreat of the Byzantine Empire's borders before Bulgarian and Arabian attacks. Continued political disintegration of the Caliphate; establishment of independent North African and Central Asian dynasties. Breakup of the Tibetan Empire. Peasant rebellions in Tang China.
10th Century: Rise of the Toltec Empire in northern Mexico. Complete unification of England by Wessex. Settlement of the Normans in northern France. Start of the Capetian dynasty in France. Peak of the Caliphate of Cordoba's power. Establishment of the Ottonian Holy Roman Empire centered in Germany. Magyar raids and defeat thereof by HRE Otto I. Establishment of Polish and Croatian kingdoms. Spread of Greek Christianity to Kievan Polania. Decline of the Bulgarian Empire; rise of Askoldid Polania, successful wars in the Balkans and eventual personal union with Bulgaria (establishment of the Pereyaslavian Polano-Bulgarian Empire). Civil war in the Byzantine Empire, conquest of the Balkans and northern Anatolia by the Pereyaslavian Empire, complete collapse of the Byzantine Empire and emergence of quarreling despotates in Anatolia. Rise of the Fatimid Caliphate, with unification of North Africa, naval supremacy in the Mediterranean and expansion into Syria; conquest of the southern corner of Italy, Aegean Sea islands and southern Anatolia. Rise of the Buwayhid Dynasty in Iran; reduction of the Abbasid Caliphate to puppet status. Rise of the Ghaznavid Dynasty in Central Asia. Collapse of the Tang Dynasty, eventual establishment of the Song Dynasty after decades of infighting.
11th Century: Viking explorers reach North America. Rise and fall of the Canutian Empire in England, Norway and Denmark; civil war in England and ultimately unsuccessful Norwegian and Norman attempts to conquer it, overall decline of royal authority. Feudal infighting in France; failed attempts to strengthen royal power by the Capetians and to seize the throne by Normans and Angevins. Collapse of the Andalusian Ummayad Caliphate into Taifa states, revival of northern Christian kingdoms and rise of the Almoravid Dynasty. Inconclusive Imperial-Fatimid wars over southern Italy. Adoption of Catholic Christianity by the newly-established Kingdom of Hungary and Rurikid Slavania. Consolidation of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Establishment of independent Serbia. Decline and partial fragmentation of the Pereyaslavian Empire, attempts to rebuild the Byzantine Empire under the leadership of the Patriarch of Constantinople (and connected to this, the West-East Schism), temporary ascent of Rurikid Slavania with campaigns against all nearby states and subsequent disintegration and feudal collapse. Oghuz Turkish migration into/invasion of central Middle East; rise of the Seljuk Sultanate in Persia and clashes between it and the Fatimid Caliphate. Ghaznavid incursions into and conquest of northwestern India. Zenith of the Chola Dynasty's power and influence in southern India and the Bengal Bay.
(After this point bolding the divergences from OTL becomes pointless, as between direct ripples and the butterfly effect the divergence becomes virtually all-permeating, especially in western Eurasia)
12th Century: Collapse of the Toltec Empire. Ascent of the Flanders dynasty to power in England. Ascent of the Angevin dynasty to power in France; consolidation and centralisation of French royal authority. Collapse of the Almoravid Dynasty; failure of Christian Spanish kingdoms to take advantage of said collapse due to infighting and French meddling. Gradual decline of the Holy Roman Empire due to dynastic infighting and strenghthening of regionalistic feudal tendencies. Overall zenith of universalist Papal authority; start of the Papal reconquest of southern Italy with help from the malcontent poor German feudals. Personal union between Hungary and Croatia. Final collapse of the Byzantine Empire; temporary revival of the Kievan Principality in southern Russia and eastern Balkans, followed by its own disintegration into Polanian and Bulgarian principalities. Start of the Crusades on the joint initiative of the Pope and the King of France and with strong Venetian and Genoese support, aimed against the decrepit and weakened Fatimid Caliphate; limited success in Anatolia, establishment of French-dominated Kingdom of Jerusalem and Norman Kingdom of Egypt. Collapse of the Fatimid Caliphate; brief revival of the Seljuk Empire. First (unsuccessful) Venetian efforts to enter the Arabian Sea markets. Rise of the Ghurid Empire on the ruins of the previous Ghaznavid Empire; continued Muslim advances into northern India. Rise of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty in northern China; start of the Southern Song dynasty in southern China. Establishment of the Kamakura Shogunate in Japan. Zenith of the Khmer Empire.
13th Century: Establishment of the Inca state. Conflicts between Anglo-Saxon feudals and the Flemish ruling dynasty; establishment of a constitutional feudal arrangement based on the Golden Bull; English conquest of Wales. French subjugation of separatist Norman and Flemish feudals; growth of French influence in Italy; partly successful crusades in Spain and North Africa, conquest of Christian Aragon. Start of the von Holland/Wittelsbach rivalry over the Imperial throne, further disintegration of German central authority. Consolidation of Papal secular authority in central and southern Italy. Start of the crusades in the Central Mediterranean, and the conquest of Muslim-held islands, Cyreneica and Tunis by assorted lesser German and north Italian feudal adventurers. End of feudal anarchy in Poland; reunification under the Silesian Piasts and start of Saxon and Polish crusades against the assorted Baltic tribes. End of the Arpad dynasty of Hungary; its replacement by a junior branch of the Angevin dynasty and start of Hungarian predominance in the Danube basin; conquest of Galicia, Moldavia and Wallachia. Emergence of the Principality of Chernigov as the strongest Polanian state. Expansion of the Kingdom of Jerusalem into Syria and northern Hejjaz. Rise of the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan; conquest of northern (and eventually southern) China, southern Siberia, Central Asia, Persia (destruction of the Seljuk Empire; this led to a new wave of Turkish migration-invasions to the west, and in particular to the establishment of a syncretistic Turkish state in Central Anatolia), Iraq, Khazaria, Volga Bulgaria, Georgia and Armenia, raids into Slavania, Polania, Syria and India. Eventual partition of the Mongol Empire into three uluses after a series of civil wars, with the preeminence of the China-based Yuan Empire. Establishment of the Delhi Sultanate; start of its southward expansion. Final decline and demise of the Chola Empire. Failed Yuan invasion of Japan.
14th Century: End of the Medieval Warm Period. The Black Death (somewhat later and milder than in OTL). Foundation of Tenochtitlan by Aztecs. Brief suppression of noble liberties in England and conquest of eastern Ireland and southern Scotland under Robert III Rufus; rebellions against his son Robert IV lead to the loss of control over Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and culminate the Great Rising of 1388, after which the House of Flanders is overthrown and a more moderate and conciliatory regime is established under the native House of Northumbria. Ascent of Castille and Portugal as Iberian powers; revitalisation of the up to then lackluster reconquista efforts and expansion of the Christian powers southwards. Growing disputes between the Pope and the King of France, both having pretensions of universalism and secular disagreements in Central Mediterranean; its culmination in Geoffrey V's Italian War and the Rape of Rome (1344), followed by the establishment of a rival Papacy at Avignon (and eventually, the Avignon Catholic Church) and the beginning of the Great Western Schism with the associated religious wars that see France, Hungary, Denmark and occasionally Leon and some German and Italian states on one side and the Papal State, HRE (especially the von Holland dynastic empire and the League of Stuttgart), Castille, Norway and England on the other, with Poland shifting back and forth between the two sides while pointedly ignoring the religious side of the question; the wars continue on and off without a decisive conclusion, but French ambitions in Italy and the Mediterranean are largely deterred, and the Roman Papacy recoalesces (losing some of its temporal authority, especially in Central Italy) and enters a period of religious reform. Growth of Danish incursions into northern Germany, capture of some coastal and border regions and extortion of tributes from free cities. Completed Polish conquest of Prussia and Lithuania; establishment of secular German principalities in the eastern Baltic region. Failed Hungarian attempts to conquer the Balkans. Start of the ascent of the Principality of Tver in Slavania. Establishment of definite and official Chernigovian hegemony in Polania Proper. Zenith of the First Malinese Empire. Start of the Egyptian Renaissance; reconstruction of Alexandria, consolidation of (parliamentarily-limited) royal authority, expansion into Upper Egypt and beyond and overthrowal of Jerusalemite "patronage". Establishment of a permanent Venetian presence in Soccotra, the Horn of Africa and southern Arabia. Start of active Ethiopian expansion at the expense of nearby Muslim states. Consolidation and golden age of the Despotate of Ionia; Christianisation of Anatolian Turks. Revival and expansion of Armenia. Collapse of the Il-Khanate in Persia and establishment of the Tutushid Empire; near-collapse of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and reconquest of southern Anatolia, Syria and Hejjaz by the Tutashids. Zenith of the Mamluke Sultanate of Delhi's power: conquest of central Deccan and eastern Bengal; start of its decline and collapse soon after. Overthrow of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty in China and rise of the Ming Dynasty. Establishment of the Muromachi Sultanate in Japan. Zenith of the Majapahit Empire in Indonesia.
15th Century: English rediscovery of North America (Arcadia). Peak of the Aztec and Incan empires. Continued religious wars in Europe; France loses most of its allies and is gradually exhausted, but after a new series of religious, political and social reforms aimed at the consolidation of centralised power and overall militarisation becomes even more opposed to the rest of Europe and conquers Castille after two decades of brutal warfare, paving the way for the colonisation of much of Iberia by the poorer French nobles; also, devastating new invasions of Imperial Flanders and Italy are attempted, after the failure of which an uneasy peace ensues. Elevation of the House of Leiningen as the leader of the Roman Catholic League of Stuttgart. The Roman Catholic Church finally succeeds in its aim of formally reuniting with the Greek and Coptic Orthodox Churches, after several failed attempts in the previous centuries. Peak of Poland's power and influence; attempts at establishment of a true absolute monarchy in Poland. Consolidation of Hungarian influence in northern Serbia and Bulgaria. Gradual unification of northern Russia under the Prince of Tver; establishment of a strongly centralised feudal monarchy with emergent bureaucratic elements. European conquest of remaining Muslim outposts in North Africa (other than those in Morocco). Near-destruction of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and its lesser Levantine allies by the Tutushids and their eventual absorption by Egypt; start of new anti-Tutushid crusades and the reconquest of Syria. Temporary decline of Ethiopia after earlier gains. The Golden Age of Venice, connected to Venetian naval supremacy in the Indian Ocean, the establishment of close contacts with Ethiopia and several Indian principalities, and the capture of a few key ports. Start of the Indian Ocean crusades, aimed against the resistant Swahili city-states and southern and eastern Indian principalities; conquest of Ceylon by the Knights of the Nile. Collapse of the Sultanate of Delhi; emergence of the Sultanate of Hyderabad and the Gurkha-ruled Malla Empire. Start of the Ming Empire's stagnation after a brief commercial and cultural flowering, due to corruption and debilitating Mongolian and pirate raids. Deterioration of Japan into full-on feudal chaos and peasant uprisings.
16th Century: Beginning of serious English colonisation of mainland Arcadia; clashes with French, Imperial Flemish and Norwegian competition. Portuguese arrival to the new Western Continent; conquest of disease-ravaged Mexico and several other territories. Late in the century, start of Flemish colonisation of Brasil and earliest arrival of North German merchants and colonists to Orinoco. Further reforms and the establishment of a broader parliamentary monarchy in England. Personal union with Wales and permanent conquest of Ireland after failed attempts of French intervention in Irish infighting; a series of indecisive wars with Scotland and Norway. Decline of genuine royal authority in France, partly due to inbreeding; rise of the clerical-aristocratic Council of Regents as a permanent institution. Restart of the French religious wars with a series of invasions of Lorraine and Italy, which go on without much of a result while France also continues to conquer southern Spain and North Africa, now also clashing with Portugal and Egypt. Ascent of the House of Leiningen to the Imperial throne and inheritance of the eastern von Holland fiefs; beginning of the Imperial Reform and the reconquest of certain Danish- and Polish-held northern and eastern Imperial territories; official annexation of the Ostsee Principalities into the Holy Roman Empire. Consolidation of the autonomous Flemish Union within the Holy Roman Empire, reaching into northwestern Netherlands. Collapse of Hungary to civil war with strong dynastic and religious undertones; ensuing Polish and Venetian "crusades" against the Kovacsist heresy, that end up simply seizing desireable contested territories, drawing northern Balkan statelets into their respective spheres of influence and letting the radical heresy destroy itself in Hungary Proper, after which Hungary returned to the fold of the Roman Catholic Church under a native dynasty. Fortification (via diplomacy and military force) of Venetian influence in northeastern Italy, western Balkans, Greece and the Aegean Sea in addition to the Indian Ocean holdings. Establishment of a prominent Portuguese presence in West Africa. Malinese conquest of the emergent state of Songhay. First Egyptian construction of the Hectorian Canal (named after Hector IV). Ethiopian conquest of Adal and several other nearby countries; formation of a closer alliance with Egypt, aimed at the defense of the Nile region from Muslim rebels and Saharan tribes. Spread of the Venetian influence to East Asia. Continued stagnation of the Ming Empire and start of endemic and bloody peasant uprisings. Rise of the Christian-, Italian-friendly reform-minded Kato Shogunate in Japan after a bloody civil war; implementation of military reforms and successful conquest of Korea. Discovery of the passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
17th Century: English conquest of much of the Arcadian sea-board; establishment of colonies and outposts further inland and along the Mississippi. Start of political consolidation of the German colonies in Orinoco within the HRE. Failed European-inspired reforms in the Incan Empire; backlash after this and an opportunistic invasion by a nearby Portuguese governor leads to the establishment of a regime of strict self-isolation, with only sporadic and limited contacts with foreigners in some of the port cities. Conquest of the Greater Gold Coast in Africa by various European powers. English conquest and integration of Scotland; incipience of the Industrial Revolution. Overall decline and stagnation of France, loss of most American colonies and several North African and other gains. Failed attempts at reforms and reconciliation with the Roman Catholic Church (the latter in particular backfired badly, resulting in a new religious reaction and the start of the Age of the Cardinals, a time of more centralised theocratic government) after a final failed attempt to reclaim naval supremacy on the Mediterranean; attempted alliance with Egypt during the Great Mediterranean War. New bout of Imperial Reform in the HRE; establishment of a hereditary bureaucratic monarchy with the retention of various local liberties in a considerably curbed form (except for the Flemish Union, which later separates from the HRE on good terms); establishment of a new Imperial Army. Temporary reconsolidation of Papal power over most of Italy, under pretenses of an Italian Union. Decline of Poland after a joint Imperial-Tverian invasion; start of Imperial-Tverian infighting over the Ostsee Principalities; Tverian expansion in Finland at the expense of Sweden. Recuperation of Hungary; annexation of Serbia and Wallachia, establishment of hegemony over the Bulgarian Principalities. Establishment of a strongly centralised autocratic state in Chernigov after brutal purges; renunciation of the Patriarch of Constantinople's Union with the Roman Catholic Church and the creation of a rival Non-Uniate Patriarchate in Kiev; start of southeastwards and westwards expansion, colonisation of Crimea and nearby regions. Breakup of Mali under the pressure of barbarian invasions. Creation of the Portuguese-influenced Asante Empire in West Africa and the incipience of the Rozwi tribal "empire". Military coup d'etat in Egypt after a dynastic crisis (1683); rise to power of Alexander I; extensive reforms and establishment of an absolute monarchy; confiscation of all Venetian property; subjugation or disbandment of resistant orders, nobles and guilds, forceful economic modernisation and establishment of a quasi-egalitarian society; start of the Great Mediterranean War: conquest of Anatolia, the Balkans, Iraq, South Arabia and Africa up to Tunis. Egyptian invasion of Italy and Hungary, and the start of the direct war with the Holy Roman Empire and its allies in Hungary and Chernigov, with France siding with Egypt. Ultimately inconclusive warfare and a compromise peace (partition of Italy with a secular republic in the center, Egyptian withdrawal from Hungary Proper). Reforms aimed at the integration and unification of conquered territories, clashes between Egyptian secularism and Islamic revivalist movements in Asia. Establishment of a strong centralised state in Ethiopia. Final collapse of the decrepit Tutushid Empire. Arrival of the Portuguese (and, much later, of the English and the Flemings) to the Pacific and Indian Oceans; establishment of new colonial empires on the ruins of that of Venice and on newly-available lands such as the Cape; English discovery of Australia and start of its colonisation by convicts and the red monks (Ricardians), followed by various more normal colonists. Collapse of the Ming Empire due to peasant rebellions, semi-successful Manchurian (Qing) invasions and Portuguese and Japanese infiltration of the coastal areas; start of the scramble for China between the latter three powers as local warlords are defeated or coerced to serve the invaders as puppet rulers; partition of all coastal and northern areas, start of steady Qing expansion southwards after failed invasion of Japanese Korea. Rise of the Takeda Shogunate in a military coup d'etat (1635). Establishment of a Japanese-Portuguese partnership after the Venetians are driven out and all their property in Japanese territory is confiscated; new wave of all-around (military, social, political, economic) reforms aimed towards partial modernisation without the destruction of the overall social structure.
18th Century: The Portuguese force the Incans to open up to their trade; this is later rescinded when Portugal is distracted by European matters, despite some anti-isolationist uprisings in the coastal regions. Start of a naval and colonial conflict between England on one side and Flanders (with Imperial backing) on the other; this war goes on inconclusively, though dramatically, before both sides are interrupted by an opportunistic French invasion. Consolidation of Imperial power in Central Europe and its annexation of Poland and expansion into southern Italy in the wake of the collapse of Alexander's empire (this too is partly interrupted by the French). Consolidation of central power in France and a new bout of military reforms, naval build-up and forced economic mobilisation under Cardinal L'Azyr; conquest of long-resistant Morocco; start of the Fifty Years War (1724-1774) with an unexpectedly successful French invasion of England and Flanders, helped by Celtic uprisings in the former and social unrest in both; occupation of Flanders and much of the British Isles, and their subsequent devastation by policies aimed explicitly towards the crippling of their economic potential; formation of an Imperial, Norwegian, Portuguese, Leonese anti-French coalition, start of a brutal war on many fronts combined with anti-French uprisings in the British Isles; Tverian and Danish involvement on the French side, coupled with anti-German rebellions in Poland and Bohemia. Eventually, France loses most of its colonies and suffers damage to its fleet, being forced to withdraw from Flanders and then from the British Isles, but not before annexing Leon and making a new incursion into Italy and southern Germany. Eventual uneasy truce after nearly two more decades of war of exhaustion on the land and the sea. Mass exodus of Englishmen and other war-struck or otherwise impoverished Europeans to the colonies; collapse of the English Empire and reformation of its core European and North American regions as the somewhat more autocratic Kingdom of Arcadia (and later, establishment of a loose protectorate over the old English colonies in the Plate: the Argentine Protectorate), with a separate, state-ran Anglican Church; secession of New Albion and Australia; political crisis in the Flemish Union, resulting in its reform and the creation of more clearly-defined and powerful central institutions and an actual constitution. Establishment of Pax Germanica in central and eastern Europe; golden age in the Holy Roman Empire, start of a new cultural and intellectual flowering, recommencement of the rudely interrupted Industrial Revolution in German territory. Military, political reforms and economic modernisation in Tver. Rise of the Second Malinese Empire; military, social and economic reforms with foreign assistance, outwards expansion to the west and the east. A period of decline and infighting in Egypt after Alexander's death; loss of most distant gains, revival of the Hungarian presence in the Balkans, Armenian and Angoran expansion in Anatolia, eventual establishment of the Adana "republic" by a local Arabic sect helped by westwards-migrating Kurds and (Muslim) Syrian Turks; start of a radical, puritan reformist Islamic movement in Arabia, led by the influential Jadfdi sect. Religious and tribal infighting in Iran and Iraq; defection of the Egyptian governor-general in the latter and the brief establishment of a Westernising secularist state, later swept away by tribal uprisings. Reunification of the Mongolian, Turkic and other Siberian tribes into the Golden Horde towards the end of this period. Temporary decline of the European presence in Africa and the Indian Ocean (it rebounds in the last decade). End of Malla military hegemony in northern India; rise of the Sultanate of Gujarat, the Rajput tribal confederacy and Greater Bengal; start of wide-reaching western-inspired social, religious and military reforms in the latter. Consolidation of State Shinto in Japan and start of a bloody anti-Christian reaction (with the retention of technological advances gained and social reforms undertaken previously); a series of ultimately inconclusive wars between Japan and a desperate Portuguese-Qing alliance, expansion into inland China and conquest of unprotected English trade outposts in northwestern America. Shift of Portuguese support to Siam, and, after some complications and infighting, start of reforms therein driven in part by the growing Burmese threat. Beginning of a new wave of Christian mission activity in the Indian Ocean region, spearheaded by the Noahite Order.
19th Century: Continued spread of the Industrial Revolution throughout Europe and the more advanced settler colonies, and to some of the more advanced non-European countries. Emergence of the Arbeitist movement, and continued growth of nationalist sentiments, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. Coalescing of the neutral native Oklahoma Confederacy. Consolidation of central authority in Arcadia and integration of the more distant frontier regions; continued reconstruction and administrative reforms in the British Isles; rapid industrialisation and internal colonisation, restoration of naval supremacy, establishment of new African colonies and a renewed colonial competition with Flanders. Comparative decline and stagnation followed by new moderate reforms in France (local self-governance and some limited degree of religious freedom); this does not end the cold war between France and all of its neighbours (there has been some cooperation with Tver and Denmark, though, especially in the 1840s Border War with the HRE). A series of wars in the Balkans, driven by Hungarian attempts to reclaim hegemony over the peninsula and Imperial (and, at first, Chernigovian; later the war became that of the HRE and Chernigov scrambling to fill the balance of influence) attempts to prevent that, result in a considerable amount of exhaustion for the HRE, total collapse, territorial loss and revolution for Hungary, Imperial-sponsored independence for Croatia and the establishment of a Balkans-wide Serbo-Romean Empire after the defeat of Chernigovian ambitions in Bulgaria. The 1870s-1880s then see imperial overstretch, war expenses and growth of various dissent in the HRE culminate in the Time of Troubles: a succession crisis, a barely thwarted coup d'etat, arbeitist and constitutionalist uprisings, and nationalist rebellions in Italy, Poland and Bohemia; the former two are successful, with the establishment of a rump Polish Republic and a somewhat more intact Italian Republic, as well as the vassal (since the collapse of the Alexandrian Empire) German kingdom of Sicily simply deciding go on its own way, aligning itself with Egypt. After military suppression of most uprisings at home and the reconquest of Bohemia, partial social and political reforms commence, as do belated attempts to leave the diplomatic isolation the HRE had put itself into by the virtue of being too powerful. Growth of Chernigovian influence in the Caucasus, interrupted by a native rebellion and unsuccessful wars with Serbia (see above) and Tver. Start of extensive military and political reforms in Chernigov; movement of the capital to Odessa. Serbian and Chernigovian expansion into northern Anatolia at the expense of local statelets. Overall growth of direct European presence in Africa; beginning of inland expansion, establishment of new colonies, Flemish conquest of Kongo, Benin and some lesser native kingdoms. Resurgence, industrialisation and political reforms in Egypt; repair and reconstruction of the Hectorian Canal; consolidation of African and coastal Arabian holdings despite a successful Jadfdid uprising in Inner Arabia led by a descendant of the sect's founder. Emergence of the heavily militarised Nguni tribal empire in southern Africa towards the end of this period. Start of Tverian economic infiltration of the Golden Horde. Reform and consolidation of the Adana Republic into a genuine, unified state with a strongly anti-Egyptian agenda. Creation of a Shiite Arabic sultanate in Iraq and a Sunni Turkish empire (the Mustafid Shahate) in Iran and southern Central Asia. Military occupation and establishment of a Portuguese protectorate over the Sultanate of Gujarat. Conslidation of the Rajput tribes into a somewhat more centralised and modern Rajput Empire, consolidation of Rajput hold over Punjab and Sindh, defeat of Central Asian incursions there. Rise of Bengal and Siam as new, expanding, modernised powers; Bengali conquest of Burma and efforts at establishment of a colonial empire; Siamese unification of much of Indochina and resulting clasehs with Bengal and backwards, freshly reunited after a prolonged dynastic civil war, Japanese-backed Vietnam. A series of anti-foreign Chinese rebellions, culminating in the the Ming Restoration (1858); rise of the Xin Ming Dynasty, reconquest of much of inland Central China and Flemish-assisted military reforms; continuous on-and-off wars with Portugal and Japan. Consolidation of Portuguese hold on their Indian Ocean colonies; start of Portuguese competition with the expanding Australian Confederation.
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Anything I missed, I will elucidate on if needed.
I'm too tired for good adjectives right now- but I'm very happy to have read that. What was the status of Serbia before the rise of Serbo-Romea? I'm under the impression that it was independent, but greatly overshadowed and dominated by its contemporaries and neighbours.
das
Regeneration In Process
Serbia was an independent kingdom at some point in the Middle Ages. It was mostly overshadowed by one power or another (usually Hungary) and broke down into two or three lesser principalities later on (likewise dominated by Hungary). The 17th century saw something of a national revival begin; the power vacuum in post-Alexandrian 18th century Balkans allowed Serbia to reunite and annex some nearby regions (mostly in northern Greece and Macedonia), becoming the strongest native Balkan power (though that didn't amount for much, and it still was forced to acknowledge a vague Hungarian supremacy later in the century). The 19th century saw Serbia attain full independence with Imperial assistance, and then through a combination of being the strongest native Balkan power and some very successful diplomacy (playing the Chernigovians, the Imperials and the Hungarians off against each other while winning over support from lesser local rulers and elites with promises of autonomy and protection) the Serbs managed to unite the Bulgarian principalities and seize Constantinople. The rest is the present.
Note that a greater degree of infighting aside, Serbia has been considerably better off than in OTL at almost every stage of its post-14th century development. There is more of a problem with the privileged aristocracy and those who hate it than in OTL, and ofcourse holding together a multiethnic empire is something of a balancing act, but all in all its been doing remarkably well even under Hungarian hegemony, which was much lesser in the 18th century than earlier (Serbia was fully independent in its internal affairs and there was just a small Hungarian garrison in Belgrade and some other cities plus some humiliating ceremonial diplomatic obeisance to remind it of its "dependency").
Note that a greater degree of infighting aside, Serbia has been considerably better off than in OTL at almost every stage of its post-14th century development. There is more of a problem with the privileged aristocracy and those who hate it than in OTL, and ofcourse holding together a multiethnic empire is something of a balancing act, but all in all its been doing remarkably well even under Hungarian hegemony, which was much lesser in the 18th century than earlier (Serbia was fully independent in its internal affairs and there was just a small Hungarian garrison in Belgrade and some other cities plus some humiliating ceremonial diplomatic obeisance to remind it of its "dependency").
das
Regeneration In Process
Could you be more specific as to what kind of details you need?
