Mosher
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Hehe, take your time. 
[RFC Synthesis] China: All Under Heaven
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Create a short update kalled 'The Mongol Wars' where you tell how the barbaric mongols tried to invade mighty China while life in chine continued as usual while the professional chinese armies fended them off... I think we'll all be interested in all the inrigues in the court and among the nobles. After all, the generals must be fighting to fight the weak and easily defeated mongols (win -> possible promotion?) 
You don't really have to tell that much about the mongols really. They're after all not that important if you fended them off without that much work
But, as mosher said... take your time
You don't really have to tell that much about the mongols really. They're after all not that important if you fended them off without that much work
But, as mosher said... take your time
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Update when it feels right. Quality updates only come with inspiration 
hoplitejoe
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Yeah... that's why MOAR cat hasn't updated recently as well....
christos200
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I forgot that HJ story even existed.
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Yep, me too
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Well, my 2000th post is coming up...
Congrats!
christos200
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Where the next update is going to be?
Or is this dead?
Or is this dead?
Moshe Dayan
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The balance of power in Northern Europe shifted dramatically as the powerful Islamic Kingdom of Sweden dissolved into civil war in 1467, leaving Russia and France as the two main European powers.
This period also marked the beginning of the decline of the Abbasid Caliphate as one of their greatest generals, Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, was shot in the eye with a crossbow by militant Afghani separatists in 1472.
This renewed period of peace allowed the Ming to restore a small degree of trade. For the first time in the thousands of years that China had been inhabited, her peoples finally learned how to make music at the dawn of the 16th century AD.
Again, this peace proved to be short-lived, as war broke out once more between the Ming and the declining Mongol Dynasty in the north, which had recently emerged from a brutal civil war which had resulted in the secession of the eastern half of the country.
Halfway through the 16th century, the Ming dynasty entered a period of militarization as the Ming Emperor began to lose patience with Mongol forces repeatedly setting fire to sections of his capital. A siege platoon joined a moderate force of Wuzhou elephants and Manchu pikemen in Western China and prepared to move north to destroy the Mongols once and for all. Unfortunately for them, Mongol forces were well prepared and were able to repel the Ming forces despite the superior numbers of the Chinese troops, and they were forced to retreat to Kelamayi.
It was also around this time in China's history that tensions rose with the powerful Independent Empire, which at the time controlled parts of Mongolia, India, and vast tracts of territory in Europe.
China's military defeat in Inner Mongolia in the mid-16th century temporarily ended the Ming hopes of annexing Mongolia. As tensions within the empire rose slowly, the government began to focus on internal developments. The Ming Emperor ordered the construction of a large new palace complex to replace the old one, which had been severely damaged in the war.
It wasn't until near the end of the Ming Dynasty that a formal peace treaty was finally signed with the Mongols, resulting in yet another tense and uncomfortable peace between the two powers.
By 1600, the powerful Abbasid Caliphate, which had controlled a vast territory from North Africa in the west to the Hindu Kush in the East, finally collapsed, as the Safavid Persians claimed a large part of Western Persia and Mesopotamia, while the Ethiopian Kingdom of Axum emerged in the west.
Although the Ming Dynasty would soon come to a quick and brutal end at the hands of the Manchus, the collapse of the Abbasids at the end of the 16th century left China as one of the largest powers in the world, with influence from Central Asia to the Atlantic and from Southern Manchuria to the Jungles of Thailand. Here is a map of the world in 1600, immediately after the fall of the Abbasid Caliphate:
Ugly IRL borders because I want =P
Spoiler :
This period also marked the beginning of the decline of the Abbasid Caliphate as one of their greatest generals, Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, was shot in the eye with a crossbow by militant Afghani separatists in 1472.
This renewed period of peace allowed the Ming to restore a small degree of trade. For the first time in the thousands of years that China had been inhabited, her peoples finally learned how to make music at the dawn of the 16th century AD.
Spoiler :
Again, this peace proved to be short-lived, as war broke out once more between the Ming and the declining Mongol Dynasty in the north, which had recently emerged from a brutal civil war which had resulted in the secession of the eastern half of the country.
Spoiler :
Halfway through the 16th century, the Ming dynasty entered a period of militarization as the Ming Emperor began to lose patience with Mongol forces repeatedly setting fire to sections of his capital. A siege platoon joined a moderate force of Wuzhou elephants and Manchu pikemen in Western China and prepared to move north to destroy the Mongols once and for all. Unfortunately for them, Mongol forces were well prepared and were able to repel the Ming forces despite the superior numbers of the Chinese troops, and they were forced to retreat to Kelamayi.
Spoiler :
It was also around this time in China's history that tensions rose with the powerful Independent Empire, which at the time controlled parts of Mongolia, India, and vast tracts of territory in Europe.
China's military defeat in Inner Mongolia in the mid-16th century temporarily ended the Ming hopes of annexing Mongolia. As tensions within the empire rose slowly, the government began to focus on internal developments. The Ming Emperor ordered the construction of a large new palace complex to replace the old one, which had been severely damaged in the war.
Spoiler :
It wasn't until near the end of the Ming Dynasty that a formal peace treaty was finally signed with the Mongols, resulting in yet another tense and uncomfortable peace between the two powers.
Spoiler :
By 1600, the powerful Abbasid Caliphate, which had controlled a vast territory from North Africa in the west to the Hindu Kush in the East, finally collapsed, as the Safavid Persians claimed a large part of Western Persia and Mesopotamia, while the Ethiopian Kingdom of Axum emerged in the west.
Although the Ming Dynasty would soon come to a quick and brutal end at the hands of the Manchus, the collapse of the Abbasids at the end of the 16th century left China as one of the largest powers in the world, with influence from Central Asia to the Atlantic and from Southern Manchuria to the Jungles of Thailand. Here is a map of the world in 1600, immediately after the fall of the Abbasid Caliphate:
Spoiler rather large image :
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You all thought this was dead, didn't you. 
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The Chinese characters (the ones on the last spoilered image) are roughly the names of the respective countries over which the characters are listed.
For example:
中國 (Zhōng​guó) = China
日本 (Rì​běn) = Japan
蒙古 (​Měng​gǔ = Mongolia
俄羅斯 (É​luó​sī = Russia
法國 (Fǎ​guó) = France
For example:
中國 (Zhōng​guó) = China
日本 (Rì​běn) = Japan
蒙古 (​Měng​gǔ
= Mongolia俄羅斯 (É​luó​sī
= Russia法國 (Fǎ​guó) = France
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It's back! 
christos200
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Great update.
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Dat france
Moshe Dayan
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One of their exploring soldiers happened upon an undefended Sirajis after the Arabs fell, I guess
Anyway, the next update won't take nearly as long, but something went wrong when I installed synthesis and tried to open my game file. Eventually, I just re-downloaded the same version. So, while the story will continue, it won't have BDNM or the Better Graphics modmod anymore, at least not for a while. I can keep fiddling with them though if enough people want them to continue to be in the story.
Moshe Dayan
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Artist's rendition of the last Ming Emperor killing his daughter before committing suicide with bees.
Although the Ming Dynasty seemed invincible as it roared into the 17th century, its days were in fact numbered. For centuries, the lands north of the Ming Empire's Lelang province had been controlled by various feudal lords and Japanese settlers. However, in 1597, the recently-formed Tokugawa Shogunate issued an order requiring that all overseas Japanese protectorates pay a massive annual tribute to the Shogun. That same year, the Bakufu drafted plans to formally annex Manchuria, the Phillippines, and Southern Iran, all of which had laid in Japanese hands for years. In 1598, Manchuria was formally incorporated into the Shogunate as "Manchukuo". The incorporation of the Philippines and the Gulf of Aden followed a year later.
Flag of Manchukuo implemented by the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1598.
As the new tribute was implemented, many local Daimyos began to tax their subjects mercilessly in the newly incorporated territories in order to gather enough money to send to Edo. In Persia, this sparked a Safavid-backed revolution, in which the Japanese presence in the region was ultimately extinguished, and the territory was annexed by the Safavid Empire. Meanwhile, Japanese power in the Philippines waned as a brutal guerrilla war began, eventually resulting in the secession of the southern half of the archipelago. However, in Manchukuo, Japanese military presence remained strong due to the proximity of Manchuria to the islands of Japan, and many ethnic Manchus began to flee across the border into Ming China.
Artist's rendition of Manchu refugees crossing into China circa 1600.
By 1605, after five years of a nearly constant stream of refugees pouring into Lelang Province, racial tension had reached a boiling point. Although they were not being taxed as heavily as they were in Manchukuo, Manchu immigrants found the Ming leadership and the Chinese residents of northern China and Korea increasingly less friendly. Eventually, after a riot staged by Manchu immigrants in Pingrang in early 1605, the Chongzhen Emperor ordered China's northern border closed and demanded that all Manchus living in China be deported north of the border. However, the Ming military had been significantly weakened by centuries of brutal warfare with the Mongols to North, and they lacked the military capability to enforce this new order. This weakness, compounded by the Ming leadership's refusal to ship supplies to the Manchu-majority areas in northern China which had been hit by a devastating famine, prompted a large-scale rebellion, as a Manchu peasant living in China by the name of Li Zicheng united many of the rebels and marched on Beijing. What remained of the Ming military was completely unable to stop such a large force, and the Ming Empire was dissolved in 1605 with the proclamation of the Qing Dynasty.
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