PW90
Warlord
This story was written by me in german more than a year ago and now I try to translate it into english. If you want to read the original version, go here:
http://www.civforum.de/showthread.php?t=49051&highlight=Aufstieg+Untergang
BigMaexle (Member of the Civforum-Community) inspired me with his own Rhye’s and Fall-Story “IMPERIVM ROMANVM” to write this story. Due to the fact there are no Austrians I had to take the Germans, cause they are not so different from Austria.
Maybe I will make grammatical or spelling errors, so correct me, if this happens.
Chapter I: The early German people (840-1120 AD)
It’s 840 AD, the various tribes of Europe start to settle down and try to succeed the old Roman Empire. One of these are the “Germans” which were called “Teutonics” or “Germanics” by the Romans in earlier times.
In March the Germans arrived in a flat land, where there were wheat and some cows. Here was the perfect place for them to settle down, but some individualists had something against it. It is not known why, but maybe they had an allergy against the cows or something similar…
Finally this group decided to go southwest and in august of the same year they took over the former roman city of Mogantiacum, called “Mainz” by the Germans. Officially the old roman name for the city remained. The Individualists there called their Empire “Germanic Duchy of Moguntiacum”. Because the German speaking people were soon the majority, people claimed bilingual naming of the city and shields to show this.
The other group founded at the same time the counterpart, the „Germanic Duchy of Berlin“. So there where two German states and it was clear that only one could be alive in the long run. The citizens in Berlin claimed to be the true Germans, due to the fact that they are not related to any non-German peoples.
The first contact with another civilized nation was 846 with frog-eating people, called the “French”, who build their settlements west of the German lands. The first duke of Berlin, Guido I, “the Strong”, buyed the knowledge of sailing. He didn’t mention that this technology was useless at this moment, but his strength was not his brain as you can see…
It didn’t take a long time (actually until 848) for the Duchy of Berlin to be technology more advanced than the Duchy of Moguntiacum, which concentrated more on a dispute about bilingual name shields and such stuff.
In 851 AD the citizens of Mogantiacum decided to get rid of their duke and to unite their land with the Duchy of Berlin, which was ruled by Gunther I, nephew of Guido I at this time. After the unification Gunther decided to rename the whole land into German Empire and was crowned as the first “Duke of the German Empire”. Mogantiacum was finally renamed officially into Mainz.
The unification of both German states was followed by a decade full of wealth, in which the birthrate increased. So Berlin was so crowed in 881 AD that some brave people were sent into the south to found a new settlement, finally named Graz. From this point the German Empire bordered to the Latin “Duchy of Mediolanum” and the mighty Byzantine Empire. Furthermore the Germans get in touch with the Vatikan, also called the Papal States, the centre of Christianity.
Karl I was crowned in 891 AD and expanded the empire to the northeast onto the coast of a sea, named the “Ostsee” (Eastern Sea). After a few months the first buildings of the later city of Memel were built. They were visited by the Vikings, another Germanic tribe, which settled down, but far north. Although the horned helmets seemed very scary to the Germans, the first opening of borders worldwide happened. A sign of friendship and hopefully peace…
The following 10 years the Empire prospered, only disturbed by a big flood which destroyed the most important road from Mainz to Berlin and where many Germans died or get so injured so hard, that they couldn’t work anymore.
1003 AD a crazy tribe began to settle northwest of the German Empire, who seemed to speak a stretched German, called the Dutch. Nobody knows, from where they came, but after some sources they travelled from somewhere over the seas with their caravans to the place where now is Amsterdam.
After the enthronement of Ludwig I in 1005 AD the public administration was introduced in Germany and he also declared war at the Byzantine Empire. But after the big defeat at the battle of Athenae Ludwig made white peace with the Emperor.
Ludwig’s successor Friedrich I was a cultivated man. He is believed as the founder of the German theatre and paper, although he did not much for this. Also he was good negotiating and made a big deal with the Dutch: The knowledge how to produce paper was given to them in exchange for the knowledge of how to construct machines. This lead to a good relationship between this two peoples.
1021 AD the Germans get first in their history in contact with a nation from the east, the Russians. Their language was very different from German and so it was very hard to communicate. But alcohol helped to make the Russians peacefully and also funny. The Germans gave them some cheap schnapps from a farmer in the near of Berlin, which tasted so good in the opinion of the Russians, that they made it their national beverage and called it “Wodka”.
Under the rule of Heinrich I, „the Wise“ it was managed to develope a calendar. Heinrich ordered to build a city in the east, called by him “in der Gegend” (“in the region”. 24 years after the order the city of Landau was founded there, which was claimed by the Byzantines. Heinrich I named as the first one the whole continent “Europe”.
This was only the beginning for the German people. There were so many people out there, which where not known by the Germans right now and many new lands and technologies to discover. How would it go on? Would the rise of the Germans continue?
Here a Map of Europe at 1120 AD
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So, what do you say? Good story? Bad one? Don't hesitate to say something
http://www.civforum.de/showthread.php?t=49051&highlight=Aufstieg+Untergang
BigMaexle (Member of the Civforum-Community) inspired me with his own Rhye’s and Fall-Story “IMPERIVM ROMANVM” to write this story. Due to the fact there are no Austrians I had to take the Germans, cause they are not so different from Austria.
Maybe I will make grammatical or spelling errors, so correct me, if this happens.
Chapter I: The early German people (840-1120 AD)
It’s 840 AD, the various tribes of Europe start to settle down and try to succeed the old Roman Empire. One of these are the “Germans” which were called “Teutonics” or “Germanics” by the Romans in earlier times.
In March the Germans arrived in a flat land, where there were wheat and some cows. Here was the perfect place for them to settle down, but some individualists had something against it. It is not known why, but maybe they had an allergy against the cows or something similar…
Finally this group decided to go southwest and in august of the same year they took over the former roman city of Mogantiacum, called “Mainz” by the Germans. Officially the old roman name for the city remained. The Individualists there called their Empire “Germanic Duchy of Moguntiacum”. Because the German speaking people were soon the majority, people claimed bilingual naming of the city and shields to show this.
The other group founded at the same time the counterpart, the „Germanic Duchy of Berlin“. So there where two German states and it was clear that only one could be alive in the long run. The citizens in Berlin claimed to be the true Germans, due to the fact that they are not related to any non-German peoples.
The first contact with another civilized nation was 846 with frog-eating people, called the “French”, who build their settlements west of the German lands. The first duke of Berlin, Guido I, “the Strong”, buyed the knowledge of sailing. He didn’t mention that this technology was useless at this moment, but his strength was not his brain as you can see…
It didn’t take a long time (actually until 848) for the Duchy of Berlin to be technology more advanced than the Duchy of Moguntiacum, which concentrated more on a dispute about bilingual name shields and such stuff.
In 851 AD the citizens of Mogantiacum decided to get rid of their duke and to unite their land with the Duchy of Berlin, which was ruled by Gunther I, nephew of Guido I at this time. After the unification Gunther decided to rename the whole land into German Empire and was crowned as the first “Duke of the German Empire”. Mogantiacum was finally renamed officially into Mainz.
The unification of both German states was followed by a decade full of wealth, in which the birthrate increased. So Berlin was so crowed in 881 AD that some brave people were sent into the south to found a new settlement, finally named Graz. From this point the German Empire bordered to the Latin “Duchy of Mediolanum” and the mighty Byzantine Empire. Furthermore the Germans get in touch with the Vatikan, also called the Papal States, the centre of Christianity.
Karl I was crowned in 891 AD and expanded the empire to the northeast onto the coast of a sea, named the “Ostsee” (Eastern Sea). After a few months the first buildings of the later city of Memel were built. They were visited by the Vikings, another Germanic tribe, which settled down, but far north. Although the horned helmets seemed very scary to the Germans, the first opening of borders worldwide happened. A sign of friendship and hopefully peace…
The following 10 years the Empire prospered, only disturbed by a big flood which destroyed the most important road from Mainz to Berlin and where many Germans died or get so injured so hard, that they couldn’t work anymore.
1003 AD a crazy tribe began to settle northwest of the German Empire, who seemed to speak a stretched German, called the Dutch. Nobody knows, from where they came, but after some sources they travelled from somewhere over the seas with their caravans to the place where now is Amsterdam.
After the enthronement of Ludwig I in 1005 AD the public administration was introduced in Germany and he also declared war at the Byzantine Empire. But after the big defeat at the battle of Athenae Ludwig made white peace with the Emperor.
Ludwig’s successor Friedrich I was a cultivated man. He is believed as the founder of the German theatre and paper, although he did not much for this. Also he was good negotiating and made a big deal with the Dutch: The knowledge how to produce paper was given to them in exchange for the knowledge of how to construct machines. This lead to a good relationship between this two peoples.
1021 AD the Germans get first in their history in contact with a nation from the east, the Russians. Their language was very different from German and so it was very hard to communicate. But alcohol helped to make the Russians peacefully and also funny. The Germans gave them some cheap schnapps from a farmer in the near of Berlin, which tasted so good in the opinion of the Russians, that they made it their national beverage and called it “Wodka”.
Under the rule of Heinrich I, „the Wise“ it was managed to develope a calendar. Heinrich ordered to build a city in the east, called by him “in der Gegend” (“in the region”
. 24 years after the order the city of Landau was founded there, which was claimed by the Byzantines. Heinrich I named as the first one the whole continent “Europe”.This was only the beginning for the German people. There were so many people out there, which where not known by the Germans right now and many new lands and technologies to discover. How would it go on? Would the rise of the Germans continue?
Here a Map of Europe at 1120 AD
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So, what do you say? Good story? Bad one? Don't hesitate to say something
(in RFC cities are named by the place they are in.)
