Yet another civilization had spawned, and this one to the west. The Carthaginian people, led by Hannibal were another neighbor for the Egyptian empire. They thought of Egypt as lessers, and did not trust us enough to open borders. This better not be another Gilgamesh.
Also, there was a pride of lions roaming around to the west of Abydos. Hopefully they did not come close enough to attack the city, but it appeared the lions were too afraid to enter Egyptian borders. Weird how they know where our borders are.
Egyptian scientists had mastered mathematics, and decided to wanted to find a way to measure time. Doing so, they started to research something known as a calendar. With this calendar, they planned they could figure out what 'year' they were alive at right now.
Also, Thebes had finished the barracks and started to build the Pyramids as a tomb for a late and famous person inside of Egypt. This would take a while, and Ramesses wondered if these Pyramids were to be worth it, but his people forced him to think they would be.
Carthage had come to their 'lessers' asking if they could be taught the secret to meditation. Ramesses, thinking that if he were to teach the Carthaginians this secret, that they would be pleased enough to sign open borders with Egypt. With this in mind, Ramesses granted Carthage this secret, and was pleased to find out Carthage did indeed want open borders with Egypt after that.
One cottage on the Nile was completed, and if more were built, Ramesses would be sure he could at least get back up to 90% in science funding.
When the Egyptian scientists finished this calendar, they wanted to learn a whole new form of writing, and that was with their own alphabet. Also, when they finished constructing a calendar, the gods had come down from their SC room, and whispered in their ears: "It's 490 BC", and it was so.
What they
didn't expect, on the other hand, was that with this calendar, for some reason the Pyramids and obelisks completely became obsolete for some reason, and their boosts were gone, and they could not be built anymore.
Abydos would switch over to training a division of archers, and Thebes would start building walls, in case Babylon got a bit too frisky. Speaking of Babylon, Hammurab(b)i decided to switch over to Judaism. This gave a diplomatic boost between Egypt and Babylon. What Babylon didn't know, however, was the fact Egypt was only Jewish in the books.
Egypt had mastered and made their own alphabet, and then started to research a form of government called Monarchy. This would not matter, as Ramesses II would always be pharaoh, but whatever.
Also, Thebes's cultural reach had
finally reached that source of clams they had wanted in the Red Sea. All they needed was a way to harvest them. Also, in Thebes, Ramesses decided he needed a new wonder to compensate for the loss of the Pyramids, so he started to build the Hanging Gardens. Hopefully he could successfully build these this time.
Also, people in Giza were training a new division of archers as well, but it is hard to see that as an annoying unit of Carthaginian horse archers is in the way. Dang it, Carthage. Either way, they were training archers.
People in both Thebes and Giza were getting sick for some reason living on the flood plains, and Ramesses thought these Hanging Gardens could help heal people magically.
With time, came another civilization. To the south of Egypt, came a civilization called Ethiopia and their leader Zara Yaqob, who for some reason thought they were always friends with Egypt, and did not create a greeting page, but whatever.
They signed open borders with Egypt, but for some reason, Ramesses did not like this civilization. He thought he could take them out, and use this Ethiopian land for himself. He decided to bring it up to the SC to see what they thought about gathering more land for Egypt.
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