Secrets of the Pharaoh

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Egypt has finally met their first neighbor, Babylon, to their east on the landmass to the east. The Babylonians called their leader Gilgamesh, and were quite vain. Instead of accepting Egypt as an equal, they expected Egypt to serve them, and asked how they could assist them.

Ramesses assured there would be peace, and tried to sign open borders with Babylon, only to find that they did not trust us enough yet. Geez. Tough crowd.

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The very next turn, a new civilization in the land to the north had started. They called themselves the Greek, and welcomed Egypt as equals and upstarts. Very contradictory to the fact that the Egyptian civilization started earlier, but whatever.

Pericles, leader of the Greek League, trusted Egypt enough to open borders between the two nations for trade. This was good, as Egypt now finally had someone to trade goods with, and that boosted the happiness of the citizens.

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As Egyptian researchers fully learned how to work with bronze, the Egyptian empire left the period of stone tools, and entered the bronze age. With this new ability to work with bronze and copper, Egypt could improve the life of their people by allowing them to do things they could not do before.

Also, Thebes's cultural reach now extended into the Red Sea, as it was called by the Babylonians. Not far enough to reach to the resource of clams, but it was a start.

Thebes had also finished their obelisk, and started to work on their first wonder, the Stonehenge.

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As the reign of Gilgamesh ended, a new Babylonian leader, Hammurabi, was elected. Hammurabi, knowing the years of peace Babylon shared with Egypt, decided to open borders with Egypt. This was great, as Egyptian traders could now move anywhere and trade with all of their known neighbors.

Also, Egyptian researches created a form of writing, so that information can be passed between others. Of course, that meant people would have to learn to read, but there is no need for us to worry about that. The new writing form was called cuneiform, and was taught to scribes and people all across the nation.

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Egyptian slaves builders had finished the Stonehenge in Thebes, and then decided that they needed more protection. Ramesses was happy to announce the training of a new division of archers to protect Thebes, which would be called "Thebes' Bowmen".

Also, the exploring warriors of Egypt that were exploring the landmass which tribes had started to call "Africa" were ambushed by two prides of panthers. The warriors, being as highly trained as they are, easily took down both prides.

Egyptian workers also finished the pasture to tame these horses, and could now build war chariots. The next project they had in mind was to move north, and build a road and quarry to take advantage of the marble they had noticed to the north. This marble would allow art to be made, or at least they assumed it would.

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Later on, a religion called "Judaism" had spread to Thebes. The teachings of Judaism was a belief of a divine God, and Ramesses decided to adopt Judaism as their state religion.

The people for some reason did not like giving up their pagan beliefs. Ramesses did assure them once the riots settled down that the old gods would still be there, it's just a state religion so they can have a friendly welcome from Jewish nations.

With new buildings and trade agreements, Egypt was developing fast. Ramesses was proud of his work, and sat back for the night.

SC Decision!

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Now that we have trade agreements with Greece and Babylon, and units and wonders to speak of, we must decide on what to do next.

1) Build cottages on the floodplains of the Nile, and boost our economy so we can go back to 100% in science
2) Finish the worker in Giza, and the archer in Thebes, and then train a settler, so we can settle to the south
3) Finish the archer in Thebes, and then build a Jewish monastery so we can build Jewish missionaries to spread Judaism to Giza. After that, build a barracks in both Giza and Thebes​

Voting will end in 12 hours.
 
Option 1 My subjects on the west side of the Nile could use some new homes. In return, I will pay you with the wealth of the Underworld.
 
Is this wealth a city as productive as Thebes?

Nope, I'm afraid I only have the gold and jewels that I stole from Pluto who is totally not a foreign god of wealth.:shifty: Stop questioning me or i'll kill you. STOP IT!!! :aargh:
 
My son, Horus will of course. If he can rule the gods in my absence then I'm sure he can rule you pesky mortals as well. How long do you mortals typically live again, 400 years or 500?
 
Hey Ramesses stop giving years to this infertile gold-for-stick and cheap-jewelry-for-eye-ball family and go for option 2. The desert is the answer. Egypt will only benefit if it sticks to the desert. Set has spoken!

Honestly, who would follow a Green skinned God? Green is the color of disease. Follow the darkness, as it'll consume all in the end!

And he insists his golden friend could be better then my natural atrocious beast. Poor greenie
 
Do not settle too south so we lose it to Ethiopia but I choose 3
 
When Ethiopia spawns, I plan to take them out so I can steal settle all that land for Egypt. :lol:

Edit: Yay for 100 posts! :egypt:[party]

Not the Land of Wonder! :cry: Yay for 100 posts :goodjob:
 
Hey Ramesses stop giving years to this infertile gold-for-stick and cheap-jewelry-for-eye-ball family and go for option 2. The desert is the answer. Egypt will only benefit if it sticks to the desert. Set has spoken!

Honestly, who would follow a Green skinned God? Green is the color of disease. Follow the darkness, as it'll consume all in the end!

And he insists his golden friend could be better then my natural atrocious beast. Poor greenie

According to what I've heard, Green is the color of re-birth, new life, and vegetables.
 
Oh BTW, I know where Isis is...

:groucho:

She actually hates :gold:

Well then It's a good thing I stole that gold from the totally non-existent Pluto, god of wealth:shifty: and I too know where my wife is. She's in Washington D.C negotiating an Alliance with President William Foster.
 
Well then It's a good thing I stole that gold from the totally non-existent Pluto, god of wealth:shifty: and I too know where my wife is. She's in Washington D.C negotiating an Alliance with President William Foster.

Nice reference :goodjob:

I think that as pharoah, you must respect your overlords more. You might be a god king, but you cannot shoot lightning out of your fingertips. :D Also, now that you are Jewish, doesn't that make us all defunct? :p :lol:
 
Nice reference :goodjob:

I think that as pharoah, you must respect your overlords more. You might be a god king, but you cannot shoot lightning out of your fingertips. :D Also, now that you are Jewish. Doesn't that make us all defunct? :p :lol:

The people still worship you guys, it's just on the lists we're Jewish so we can get some diplomatic boosts. :p

Unless you guys want me to get rid of the lists and all act as a different part of God's personality or something.
 
The people still worship you guys, it's just on the lists we're Jewish so we can get some diplomatic boosts. :p

Unless you guys want me to get rid of the lists and all act as a different part of God's personality or something.

NoNONONO! I'm really enjoying being Osiris and arguing with Set. Don't tell him I said that though. :hide:

OOC: One thing I insist on though, is that you never move the religion civic out of paganism.
 
According to what I've heard, Green is the color of re-birth, new life, and vegetables.

I agree on vegetables brother.

Judaism is a lie (I mean in this game of course, don't take me wrong), it's just to please those jews in the rest of the world

OOC: This is getting extremely funny, and because of that I'm learning a lot about egyptian mythology. My previous knowledge was almost entirely because of AoM

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BTW: The relation between our gods is disgusting! take a look at that:

According to Papyrus Chester-Beatty I, Set is depicted as trying to prove his dominance by seducing Horus and ... lettuce, which was Set's favorite food.

Just to remember that Set is his uncle. Ancient Egypt was a strange place to say the least. This is how they understood dominance. The Greek knew this as well I guess
 
I agree on vegetables brother.

Judaism is a lie (I mean in this game of course, don't take me wrong), it's just to please those jews in the rest of the world

OOC: This is getting extremely funny, and because of that I'm learning a lot about egyptian mythology. My previous knowledge was almost entirely because of AoM

Spoiler :
BTW: The relation between our gods is disgusting! take a look at that:

Just to remember that Set is his uncle. Ancient Egypt was a strange place to say the least. This is how they understood dominance. The Greek knew this as well I guess

Ok, please get that off of here, that's kind of disgusting and one of the few things I don't want in this thread.

NoNONONO! I'm really enjoying being Osiris and arguing with Set. Don't tell him I said that though. :hide:

OOC: One thing I insist on though, is that you never move the religion civic out of paganism.

OOC: Sure, that'll be my challenge for this story.
 
OOC: So you've played AoM too!

The Greeks weren't exactly innocent either. Just look up their education system if you feel brave. I'm not going to tell you as Noob doesn't want that on his thread.
 
Well, I promise I won't touch on that anymore (I can't even use words that don't sound extremely ambiguous in this grotesque situation).

That's why I put in spoilers, for us not be obliged to see this every time. It's a wikipedia entry BTW. I removed it and put the link. I guess this doesn't hurt right?

Anyways that never has happened right Horus? This was communist greek conspiracy against us! Let's attack GREECE!


OOC: Of course! AoM was great. But I liked more AOEII
 
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