Druidish settlers land and settle the Azores rapidly and voraciously.
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Markadian expansion continues into Africa!
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Scandinavian expedition to Greenland fails.
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Buntarism fad in Madg dies down a lot when Divine Femenin temples begin appearing everywhere and theologians have several notable disputes, the most famous of which being the Seychelle Debate in which renowned Madg Buntarist Philosopher Al-Koresh was beaten soundly by the Seychelles Bishop of the Church of the Divine Feminine
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Open oppression of Odolists leads to a general stamping out of that religion in Nippon, though it continues to be the focal point of an anti-Nipponese resistance, more on that later.
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Slave labor on the Lighthouse in Nippon greatly cuts down on its time.
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Druidism grows in popularity in Semeria and Hessia, Sicilian Mycenae is also finding itself filled with more Druids. In Southern Italy, a Mycenaean colony, religious disputes between Celtic and Druidish Italians has lead to open bloodshed on several occasions. Sicily tends to be more Druidish wheras the mainland is generally Celtic. Rome, for an unknown reason, has developed a strange fondness for the Aeser religion and in Rome the largest Aeser temple outside of Germany can be found. There have been no conflicts between the Aeser Romans and the Celts as of yet.
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Lyons seizes Malta.
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Confucianism begins in China and becomes very popular.
WAR(s)
In Europe
The Fourth turn of hostilities.
All Hell breaks loose.
The Mycenaean navy began this turn by seizing Gibraltar almost effortlessly, they then landed a massive force near Semer where the army captured the recently completed Mausoleum of Semer and the present King of Semeria. While attempting to remove him to the Balearics, though, they lost him and he escaped to reforge his capital at Lisbon and to prepare to reclaim the capital of his fathers. The slaves, fearing and hating the Mycenaeans often more than the Semerians have stopped their revolting, and a massive band of Militia has been built up of Freemen.
The Germans came as allies and many a Mycenaean cheered them as they marched on, though few understood why they needed to come so close to Athens to stop Aleksandre. However the German soldiers soon began to pillage and plunder, the Officers kidnapped local philosophers and artists and sent them back to work for the people of Germany, however the effect of this was negligible since the German education system is actually better than the Mycenaean. However Thales was captured and now teaches German schoolchildren of his theory of reductionism, that all matter is composed of water in different states.
Mycenaeans fled from the now conquering army, and matters became worse when the Conscripted Balkan armies returned to pledge allegiance to Aleksandre as the Germans named him the new Emperor of Macedon and the Greeks. Mycenaeans fled to Anatolia, among them their leaders who established a new capital at Illium and to Libya.
The Semerian army finally triumphed in Carthage, seizing the city and leaving only a pocket of Mycenaean resistance, with the loss of Semer this victory in no way represented a turning point and even the army seemed to know that as they conquered, pillaging and looting with all of the pent up frustration of a massive army that cannot protect its homeland.
The Mycenaean general, defeated by the Semerian armies and close enough to be able to help his homeland, returned immediately to Sparta and retook the city and much of the surrounding countryside, Aleksandre has yet to take either it or the Black Sea coast, where the bountiful trade with the East is based.
Asia
Initial Hostilities
Provoked by Nipponese land claims and oppression of Odolists the Markadians launched an attack on the Nipponese home islands, almost miraculously evading the poorly trained Nipponese fleet. The attacks were remarkably successful, capturing many a southern port of Nippon.
Science
Everyone else enters Antiquity!
Wonders
Wonders in Progress
Confucian Academy complete in China!
Mausoleum of Semer complete in Semer!
Mausoleum of Semer captured by Mycenaeans.
Loyalty Academy: Madg (1 Turns)
Germanic Breweries: Teutonic Germania (1 Turns)
Great Lighthouse: Nippon (2 Turns)
Mitrakrocatlbetr Project: Media (3 Turns | 1 Patent Turn)
Colossus: Macedon (6 Turns)
Colossus: Mycenae (6 Turns)
Eastern Olympics: Markadia (6 Turns | 2 Patent Turns)
Odyssey: Velikoslavia (4 Turns)
Pyramids: Lyons (4 Turns)
New Open Wonders
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Contacts
The Medians have contact with the Chinese.
The Ghand have contact with the Nipponese.
The Madg have contact with the Ajaj and the Medians.