stERZNES - Atleast it's last at last!

Make a Carthage? Care to be Phoenicians? Cause Carthage is kidna still a Phoenician colony in the update... I wouldn't mind if you join as Carthage after update thought when their getting strong(er than phoenicia itself)...

sorry for not finishing today, I'm kidna not in the mood for... anything...
 
Update 4, 3800BC-750BC

Long time have passed since last time history got wrriten from a neutral point of view. My point of view. As much as 3000 years have passed since Rome was invaded by the Etruscans for the first time. Since Egypt was growing to become a true powerhouse...

Middle East and Africa
Egypt continued to expand. Both it's lands and culture for hundreds of years with no real competition. In 3000BC they met for the first time Upper Egypt. It only ment war. On the one hand Lower Egypt had very developed culture, grand monuments like the pyramids stood up to the skies, their tops made of gold. On the other hand Egyptian armies suffered. They lacked in numbers and training. Miliatry technology have barley developed in Lower Egypt. In Upper Egypt it went backwards. It's culture was almost nonexistant but it's armies huge and ferius. When the two powers clashed Upper Egypt won every single battle. The last hold of Lower Egypt was their capital and delta. By 2800BC Lower Egypt was gone. Or was it? The United Egyptian Kingdom had several interesting changes. In 2000BC after 800 years of Upper Egypt's dynesty rule the people have begun rioting all over the empire. The culture of ancient Lower Egypt took over Upper Egypt sort of speak. A full civil war openned all across Egypt. With the leader of the rebellion being one of the offsprings of the ancient Lower Egypt dynesty. for almost 400 years the two factions fought with the rebellions gaining the upper hand in most of Egypt and the Kingdom loosing more and more lands and men from the army to the rebellion. In 1600BC peace was signed. A royal marriege between the two factions have fully united the two realms and now a Pharaoh from Lower Egypt ruled all the lands. And what a rule it was. Egypt prospered and grown further than ever. Conquering many lands from the Nubians in the south and pushing towards Cyrene in the North. A war over Palestine was lost to the hebrew people who allied with Phoenicia and the new state of Mitani to push the Egyptians out of their lands. The Egyptian lost the land bu their influence over the area have never fell down. Egypt is now the head of science, culture and power in the world with none except the Paleset Coalition to ever stop them.

The rest of the Middle east grew in a very interesting way. Persia stagnated. Sumer was crashed by the Akkadian who later were overpowered by the city of Babylon. in 2000BC the Hitties invaded the middle east for the first time. They reached the gates of Babylon and there they were stopped. In a procces of 200 years the Assyrians pushed the Hitties from the north using the hitties inventions and war machines like the chariot. Assyria conquered most of the middle east, including Babylon by 2000BC, When trying to conquer Palestine they found Egyptian armies to be too strong for them (it was befor the hebrews cared for who control them) and in Phoenicia the misrebely failed. The Hitties saw the weakening Assyria as a great place to reinvade. And so they did. This time the Hitties turned southward towards the Pheonicians and weakened the Assyrians. Babylon could not stand idle in this time and in 1600BC openned in rebellions against the weakening Assyrians and they got allies. A royal marriege between Babylonian king and Median princes insured the alliance between the two powers that soon broke into Assyria, burning Ninveh itself into the ground. The Hitties in the west tried to invade Egypt in 1500BC but failed misrebely. Egyptian armies marched north heading the the Hitties homelands when Babylon joined the war. Babylon came with a crashing force from the east breaking the Egyptian armies. Egypt didn't stayed quite. Soon new Egyptian armies arrived and the three power fought the great battle of Damascus with none of them truly winning. In the end peace was signed by 1000BC with the creation of Mittani as a land between them all. Weakened from this war Egyptian armies returned home only to see the Hebrews breaking away with Mitani(!) aid and Phoenician money.
All this time Persia watched the battlefield... Now they only wait for Babylon or Median to loose power... Persian armies are trained and strong... Now only to wait until one of the two breaks down... but who will break them?

After this wars ended Phoenician navy set sail and begun to discover many new lands. They will be discussed later.

Greece, the Black-Sea and Anatolia
The lands of war and barbarians. The Greek people are a merge of several groups. The main group the Mydendorians ruled supremse over the greek penisola for thousands of years. Up until 2000BC there were even signs of civilization in the area. In 2000BC the first actual great city was built, and not by the Mycendorians even. It was built by the Minoans. For years they copied the Mycendorians in their barbarian ways, just on the sea. They have quicly became the pirates of the Eastern Mediterian, raiding lands espaicaly in greece. They were pirates until meeting the Phoenician navy at battle. The bigger much more developed Phoenician vassals easily crash the Minoan navy near Cyrpus and than soon continue towards Crete. The idea of loosing their homelands could not be taken by the Minoan king. He called the Phoenicians and asked to learn the ways of the civilized people. He said he will cease the pirating buisness if he get's somthing in return and so the Phoenician helped the Minoan civilization to begin. While in many ways it looks close to the Phoenician culture it has it's own unique religion and systems. Minoa was the first civilization to apear in Greece, not counting hte village of Epirus. From Minoa civilzarion came to the mainland. The first city the Mycendorians built was Athens and soon several more great cities were built and the Mycendorians stopped their ways of dustruction. Epirus was invaded in 1300BC by the Illyrians who made it free, but also settled in it. Epirus soon became a great city of trade in the middle mediterian and had contacts with the Italian penisola.

In Anatolia much the same happand, just a bit later. The first city state to apear was Troy and after it came Lydia that invaded the Hitties for more lands.

North to the greeks live the people of Cherson. Years have passed since they were nomads... Since those ancient days they have developed an amazing safisticated culture that takes both nomad lives and civilzed people togheter. Their culture looks like none other and it seems like they will continue to evolve into a strong civilzation and kingdom. Only days will tell...

Rest of Europe
In the South west stand Tartesos. It is a very new kingdom made mostly of Greeks, Phoenicians and Iberians. They formed their own kingdom from several tiny Phoenician and Greek colonies, with the biggest one being... Tartesos. They are quite developed for being so much in the edge of the world. They enjoy friendly reletions with Phoenician colonies in the area and stable reletions with the Iberians and Lusitanians.

In the north, in the British islands stand the brave and growing kingdom of Britonia. Yes they have returned. They are a small culture which tries to exist in a very harsh area filled with barbarians. Now we shall go saying how they survived.
As you probably remember, the celts have occupied almost all of western europe. They could have been counted for a true empire if they weren't just a bounch of tribes. By 2000BC they held almost all western europe including Iberia. Northern Italy and most of the British isles. They almost even occupied Rome! In 1987BC a new celtic tribe apeared in the middle of the celtic empire. Unlike the other tribes it choosed to war with the other celts. The Gauls apeared out of the ashes of the central lands of the celtic tribal empire. They weakened to celts so much that the tribal empire collapsed. Etrusca in Italy reconquered most of it's past glory, but was already so weak... The Britonians reclaimed their homelands and the Iberians banished the celts from most of Iberia.

Talking about Etrusca. for hundreds of years it fought Rome to win every battle, except when they tried to take Rome. They tried again and again but the Romans never gave up. In the end a peace treaty was signed that maked Rome a free city. Well The Etruscans, after the celts were banished tried to take Rome again. This time succesfully. Rome fell but it's people didn't. They accepted Etruscan rule, for now. And now in 750BC Rome is having it's second rise. Already occupying it's own city, the new republic looks at Etrusca seeing it's weakling and fregile, preapering to hit it and throw the Etruscan from Italy ones and for all!
Southern Italy did not changed much. The Samnites defeated the Etruscans in several wars by using their defensive mountains. Also a celtic invasion was stopped easily by them. They are the strongest miliatry power in Italy probably, but since the ancient days they have became much less aggresive. Their population was lowered with each war fought and now the Samnites are weak...
The rest was gobbled up between Greek colonies and Syracuse colonies.

East Asia
East Asia did not changed much. The biggest changed were the Nanjing became more and more friendly with the Shang until the creation of The United Shang dynesty. Oh yes and Zhou are there as they don't want to be part of Shang. Nothing else realy. The angry huns are nothing (yeah right) and the more advanced Koreans should worry the leaders of Shang China, too much...

Southern America
Except for 1 war between Inca and the Southern kigndom of Andia which Inca easily won nothing happand. Thought the amazonas don't like the Incans too much and... well... MUHAHAHA :evil:
 
Sorry for being lousy about Asia and SOuth America. I just got nothing to write about :) Ones I complete stats, one day :p (people annoy(!) me about this!!!) you will know what the countries around you do mostly in south america which know nothing.

MAP
(my favorite part, the only thing i'm good at :))
 
Cool. I get to be the academician! Long live Egypt! :egypt:
 
Can I join as Dravidia, or one of the other Indian countries.

Ganges Empire, start on the Ganges River near coast.
 
Wow... nice work Silverssteaky... maybe I really should start some cult down somewhere in Lower Egypt. ;) or maybe not
 
done PC's and east asia :) next south america and last the rest...
 
Orders:
1.)
Expand road network between major metropolitan centers. The first 3 are free, use 500 troops (100 each) for the other 5 roads.
2.) Send two expeditions into Sinn lands, one along the coast, and the other along the Yangtze. Each expedition should consist of 1000 Men and 200 Horsemen each. Use these to attempt to bring the local Sinn people into Greater Shang China.
3.) Send 30 Trirems to the island of Taiwan, with 200 Men.
4.) Grow economy through expansion fostered by these expeditions.

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To: Korea
From: Greater Shang China

We are interested in opening trade between our two nations, as well as a non-aggression pact to foster opposition against the barbarian Huns.

To: Zhou
From: Greater Shang China

We are interested in a non-aggression pact. The Hunnic threat must be dealt with by all civilized peoples.
 
Time to finish the stpid stats, no more waiting! For now you got your own stats people... Use them...
 
done with south america and some of europe (and africa only 1 country...) continuing :) you guys wait for all NPC stats? or...?
 
Actually, I'm sorry to tell I'm quitting this NES. I know. I hate quitters as well and I'm terribly pained to be forced to, but I quit. I'm currently working on my very own NES based on religious conflicts (since I've always felt they sprouted the bloodiest wars) and kinda have my hands full with it. Oh, if it ever lifts off ground, please join. I'll try to be a decent MOD. Again, sorry.
 
I'll take over Egypt and be peaceful if you want it Erez, oh and I'll join your NES SilverSteak.
 
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