TheGryphonPrince
King
Welcome to another of my stories. As I said in my Argentina story, this time I bring you a story set in the medieval age.
You may wonder why I chose Arabia for this one. I did it for 2 reasons.
Some of the images are based on a previous attempt at writing a story similar to this one, but the Byzantines beated me.
Settings:
Chapter 1: Fall of Byzantinum
After waiting just 2 short turns, Arabia begins to kick out. Under Caliph Abu Bakr, he convinced the Diocese of the East, the Diocese of Egypt as well as the Levant to join the newborn religion and to pledge loyalty to the Caliph. Due to the weakness of the Byzantine armies as well as the forces that began to lurk around their frontiers, they had no choice but to accept the Caliphs as their overlord. And so their first territorial gain was won without any struggle. The religion also became widespread across the areas that fell to the caliph.
The Byzantine Emperor of the time, Heraclius, was bitter about this, but he had no choice to accept this humiliation to the name of the Roman Empire. Soon enough, Abu Bakr began to prepare his plan to conquer Byzantinum in god's name. His plan wouldn't be concreted in his life.
However, within 50 years, the muslmin hordes were ready to attack the once proud Byzantine Empire, the last remnant of the Roman Empire. Finally, the Caliph declared war on the Byzantine Empire and sent a huge army of his faithful army of camel archers to war. The results were fruitful.
He, however, could not conquer Consnantinopile. The walls were made to keep invaders like him off. Only in the 10th century the caliph's dream could be completed. Under Al-Muti, his troops gathered outside Byzantinum and began to topple down the walls. However, these walls were resistant, specially for the catapults the Caliph used to bring them down. Finally, he lost his patience and attacked Consnantinopile.
The attack seemed to be a failure at first, but after bombarding his enemy with catapult fire, his camel archers mananged to break through and defeated their enemy.
The Emperor died in the attack and the Byzantine Empire was no more. His grand-stepson, John I Tzimiskes mananged to get through the siege and established the Empire of Crimea.
However, the arabs did not just stop there and pleased with having Consantinopile under their rule. The rest of the seceding states fell as well.
You may wonder why I chose Arabia for this one. I did it for 2 reasons.
- I'm a
muslmin
(I'm an atheist now) - I thought it would be fun to play as Arabia and... I'm not going to tell you until the story progresses.
Some of the images are based on a previous attempt at writing a story similar to this one, but the Byzantines beated me.
Settings:
- Starting year: 600 A.D
- Speed: Normal
- Difficulty: Monarch
Chapter 1: Fall of Byzantinum
After waiting just 2 short turns, Arabia begins to kick out. Under Caliph Abu Bakr, he convinced the Diocese of the East, the Diocese of Egypt as well as the Levant to join the newborn religion and to pledge loyalty to the Caliph. Due to the weakness of the Byzantine armies as well as the forces that began to lurk around their frontiers, they had no choice but to accept the Caliphs as their overlord. And so their first territorial gain was won without any struggle. The religion also became widespread across the areas that fell to the caliph.
The Byzantine Emperor of the time, Heraclius, was bitter about this, but he had no choice to accept this humiliation to the name of the Roman Empire. Soon enough, Abu Bakr began to prepare his plan to conquer Byzantinum in god's name. His plan wouldn't be concreted in his life.
However, within 50 years, the muslmin hordes were ready to attack the once proud Byzantine Empire, the last remnant of the Roman Empire. Finally, the Caliph declared war on the Byzantine Empire and sent a huge army of his faithful army of camel archers to war. The results were fruitful.
He, however, could not conquer Consnantinopile. The walls were made to keep invaders like him off. Only in the 10th century the caliph's dream could be completed. Under Al-Muti, his troops gathered outside Byzantinum and began to topple down the walls. However, these walls were resistant, specially for the catapults the Caliph used to bring them down. Finally, he lost his patience and attacked Consnantinopile.
The attack seemed to be a failure at first, but after bombarding his enemy with catapult fire, his camel archers mananged to break through and defeated their enemy.
The Emperor died in the attack and the Byzantine Empire was no more. His grand-stepson, John I Tzimiskes mananged to get through the siege and established the Empire of Crimea.
However, the arabs did not just stop there and pleased with having Consantinopile under their rule. The rest of the seceding states fell as well.
. As a present to you all I'm going to give you an update of this story and of the Argentina one.
And I like this story very much!
This is a great moment for not only DoC, nor to Civ 4, nor to Civ Fanatica, but for the whole Civilization franchise!
