Chapter 5: Stagnation and civil wars
By the time Arabia culminated with the conquest of most of mainland europe, the arabs were far behind in the technological race. So far, that even an aztec would laugh at such decay rates. At least the aztecs were receiving tech support.
When Spain capitulated, they were given the same rights and conditions of the poles. But the spanish were angry that their king let himself become a slave of the arabs and worse, renounce to his faith which he has so fanaticaly defended and forced into his people. They rebelled and the Emirate of Esbanya broke apart. The arabs quickly conquered them.
As you may have noticed, Arabia declared war on Portugal. With the fall of portugal, the moorish dream was complete. An islamic iberian penninsula was consolidated.
When Portugal opened itself to arab diplomats, the arabs offered Portugal the possibility of capitulation to the arabs with the same conditions as before. They agreed.
The arabs then pursued into the netherlands, crushing Amsterdam but the dutch, unlike the other european powers, refused to capitulate to the arabs as it would be an insult to their evergrowing empire that now has no competitors.
The arabs next and last victim were the vikings. However, they could not sail to their homeland as the caliph dumbly gave Amsterdam, as well as every coastal city, to the poles.They mananged to capture Copenhagen and unify mainland europe, but that didn't matter because...
The Emirate of Poland, informally known as the emirate of europe, collapsed into civil war, making Arabia lose much of it's former territory. The arabs tried to reconquer the polish territory, but England was also intrested in partitioning europe with itself. However, the Calipate of Europe's time ran out.
Germanic peoples that mastered gunpowder rallied an army and rebelled against the arabs. They could not fight them. They were too many and the discontent of the caliphate too high to push on.
Here's a map I made that shows how much the arab empire spread. Dark green is the territory controled directly by Arabia. Pink is the territory controled by Poland and Green is the territory that Arabia controled until Iran rebelled.
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Random notes:
By now the story is pretty much over. However, I have images after I switched to the germans that can last for just
one more turn. If you guys want me to do an epilogue of the germans, I'll do it.
I wonder how this story would play out in RFCE.
Fun fact: Since Chapter 4 I have been on Collapsing. The conquests I did were enough to keep my empire from collapsing and only Baghdad rebelled during this whole time.