The Iroquois Peoples

[Smiley]

A note before playing:

This takes place on the World Map. I have edited the game ever so slightly so that there is now a good reason to play the Expansionist type governments. It's something in the beta stages, not being released soon.


The Iroquois Peoples

By Smiley, Historian


Chapter 1: Early Empire
Archaeologists date the founding of Salamanca, the capital city of the Iroquois empire, around 4000 BC. From there, the empire grew like a rabbit. By 1 AD, there were around 20 cities to the empire's name.

Early contacts were Babylon and America. Later on, the Iroquois met the French and the Germans. All had little to offer the technologically advanced nation of the Iroquois, as it was in the B.C. days.

Around 500 BC, the nations were like this:

Iroquois was smack-dab in the middle of Asia, tilting ever-so-slightly towards Europe, where several colonies had been built.

Germany was on the Indian subcontinent. A road was under construction to their empire.

Babylon was based in North Africa. A road had already been constructed, and a city there, St. Regis, was quite populous.

France was based along the eastern coasts of Africa.

America was based on the eastern coasts of Asia.


During 500 BC, one of my distant relatives, Despot Smiley (A man wracked with insanity) formulated a plan to rout the fledgling Babylonian empire.

For the first time ever, the empire actively seeked war.

Our cities not preoccupied with building temples were training Mounted Warriors. These men on their fine steeds could travel twice the length of the average Warrior, and was three times as powerful. We quickly razed Babylon, Ur, and Ashur, but there was still news of Babylonians in existence. Around 100 BC, the mad war ended, and we learned that a few desperate Babylonian citizens had trekked halfway across Asia, rebuilding Babylon a ways south of our empire. We took the rebuilt Ur in peace negotiations, though.

For most of the war, our civilization was experiencing a golden age. In fact, many historians believed it started around the first attacks by the mounted warriors. It was at its end around the birth of Christ -- just in time for the coup.

The citizens rushed the palace and stabbed Despot Smiley VIII twenty times. The wise men had thought up the perfect way of replacing Despot Smiley: gather envoys from the various nations of the cities and have them hammer out the nation instead of one power-mad dictator. It is widely believed that one of the first envoys, who was elected Main Envoy by the others, was a distant cousin of the Smiley chain. In any event, the Iroquois Republic was firmly in place.

 

[Smiley]

For a brief period of time, all was well within the world. The Iroquois peoples finished two great projects, the Oracle and the Pyramids. Plans were being written up for the Colossus. Then, the greedy Main Envoy Smiley III set his sights on America, in the east. He had learned that the Americans only had two cities. He sent some leftovers he had from the Babylonian war and attacked New York. We lost one mounted warrior in the war, and gained nothing. After several years, we ended the stalemate war.

However, his ancestors looked with greedy eyes upon the budding French empire, to the south in Africa. While we had sent a small portion of our army to America, about a dozen units were still in Africa. We based them strategically through French territory, and attacked. Within 30 years, all of France, save for Orleans and Paris, was ashes in the wind. We controlled Orleans for its diamonds and iron, and Paris to razz the French. Despite having razed all French cities, they still persisted. Preliminary celebrations had turned out to be a big mistake. The town of Kiohero spotted French warriors very close. And the Iroquois, in their vast pride, had not trained defensive units.

 

[Smiley]

Kiohero was taken by France. A detatchment of Mounted Warriors was sent to retake the city, and was successful. Shortly after, a cease fire was negotiated, and a final peace treaty was inked in French Indochina.

Meanwhile, Smiley the Dope -- a spectacular fool -- was elected to the Senate on name-recognition. He noticed that there was a giant array of forces he could use to launch an attack upon Germany, our longtime friends. He sent a messenger to Chancellor Bismarck noting his withdrawal from an ancient Rights of Passage treaty. The Mounted Warriors were already in place around the kingdom, and were instructed to attack ten minutes after the messenger had passed. By the time the message had reached Bismarck, several cities had already been razed, their names forever lost to history. Bismarck was forced to rush to far-north Europe, where Iroquois development was starting to kick into high gear. Upon reflection, this author thinks that Smiley the Dope was just pretending.

After a series of conflicts, we finally annexed north Germany, and Smiley the Warmonger set his sights on final consolidation on the continent. Once again, our Mounted Warriors rode, this time to annex French Indochina. The 'annexation' was quickly won, and the soldiers marched north, for America.

Strangely enough, Lincoln only had two cities constructed by 1000 AD or so. In any case, America was soon conquered, and Eurasica -- Europe, Asia, and Africa -- were under Iroquois control. Soon, we began to look across the ocean.

 

[das]

Nice story!