Id say the country east of them is more purple. If 13thRonin was playing them id be a lot less worried for my nation this turn.
The purple caucasus nation is Saganu, and it's definitely NPC.
No, it's Luckymoose's.
Then it is NPC.I just haven't sent proper orders for it...ever.
Two directions, really.![]()
On a total side note, there's been a lack of any Romanesque centralizing influence across Europe and the Mediterranean, since Tartessos at its greatest extent only included Iberia, southern Gaul, Italy and North Africa up to Carthage. As Late Antiquity draws to a close, no 'Classical' power has really penetrated that far into the Continent.
Not to mention that Panda made the culture of Tartessos non-Roman anyway; it's (ahistorically) "Celtic". Only the institutions match Rome.
Decloak: Considering "Northern Europe" immediately fell into the Dark Ages after the collapse of Rome or was never built up to begin with I don't see why there would be any lag, nor any lack of a European consciousness, which only came about around the Renaissance anyway--Latinization only explains so much of that process when it only accounts for about half the continent, never getting a foothold in Scandinavia, Germany, so on, and mutated into all the Romance languages after Rome's fall anyway.It'll be interesting to see the results of this as time goes on, but culturally, we probably won't see a formation of a united European consciousness, and the pace of technology (along with infrastructure and accordingly centralization) could conceivably go much slower in Northern Europe. The lack of Latin, Roman roads, and the Catholic Church will also be important.
It seems like there's going to be a little religious stagnation soon, too.