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^In the year %STRING1, Ch'in Shih Huang-ti united the fractured Chinese nation, drove out invaders
^from the North, and overthrew the ineffectual and complacent Chou Dynasty, forming the Chinese
^Empire, under his new Ch'in Dynasty, which he declared would begin 10,000 years of prosperity in
^the Middle Kingdom (so called as he believed China stood between Earth and Heaven). This is where
^our scenario begins. You may play the Chinese, the largest and most advanced civilization, or try
^something more challenging by playing another nation in East Asia and the Pacific at the time.
^There are the Japanese, united by the Yamato Clan (the later Imperial Family) after years of clan
^warfare, and now a strict military state, but still reasonably advanced. The Khmer, in Southeast
^Asia, are quite advanced and know much of building structures. The Indians are currently organizing
^into their caste-based, Hindu society in the country's North, though much of Southern India remains
^unsettled and wild. Even more challenging are the Australian Aborigines, Polynesians, and Indonesians,
^all of whom are very primitive and separated from each other and the mainland by sea, though the
^Polynesians have the easiest time seafaring. Each civilization has unique units in infantry and
^cavalry, and the Polynesians have a unique ship while the Japanese can gain the ninja assassin and
^spy. The scenario ends in %STRING2, when Temujin unites the Mongol hordes and ravages much of Asia.

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