The History of the World VII . . . .

[deity]

The Tong-I talked long and hard about the mysteries of the Ko; twixt killing Axe-barbarics in the far away lands of the Celts and Kushrena.

Some say the river flowed in both directions and contained mysterious ice eddies that devoured animals. Others say that the furry creatures did disappear up snake holes to avoid capture, as thery were a great delicacy and did make the people very happy.

Oh for a furry critter right now, as they tucked into horse meat provided by the Celts.

[deity]

Originally posted by CyberShy
Arjuna the Archer, famous all over the world

"Dear leader, I've been told that our hero, Arjuna the Archer, is famous all over the world!".
Manjaro stood before Manu, chief of the Indians.
"How do you know that?" Manu asked.
"I've seen a statue of Arjuna being erected in one of the Celtic villages far from Marble City!"
"How do you know it's him?"
"Because it's exactly the same statue as our Arjanu statue in Marble City"

Manu smiled happily. "Our hero's are known in far away, I'm proud to be the leader of our people"

Tan-gun smiled to himself as well.

"I wonder how Arjuna compares to our Tong-I?"

"Send word to these people (we have not yet met) that we challenge Arjuna or his progeny to a duel! [Does he still live?]

I, Tan-gun of the Choson, declare a fight whereby one of our Tong-I is matched to Arjuna on neutral unfortified terrain. They shall have choice of attack or defence.

Given this choice it will be no shame for either side to lose but I crave contact with far away lands and all known kingdoms and empires may witness this spectacle and enjoy a huge influx of vistors."

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"Who will stage this event?"

[deity]

"Send word far and wide and try to contact the Captain of the galley to make for a southerly region where it is believed the legendary Arjuna resides..."

[Robert]

To: Tan-gun of Korea
From: Samudra-Gupta, Prophet of Krishna, Leader of the Indians

Greetings from the south,

I've received your challenge to dare Arjuna in a fight with one of your brave warriors. We have laughed out loud because of your ignorance! Arjuna has passed away thousands of years ago after a heroic battle against many barbarians. We laughed because you challenged one of our ancient long gone mytical hero's! I'm glad to hear that his pride still spreads to other lands and others fear him like he is still alive!

We laughed but do understand that you know little about our civilization and can therefor not be blamed for such stupidity. Our laugh is not an insult to you but only a natural reaction for which we are sorry. We do look forward to meet you and start trade negotiations.

In the meanwhile you may want to read the great story of Arjuna the Archer. (http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...25#post4584125)

there are many more stories to be found about the Indians. About Manu and the god-fish, the calling of Arjuna, and many others.

With due respect and a smile on my face I greet you!

Samudra-Gupta

[OmnipotentTrout]

Brennus revolutionizes Celtic metal industry

With the blessings from the mighty Arabs, the Celts sent settlers to the north where they created a mining village for Copper. One drawback was all the elephant heards nearby creating some manual (manure) work...



Even so, the poeple rejoiced at the copper, and soon Celtic Axemen were fighting off the barbarians with the help of the now World famous Choson Archers kindly gifted to the noble cause.

Relations also improved through the fight against the barbarians when the Kushrena of the northern coast agreed to a borderline. The Celts got to keep their copper mines in exchange for the northern woods of the far north-east (this was after establishing which direction east really was (ooc: haha, CT ) ).

The Celts establishes a stabile tribal kingdom through Iron and stabile borders

When the Kushrena were appeased and the Arabs and good friends Choson also were happy with the Celts and their Two-River Valley, Berennus found extra time to create an innovation in tribal protection: Gallic Swordsmen could now be produced and run the Celtic Hill-lines from Dun to Dun.

Soon the Celtic people will be safe from any alien aggression inside their valley protected by the Gallic warbands and Duns!

[OzzyKP]

Tomb of the Patriarchs & Death of King Yarob

As the great King Yarob approached the later half of his life he decided to build a great temple around the caves that for centuries had held the tombs of the great patriarchs. Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, Yaqub & Nebaioth were all buried there with their wives. Long a holy site for followers of Judaism, King Yarob began construction of a great temple to house the caves. He also made plans to be buried there himself when he died.

Construction of the mighty temple and tomb took many years. Thankfully stone was nearby in the great quarry of Mecca, this huried the construction greatly. Even so it was quite an engineering feat, and the whole world paid the Tomb of the Patriarchs praise when it was finished.

Sadly King Yarob would never see the great project completed. It was finished 3 years after his death. His funeral and celebration of his life lasted for those 3 full years. Emissaries from far away lands bore wishes of respect and sorrow at the news of his passing.

The great King Yarob's name will go down in history as one of the greatest rulers the people if Israel & Ishmael had ever seen. The great King Yarob built the King's Highway connecting the Kushrena in the north, and Bulgarians in the south. He led his people during the miraculous victory over the Romans, reunited the tribes of Abraham, expanded the lands of the chosen people 5 fold, and began construction of the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

Indeed King Yarob was so honored, his people were henceforth known as "Arabs" in his memory.

[OzzyKP]

The Story of Dawud & Jalut

After King Yarob's death, his son Nahor took the throne of the Arabs. Nahor did not follow in his father's footsteps, he was not obedient to God and often disobeyed his commandments. Because of this he fell from God's favor.

God sent barbarian tribes to attack Arabia to punish Nahor. During one such battle, the barbarian Philistines confront King Nahor's army, and send out their champion, the giant Jalut (Goliath) to decide the battle with one-on-one combat with the Arabian champion.

King Nahor and all the men of Arabia were terrified. They had never seen a man as large and fearsome as Jalut. For many days, no one stepped forward, each afraid to face the giant warrior. Finally, a lowly shepherd, with whom God was pleased, stepped forward.

Dawud (David) said to Nahor, "Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him."

Nahor replied, "You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a boy, and he has been a fighting man from his youth."

But Dawud said to Nahor, "Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine."

Nahor said to Dawud, "Go, and the Lord be with you."

Then Dawud took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd's bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.

Dawud said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands."

As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, Dawud ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.

So Dawud triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.

[OzzyKP]

The story of Dawud's great feat of defeating the Giant, Jalut, spreads quickly through Arabia. As the victor of the battle, King Nahor allowed Dawud to marry his daughter. However Dawud became a hero to the people of Arabia, and soon King Nahor became jealous. He sent men to kill Dawud, but enamored with the boy hero they killed King Nahor instead. Dawud then inherited the throne of Arabia. Ruling over Mecca and Jerusalem and the many lands of the Arabs.

During King Dawud's reign, the faith of the Arabs continued to spread through the world. The Celts to the east, and Romans to the west converted to Judaism. The Romans no doubt so impressed with the intervention of God in the defeat of Cumae. The religion spread further through Arabian, Kushrena, English & Bulgarian lands as well. Judaism remained the world's most prolific faith. The great deeds of God's chosen people attracting many to the faith.

Despite the glory of Dawud's reign and the further expansion of Judaism, all was not right in the kingdom of the Arabs. The Arabian kingdom in the east, the nation of Sheba, abandoned their historic faith in the God of Abraham. The people fell into paganism and idolitry. The people of Sheba worshiped the Sun.

Aided by a skilled engineer from Mecca, the people of Sheba built a grand temple to worship the Sun God. This temple, the Parthenon, was built on a hill overlooking the city. It was a magnificent building, filled with beautiful sculptures and frescos. However its construction earned the animosity of King Dawud and of the high priests in Jerusalem.

While the great monuments in Mecca - the Kaa'ba and the Tomb of the Patriarchs - were grand and beautiful, some felt that the pagan Parthenon had upstaged the Jewish monuments. There was much concern among the Arabian religious & state authorities. It was decided that extra effort would be made to train and hire exceptional people in their society so as to create works of beauty, power and spiritual magnificence to outdo the pagan temple in the east.

[Rykoffe]

Soon After the Flight from Utica

The young girl was crying as she held her mother's hand.

The huddled evacuees marched westward into the forsaken desert, forced to flee from their homes as the savages pillaged and plundered the jewel of Carthage: Utica.

"What will become of us, Mother?" the child asked.

Unsure of her own future, the woman shook her head, causing her heirloom of Utica to sway from side to side. "We will have to hope that Carthage has heard word of this massacre, and will be able to support its people."

A grizzled man turned to look over his shoulder at the encouraging mother. "And if they cannot?"

She looked the stranger squarely in the eye, proclaiming, "Then we shall all become as bleached bones in the sand. But as that has yet to happen, we must still draw hope with each breath." Her daughter started sobbing more loudly before the determined woman stopped and looked at the sniffling child. "Show them no fear, these savages thrive on such woe. Wear a heart of stone and sink them with it."

[deity]

Originally posted by CyberShy
To: Tan-gun of the Choson
From: Samudra-Gupta, Prophet of Krishna, Leader of the Indians

Greetings from the south,

I've received your challenge to dare Arjuna in a fight with one of your brave warriors. We have laughed out loud because of your ignorance! Arjuna has passed away thousands of years ago after a heroic battle against many barbarians. We laughed because you challenged one of our ancient long gone mytical hero's! I'm glad to hear that his pride still spreads to other lands and others fear him like he is still alive!

We laughed but do understand that you know little about our civilization and can therefor not be blamed for such stupidity. Our laugh is not an insult to you but only a natural reaction for which we are sorry. We do look forward to meet you and start trade negotiations.

With due respect and a smile on my face I greet you!

Samudra-Gupta

To: Samudra-Gupta, Prophet of Krishna, Leader of the Indians
From: Tan-gun of the Choson

Greetings to the great prophet of the Arjuna archers.

Do not laugh so loud kind sire. We did propose a challenge for sport and we did wonder if Arjuna OR his progeny were alive to participate in such an event.

It seems you are not interested in this sporting challenge but we welcome your warm, if not slightly hurtful, words, all the same.

I, Tan-gun, do live for thousands of years so please forgive my innocence in this matter:

"Tangun ascended to the throne in 2333BC, built the walled city of P'yongyang, and called the kingdom 'Choson'.
1,500 years later, Tangun moved his capital to Jangdangyeong.
Finally, he returned to Asadal and became a mountain god at the age of 1,908."

Your literary advise has provided the Choson with many fair stories that will be told to our Tong-I , particularly those in battle in the North.

I can tell you a secret. The Choson have a galley that seems to be proving that we all live on one huge island mass! This galley is far to the West and has recently traded borders and gifted technologies to the Chinese. Do you know of them. They seemed a little abrupt to my Captain, initially not wanting to do business with us. We may have had to declare war on them, purely as a technicality to allow our galley passage to the south - where we believe the Arjuna peoples do live.

We expect to be able to know the entire coastline map of this known world.

May my galley's Captain expect hospitality in your realm?

Thank you,

King Tan-gun

[OzzyKP]

King Dawud was a wise and righteous ruler. The people loved him and he made the nation prosper. But Arabia was growing - growing greatly. By many accounts it was the largest nation on the planet. With many people, many cities, and many tribes it was difficult to govern effectively from Mecca. Even for the great King Dawud.

Dawud went to the Tomb of the Patriarchs and prayed to God for many days. He sought wisdom from God and from his ancestors to better his people - God's people.

On the seventh day of prayer, God spoke to him, "Gather the tribes of Ishmael and the tribes of Israel to Mecca. All tribes are holy and all tribes are equal in the eyes of God."

God was brief, but Dawud was obedient. He gathered all the tribes from all the corners of Arabia to Mecca. Men from all cities of the kingdom made a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, many to view the Kaa'ba, they also attempted to meet with King Dawud to discuss affairs of state. It was a chaotic sight. Tens of thousands of people flooding the streets of Mecca, King Dawud couldn't begin to meet with them all.

Then King Dawud reflected, "The Lord said all tribes were equal... not that all of their people were equal. What if I just met with one man from each tribe?"

So it was from thenceforth, one man from each of the tribes of Israel & one each of the tribes of Ishmael would gather in Mecca to decide matters of state alongside the King. If the gathered men reached a disagreement, a vote was taken - with the majority decision carried out.

The tradition though of that first day when all the men from all the tribes traveled to Mecca continued through future generations. In memory of that day, and in honor of God's commandment to gather the tribes, worshipers of the true God would make pilgramages to Mecca to pray at the Kaa'ba and pray at the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

[KunojiLym]

Prince Yijiu became King Ping of Zhou in a climate of uncertainty and fear. The Romans, not satisfied with razing Jiankang, stationed their fearsome infantry atop the hills overlooking Ji and Pun Yue. The dukes of Yan and Zhao, naturally, would not stand for it, and they appealed to the dukes of Qin and Wei for aid. For the next 70 years, bronze axemen were constantly on the march, and the first Chinese archers garrisoned themselves in the state capitals. In this period, the small state of Qi overran Luoyang, nominal capital of the Zhou, and broke the back of the power of the state of Wei. Qi eventually established their capital at Yin. Meanwhile, a coup d'etate was staged in the city of Pun Yue, and the state of Zhao fell, to be replaced by the new state of Chu. There were myriad other small states, but they were to be gradually absorbed by the infighting.

Out of this conflict, the first hegemon emerged. Duke Huan of Qi, from his power base at Yin, created a large standing army, and then sent the army into battle against the Roman barbarians. His lifting of the seige of Ji, in particular, was received with much gratitude by the state of Yan. In the meantime, King Ping made constant efforts to appeal to the more distant civilized tribes to take a stance against the barbaric incursion; to little effect, for the King was by now no more than a figurehead. The real power lay with Duke Huan, and thus with Qi. This was not to remain a permanent state of affairs, however.

[OmnipotentTrout]

Religious tension in the Celtic two rivers

With Brennus forming his Gallic tribe of warriors, still worshiping the god of war Toutatis, some of the Celtic western tribes had heard the call of the great King Dawud.



This call had romours of beeing divine, and some Celtic farmers and miners left for Mecca as pilgrims.

This reached the ears of Brennus, and he was sadned by the ensuing divide amongst his people. West vs. east, metal industry vs. traditional animal husbandry, God vs. Gods...

The new elite of the Gaul tribe saw the western Celts as waek and disrespectful of the Gods, Toutatis god of war, Abnoba godess of the hunt! Brennus could not ignore the new Gaulish captains and neither the rich jewish mine mogouls of the western Celts.

What would the outcome be?

[OmnipotentTrout]

Jewish belifs arrive at Celtic capital

But new Dun to the south becomes the Gaul's new HQ.



Brennus bans the worship of Teutatis in Celtic capital, Gauls infuriated. This was not helped when Jewish soldiers from the north and the capital went to help their jewish brethren in Romefeller (Kushrena) to fend of barbarians. Gaulish warriors siezes the opurtunity to influence northern cities to the "right" faith, while loyal jewish soldiers are away on mission.



The Celts ask the Kushrena to consider the peace offer of the Arabs, so that Celtic jewish soldiers won't have to spill a drop of the defenders of Mecca.

[OzzyKP]

SIXTH SESSION 360 BC

India(Gandhi) - AI
Egypt(Ramses) - Glohithia
Vikings(Ragnar Lodbrok) - LzPrst
China(Qin Shi Huang) - KunojiLym
Choson(Wang Kong) - Deity
Inca(Huayna Capac) - Dangime
Kushren(Napoleon Boneparte) - Colonel_Treize
England(Victoria) - AI
Celts(Brennus) - Omnipotent Trout
Arabs(Saladin) - OzzyKP
Carthage(Hannibal) - Rykoffe
Rome(Julius Ceasar) - AI
Bulgaria(Cyrus II) - Toni


Session 6 Number of Cities (since session 4)

Choson - 7 (+1)
Bulgaria - 7 (+1)
China - 6 (+1)
Egypt - 6 (+2)
Inca - 6
Celts - 5
Arabs - 5
Vikings - 4
Kushren - 4
England - 4
Carthage - 3
Rome - 3
India - 3