History of the World 4.0

[Rasputin]

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The people were rioting across the length and breadth of the nation of desert people . Sides has been formed and arms were being taken up. Spears and swords appeared everywhere and household turned on household.

This crazy situation continued for over 18 months as tales spread of the death of King Tut.....


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The GREAT RAZ looked down and once again decided to visit his chosen one ..... Yes thought the great raz, time for action

[Rasputin]

and so no word was ever recieved back from the foreign realms whence King Tut travelled. And so the Generals and the other high ranking officials took over control of the government and the army immediatly placed THE MAN in charge.....

Lack of word from afar had now turned history on its arse and things were gonig to get nasty !!!!!!!!

[OzzyKP]

The time passed and the young King Arthur grew into a powerful and respected monarch. Britan grew in peace and prosperity. Immigration from foreign lands increased, everyone flocked to be a part of the growing British kingdom.

This map shows the different waves of immigration:

[OzzyKP]

The English homeland became the most diverse place on earth, Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Britons, Picts, Irish, Celts, Welsh, Gauls, Swedes, and many more came to settle there. Anchored by the large cities of London in the south and Edinburgh in northern Pictland, the island became populous and splintered.

[OzzyKP]

Seeking to unite and unify the diverse people under his command, King Arthur invited the greatest knights from Pictland and Ireland to sit with him as equals at his table. Seeking to unite all corners of the British Isles King Arthur built the Triangular Table, with Sir Galahad from Dublin, Sir Lancelot from Edinburgh, and King Arthur from London.

[OzzyKP]

Time passed, and the new immigrants to Britan became integrated with the population. A new cosmopolitan British population emerged. So much so that the nation was no longer called "England" but rather "Great Briton."

Great Briton was made greater still by the lands beyond its shores that all proclaimed loyalty to Arthur. Assembled and conquered long ago by the legendary King Beowulf, Arthur consolidated his holdings in Europe.

Seeing however that his great Triangular Table was inclusive only for the British Isles, and as he ruled over a much larger kingdom than that, including France, Austria, Spain, Norway and many other places, a new arrangement must be found. A square table was attempted, then a pentagonal, then hexagonal and finally Merlin suggested Arthur build a grand Round Table and seat his knights around that.

This is how the famous Round Table was born.

[Rasputin]

Great Raz Temple

Built into the side of a hill about 100 miles outside the Thebes was found the great temple of Raz. Here worshippers came from afar to lay down there sacrifices for the year. Here the temple priests did pray to the Great Raz for guidance and that he would contiue to annoint his people .

[Frank Johnson]

China grew to be a vast country, and although the people were of common heritage, they were spread over such a large area that their language had developed many local dialects. There was some difficulty administrating such large areas when members of the ruling class could not communicate with each other.

Over the years, once China had been united by military force, the ruler of China's first dynasty created a set of characters to be reconized for chinese written language. All other books were burned and scholars who refused to cooperate were killed. Over the years the written characters evolved and future rulers of the Dynasty cultivated with the creation of a great library located in the palace complex at Beijing. While China today still possess many unique dialects in various regions containing up to 16 different tones and inflections on spoken words, China had been unified under a single written language that allowed for the administration of the vast empire, and tireless record keeping of histories, religous texts, and knowledge of all sorts from China and those brought from foreign lands.

[Rasputin]

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The Great Raz has a dream and pictures the Following

[Berzerker]

Word has come from the western frontier of a dispute involving terrain claimed by the Egyptians and our beloved city of Karachi.
The Egyptians say our city was built on their land. Inside sources say King Tut of the Egyptians begged Berzerker the Explorer for return of the land lest he appear weak and feeble before his countrymen.

Berzerker has agreed to cede Karachi only if King Tut's
would-be successor known as "The Man" step down and cease his attempt at usurpation of the rightful king's place at the head of the Epyptian people.

King Tut is our friend! "The Man" is a warmonger who cannot wait for the King to complete his peaceful endeavor to seek return of lands developed by neighbors, nay, The Man has no interest in waiting!

If there is a regime change in Egypt with this "man" taking control, we welcome Tut to live in our lands and Karachi will only be given over to the Egyptians for $75. If Tut is returned to his legitimate place in Egyptian society, Karachi will become Egyptian and our border with Egypt will move eastward to southern Iran, but India will retain control of the spawning grounds of the Persian Gulf sea bass - a staple of our people in the region...

We await word from "the man"...

[OzzyKP]

"Arthur, Sir Galahad has sent his report in from Egypt, things are looking tense down there."
"What is the matter, Merlin?"
"The nation could be heading towards civil war. King Tut has left Thebes on a diplomatic mission to his neighbors requesting they turn over the mideast territory they ceased. In his absense one of his generals, known only as "The Man" has taken control of the country."
"This does not sound good, King Tut was a good man. What do we know about this "the man" character?"
"Not much, not even his real name. He seems to be very popular with the Egyptian military and has staged his coup on the prospects of warring with the Serbs, Tartars and Indians to reclaim that lost territory. He seems to be quite the warmonger."
"What a fool, Egypt could not survive a war against those three powerful nations. The Man seeks the impossible. We must do what we can to ensure King Tut's diplomatic mission succeeds. If he returns to his lands securing concessions from the other three The Man will have no ground to stand on and his coup will be soundly defeated. Otherwise, our friend could be destroyed."
"I will dispatch messages to the Indians, Tartars, and our friends the Serbs to request the cede territory to the Egyptians to avoid war. It serves our interest to have stability in the region."
"Very good, Merlin. Just in case this Egyptian general retains power, we must be able to work with him, so send a message welcoming him to power, and pledging diplomatic support for his future actions. Send a similar message to King Tut."
"Already done your highness."
"Excellent Merlin, I'd be lost without you. Carry on."

[Ljube]

The sons of Stefan the First Crowned

This period was the single worst in the history of Serbs for the sons of great king proved to be nothing like their father. Upon the death of king Stefan the First Crowned his eldest son Stefan Radoslav succeeded to the throne and was crowned in Ras by his uncle Archbishop Sava in a ceremony unparalleled to any other event in the Serb history. It soon became crystal clear Stefan Radoslav was only a big spender and the luxuries he indulged himself in strained the overstretched Serb resources to the limit. It was at that time that the eastern Serb neighbour, the evil evil evil Tartars began their campaign of Lebensraum expansion and started to threaten the easternmost Serb settlement even though the Serbs had never threatened the Tartars and had done nothing that could possibly have provoked them. In fact, Tartars and Serbs had been allies ever since Stefan Nemanja subjugated the rebellious Russian tribes.
The gathering storm in the east meant nothing to worthless Radoslav. In fact he decided to secure his already shaken throne with the help from abroad. He married the daughter of Egyptian pharaoh Trev, the beautiful but evil Nefertiti. She put a spell on Radoslav and assumed all powers for herself. She appointed generals and governors. Men stood in fear in front of her. Egyptian became the official language on the Serbian court and idol worshipping crept in. The statues of false Gods MING and RAH appeared in the churches all of the sudden and new temples were erected all over Serbia. This blasphemy became unbearable and Archbishop Sava forged a deal with Stefan Vladislav, the second son of late Stefan the First Crowned.

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Uncle, this is a terrible thing. Have you heard what happened? – cried Vladislav.

I haven’t heard the latest news. I was praying for three days to almighty God to deliver us from this trial. To help us find the way. To spare our souls. – replied Sava.

The witch has ordered that the monastery of Kotor has to be turned to the temple of MING and the monks who disobeyed her order to leave were killed!

(Archbishop Sava stood motionless. He didn’t show any reaction to the terrible news)

Uncle, did you hear what I just told you? Are you all right? – asked Vladislav.

(The Archbishop looked like he had just snapped out of a dream)

Praised is our Lord Jesus, for he appeared to me in a vision and showed me the way. – said Sava.

Ah, Holy uncle! Please tell to my unworthy person the Godly plan our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ conveyed to you.

But of course my child, for the plan of our Lord involves you too.

How can an insignificant bug like me be included in such a heavenly scheme?

God has big plans for you. Jesus told me you would be king one day.

But how can this be possible? My brother Radoslav is king and he has a male child who will be king after him.

About Radoslav, I don’t think you should worry. As for his child, it was conceived with a whore and is therefore a bastard and can’t succeed to the throne. But before we move to depose Radolsav for his heresy, you must marry the Tartar princess because we need help in the event of Egyptian intervention. I have already arranged your marriage to be performed in the city of Subotica where Nefertiti doesn’t have her agents and we shall set our plan in motion shortly afterwards. I have the support of the majority of our nobles for your ascension to the throne of Serbia – explained Archbishop Sava everything to Vladislav.

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Soon Stefan Vladislav secretly married Tartar princess Nyamsuren, daughter of Tartar king Sub and received Tartar assurances of help in the event of Egyptian intervention, when he learned that Pharaoh Trev was assassinated by Azande spies in Egyptian capital Thebes. The death of Pharaoh Trev and the subsequent withdrawal of Egyptian forces from Serbian capital made the position of Stefan Radoslav hopeless and facing a strong opposition of nobles, he abdicated in favour of his brother Stefan Vladislav. Nefertiti was arrested, tried by the church, convicted of witchcraft and burnt at the stake. Archbishop Sava presided the council of holy judges that convicted Nefertiti. The temples and statues of MING and RAH were immediately destroyed by the mob celebrating the fall of tyrants.

Stefan Vladislav turned out to be equally susceptible to female influence. Queen Nyamsuren convinced Vladislav to allow the Tartars to settle on Krim (Crimea). Vladislav’s leniency towards Tartars made him many enemies, among others his younger brother Stefan Uros, Count of Kotor Nikola Masera, Duke of south-eastern Serbia Bogdan Jugovic and eventually even Archbishop Sava. Bogdan decided to block the access to Krim to the Tartars expecting they would withdraw if they couldn’t settle there. But assured by Nyamsuren nothing would happen to them, the Tartars decided to settle further north in the valley of Don. When they saw the outrage, the nobles turned against Vladislav and he was promptly deposed and his younger brother was crowned as king Stefan Uros I. Nyamsuren tried to escape to Uppsala, but was recognised at the border disguised as a peasant girl, captured and brought in front of the council of holy judges. She was convicted of heresy and high treason and sentenced to dismemberment.

Enraged by the faith of his daughter, Tartar king sub pressed on with his expansion and started to threaten Serb settlements along Volga.
But what threatened Serbia even more was the heresy of the third son of Stefan the First Crowned.

Stefan Uros I was married to the English princess Ann, daughter of king Arthur of England. English people being illiterate were unable to fully grasp the basic concepts of Christianity such as the Holy Trinity, so they practised a special type of simplified religion. This variant was named Arianism after the English monk Arius who showed clear lack of understanding of the main doctrines of the faith and proclaimed Jesus Christ the Son not consubstantial with God the Father. Stefan Uros was converted to this heresy and started to enforce it in all churches with religious zeal. He tried to replace all Orthodox clerics with Arian lackeys. In fact he started the prosecution of all Orthodox people – nobody was free anymore to profess the true religion. Eventually, he targeted his own uncle, the aged Archbishop Sava, for whom an arrest warrant was issued to appear in front of the council of holy judges now consisting of Arian priests only. But Sava escaped the prosecutors and found refuge in the northern city of Novi Sad. There he met two sons of Stefan Uros I, Stefan Dragutin and Stefan Uros who assembled an army of king’s opponents and were already planning to start a rebellion against the madness of the king. He blessed their holy enterprise and as soon as they departed, Archbishop Sava died at the age of 85.

Soon afterwards Stefan Uros I was forced to abdicate and he left for England with his wife Ann. Stefan Dragutin was crowned new king of Serbia in Ras. Great trials were still in front of him and his brother, for king Sub of Tartars has exploited the internal strife in Serbia for his gain and pushed the borders further west, limiting Serb territory to the smallest in the world. This desperate situations required desperate measures and Dragutin was the right man for the job.

[Ljube]

The reign of Stefan Dragutin

Serbia was in dire straits. Stefan Dragutin knew that regardless of how much troops Serbia might raise, it could never eliminate the threat of the evil Tartrars and their raving leader king Sub on its own. In other words, to face the Tartar threat Serbia needed allies. Stefan Dragutin approached the task with due seriousness and first made amends to the relations with the English. To accomplish this, he made up with his father and through him he reached wise Merlin, who immediately recognised the delicacy of the current situation in the world. Merlin understood that in English continuous cooperation with their peaceful neighbours and loyal friends the Serbs lay the only hope of English survival. In a meeting between King Arthur and King Stefan Dragutin in Vienna later that year a treaty of eternal friendship was signed and in the years that followed the Anglo-Serb relations reached the peak.

Having secured Serbian western borders, Dragutin turned to the natural ally in the combat against Tartar terrorism – the Egyptians. Led by the new ruler, pharaoh Tut, the Egyptians were gradually, but steadily becoming a powerful nation. Dragutin saw great opportunities in cooperation with the Egyptians, so he married the daughter of pharaoh Tut and made the ties between Egypt and Serbia even closer.

To crush the loathsome Tartars utterly, Dragutin needed an ally powerful enough that could attack them from the rear. He found the Chinese led by Shah GenShwartzCough receptive to his suggestions, so a plan was laid for the division of Tartar Empire. But before he could strike the Tartars, Dragutin knew he had to eliminate Tartar strongholds inside the Serb territory first. So he arranged a meeting with king Sub in which the exchange of land had been arranged. The Serbs received the fortified outpost of Sigtuna and Krim 2, the city Nyamsuren had sponsored in exchange for their city of Subotica.

Back at home, Dragutin’s agreement with king Sub had been perceived as high treason. When viewed separately, the deal had been unfair of course, for it provided the justification for Tartar invasion of Serb territory. But taking into consideration the overall situation, the deal had been the best Serbia could have hoped to achieve. The nobles pressed Dragutin to break the treaty signed with king Sub and attack immediately. But wise Dragutin resisted the pressure and proceeded with his plan to assemble a global alliance for his righteous cause before the actual attack would begin.

In the meantime, Dragutin abolished the treaty between Vukan and Stefan the First Crowned that guaranteed the successors of Vukan the rule in Zeta, confiscated their property and with that money financed the first Serb naval expedition in search of new land. Rumours spread that there was a vast continent beyond the known world, west of England and Dragutin was determined Serbia had to be the first to claim it.