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"Time after time I open my eyes, I smell those smells, I see those sites. Of all the worlds I have seen, they all are different and yet oddly familiar. The grasslands and deserts, jungles and forests, rivers and oceans are all still there, but always they are in new places."
"The beginning is always the same, one city, the epicenter of my future kingdom is formed by nomads that no longer wish to wander. I would like to say that this is where I matter the most, but it is not, for things in this period are almost pre-determined. Expand. That is the one thing in my early conciousness. And so it came to pass, on this new world, that my new nation stretched 3 full city lengths long."
"To the north we found a strange empire, the Aztecs, our first contact with them came in the form of a strange man, wearing a silly little hat. He called himself a Jaguar Warrior I think, but that was so long ago."
"To the southwest our spearmen came in contact with "The Mongols", I don't remember much about them, aside from the ruins of their towns."
"Yes, they were our first prey. It's hard for me to recall why we choose them. Perhaps it was our meager knowledge of the world beyond the Aztec boarders, or maybe it was just their foolish trek, with a warrior and a settler, to make a city beyond our borders, using our roads to travel there. Either way, three of our five cities began to churn out Swordsmen and Cavalry."
"The war started in 1550 BC, with the mongol founding of Kazan. Our troops moved swiftly, battering themselves savagely against the light defenses on the capital city of Karakorum. It fell in 1525 with no casualties, well, to my troops. Kazan was destroyed a full 150 years after the fall of their capital. The long war was brought to a "swift" end with the fall of "Ta-tu" to our brave swordsmen in 1325 BC."
"So ended the first "war", and my nation was on top. Yes, we were ontop once, don't give me that look."
"I allowed myself to grow quietly, I traded my horses and my wines and my furs with the Silly Hats, and yet I never got the one thing I wanted the most. I wanted a silly hat for myself. But my foreign advisor told me 'No, great queen, they will be horribly offended by such a request.' Hrmph. What does that fool know about the way of the world? I thought."
"Yes! That is what started the second war. A silly hat, I wanted it, I asked and they told me I was foolish, and if I was not careful of my 'demands' they would silence *MY* empire. The next year, 975 BC, we met Carthage and 100 years later our war with the Silly Hats had begun."
"First our swordsmen moved up to the city of Teotihuacan and captured it. No silly hats there, so disappointing. Next our troops massed on the boarders of Tenochtitlan, their capital, moved in and took that city. I had my silly hat now, but the foolish Aztecs refused to submit. Needless to say our cities stood on the ruins of their cities within 300 years."
"We were on top of the world, so said my advisors. On the crescent shaped continent my nation stretched from the southernmost desert to the boarder of Hippo and Leptis Minor, where my last enemy seemingly slept. So that is the history of my nation."
"No no, I will not tell you of the troubles."
"Fine, I will let you know, if only you promise to come back tomorrow."
"All our wars had drained our treasury and I had cut off science funding to keep the troops flowing into the feild. I recognize the trouble this caused, but not soon enough. Mighty Egypt was now a stagnant nation, and the then lowly Carthage had yet to see its own 'Golden Age'."
"The beginning is always the same, one city, the epicenter of my future kingdom is formed by nomads that no longer wish to wander. I would like to say that this is where I matter the most, but it is not, for things in this period are almost pre-determined. Expand. That is the one thing in my early conciousness. And so it came to pass, on this new world, that my new nation stretched 3 full city lengths long."
"To the north we found a strange empire, the Aztecs, our first contact with them came in the form of a strange man, wearing a silly little hat. He called himself a Jaguar Warrior I think, but that was so long ago."
"To the southwest our spearmen came in contact with "The Mongols", I don't remember much about them, aside from the ruins of their towns."
"Yes, they were our first prey. It's hard for me to recall why we choose them. Perhaps it was our meager knowledge of the world beyond the Aztec boarders, or maybe it was just their foolish trek, with a warrior and a settler, to make a city beyond our borders, using our roads to travel there. Either way, three of our five cities began to churn out Swordsmen and Cavalry."
"The war started in 1550 BC, with the mongol founding of Kazan. Our troops moved swiftly, battering themselves savagely against the light defenses on the capital city of Karakorum. It fell in 1525 with no casualties, well, to my troops. Kazan was destroyed a full 150 years after the fall of their capital. The long war was brought to a "swift" end with the fall of "Ta-tu" to our brave swordsmen in 1325 BC."
"So ended the first "war", and my nation was on top. Yes, we were ontop once, don't give me that look."
"I allowed myself to grow quietly, I traded my horses and my wines and my furs with the Silly Hats, and yet I never got the one thing I wanted the most. I wanted a silly hat for myself. But my foreign advisor told me 'No, great queen, they will be horribly offended by such a request.' Hrmph. What does that fool know about the way of the world? I thought."
"Yes! That is what started the second war. A silly hat, I wanted it, I asked and they told me I was foolish, and if I was not careful of my 'demands' they would silence *MY* empire. The next year, 975 BC, we met Carthage and 100 years later our war with the Silly Hats had begun."
"First our swordsmen moved up to the city of Teotihuacan and captured it. No silly hats there, so disappointing. Next our troops massed on the boarders of Tenochtitlan, their capital, moved in and took that city. I had my silly hat now, but the foolish Aztecs refused to submit. Needless to say our cities stood on the ruins of their cities within 300 years."
"We were on top of the world, so said my advisors. On the crescent shaped continent my nation stretched from the southernmost desert to the boarder of Hippo and Leptis Minor, where my last enemy seemingly slept. So that is the history of my nation."
"No no, I will not tell you of the troubles."
"Fine, I will let you know, if only you promise to come back tomorrow."
"All our wars had drained our treasury and I had cut off science funding to keep the troops flowing into the feild. I recognize the trouble this caused, but not soon enough. Mighty Egypt was now a stagnant nation, and the then lowly Carthage had yet to see its own 'Golden Age'."
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