Pax America

[Centauri18]

The next chapter deals with the large-wars of Pre-Industrial Europe - the Crimean War, the Napoleonic Wars, and a second Mongol Invasion. But I've said too much. There's a lot more when Pax America continues!

[unscratchedfoot]

[Centauri18]

Sorry. I've been watching the History Channel all day

[ChrisiusMaximus]

I love wating the history channel myself so I can understand. As long as you dont keep us waiting for too long.

[Centauri18]

Writer's block, man. I'm working on it, but it's hard to condense a century into the maximum amount of words the posts will allow. I mean, the whole world changes.

[Centauri18]

Age of Conquerors

New Washington Junior Hgh School, 2003 A.D.
"What have you got there. Robbie?"
"New Washington Informer. It has an article about the negotiations taking place with China."
"What happened in China?"
"There's been a revolution going on for the last decade. The Communist government has finally been overthrown. Something happened to Mao."
"What happened to Mao??"
"Something's happened to him, that's all. He's more stable now mentally then he's ever been in his life. He seems to regret everything he ever did, pretty much. And that includes backing out of his alliance with Russia when the Mongols ran wild a couple centuries ago."
"Oh, yeah. Mongolia now includes half of Siberia. And didn't Korea break out, too?"
"Broke out of their peninsula, yes. But I guess we'll get to that today."
"Oh. Cool. What are we on?"
"Let's see... 'Age of Conquerors.' Sounds like Napoleon. And possibly Genghis Khan. Maybe even the Arabs."
"What about the Arabs?"
"We'll see. I could be wrong. I know that some countries suddenly did a lot of expanding. Like France getting back at England, and the Mongols getting some elbow room. And don't get me started with the Arabs."
"And America?"
"America had been expanding for four thousand years. But by the year 1776, things had changed around the world. The Catholic Church was going through drastic reforms, and had grown much more tolerant towards Muslims and even Jews, whom they once considered a worse enemy than the Muslims. Which, of course, is insane. But anyway, things were better. The people were wary, but the whole planet was changed as a result of the assassinations within the Vatican."
"Indeed."
"Good morning, Mr. Grant."
"You know your history, Robert."
"I read a lot. I know that things did not change much in the long run. Day-to-day affairs were different, as the new alliances changed the enonomy. The English controlled Normandy, and the Carthaginians had taken a bite out of the Egyptian Empire. It was only a matter of time before the backlash occurred."
"WHat sort of backlash, Robbie?"
"Yes, Robert, what sort of backlash?"
"The Napoleonic Wars."
"Ah, yes. Napoleon Bonaparte. A great French General who had been promoted after his actions against the English at Normandy. His soldiers were the finest in non-NATO Europe. The trained and developed his technique, but Napoleon had one real weakness - he kept too tight a rein on his men. He did not give them room to be creative, to think for themselves. His commanders were like extensions of his own will instead of separate entities. Yes, Napoleon paid closer attention to Machiavelli and Frederick the Great than to American philosophies. He followed Joan of Arc, but he had his own ambitions, and she let him do mostly as he wanted."
BRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG!

Peace reigned throughout the next few centuries. NATO kept the peace in Europe, even as tensions began to mount in Asia.
In France, resentment was beginning to mount, as the English began colonizing formerly French Normandy. And the French were angry.
Attacks were held off becuase for the time being, the British held technological superiority, one of the perks of belonging to NATO.
France just needed a general who knew how to fight.
In 1785, a junior artillery officer, newly emerged from the French Military Academy in Brienne changed everything for the struggling French nation. His name was Napoleon.
In 1789, a revolution took place, as Joan of Arc overturned the French Republic and turned France into a Monarchy with herself as absolute ruler.
The NATO nations took notice. Germany mobilized its troops in 1792.
In Febuary of 1793, war broke out as England and the Celtic Republic declared war on France. Napoleon struck back, leading French forces across Europe, decimating parts of Germany, taking parts of Northern Roma - with Russian backing - and within months Joan of Arc, through Napoleon, controlled Roma, while the European NATO nations banded together against the new French Empire.
Later, at sea, the French met the British at Trafalgar. The French had stolen Ironclad technology, and the two great navies squared off. Even recruiting the aid of a group of Spanish exiles, and Egypt, England came out on top in that battle.
War raged in Europe, and even with naval and technological superiority, the English and their allies were just barely holding off Napoleon and the French. Rome was defeated and absorbed - Caesar had fled to Sicily, and turned the island into a fortress - and Egypt was occupied, its vast resources under French control.
Carthage fought the French forces in Egypt, while the Vikings and Celts fought alongside their old enemies, the Germans. England moved in through Normandy, but couldn't get the French to budge.

And even as the world erupted in war again, America and Iroquois-Canada watched it all without even the slightest idea of what to do.
The two nations were isolated from the conflict and the people considered Napoleon Europe's problem.
The war continued into the nineteenth century. America discovered computers, and built the Internet, accelerating scientific discovery by building linked-up research laboratories all through American territory. The Americans discovered the Modern Armor unit, the predecessor of modern-day tanks. The SETI program came online in Washington, the Hoover Dam was built just outside Las Vegas, and American scientists in New York discovered the secrets of Longevity [I changed it so it only takes Medicine] and the population started to grow much more quickly.
With that came the problem of pollution. The Worker Corps never slept anymore, lining the two continents with railroads and cleaning up pollution.
The cities grew. New York now featured huge buildings of steel and glass. Foreign visitors called them "skyscrapers."
America finally put a man in space as Germany fell to Napoleon and Bismarck fled the country.
As France swept through Italy and long-pacifistic Greece, into the Ottoman Empire, Arabia, and even Babylon, America called a meeting of its allies at the new United Nations building.
The English were being overwhelmed, the Celts were barely holding Napoleon's forces off, the Vikings were being forced to use "human wave" attacks due to their lagging behind in technology, Carthage was doing okay by itself, and Casear was isolated on Sicily with the last of his troops.
Lincoln reluctantly decided to send his generals, who would be known in Europe as the Four Horsemen - Washington, Sherman, Lee, and fresh out of West Point, Ulysses S. Grant.
Large numbers of Modern Armor regiments boarded American transport ships, escorted by American battleships, and headed to France. The Four Armies were going to Europe, and countless more forces were going to fight.
The year was 1812.

The landing at British-held Normandy did not take very long. The English were barely holding on to Normandy, however, and it took every last tank to drive the French back.
The Americans could have run through France and claimed it for themselves, but they came as liberators, not conquerors.
Napoleon was on the verge of sending his forces east to attack Russia when news of the attack came. He turned his armies west to meet the Americans head-on.
In the wake of American advances, the English set up temporary occupation forces with American-made tanks. The French never quite got behind Joan of Arc's leadership, and her hold on them was greatly weakened. The majority of French felt betrayed.
Napoleon held the French Army in an iron fist, however, and he refused to surrender.
NATO forces swept through Paris, and on. Napoleon took his armies through Germany, and they met at a small town called Waterloo.
It was a case of irresistible force and immovable object. Which was which, no one knew. But the American technological superiority was almost canceled out by the sheer numbers of Napoleon's forces.
[OCC: In the real world, it was the Russian campaign that detroyed Napoleon's army, so if he never went to Russia, I figure that he'd be at full strength.]
Eventually the dust cleared. Both sides were worn out. Hundreds of men were dead. Thousands.
But above it all, the Four Generals emerged victorious.
Napoleon Bonaparte was dead.
The war was over.
It had taken a year, but it was over.
In the aftermath, France ceded all of its conquests back to the original residents. Bismarck moved back into Berlin, and Caesar went back to Rome. Borders returned to normal. The French backed out of Arabia, out of Greece, out of Babylon.
France was now a shadow of its former glory, as Joan of Arc was now a mere puppet ruler. England occupied France, and helped to give the people control of their nation again.
Germany expanded into land France had taken from them years ago. The English ruled France justly and fairly.
England was happy with the results of the war, as they had a great deal of control in Europe. France was decimated, and would never regain the power it had during the Napoleonic period.

Fifty years passed before war broke out again, this time between England and Russia. The Ottomans had been under English control, even though they maintained their independence, and Russia could not abide that. The Ottomans controlled the Holy Lands in the Middle East, and Russia wanted that land.
The two nations tried to work it out, England even offering Russia control over recently-subjugated India.
England had left NATO soon after it mobilized its forces - just a few years after the fall of France.
The Crimean War broke out soon after, and England defested Russia with the help of India, Greece, and Egypt. Those nations soon rebelled and broke away from British control.

In the 1860's, the English made moves to conquer India and Egypt.
The Anglo-Celtic War broke out as a result of that - the Celts were mostly worried that after it was finished with Europe and Egypt, they would turn their eyes toward Celtic Ireland.
It was England's darkest hour. Europe had been very tense for a long time, and apparently it had finally come to a head.
Celtic forces from Ireland invaded Scotland, long home to Celtic sympathizers.
Commander William Wallace of the Celtic Army, son of a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, and a hero of the Anglo-Celtic War, was promoted to a General during the course of the invasion. As a General, he marched his division of tanks into London, and laid seige to Buckingham Palace.
England fell, and England's vassal states - India, the Ottomans, Egypt, and parts of Arabia - were now free to pursue their own destiny.
The Celtic Army instituted martial law in England.
France remained under occupation by NATO forces, but the war was over.

By the time that the twentieth century dawned, NATO had moved out of France, and Joan of Arc was back to running things.
Russia, still suffering from humiliation during the Crimean War, was ripe for a change. In the early years of the new century, just when things looked peaceful. Two revolutions broke out at the same time - one in Russia, and one in Egypt.
The Russian revolution utimately failed. The leader of the rebellion, a man named Lenin, fled Russia, as Czarina Catherine mercilessly crushed the rebellion.
Lenin found an equally receptive audience in the most unexpected place on Earth: Egypt.
Cleopatra was starting to lose the absolute control that the once monarchistic government had presented. The new doctrine of Communism appealed to her. The main reason for this was that the current Egyptian Democracy would not allow her to declare war on her old enemy, Carthage.
She fully supported the change in government and became Premier of the Egyptian Socialist Republic. Lenin became her main advisor.
An American political cartoon of the period called Cleopatra 'The Red Queen.'

As for Russia, the revolution was only the beginning, as the nation broke apart in civil war. Catherine could not keep order as anarchy ruled and terror reigned over the land.
Unfortunately for Russia, the whole civil war was being observed, by four nations in particular.
Even more unfortunately for Russia, those nations were Korea, Japan, China...
And Mongolia.
The Russian bear was falling apart, and the Asian nations decided they each wanted a piece.
Genghis Khan, King of Mongolia, led his nation's bid for world power - for the second time in two thousand years.
China started its expansion as Mao Zedong, leader of the Chinese Republic, started the move west.
Korea, long since isolated to its peninsula, made an ambitious move, going after mainland China.
Japan unloaded troops near Vladivostok.
It was every man for himself in the rush to capitalize on the crumbling of the mighty Russian Empire.
Since Russia's base of power in those days was in the Balkan mountain range, the world "Balkanization" is now used to describe the fragmentation of one nation into several smaller, weaker nations. Russia was breaking apart, and not even the people's connection to Czarina Catherine could save the country.
China expanded very far very quickly, but diverted troops to their home front. China's expansion was through the nations immediately north of Asia, even getting as far as the heavily-Muslim province of Azerbaijan. China early reached the edge of Persia by the time they turned their foces homeward to deal with Korea.
India took the opportunity to sweep through the province of Tibet, recently conquered by China. China stopped its expansion to deal with a war against the Indians and the Koreans. The Koreans broke out of the peninsula, and headed north. The Koreans got to take a chunk out of China, Japan took parts of Russia up to the Bering Strait, but it was the Mongols who caused the most damage.
They swept across Siberia like a plague. But unlike last time, they did not take a city, then burn and loot it. They held on to what they took.
Russia was only half of its normal size practically overnight. The Mongols were soon at the edge of the Ural Mountains.
The Russians managed to get their act together and fought off the Mongols in the Urals. The Russo-Mongolian War, they called it. The Mongols called it the Great Expansion. Mongolia went from one of the smallest nations in the world to the second-largest. America owned almost one third of the Earth's surface, and Mongolia owned half of Russia. Japan had taken the large island chain to their north. The Mongols owned everything of Russia from the Urals to the Bering Strait.
The Mongols built new cities, something which the Russians never expected. Genghis Khan had really cleaned up his civilization in the past couple thousand years.
While still a civilization based on militarism and expansionism, the Khan had become a great builder as well as a great conqueror. He built New Karakorum in the Urals, and built the first Mongol Iron Works there.
THe Chinese conquests ended with establishing peace treaties with India and Korea, and then the Chinese made moves to secure their new borders.
So did the Indians and the Koreans. The entire power structure of Asia had changed.
NATO immediately signed alliances with China and Mongolia, recognizing the new power structure.
If anything, Hiawatha was glad to have Russia - Iroquois-Canada's old enemy - contained.
Germany, recovered from Napoleon's occupation, stormed into Russia as well with their new Panzer tanks, built thanks to technology left behind by the French, and resources traded with the Vikings and Celts. Poland fell, and when the Germans got to the edge of Russia, the Russians sued for peace. They gave the Germans control of St. Petersburg (since the Russian Communists never came to power, the city was never renamed Leningrad) and the Germans left it at that.
All of Europe had changed. The English had been wiped out, half of Russia had been conquered, and the only thing that kept other nations from attacking each other was the Americans.
Well, actually, the Americans and the Iroquois. Peacekeeping troops from the newly-built United Nations in New York City stormed into Poland and liberated it from Germany. The Celts were given control over the land, and Germany was forced to disarm.
The Germans were deeply angered at this, and secretly swore revenge.
The global conflict - later called World War II - was over. The entire European landscape had changed, and an uneasy peace reigned over Europe.
It would not last.

"So that's the way it was. English imperialism had been destroyed once and for all, as the Celts, in many ways, enjoyed hegemony over the European continent, now controlling Spain, Poland, and the British Isles - they moved their capital to London - while Russia, formerly the second-largest nation on the planet, was in decline.
"Egypt was now the third-largest nation in the world, controlling everything in Africa not controlled by Carthage. The Arabs and Persians - old rivals - were forced to co-exist, while both nations had only small armies.
"America went back to its own affairs, developing a cure for cancer and working on putting a man on the moon. Iroquois-Canada and America enjoyed prosperity again.
"The uneasy peace made from the Treaty of Warsaw would not last long.
"In less than a generation, the world would be at war again."
"But what about the Arabs?"
"Ah, yes. The Arabs. They steamrolled Babylon just a few years into the new century."
"Why?"
"No one really knows why the Arabs do what they do. All I know is that the Arabs and the Persians now shared a border. That would have serious repercussions later on."
BRRRIIIIINNNNNGGGGG!

Next: Uneasy Peace

[vovan]

Good stuff

[ChrisiusMaximus]

[Centauri18]

Made some modifications, corrected some errors. Next up is World War Three (World War Two in our world) and I'm wondering what to do next. America, by then, is at the peak of Civ 3 technology, but no WAY could it stop there in the real world.
And I still need those maps.

[Barfus]

nice so far....i like ah, check out my webpage if youre intereassted

[Centauri18]

I checked out the web page. I was just wondering if anybody could maybe post a map or something that I could modify or add national borders to or something like that.

[vovan]

So, you need basically a map of the world, which has only the contours of continents, and maybe rivers on it? Everything else - in white. Is that something you are looking for?

I think I have seen a map being used over and over again for nes's. They basically take a map of the world and draw national borders however they like. I can try to find it... You can look for it also. Just head over to the diplomacy forums, and look at the nes's.

[Centauri18]

Well, I just thought it would be helpful for you guys, to know whats going on, since so far the borders have changed a dozen times or so.

[vovan]

Oh, yes, yes, indeed, that would help a lot. I just didn't quite realize up till now what kind of map you wanted...

Any way, a search on the forums, and on the internet turned up several maps that can be useful:

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=1476751

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=1498581

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=1439634

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads2/SNESACW.gif

http://www.mprinces.org/mpimages/map-world.gif

http://www.camstage.com/Graphics/Map-World-011.JPG

http://www.toronsn.com/images/map-world.gif

http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~cdh48120/interface/world%20map.jpg

http://www.worldfootball.org/img/world-map.gif

The ones on the forums already have borders drawn on them, since they are from nes's, so they may take a bit of work to adapt. Some of the maps from other places on the internet might be easier to use. Any way, check out the links above, and see if anything can be of use to you.

[Centauri18]

Thanks a lot, man. I'll have a map up soon. Just wish I could remember the colors.