APPENDIX A: THE HISTORY BEHIND THE LIGHT OF OUR YESTERDAYS:
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“Plinius’s Condensed Study Guide for the Advanced Technologist Exam: History Since the Founding of the First Romanus Empire”
| Year(s) | Region(s) | Development |
649 BH | Roma | Augustus Caesar (Octavian) proclaimed First Emperor of Roma. |
579 BH (823 AUC) | Palestinian Province | Removal of Jews from Jerusalem following defeat of Jewish Zealots at Masada. |
502 BH (888 AUC) | Palestinian Province | Death of the “Messiah” Simon bar Kokeba, the leader of a Jewish insurrection, at the hands of Iulius Severus, general of the Romanus army. Kokeba is the only man ever proclaimed as the Messiah by a prominent rabbi. |
307 BH (1077 AUC) | Romanus Empire | After a series of civil wars, Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus (Magni Constantini) consolidates power in the Romanus Empire. |
303 BH (1081 AUC) | Romanus Empire | Magni Constantini issues Edictum Oroculorum, requiring investigations of all pagan temples with oracles claiming messages from the gods affecting the Romanus Empire. Investigators are permitted to use torture where they deem it appropriate. Paganism wanes in the Romanus Empire, and no other religious movement fills the void. |
301 BH (1083 AUC) | Eastern Romanus Empire | Magni Constantini founds the city of Constantinopli at the small town of Byzantium near the Bosporus leading to the Pontus Euxinus. He makes it the capital of the Eastern half of the Romanus Empire and forbids the construction of any pagan or other religious temples in the new city. |
| 291–90 BH (1093–94 AUC) | Eastern Romanus Empire | Imperial Reforms of Constantinus II. After ending a civil war with his pagan brother, Emperor Constantinus II (son of Magni Constantini) stabilizes the Romanus Empire with a set of “Imperial Reforms” that substantially eliminate the civil wars that had plagued the empire for centuries, preserving Romanus armies for wars with barbarian tribes on the periphery. The reforms include rotation of generals, involvement of Senate in selection of the succeeding emperor, and inclusion of provincial governors and generals in key Senate matters. He also begins to withhold imperial funds from pagan temples throughout the realm. |
253–77 BH (1130–1300 AUC) | Romanus Empire in Europe | Barbarian Tribes Repelled. Remaining strong in the absence of internal strife, the Romanus Empire defeats various barbarian tribes migrating west from the Asian steppes. Forced to fight further among themselves, the barbarian tribes deplete their men and resources. |
77–72 BH (1300–05 AUC) | Romanus Empire | Loss of Gallia to Germanic Union by Romanus Empire. Through mismanagement, Emperor Vergilius loses the region of Gallia in northwestern Europe to a conglomerate of German–speaking barbarian tribes. |
70–38 BH (1307-38 AUC) | Romanus Empire | Balkan Split. Slavs move south through the Romanus Empire into the Balkans, cutting off Constantinopli and Eastern Romanus Empire from Roma. |
57–47 BH (1320-29 AUC) | Romanus Empire | Forced to fight his own battles, Governor Balbinus of Constantinopli defeats Sassanid Persians at Tarsus and declares the Eastern Romanus Empire to be independent of Roma. |
54 BH (1323 AUC) | Arabia | Muhammad is born in Mecca. |
38–5 BH (1338-70 AUC) | Eurasia and North Africa | Union of Eastern Empire and Slavic tribes. Following a resurgence of the Romanus Empire in the Balkans, Balbinus, now Emperor of the newly named Eastern Empire, enters a joint protection agreement with Zdravko, leader of a Slavic army from north of the Pontus Euxinus. The pact permits some settlement of Slavic peoples in various abandoned cities in the eastern Balkans, especially along the eastern shores of the Pontus Euxinus. |
12 BH (1363 AUC) | Arabia | Muhammad is called to be a messenger of Allah by an angel. |
0 AH (1375 AUC) | Arabia | Hijra: migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later named Medina by Muhammad). |
8–23 AH (1384–97 AUC) | Arabia | Muslims conquer the Arabian Peninsula. |
10–124 AH (1385–1495) | Europe | Civil wars in Germanic Union, with Franks and Goths defeating the Huns and fighting with each other for control. |
10 AH (1385 AUC) | Arabia | Muhammad dies. |
17–18 AH (1391–92 AUC) | Palestinian Province | Muslims Blocked in Palestine and Aegypt. Muslims attack the Eastern Empire in the Palestinian Province and in Aegyptian Province. Strengthened by its peace accord with the Slavs, the Eastern Empire succeeds in holding them off to the south and east of the Fertile Crescent and the Sinai Peninsula. |
21–28 AH (1395–1402) | Mesopotamia | Muslims turn attention to the east and defeat Sassanid Persians in Mesopotamia and drive the Sassanids back to central Persia. |
35–41 AH (1409–15 AUC) | Arabia | First Muslim Split. Civil war breaks out in Muslim lands between the followers of Ali ibn Abi Talib, husband to one of Muhammad’s daughters, and Mu’awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, kin to the recently murdered Caliph ‘Uthman. This split eventually evolves into a permanent split between Sunni factions (following Mu’awiya) and the Shiite factions, following Ali. |
82–155 AH (1454–90 AUC) | Eurasia | Shiite Expansion/Slavic Integration. Shiite armies attack remnants of the Sassanid Persian Empire, capturing Baku and bringing them into contact with Slavic peoples to the north. Baku becomes the eastern capital of the Muslim Empire. Shiites begin integrating Slavic tribes into their society. |
| 155 AH (1525 AUC) | Southwestern Asia | Treaty of Baghdad. Ending civil war between Sunni and Muslim factions, the treaty divides the Muslim Empire into the Shiite Muslim Empire and the Sunni Muslim Empire. |
156–165 AH (1526–35 AUC) | Palestinian and Aegyptian Provinces | Conquest of Jerusalem and Alexandria by Sunnis with the military assistance of the Shiites. |
156–439 AH (1526–1800 AUC) | Western Asia | The Shiite form of Islam gradually spreads from the Caspium Mare north as many of the pagan Slavic tribes of Western Asia, including the Rus, convert. To the south of Baku, the Shiite Muslim Empire spreads across Persia after defeating the remnants of the Sassnid Empire, all the way south to the Persian Gulf and eastward to the mountains. Tehran becomes a key Shiite city to the south of the Caspium Mare. |
165–252 AH (1535–1619 AUC) | Southern Mare Internum | Expansion of Sunnis across the Maghrib (North Africa). Sunni Muslim Empire moves slowly through the Maghrib, defeating the Romanus Empire in various battles along the way. By 227 AH, most of the Maghrib has been converted to Islam and considers itself part of the Sunni Muslim Empire. By 252 AH, Sunnis have crossed to Iberian Peninsula (Andalus) and defeated Romanus Empire at Barcelona. |
| 206 AH (1575 AUC) | Northern Europe | Viking raids begin: the Northmen (later called “Vikings”) in the Jutland Peninsula develop more advanced seafaring navigation and ships. They begin raiding towns in Britannia and northern continental Europe. |
253 AH (1620 AUC) | Romanus Empire | Retreat to Italian Peninsula. When the New Germanic Union attacks the Romanus Empire in the north, the armies of the Romanus Empire in the west retreat south of the Alps. This is the beginning of the end of the Romanus Empire. |
261–69 AH (1621–36 AUC) | Southwestern Europe | Germanic Reshuffling. When New Germanic Union is torn apart by royal marital strife, Frankish House of Martel (occupying most of western Europe), led by Charles, fights a series of wars with the Gothic House of Theodoreich (controlling most of central Europe), pulling Jutland Vikings into the fray. After Peace of Verdun, House of Martel attacks Sunnis in Iberian peninsula, driving them back to the Maghrib. |
273–74 AH (1640–41 AUC) | Balkans | Ognjen leads a revolt of his Slavic peoples from the Eastern Empire. Eastern Empire is now limited primarily to Constantinopli and the Anatolia Peninsula. |
| 275–79 AH (1642–45 AUC) | Romanus Empire | Ognjen, leading a Slavic army, attacks the Eastern Army of the Romanus Empire and drives them back to Italia. The Romanus Empire now exists only on the peninsula of Italia. |
| 275–82 AH (1642–48 AUC) | Romanus Empire | End of the Romanus Empire. Goths and Franks sack, burn and loot Roma and other cities in the Italian Peninsula, generally returning with their loot to their current homelands to the north. |
282–1200s AH (1648–late 2500s AUC) | Europe and Western Asia | Period of the Dark Ages. With the loss of the Romanus Empire and eventually the Eastern Empire, much of classic western civilization is lost to antiquity. Within two decades, with no independent institutions preserving ancient ways and texts and the governmental repositories of information destroyed, very little remains of the Romanus (and its preceding classic Greek) culture in the west. When Constantinopli falls to a Slavic army a few decades later, the same fate befalls the East. The New Germanic Union, still just a conglomeration of illiterate tribes, lacks any interest in preserving the culture. Muslim conquerors generally adopt the view of one of their great conquering generals, Yazeed ibn Ziyad, who, when he conquered Alexandria and found the great Alexandria library, said, “If what is written in these scrolls agrees with the Great Book of Allah, they are not required; if they disagree, they are not desired. Destroy them therefore.” |
| 431–550 AH (1793–1908 AUC) | Caspium Mare Region | Seljuk Turks attack the Shiite Muslim Empire in Persia. After initial losses, the Shiites bring in an army filled with Slavic tribesmen from its northern regions, defeating the Seljuks at Tehran. The Seljuks retreat to Turkish territories directly east of the Caspium Mare and eventually convert to Shiite Islam, becoming vassals of the Shiite Muslim Empire. |
480–750 AH (1840–2100 AUC) | Central Europe | Shiite Islam moves slowly into Europe from the east, partly by conversion, partly by conquest. This Eastern migration is initially led by a group of Twelver Shiites who emphasize the return of the Mahdi. This emphasis is continued as the religion spreads into the Germanic areas of Europe, particularly after the Shiite Muslim Empire is split in two by the arriving Mongolian Empire. |
534–44 AH (1893–1902 AUC) | Northern Europe | Jutland Viking ships in the north Atlantic discover a volcanically active island with lava fields and geysers near mountainous glaciers. Settlors from Jutland establish first settlement on the island, which they call Islandia. |
595–640 AH (1952–95 AUC) | North Atlantic | Islandia sailors discover an enormous island in the North Atlantic that is nearly covered with glaciers. Settlors call this “Grœnland” or “Greenland,” hoping to attract other settlors. |
604–81AH (1960-2035 AUC) | Eurasia | Genghis Khan unites the Mongolian tribes and begins westward conquests by the Mongolian Hordes. The Mongols reach the Caspium Mare by 629, sack Baku by 656, splitting the Shiite Muslim Empire in two, and, by 681, capture much of the Shiite Muslim territory to the north of the Caucasus Mountains. |
681 AH (2053 AUC) | Northern North Aztalan | Calder, a Viking from Jutland, seizes on the mythology of the Inuits of Greenland concerning a vast land to the southwest. He sails across the sea in that direction from Greenland and discovers extreme northern areas of North Aztalan. |
704–71 AH (2057–2122 AUC) | Europe | Mongol armies sweep west, capturing the Anatolia peninsula and the Balkans, all regions around the Pontus Euxinus, the Eastern Alps, all land south of the Danuvius, and ultimately the entire Italian Peninsula, including the remnants of Roma. |
Circa 710 AH (Circa 2063 AUC) | Northern Europe | Islam reaches the Jutland Peninsula, but does not initially gain many adherents due to the strength of the Vikings’ beliefs in Norse gods such as Odin and Thor. |
722–825 AH (2075–2175 AUC) | North Aztalan | Viking warriors/settlors from Jutland, Islandia and Greenland begin raiding and settling extreme northern sections of North Aztalan, eventually arriving in Tonquizalixco Tetepe, where they raid Iroquois and Algonquin settlements and ultimately settle on an island with a large natural port. There they found the city “New Åarhus,” named after the great port of Åarhus in Jutland. They begin calling themselves “Jutes,” reflecting their roots in Europe. |
810–35AH (2160–84 AUC) | Europe | Kaidu Khan, leader of the Mongol Empire, breaks from the policies of past Khans, taking residence in Roma and beginning to rebuild it. In addition to his many other titles (including King of Kings and Mongol Emperor), he declares himself, Kaidu Khan Augustus, Emperor of the reconstituted Mongol–Romanus Empire, and successor to the Romanus Emperors before the fall. |
907–935 AH (2254 AUC) | Eurasia | A rebellion in China diverts Mongol-Romanus Emperor Ogeiadah’s attention from Europe and Southwestern Asia. Returning to China with nearly half of his army, he is ultimately defeated near Cumuda. |
915 AH (2262 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | Gustav, a Mahdian cleric, is banished from the Jutland peninsula for proselytizing his religion and sails for Tonquizalixco Tetepe. During the long voyage, he dies from scarlet fever but not before first converting a few Viking settlors to Islam. When Kustaa, one of the converted Vikings, reaches New Åarhus, he begins preaching his version of Islam to others without great success. However, a small mosque is established in the new city with a handful of adherents. |
918–952 AH (2269–98 AUC) | Eurasia | The Sunni Muslim Empire and the southern portion of the Shiite Muslim Empire defeat the remnants of the Mongol-Romanus Empire in the Fertile Crescent, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, the Caucuses, and Persia. The army in Anatolia retreats to Constantinopli and the Balkans. The remainder of the Mongol armies retreat to the east, eventually beyond the borders of the Shiite Muslim Empire. |
930–957 AH (2276–2303 AUC) | Europe | During the Mongol occupation and separation from the remainder of the Shiite Empire, the western portion of the Shiite Empire had become increasingly focused on the return of the Mahdi. After the Mongols retreat, the western leadership refuses to reunite with the Shiite Empire and declares itself the Mahdian Islamic Empire. After various battles between the two empires, the Treaty of 957 establishes an initial border between them running north from the Caucasus Mountains to the White Sea. |
934 AH (2280 AUC) | Southern Europe | Upon hearing of the defeat of Mongol army in China, Governor Togul declares himself Emperor Togulus Augustus in the substantially shrunken Mongol-Romanus Empire. Pledging to remain a European emperor, Togulus drops all references to Mongols and renames the empire “Imperium Romanum Secundum” (or Second Romanus Empire). |
1012 AH (2356 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | After an Islamic cleric and physician miraculously cures his infant daughter from scarlet fever, Helge the Great converts to Islam. Within a few short years, most of the Jutes convert with him. They now call themselves “Juteslams.” |
1015–90 AH (2359–2431 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | Isolation of Juteslams. Successive severe winters cause the abandonment of settlements in Islandia and Greenland, isolating the Juteslams from Europe since their small ships cannot reasonably return directly without immense peril. |
1019–22 AH (2363–66 AUC) | Northern Europe | Using newly developed guns and cannon, the Mahdian Muslim Empire conquers the Jutland peninsula, where they burn Viking ships along with other symbols of the Norse pagan gods. Previous plans for resettlement of Islandia and Greenland are abandoned. |
1034–1123 AH (2377–2463 AUC) | South Aztalan | “Wise Men from the Sea” from China arrive on the shores of the fledgling Aztec Empire. Emperor Mochtezacatl welcomes them and begins integrating their technology into Aztec society. |
1065–95 AH (2407–36 AUC) | Northern Europe | Mahdian Muslim Empire conquers Britannia and Hibernia and ultimately the Kingdom of Frankereich (near Parisius), consolidating northwestern Europe into the Mahdian Muslim Empire. |
1161 AH (2500 AUC) | Aztalan | Juteslams begin raiding and slaughtering settlements of the Aztec Empire just north of the Achahuitl Peninsula (at the extreme southeastern end of North Aztalan) |
1162–95 AH (2501–33 AUC | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | Aztec Empire sends a large Army east to the region “Over the Eastern Mountains,” in their language “Tonquizalixco Tetepe,” to attack the Juteslams. The Juteslams, having no significant firearms or cannon, are overwhelmed, but fight valiantly using a hit and run style of defense and attack permitting them to steal and use firearms. Nevertheless, by 1195, the Aztecs conquer all of New Jutland and move into New Åarhus, where King Cnut of the Juteslams pledges tribute to the Aztec Empire. |
1221–98 AH (2558–2633 AUC) | Europe and Southwestern Asia | First War of the Three Empires. Caused primarily by ethnic and religious differences, the three Muslim Empires fight a series of wars with each other (with multiple changes in alliances) while the Second Romanus Empire remains neutral. |
1222 AH (2559 AUC) | North Aztalan | The Great Displacement. Fed up with the constant rebellions and of the Juteslams, the Aztec Empire sends a larger army to Tetepe and destroys New Åarhus and other major Juteslam cities. To prevent further unrest in the area, the Aztec Empire removes several thousand remaining Juteslams on a forced march to the stable Latisilolal Province on the Pacific coast, which lies closer to Tenochtitlan and remains loyal. A third of the Juteslams die along the way. Tonquizalixco Tetepe is now almost entirely depopulated, except for the remnants of various Iroquois and Algonquin tribes and a few limited outposts of the Aztec Empire. |
1224–circa 1350 AH (2561–2683 AUC) | Aztalan | Freed from their only legitimate enemy (the Juteslams), the Aztec Empire gradually expands its frontiers to the north to cover the entire habitable Aztalan continent. As usual, it primarily relies on a tribute system, allowing local governments to maintain some control of their own peoples. The wealth of the Aztec Empire grows and they begin to devote more resources to technology, the arts, and literature. They also begin to build larger ships with cannon. Due to their conflicts with the Juteslams, they are generally aware of a vast continent to the east from which the Juteslams ancestors, the Jutland Vikings, originated. Because of the Wise Men from the Sea, they are also aware of a vast continent to the west. With few enemies in Aztalan, they become increasingly concerned about their readiness to defend Aztalan from any invasion from across the great oceans. Therefore, they devote many of their military resources and technology to naval warfare. |
1257 AH (2593 AUC) | Aztalan | Juteslam Declaration, requiring all Juteslams in Latisilolal to live in one of ten different settlement regions outside of the cities and limiting other rights of travel and ownership of Juteslams. |
1298 AH (2633 AUC) | Europe and Southwestern Asia | Treaty of Florentia. Mediated by Emperor Flavius’s First Consul, Khanattinius, the Three Empires agree to cease hostilities and establish regular borders between them. The Sunni Muslim Empire agrees to turn over governance of Andalus (southwestern Iberian Peninsula) to the Second Romanus Empire in exchange for the assurances by Emperor Flavius to remain neutral with respect to the practice of Islam within the region. |
1300–1410 AH (2635–2742 AUC) | Europe and Southwestern Asia | Golden Age of the Three Empires. The entire region flourishes in relative peace. Romanus technologists begin developing the technological method. The Three Empires independently resist the technologists, finding them anathema to Allah. |
1365 AH (2698 AUC) | Europe | A scouting expedition of 5 tall ships from the Aztec Empire arrives on the shores of Gallia in the Mahdi Muslim Empire. The Mahdians engage in some limited trade with locals, but both parties remain very wary of each other. |
1370–1395 AH (2703–27 AUC) | Second Romanus Empire | Emperor Marcellus begins building ships for long voyages designed by his technologists in part based on drawings of ships from the Aztec Empire from local Mahdians. Concerns grow among the Three Empires about the strength of the new Romanus navy. Marcellus assures them he is merely trying to preserve all four empires from an attack by future naval expeditions of the Aztec Empire. |
1402–09 AH (2734–41 AUC) | South Aztalan | A naval expedition from Roma crosses the Atlantic to scout the Aztec Empire. It encounters ships of the Aztec navy in warm islands to the east of South Aztalan, where two Romanus ships are easily destroyed. The Aztec Empire eventually permits the remaining Romanus ships to return with both a stern warning against further attempted incursions and a proposal for future trade. Trade delegations travel the Atlantic for the next several years. |
1416–17 AH (2747–48 AUC) | South Aztalan | An army from south of Huitzlampatetepe (the southern mountains) moves north and raids an Aztec village. With its large navy, the Aztec Empire is able to transport a sizeable army to the northern shores of Apukallpa (the continent south of Aztalan), where it begins attacking the villages that it believes were the source of the raiding parties in South Aztalan. However, the raiders actually originated from small tribes at the extreme south end of Aztalan. Instead, the Aztec Empire has attacked the periphery of the primitive but enormous Incan Empire in Apukallpa. The Aztecs have inadvertently awoken a sleeping giant. |
1416–28 AH (2747–59 AUC) | Europe | The War of Romanus Aggression. Emperor Valerianus of the Second Romanus Empire rashly attacks two of the Three Empires, initially making huge gains against each of them. When they and the third Muslim Empire finally unite against the Second Romanus Empire, their unity buys them time to rebuild their armies and navies and eventually turns the tide in the war. As losses mount, First Consul Fabianus leads a palace revolt, killing Emperor Valerianus. Fabianus sues for peace, but the Three Empires insist on unconditional surrender. He refuses to surrender. When the Second Romanus Senate votes to proclaim Fabianus emperor, he refuses the crown and argues that the Age of Empires in Roma has come to an end, renaming the country the Second Romanus Republic. However, he continues to exert powers similar to an emperor. Eventually, during peace talks at Barcelona (after the Second Romanus Empire has retreated to the Alps and Italian Peninsula), the Three Empires split over their own post-war borders, triggering the Second War of the Three Empires. |
1418–1510 AH (2749–2838 AUC) | Aztalan and Apukallpa | The Aztec Empire and Incan Empire fight a series of battles in the northern reaches of Apukallpa and eventually in the southern reaches of the Aztec Empire. In 1425, the Aztec Empire returns much of its army to Aztalan proper, but keeps several limited outposts in North Apukallpa. The intermittent wars with the Incan Empire continue to drain the resources of the Aztec Empire and weaken it, particularly with regard to provinces in North Aztalan. |
1428–1452 AH (2759–82 AUC) | Eurasia and North Africa | The Second War of the Three Empires. With the Second Romanus Republic no longer a threat, the Three Empires begin fighting among themselves. The Second Romanus Republic remains neutral and actually withdraws 50–100 milia passuumfrom its previous positions to avoid conflict with the Three Empires. The war rages back and forth on four borders. |
1437–40 AH (2768–71 AUC) | Eurasia | Religious Revolts in the Three Empires. During the middle of the war, various Islamic sect minorities are mistreated by the majorities in their native empires. It begins with the mistreatment of Mahdians by Shiite vets in the Shiite Muslim Empire. When nothing is done to protect the Mahdians, they revolt, but their revolt is met with extreme force by the Shiite Emperor. Over ten thousand Mahdians, including women and children, are killed. Similar mistreatment and revolts occur in the other two Muslim Empires concerning their own minority sects. |
1452 AH (2782 AUC) | Eurasia and North Africa | 1452 Peace of Roma between the Three Empires and the Second Romanus Republic. As part of the peace, the Second Romanus Republic agrees to become the Romanus Protectorate, an independent nation that will remain neutral with respect to any wars between any of the Three Empires. Each of the Three Empires pledges to protect the Romanus Protectorate by coming to its aid in the event it is attacked by either of the other two Muslim Empires or by any outside party. |
1455–1575 AH (2785–2901 AUC) | North Aztalan | Dismantling of Northern Aztec Empire. Various provinces in North Aztalan rebel from the Aztec Empire at various times during this period. The Aztec Empire generally regains some level of control over many of them, but by 1575, the Algonquatl and Absáalobke Provinces in the far north have established permanent independence from the empire, and the empire’s hold on the Nepantla Province remains tenuous. |
1457–90 AH (2787–2819 AUC) | Europe | Limited trade resumes between the Aztecs and commercial enterprises of the Romanus Protectorate. This trade slowly expands to the Three Empires despite their frequent conflicts and rebellions. |
| 1465 AH | Aztalan-Asia | The Aztec Empire sends ships across the Pacific to the western continent of Asia. When they ultimately land in the Chíeng Empire in southeastern Asia, they open up trading between the regions. |
1481–1537 AH (2810–65 AUC) | Europe | Age of Islamic Purges. The Mahdian Islamic Empire forces the removal of Shiites from the cities of Nuremburg and Leipzig. They are forcibly marched to the borders with the Shiite Muslim Empire, which reluctantly allows them to enter. In reprisal, the Shiite Muslim Empire begins its own purges of Mahdians from its territory. The Sunnis follow suit and eventually each Empire begins to force either conversion to its brand of Islam or expulsion from their respective empires. Jews throughout Europe and Southwestern Asia are also caught up in these purges. Though the Sunni Muslim Empire permits Jews to live in Andalus and Jerusalem, the other two Muslim Empires expel Jewish populations along with unwanted Islamic sects. At the behest of each of the Three Empires at different times, the Romanus Protectorate agrees to permit immigration of the expelled refugees from the various purges to areas within its borders. |
1491–1585 AH (2820–2911 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | Tetepe Immigration. From among the purged populations of Eurasia and the Maghrib, a desperate number seek a new life in the depopulated region of Tetepe. Most of these are Jews, but a few are purged Sunnis, Mahdis and Shiites who have tired of the religious and racial battles in their former lands. |
1515–16 AH (2843–44 AUC) | Romanus Protectorate | Florentia Protocol. Civil war nearly breaks out in the Romanus Protectorate in various skirmishes between Sunnis, Mahdis, Shiites and Jews of various ethnic sects. The First Consul arrests the leaders and threatens to expel them and all former refugees and their children if they do not agree to the terms of a “settlement” reached among a few leaders in Florentia. This agreement becomes codified as the Florentia Protocol and is ultimately approved by all of the Three Empires as well. Under its terms, any persons coming into the Romanus Protectorate pledge to withhold from any proselytization of their religion within the Romanus borders, subject to criminal penalties from each of the signatories. After this Protocol, many of the refugees in Roma begin to join the exodus of refugees to Tonquizalixco Tetepe rather than live with the restrictions. |
1535–1615 AH (2863–2940 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | Many skirmishes occur between the new Tetepian settlors from across the Atlantic and the previous Iroquois and Aztec inhabitants, especially over the Tetepian’s expansion down the Atlantic Coast. After a raid by the Tuscarora tribe in 1584, settlors attack the tribe, capture their chieftain, and execute him. |
1585 AH (2911 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | Non-Alien Proclamation of 1585. Troubled by instability in the region, Emperor Itzcoatl VII of the Aztec Empire forbids additional immigration into Tetepe. |
1603–15 AH (2929–40 AUC) | Eurasia and North Africa | When the Romanus Protectorate and Mahdian Muslim Empire try to intervene to stop a war between the Sunni Muslim Empire and the Shiite Muslim Empire, the two empires turn on them. In the Treaty of Baghdad in 1615, the Romanus Protectorate agrees to dismantle the remainder of its navy and army and never raise forces in the future. The Three Empires enter into another mutual defense pact with the Romanus Protectorate in which the Three Empires individually agree to defend the Romanus Protectorate against foreign invaders and against each other. |
1615–25 AH (2940–50 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | When the Aztec Empire attempts to re-establish control over Tetepe, a war erupts and the Tetepians seek help from the Three Empires and Roma. Sent by the Three Empires as their emissary, the First Consul of Roma brokers a peace between the Tetepians and Aztec Empire. The Tetepian Province will remain nominally a province of the Aztec Empire but with a quasi-independent government. A governor for the entire region is appointed by the Aztec Emperor from among 4 candidates chosen by majority vote of the inhabitants of the region. The Governor must rotate every four years between the five major ethnic/religious groups in the province (Iroquois, Algonquin, Aztecs, Jews and all sects of Muslims). Various joint cultural events are established to try to harmonize the populations. |
1635–42 AH (2960–66 AUC) | North Aztalan | Nepantla and Chgantlo provinces obtain quasi-independent status from the Aztec Empire when they threaten to secede. Instead of tributes paid by the provinces, the people agree to pay taxes on their international trade in products grown and manufactured in the area to compensate the empire for its protection of commerce through navigable waterways. |
1655 AH (2979 AUC) | Eurasia and North Africa | Technologies Treaty of 1655. The Three Empires enter into a joint treaty with the Romanus Protectorate relating to the development of technologies and operations of the growing numbers of technologists. Under the pact, the Romanus Protectorate agrees to remain neutral with regard to the dissemination of technologies to the Three Empires. In exchange, each empire agrees that the Protectorate will be its primary supplier of any new technologies and that it will respect the rights of technologists to the exclusive rights to their inventions. |
1737 AH (3058 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | Tetepian Constitution of 1737. By now, the Tetepian settlors have become fairly well integrated with each other and with the Tetepian natives; however, all residents resent the control of a weakened Aztec Empire. When the Aztecs seek to enforce new taxes against Tetepe through their local governor, he refuses and resigns his post. He and other Tetepian leaders come together and write a new “Constitution” in which a new government will be elected through a form of representative democracy and the nation will be called the Tetepian Republic. Because the nation consists of many different ethnic and religious groups, they fear the powers of pure majority rule. Therefore, they include an article entitled “Rights of the People” in the new Constitution. |
1743–1833 AH (3064–3152 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | Imperial Boycott of Tetepe. Emperor Acamapichtli VIII of the Aztec Empire confers with the Sunni Muslim Emperor about the new, radical form of representative government and minority rights established by Tetepians. The two emperors jointly agree to boycott trade with Tetepe to undercut this threat. The other Muslim Empires and the Romanus Protectorate join the longstanding boycott, condemning the region to relative poverty and general isolation for over a century. |
1743–52 AH (3064–73 AUC) | North Aztalan | Wars of Western Independence. Nanooko and Latisilolal rebel, this time successfully. The Aztec Empire officially agrees to treat Nanooko and Latisilolal as independent sovereign nations. Nanooko and Latisilolal monarchs agree to pay nominal amounts for naval protection by the Aztec Empire and to allow the Aztec Empire to maintain naval ports in their nations. Most of the merchant vessels are owned and operated by Juteslams, who have kept their seafaring expertise after The Great Displacement. Most Latisilolals distrust the Juteslam captains and crew and welcome the assistance of the Aztec Empire in keeping them in line. |
1750–1800 AH (3073–3120 AUC) | Latisilolal | Latisilolal aggression. As Latisilolal grows increasingly wealthy with trade in the Pacific, it becomes more aggressive with the Aztec Empire and ramps up its mistreatment of Juteslams, resulting in the Juteslam Anarchist Edict of 1800, under which all Juteslam ships and property are confiscated. |
1805–10 AH (3124–29 AUC) | World | War between the Sunni Muslim Empire and the Shiite Muslim Empire expands into Aztalan, with the Aztec Empire joining the Sunnis and Latisilolal siding with their Shiite trading partners. Nepantla and Chigantlo side with the Aztec Empire and send armies west. The two Asian empires refrain from joining the war. Latisilolal loses, its king is deposed, and an oligarchy of five prominent families gains control. In Eurasia, the Romanus Protectorate arranges a truce between the Three Empires and they pronounce the First Consul of the Three Empires as their official arbiter and representative in future conflicts among themselves and around the globe. |
1811–17 AH (3130–36 AUC) | Latisilolal | Ahuacatl, leader of one of the five Latisilolal families, consolidates power when he promises to restore order in the nation and then executes the heads of the other four ruling families based on trumped-up charges of treason. |
1820 AH (3139 AUC) | Latisilolal | Ethnic Prioritization Edict of General Ahuacatl, granting natives in Aztalan priority over any Juteslams and requiring all Juteslams to wear a three-horn insignia outside of any settlement areas to identify them as Juteslams. |
1822 AH (3141 AUC) | Latisilolal and North Asian Empire | Latisilolal King Ahuacatl enters into a “Special Trade Partner” compact with North Asian Emperor Dae-Sung, whereby Latisilolal is provided with various economic assistance in rebuilding its industries, and Latisilolal gives the North Asian Empire “Special Trade Status” with respect to any goods or services travelling between the two, including those shipped through the nation to other parts of North Aztalan. King Ahuacatl begins to re-arm Latisilolal. |
1823 AH (3142 AUC) | North Aztalan | King Ahuacatl proclaims that all Juteslams who do not live in the former settlement areas shall be required to serve the government as laborers in various critical state projects to rebuild Latisilolal. |
1827 AH (3146 AUC) | Eurasia and North Africa | Technologists Act of 1827, granting greater rights to Romanus technologists for their inventions. |
1827–39 AH (3146–57 AUC) | World | The Great World War begins in Asia over claims between the North Asian Empire and the Chíeng Empire to the Islands of Nippon. The Three Empires and Romanus Protectorate enter into the war on behalf of the Chíeng Empire, forming what becomes known as the “Alliance.” Latisilolal and the Incan Empire enter the war on behalf of the North Asian Empire. The Aztec Empire and most of its former provinces join the Alliance. Latisilolal is the most prepared for war and it conquers most of North Aztalan up to the Tonalixcotetepe. In 1835, the Tetepian Republic enters into a peace agreement with Latisilolal in which it agrees to remain “neutral” in the war, but also licenses “merchant ports” on the Atlantic Coast in the southern city of Brest to Latisilolal ships. A year later, the Latisilolals commandeer the port and ships at Brest and convert it to a military naval base. Following a major naval victory in the Pacific, the Alliance begins to reverse the gains of the North Asian Empire and the Latisilolals and ultimately defeats them and the Incan Empire. |
1839 AH (3157 AUC) | Worldwide | The Treaty of Roma, also known as the Great World Peace of ’39, ends the Great World War. Bemoaning the travesties inflicted on the Juteslams by the Latisilolals prior to and during the Great World War and upset with the “neutrality” of the Tetepian Republic, the parties to the treaty also agree to return the Juteslam people to their former “homeland” in the northern regions of Tonquizalixco Tetepe, where they are expected to form a joint government with the existing Tetepian population in the Tetepian Republic. |
| 1840 AH (3158 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | Various skirmishes between Juteslam and Tetepian peoples occur throughout the Tetepian Republic when the Tetepian Republic refuses to seat elected representatives from newly settled Juteslam areas. The Three Empires send military equipment to a band of Juteslam rebels to “enforce the terms of the Treaty of Roma.” |
1841 AH (3159 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | After forming a Juteslam army, Hadingus sets himself up as a king to govern Tetepe independent of the Tetepian Republic. When the police and army of the Tetepian Republic seek to arrest Hadingus for treason, the Juteslam Army defends him and other Juteslam leaders, triggering the War of Juteslam Independence. The Juteslam army, supplied by the Three Empires and the Aztec Empire, quickly outguns the army of the Tetepian Republic and deposes the Tetepian leaders. A general civil war erupts. Uzziel, a former president of the Tetepian Republic, forms a separatist military group from among the remaining Tetepian forces. He calls them the Demoseps. Their declared goal is to rid Tetepe of the Juteslams and return true democracy to Tetepe. |
1842 AH (3160 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | The Juteslam army defeats the Demosep army in what later becomes known by Juteslams as the Battle of New Åarhus. |
1843 AH (3161 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | King Hadingus declares northeastern Tetepe the new Kingdom of New Jutland, with New Åarhus as its capital. |
1844 AH (3162 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | The Juteslam Army defeats the Demoseps at the Battle of New Hedeby. The remaining Demosep forces scatter throughout the countryside of Tetepe, principally to the mountains and forests. |
1844 AH (3162 AUC) | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | Treaty of Parisius. Representatives of the Three Empires (Sunni Muslim Empire, Shiite Muslim Empire and Mahdian Muslim Empire) and the Aztec Empire conclude the Peace Conference of Parisius with this treaty negotiated by the First Consul of Roma (Romanus Protectorate) declaring that the Kingdom of New Jutland shall hereafter be recognized as the rightful government of the Tetepe region. The accord is also signed by the King of New Jutland and other nations in North Aztalan. Mordecai, an unelected, but self-proclaimed Tetepian representative, signs the accord, but the conference and accord are boycotted by all Demosep leaders. Shortly after, Mordecai is found dead near Shenandoah. |
| 1844 AH (3162 AUC)–present | Tonquizalixco Tetepe | Demoseps regroup as a loosely organized paramilitary force and begin attacking various Juteslam strategic targets on a hit-an-run basis. They are normally able to hide in various mountain retreats when the Juteslam army is sent in. After a few years, they begin to attack civilian targets as well. Eventually, Muslim leaders begin calling the Demosep attackers “shaitaanists,” for shiataan, the devil, because their actions are considered “works of shiataan.” The Juteslam government develops a “No Tolerance” policy toward shaitaanist attacks, not only punishing responsible individuals, but also indiscriminately shelling Tetepian cities in reprisal for any such attacks. |
1855 AH (3173 AUC) | Asia | The Chíeng Empire officially annexes its Nipponese and Cantonese Protectorates, forming the East Asian Empire. |
1875 AH (3192 AUC) | Aztalan | Chicahtoc leads a bloodless revolt by prominent Aztec families and military leaders against the hapless Aztec Emperor Otlananquili. Rather than executing him, Chicahtoc banishes Otlananquili, an action that gains him considerable favor from among the Aztec elite. Chicahtoc declares himself Emperor Acamapichtli X, and begins rebuilding the Aztec Empire. |
1890 AH (3207 AUC) | Roma | Lumenology Conference of 1890 AH. |
[1]Years are given in AH or BH and, alternatively, in AUC. BH = Before the Hijra. AH = In the Year of the Hijra (denoting years since the time of the Hijra). AUC = Anno Urbis Conditae, or years since the founding of the City of Roma. Note that the Hijra occurred in 1376 AUC.
