Imperial Hatred

Point of Divulgence: 1300s

In the 1300s, after the main bulk of the Holy Wars in the Middle East which destroyed the Islamic Empire, scattering it into many more smaller, warring nations, many new kingdoms and empires rose and fell throughout the century, especially in Eastern Europe with Russia bullying various nations into effectively puppet states.

When the Kingdom of Dokoslovat became a prominent power, it entered a small war with Russia that stopped it's bullying ways. Soon after this the Chinese Empire attacked Russia's Eastern holdings, and their main military presence left Europe. This allowed the nations of Europe to start becoming empires of great colonial power - but not everyone was happy with this, and by 1789 the world was thrown into turmoil between 'free states' of democracy and peace against 'imperial states' of absoloute power and military might.

1400s
At this point Russia had moved most of it's military presence over to war with the Chinese Empire, letting Europe relax from the bullying and manipulation from the large country.

The early 1400s saw a boom in the economy, politics and culture in Europe, and by 1470 the greatest powers of the continent (primarily Britain, France, the German-Danish Empire, Portugal and Italy) constructed large fleets of ships and set sail for Africa, where a large series of wars from 1472 to 1477 created to factions: the European powers, and the Ottomans and Islamic empire remenants.

However, a lot of territory was taken from the Muslim countries, and they were exhausted against the large alliance of primarily Christian powers. After this the nations moved South, grabbing large chunks of Africa, with little resistance from locals.

Finally Russia's on/off war with the Chinese Empire ended in 1481 and it returned it's troops to Europe. However, it's absence had allowed the countries to grow greatly in power, and Russia's new threats were utterly empty.

In 1484 South and North America were discovered, leading to another colonial rush there. Meanwhile in Africa, widespread rebellions led to the creation of the Free African Alliance and the Kingdom of Mbelewa (Imperial Hatred) gaining indepence. These were the seedlings of anti-Imperialism.

1500s
The African Alliance waged war on Europe, sending it's armies from it's collection of small countries to raid shipping around Africa, destroy fortresses and expand it's borders. The Alliance was so successful most powers from Europe had to withdraw from the new territories in South and North America and return to Africa to quell the resistance; Spain, however, decided to secure it's holdings in South America, and abandon it's colonies in Africa.

By 1527 a vicious series of campaigns from France, Britain and Portugal shrunk the Alliance's borders, creating in-fighting and some countries breaking away. The African Islamic Empire began tearing at the Alliance's borders in the East, and eventually by 1529 the collection of nations had completely broken apart.

Without central coordination they were swiftely conquered. But instead of directly importing their civilians, the European powers decided to make the African countries 'puppet states', stationing their troops in them but not directly commanding or owning them.

This meant they could return to South and North America to take more territory there. However, by 1544 the locals had been inspired enough by the African Alliance's struggles to pick up their own fight. Several 'republics' and 'free states' popped up here and there, but they died out in 1580.

Russia is declining at this point, with attacks from the Ottomans, Kingdom of Dokoslavat and Chinese Empire all spreading it's troops thin. Around the very end of the century in-fighting leads to further decline as large amounts of their territory is hoovered up.

1600s
The 1600s see the height of imperialism; nobody dares resist the hugely powerful imperial nations, and further territorial expansion in the Far East and Pacific is welcomed by their citizens.

Britain and France have a brief series of colonial wars over the rights to Australia during the 1630s. The previously powerful Islamic Alliance and African Islamic Alliance are in the decline as many of their people seem to beleive that Christianity is the driving force behind the success of the European imperial countries.

From 1660 to 1690 a 'golden age' is thought to have existed. Peace and prosperity, even for nations that were puppeted or invaded. But the invention of a reliable and powerful steam engine in 1690 is about to change everything.

1700s
The world enters an industrial boom, and many countries reorganize themselves to keep up; by 1720, for example, the Kingdom of Dokoslavat, a powerful Eastern European country, has reformed into an Empire, campaigning to annex several countries around the Adriatic Sea, and having a short war with the German-Danish Empire, which it won quite successfully.

The old fear of Russia is back, reborn in the body of Dokoslavat, a powerful nation of factories and armies. Britain and France are hasty to make trade agreements and build a solid friendship with the country, as it's power could easily upset the balance of nations in Europe.

However, the expansion of the industry lead to general unhappiness in the populations of Europe, and eventually new political movements spring up - the Free African Alliance appears again, driving out most Europeans from Africa, and the Pacific Empire evolves from a group of radical Australian officials, a direct contrast to the 'free states' movements.

Russia breaks into general in fighting, and Dokoslavat drives it's vast armies into Russia in 1732 untill 1736, taking advantage of the turmoil. Eventually it's Eastern holdings are severed from it's homelands by new Russian countries, but the resources pouring in from Sibera are a great help none the less.

Russia divdes into the small country of Communist Russia; the old empire reforms into an extremely radical monarchy of Imperial Russia, and the largest country, the first 'free state' that is not an alliance but in fact a complete country, Free Russia, comes to dominate the old territories, with a peace loving attitude.

Disgruntled factory workers and victims of poverty protest to imperial governments for years spanning from 1739 to 1744. Finally most countries lessen their grip and more and more rights are introduced.

France's old government is, however, overthrown in 1745 by a radical group of military generals who fear that imperial nations are losing their power. France is reorganized into the Imperial Expansionist Empire of France, and makes leaps and bounds in steam technology in it's first few years, creating cumbersom but effective steam powered tanks (called 'Land Ironclads').

In 1748 the Imperial Expansionist Empire of France drives it's regiments of steam powered tanks and troops vehicles to Spain, beginning a long but ultimatly successful series of attacks on the country. Initially Spain was busy dealing with rebellion in South America and could not send enough troops back to Spain to withstand the French attacks.

When Madrid was captured and the royal family killed, Britain and Portugal entered the war, with Italy sending supplies.

The war dragged on for two years, with little territory being won or lost. Eventually Madrid was recaptured by Portuguese forces, and France found that some of them had Italian made rifles; they immediatly invaded the North of Italy, a week later reaching Rome.

It turned the South into a puppet state, and the North was fully integrated in 1752. France's Land Ironclads were serving it well. So Britain developed Rollforts, 'moving fortresses'. They were larger than Land Ironclads and designed to carry and defend troops rather than destroy enemies.

Two were built, Glory and Destroyer, and were successful in delivering troops in speed and safety to front lines. Dokoslavat refused to enter the war, because both Britain and even the new radical France were allies, and it didn't want to upset either.

In 1755 many of the British American colonies rebelled forming the Republic of America, a 'free state'. British troops withdrew after the short wars to keep it in the empire to deal with France; Spain was finally reformed. It split, however, into two countries: the Spanish Remenant Republic (a free state) in the South and the Spanish Resistance in the North, an imperial state.

Both Spanish countries fought each other between fending off the French.

In 1758 the American Republic was split; most of it formed into the Imperial Empire of America, which had a firm Imperialistic policy.

Both the republic and the empire had wars right up until the early 1900s.

France now invaded Germany, with the country puting up little resistance. In 1759 it was fully annexed, and Dokoslavat felt uncomfortable with France so close to it's borders; it began supplying arms and men to Britain and Portugal.

In 1760 Northern Sweden and the Empire of Norway merged to make the Empire of Norway and Northern Sweden, which promptly attacked Imperial Russia, provoking a war to the North of Dokoslavat.

In 1767 finally Madrid was retaken by Portuguese and British forces with the help of Dokoslavan cannons, and France retreated to the East side of Spain. For another year France sieged Madrid but it never got it back; a steam powered fortress, called Leviathan was stood there and was designed differently to Rollforts; it was designed for city defence.

Finally in 1769 Italy began resisting France, fearing it was soon going to be destroyed by Dokoslavat which was seriously considering attacking France. By 1772 it had independence, but the North of Italy remained firmly with France, it's locals fearing that a better quality of living was to be had with France.

Dokoslavat attacked France in 1773, 'liberating' the Danish-German Empire, and visciously attacking French forces in the East.

The North of Italy broke away, but was conquered by Dokoslavat weeks after independence.

With Dokoslavat's military might showing, France preformed a final push to reconquer the whole of Italy and surrendered.

A treaty was signed in 1774, and by 1776 France had reorganized into the Kingdom of France, Spain and Italy. It kept it's conquered territories.

Dokoslovat became an extremely powerful nation in the aftermath; the other nations were exhausted from the decades of war. It got extremely wealthy from trading to these nations.

Unfortunatly by 1783 the Imperial Expansionist Empire of France was back, except possibly not as radical. In a bout of fear, Dokoslavat swiftely annexed the long standing Kingdom of Micto and tried to take the Greek Empire's Northern holdings, with little success after the Ottomans and Islamic Alliance joined against them.

In 1787, war broke out again, with the Empire of Dokoslavat expanding in all directions. Meanwhile, other countries began tearing apart. Two years after Dokoslavat's expansion, the Chinese Empire had split, with the Kingdom of Eastern China forming. Several other anomlies also occured; countries were wanting to shake off imperialism after hundreds of years of it.