900-999 (Abrittus)

Still writing on this one...

The First Slavic War
At the beginning of the 10th century, latent conflicts between the Peresechen alliance and the Slavonian Republic caused by the northward expansion of both turned into open hostilities. Both Peresechen and New Bogatygavan had tried to win the fortified towns of Wolyn and Turau into their alliances. After Wolyn opted for Peresechen and Turau for the Slavonic Republic, but Slavonia did not cease with its plans to expand its infrastructure into Wolhynia, Peresechen decided to seize on the opportunity that the North of the Slavonic Republic had not yet been as de-tribalised as the South. They decided to equip the Drewlani, a tribe living in the vicinity of the Dregovici-controlled Turau, with light firearms and unleashed them as river pirates on the Borysthenes and as highwaymen.

Slavonia quickly retaliated and did the same with the Buzhans in the vicinity of Wolyn in the North, but also with the Bunjevci further South in the heartland of Peresechen´s trading network, who had been somewhat systematically excluded from urban development and modernisation by the (Arianist) Corvats and (Catholic) Serbs who were the elite of Peresechen and its neighbouring cities, perhaps on account of the Bujevci`s clinging to traditional Slavic cult.

On the whole, the subsidised piracy turned out disastrous mostly for Peresechen. Slavonia was able to muster enough military police to secure its Northern provinces and smoke out the pirates after several years, but the looser Peresechen alliance did not have comparable manpower, the rural population not being in any sort of formalised military relationship with the trading towns.

So, to regain control and ensure the safety of its trade, Peresechen took a fatal decision. The inhabitants of its land still had tribal allegiances, especially in the countryside, but just like in Northern Slavonia or in Venedia, their chiefs had not turned into medieval aristocrats, and their tribal areas were no territorial states. Peresechen now set out to change this. ///to be continued ////

Economy & Technology

 * Mechanical clocks are invented in Italy. They are huge and lose a lot of time. The Italian Conventum decides to install one in every major city on the peninsula. Urban Vigintisexviri are mandated to hire people responsible for keeping their public clock working and showing the official time.
 * Several pneumatic devices are developed in the Eastern Celtic provinces and used mostly in mining.
 * A Persian engineer presents a draft of a battery-powered electrical motor. So far, nobody tries to apply the idea (or at least nobody succeeds in doing so).

Military
Adapting to the strategies imposed by firearms, which are now found in all sorts and sizes, many large developed countries switch from professsional warrior armies to large popular armies. Targeting the  infrastructure of the enemy becomes more and more important.

Philosophy / Science

 * A natural philosopher from India develops the physical theory of inertiality.
 * In China, two influential philosophers reform Confucianism. Gu Yangwu, who concerns himself with logic and the nature of knowledge, re-defines the Confucian view on science and paves the way for empirical methods and inductive reasoning. Towards the end of the century, Chinese universities react with the establishment of faculties of natural science akin to their European counterparts. Liang Qichao, who concerns himself with political philosophy and good governance, corrects Confucian views on the monarchy, introduces the idea of political participation and the "dialogue about the state". This leads to the establishment of a first parliament in Tang China, albeit one whose democratic nature is not equal to its Roman, Celtic or Aksumite equivalents at the time. (Liang Qichao`s philosophy would later develop into a nationalist and a liberal progressive variety; the conflict between these two would shape China`s political landscape in the 12th-13th centuries.)

Religion

 * The Worldwide Simonist Community is established and founds a theological school in Jerusalem.

Nations of Europe

 * Saxony: While kings from earlier and later dynasties in other centuries function as motors of social and political progress, the 10th century is marked by a 55-year rule of a dynasty which tries to monopolise royal power. This brings commoners from the cities and noblemen from the countryside, who had fought against each other, together in the Thing as the parliament must fight for its old and achieved rights.
 * Burgundy begins to develop its economy and seize on its wealth in coal and ore. Roads are built, towns grow into cities, education increases (Burgundian is written in the Latin alphabet). Burgundy`s kings are successful in their attempts to modernise and preserve Germanic religion against Christian influences from the Roman Empire, though.
 * Baiuvarias association of cities breaks apart over religious conflicts; many cities are devastated by the prolonged civil war. 

Nations of Asia

 * Tang China begins a new wave of political reforms inspired by Liang Qichao`s political Neo-Confucianism, modernising legislation and the penal system and installing a civil servant-based parliament to discuss laws, oversee government and administration and recall appointed office-holders.
 * New Tang administrations confiscate land of those landowners found guilty of corrupting magistrates, and distribute it among the peasants.
 * Riding a wave of patriotic enthusiasm, the new reformist Tang China annexes Taiwan and settles Han peasants from the crowded mainland there.
 * Similar reforms are copied in the cities of the Pyu and Dvaravati towards the end of the century. In Pala, an adaptation of Qichao`s philosophy to Indian traditions is developed, and Pala becomes the first constitutional monarchy on the Indian subcontinent.
 * A peasant revolt overthrows aristocratic rule in Silla and installs a peasnt republic.
 * Nihon: Forty years of crisis. Violent conflicts between powerful land-owning families, the central power of the tenno, organising craftsmen and landless peasants cost many thousands of lives due to modern warfare with firearms. They end with the "New Taika", another series of reforms including a land reform, the overdue modernisation and centralisation of the armed forces, an improved taxation system and the abolition of the landed gentry. As a consequence of the extremely bloody escalation, all members of the aristocracy except for the tenno`s direct family are either killed or driven into exile.
 * Exiled Fujiwara nobles who fled to Hokkaido manage to establish a shogunate on this Northern island, forcing the Ezo population to abandon their lifestyles of hunting and gathering and work as wage labourers on their fishing boats and in newly built ports.
 * The re-consolidated and reformed Nihon temporarily enters an alliance with Silla and Nihon (for the first time in history) against the new threat from the Hokkaido Shogunate.
 * Kambuja is shook by rivalries between the royal power centre, Angkor, and the commercial power centre, Oc Eo.
 * Famines in Tibet accelerate the Southward migration of Tai people. Some of them arrive in Dvaravati, where they are employed as cheap labourers by Dvaravati craft guilds and seasonal workers on the fields. Not being allowed into the cities of the Mon-speaking population of Dvaravati, the Tai build their own villages in the proximity.
 * Other Tai arrive in Kambuja, where the kings employ them as soldiers in the battles against insurgent Oc Eo.
 * Sri Vijaya extends its control over Borneo and the Palawan, Kabisayan and Mindanao islands (OTL Central and Southern Philippines) and every small island between them. They withstand China once more in a naval battle in 961. Nevertheless, the overstretched empire shows first signs of crisis towards the end of the century.
 * Caught between the expanding Chinese and Sri Vijayan empires, the relativeless stateless and egalitarian Tagalog rice peasants of OTL Northern Philippines imitate the model of their Sillan trading partners and establish a formalised peasant republic of Tagalog, too. The close connection to Silla contributes to the consolidation of Buddhism among the Tagalog, too.

Nations of Africa

 * The Horon fortify their wealthy towns against raids. Their ships begin to copy a Frisian cog design which allows them to land at mangrove coasts, too. They expand their trade network to the Gulf of Guinea, where they encounter the Yoruba and engage in trade with them.
 * In the Kingdom of Yoruba, a paranoia of Simonist conspiracies and encirclement spreads among the elites, leading to a military offensive against the Hausa, Banza and Sao city states. (Neither side has been able to afford significant amounts of firearms.) After initial success, the Simonist communities resort to a rather successful guerilla warfare, which they extend and carry into the lands of the Yoruba. After Yorubans commit a bloodbath in Kano, Simonist voluntaries from among the Garamants, the Tubu and the Mandinke of Wagadu come to the rescue. Yoruba must withdraw after nine years and considerable losses of warriors, resources and land. New rural Simonist communities are established in central OTL Nigeria.
 * Its quick expansion has overstretched the empire of Kitara. Conflicts among regional lords result in a breakup of the empire and the constitution of smaller, independent successor states: the Kingdoms of Buganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Ankole and Kyamutwara.
 * Munhumupatapa expands further to the South.

Nations of Atlantis
Salvador79 (talk) 12:10, April 22, 2014 (UTC)
 * Celts establish trading ports, monasteries and a couple of military forts throughout the lands of the Eastern Inuit, Beothuk, Miqmaq, Abenaki and another dozen Algonquin tribes. So far, control is still weak and locally limited; trade and contacts with the natives are not yet fraught with heavy conflicts, and the land has not yet become an imperial province.
 * Ostrogothic ships full of Taino gold stimulate interest in Europe and beyond. The Roman Empire, the Frisian Republic and the Horon each claim one or more islands and exploit, under varying circumstances, gold mines. Tensions between the rivaling powers in the archipelago increase.
 * A first Ostrogoth-Taino university opens in Guaynia on Borikén (OTL Puerto Rico) after a network of schools has always been laid out across the Ostrogoth-settled Taino islands. Educational language is Greek, whose alphabet is increasingly also used by Taino to write in their own language.
 * Years of drought kill tens of thousands of Maya. Ostrogothic trading ships are stormed by Maya refugees seeking a better future somewhere else. Aboard them (and other improvised vessels), Mayans spread across Southern Atlantis and as far as the northern shore of Caribia (OTL South America). Educated Mayans begin to gravitate towards Guaynia and its university. They contribute greatly to the scientific community`s awareness of the ecological disaster and spread the word of this problem across an increasing number of Atlantic people, among them the powerful Nahua.

Abrittus