1500-1599 (Abrittus)

In the 16th century, internal combustion engines are greatly improved. Tanks and machine guns bring about the era of industrial warfare. In Eran, which controls little coal deposits but large oil deposits, automobiles become a means of mass transportation of freights and individual persons. Here, too, electricity receives widespread use. Hosts of new electrical devices revolutionise the homes in wealthy lands like the Mediterranean, Western Europe, the Pontos-Tanais industrial zone, China, parts of India, the industrial core areas of Gao and Aksum, some Taino islands and most of all Sheba, which becomes rich over night through the exploration and exploitation of its huge fields of oil, for which demand sky-rockets in this century.

After century-long struggles, women achieve equal rights in the Celtic and Roman Empire, in Great Perm and some Germanic and Slavic states. In India, the fight goes on, while the Chinese Jian emperors smoothly grant equal rights and also introduce a weak parliament, which deals with popular petitions and exerts a control over bureaucrats.

These measures, along with compulsory secondary education, are hesitantly copied in Baekje, Nihon, and various South-East Asian polities.

Lysianism is adapted and massively supported by new Roman and Celtic elites. It helps reconcile society and shape the transition to an individualised society in a socially cohesive fashion.

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