The New & Improved Map Game (Map Game)

The newest version of the Map Game and The New Map Game. It actually starts out with a fairly historical map of 500 A.D.

The Rules
Just like the original Map Game, a turn is a year

Take your turn by writing a bunch of random events, then edit the map (Microsoft Paint, FotoFlexer, Adobe photoshop, of any other photo editor will do, but we recomend Pixlr)

Don't be ridiculous! (i.e. Finland cannot dclare independence and then invade the entire world, all in a year)

'If you don't have a map to show for your new edit, it will be deleted! or a map will be mad based on the stuff you wrote'

This will stop whenever it gets too crazy

Please leave comments on the talk page!

WE WILL ADD MORE YEARS ONCE WE GET THERE!

One other person must go again before you take a turn!

PLEASE, make the pictures more consistent. it just looks weird

If you have a problem with a post, rather than changing it, post a bit on the talk page about it, and the community will decide.

500-530
See New &amp; Improved map game 500-530

531-560
See New &amp; Improved map game 531-560

561-590
See New &amp; Improved map game 561-590

591-621
See New &amp; Improved map game 591-621

622
Brittania and the British Republic combine to form the Empire of Britain, under the leadership of Geoffrey the Great. Britain annexes Antoalia's territories in Ireland and subsumes Scotland by the end of the year. Geoffrey forms a complete alliance with France and French Hispania.

Meanwhile, Finland conquers even more of the Baltic Tribes, with the secret support of Poland, the Hungarian Empire, and Bulgaria.

Farther south, France grants French Hispania the right to build it's own navy and army. French Hispania immediately churns out a war fleet and builds a army of 300,000 strong. Due to increasing trade and immigration, French Hispania now has 23 million people.

623
Italy's navy is proved to be the most efficient when a war fleet gets lost but then arrives to a new land without much damages. As the land is so cold, they name it "Iceland". What they didn't knew is that it was only on winter in which it was cold. A new Itallian vessel, called "Carabella", is created.



French Hispania buys the Baelric islands from Italy, in order to cement thier hold on the mediterranean

They also replace the fore-and-aft rigged schooners with new "men-o-war", which are large, fore-and-aft rigged ships that mount ten heavy but compact torsion balistae on each side

624
Gustavus Vasa comes to power in Sweden. He will become known as Gustavus the Great, since he reforms and modernizes Sweden. King Gustavus depised France, French Hispania, and Italy, because of their powerful navies and extremely modern economies and merchant fleets. Gustavus initated a package of reforms in Sweden:

Educational Reforms: King Gustavus I established the University of Stockholm, to be staffed by French, French Hispanian, and Italian teachers and professors. The University was to teach mathmatics, reading, writing, Latin, Greek, Italian, French, science, and military tactics. The king allowed women to attend school and decreed all people between the ages of 7-14 had to attend school for at least three years. Gustavus I set up more elementary and secondary schools then any other Swedish (or Danish) monarch before him. These educational reforms were based on the French, Italian, and French Hispanian models.

Economic Reforms: Gustavus I set up several Royal Colleges: a College of Engineering, a College of Shipbuilding and Trading, a College of Manfacturing, and a College for Art and Culture. Each college taught pupils the subjects they specialised in, on subjects as diverse as engineering, ship-building, trading, arcihteture, military tatics, steel-making, and city-building. Gustavus overhauled the Sweedish tax system, replenishing the Sweedish treasury and imposing the first land tax in Sweden. Gustavus also encouraged trade with the West Danish Empire, Finland, Britain, Poland, and France.

Military Reforms: Gustavus I established the Sweedish Navy, with assistance of Italian and French Hispanian naval experts. He built 120 major ships and 400 smaller vessels. Gustavus established the naval discpline system and introduced French Hispanian ship design methods into his fleet. Gustavus also created a standing army of more then 150,000 men and a reserve of 50,000.

Agricultural Reforms: Gustavus re-vived the old Danish four-crop rotation method, in a updated incranation. Gustavus also divided the land between the nobles and poor, and he provided state support to noble estates and regular farms.

625
French Hispania buys some of the Basques land, and builds a large modern road connecting the Bay of Biscay to the French Hispanian ports. thanks to Italian taxes on the straights of Gibraltar, it's cheaper to use this road than to sail around the Iberian Peninsula. This take a large chunk out of the Italian government's income

A French Hispanian inventor discovers a way to power several dozen looms with a overshoot waterwheel. he also invents a device which allows one weaver to spin several threads at the same time. these two invention increase fabric production in Hispania by an order of magnitude.

French Hispania also adopts the Danish four-crop rotation system. thanks to the mild climate in Hispania, farmers are able to grow during all four seasons, which allows them to produce double the grain per acre as their Danish equivalents.

626
Unable to compete with their faster and less manpower intensive French Hispanian schooners, the Italian Merchant Marine loses it's control of the carry trade on the Mediterranean and Atlantic oceans. The Italian economy goes into a deep recession.

627


France adopts the water-powered weaving system used in French Hispania. The French also adopt the Danish four-crop rotation system. Alexander I begins his own reforms to make France more powerful then French Hispania:


 * Educational Reforms: Emperor Alexander I establishes the University of Paris, in Paris, the capital of the French Empire. The University teaches math, reading, writing, theology, geology, science, Latin, Greek, French, Italian, and shipbuilding. Alexander I provides free admission into the university and has it staffed with the best French and Italian teachers around.


 * Military Reforms: Alexander I adopts French Hispanian naval ship-building methods into his navy, while also adopting Italian navigation methods. The French navy now has a total of 670 large ships and 800 smaller vessels, compared to the Italian navy of 430 large ships and 200 smaller vessels, and the French Hispanian navy of 230 large ships and 190 smaller vessels. Alexander I initates the first French Naval Discpline Code, similar to the one adopted by the Sweedish Navy. This greatly increases naval efficency. Alexander I increases the size of France's standing army to a million men, the reserves to 800,000. This compares with the Italian strength of 560,000 regular soldiers and 230,000 reserves, while French Hispania has only 90,000 active soldiers and less then 13,000 reserves.

French Hispania unpexectdely annexed Sardinia and Corisica. Alexander I, while he did not support this intrusion on Italian territory, did not say anything against it.

The Queen of French Hispania sends an offer of marriage to Alexander I, in order to unify the French territories. Alexander I declines the Queen's offer, believing France and French Hispania are to be seperate. In reality, Alexander I was actually in love with a Italian princess, Anna-Marie. She was also in love with him. They married by the end of the year.

The Empire of Britain is overthrown and once again becomes the British Republic. The Republic then cedes Ireland it's controlled Irish coast.

628
French and Italian relations having been cemented, Italy adopts all of the French reforms while borrowing money from France. An Italian scientist meanwhile discovers that a mixture of elements creates an explosive mixture. Italy reduces taxes for travel through Gibraltar and Italian pirates are supported by the Italian government to raid French Hispanian merchant ships.