Explorers 1452 (Map Game)

iThis map game will be like no other! Rules:


 * If you wish to both explore and colonize new unexplored territories, you must give up one turn.


 * After you capture a region, revolts are sure to happen, so you must give a description of how you put it down: With either force or propaganda.


 * It must be plausible. Example: No taking-over-Russia-as-Finland in a few turns.

Here is a list of new moves you can make:
 * If a nation wants an alliance with you, your nation can bargain (example-Portugal wants an alliance with Spain, but Spain will only join if Portugal gives its land claims in South America.)
 * You can hire raiders/pirates and make them raid any nation's ship, but this greatly reduces that country's relationship with your nation.
 * Unoccupied countries or nations led by inactive users can be invaded. If no resistance is made by said inactive users or the nation is unclaimed, you can conquer it in a plausible amount of time. Remember, the population will be angry about this, and after completely annexing a nation or a blank province players must explain how they deal with the entire populance. There are several options: Suppress them by force, massacre them, deport them, leave them as they are, etc.
 * The rest of Asia still unexplored as of 1493, Australia included, will not be colonized until 1513. This is to ensure a level of plausibility. Any posts stating colonization in that area before that will be deleted. Europeans will not have access to the South China Sea, and the Chinese/Japanese will not have access to Indonesia or such. Please understand, this is only for the sake of fairness and balance.

Once eight to eleven turns in a year are made, we can move on to the next year. This includes the turns of two separate nations controlled by one player.

Keys/Legend




Nations

 * Poland Lithuiania - Duchland 03:44, July 21, 2010 (UTC)Duchland
 * Byzantine Empire - Nationcreator 19:19, July 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * China- (octiman10 16:08, October 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * England & Portugal- Azecreth 20:29, December 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * Empire of Trebizond - Emperor of Trebizond 00:27, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ireland- CrimsonAssassin 14:09, October 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * Japan- CrimsonAssassin 19:35, November 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Papal States - Emperor of Trebizond 22:40, October 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * France - Ownerzmcown 00:52, October 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * Russia - Ownerzmcown 21:46, October 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ottoman Empire (octiman10 19:53, October 6, 2010 (UTC))
 * Scottish Republic - Bob 16:46, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Aragon - Keperry 17:43, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Teutonic Knights-Baconton 16:58, October 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Mamluk Sultanate- StarkBlack
 * Venice-Professor McG
 * Florence- Fedelele 20:27, December 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hapsburg- Azecreth 14:28, October 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * Kingdom of Naples- PitaKang 20:39 November 18 (UTC)

Unclaimed Nations

 * Milan
 * Castille

Non-Playable Protectorates

 * Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
 * Kingdom of Aram (Shared Responsibility between Florence and Papal States)

1452-1479
See Explorers 1452, 1452-1479

1480-1509
See Explorers 1452, 1480-1509

1510

 * The Irish expand northward in South Africa and North America. The tell the Mamluks that they can have the South African territories if the Mamluks give the Irish all of their current African territory.
 * The Japanese expand north in Asia, touching the Arctic circle.
 * The Hapsburgs organize Poland and lithuania into two separate District Republics. Each have autonomy, but owe their overall loyalty to the Hapsburg King. They have the same rights as the Bosnian and Bohemian Republics. Some Austrians brave the cold, and set up a colony on Baffin Island.
 * The English continue an expansion of their fleet and merchant marine. They propose a three-way defensive alliance between themselves, Florence, and Japan. Florence agrees, as they already had a defensive alliance with England in place beforehand. Much like Florence, England subsidizes private education. The army has begun to be reformed, with a focus on "denial of use" tactics. More training is given to the individual recruit as well (primarily in the area of field fortifications and small unit tactics).
 * The Mamluks offer the Irish a new deal. All their territory in Thailand for all of the Irish territory in africa. They also begin growing cotton in the empire.The Navy is split into three armada's. One for dealing with pirates, one for trade and exploration, and one for war. The Mamluks take over massive amount's of land in West Africa.
 * The Scottish expand deeper into thr Brazilian rainforest. The area is ettled with ASfricans brought from the growing African territories.
 * The Florentines launch a massive expansion of their Amazon territories, coupled with an increase in the size of their merchant marine.
 * France expands its African colony to border Mameluke territory.
 * Muscovy, hoping to expand its territory and naval capacity, invades the Kalmar Union, with an army vastly outnumbering the Scandinavian military.

1511

 * The Irish expand northward in Africa.
 * The Japanese expand northward in Asia.
 * The Ottomans offer to buy the western half of the territory on the horn of africa from the English for 6,000,000 florins and trade rights.
 * China builds up their military with the new powder and starts to build a wall between the chinses korea and the japanese korea to stop the influx of illegal immigrants. They finish the ring of forts on the empires borders and islands.
 * The Hapsburgs obtain some of the Ottoman powder, and begin incorporating it into their army. They also use German weaponsmiths to think up new weapons, but development isn't complete yet. The Moroccan colony expands to the border of Spanish Morocoo, and the Baffin Island colony expands a bit.
 * Scottish Brazil is renamed Hibrasil and expands deeper into the rainforest. Scottish Africa also expands east. The colonies in Mexico increase in population density and significant populations of Scots emerge in Irish Mexico as well as smaller populations in Florentine lands. Jarl Phillipos dies and his son Socrates(named after the philosipher) inherits his fathers place
 * The Mamluks began building cotton plantations all over the empire. Known as the "White Gold" cotton makes millions for the Mamluks, and the planatations give thousands jobs, and cotton makes the empire so wealthy, the Sultan decides to call of taxes for the rest of the year. Meanwhile, the empire begans expierimenting with gunpowder. Matchlock Rifles replace hand cannons. They expand westward in Africa. They also expand south, and their empire borders Irish Africa
 * The Florentines direct all their efforts to colonizing the Amazon. Subsidized education and various other economic incentives are halted as all funds are diverted to expansion. An offer of $400,000 equivalent in Florentine coinage plus 250 acres of land per family speed up the process of colonization, and, by the time the year is out, all the uncolonized land left is an area along the Rio Tocantins.
 * The English decline the Ottoman's offer, and, in fact, expand that colony to take up much of the Nigerian coastline, and parts well inland. The Yoruba Legion is formed, composed of some 30,000 natives offered the same deal that was offered to the Native Americans. Smaller Igbo and Nupe Legions are created, as well. The Navy is heavily expanded. English Brazil is sold to the Florentines for 15,000,000 florins.
 * Muscovy continues to expand into the Kalmar Union, as the country's defense capabilities continue to break down, the Msucovian army continues an advance along the Scandinavian peninsula.
 * France continues to expand its colony in Indonesia.

1512



 * Ireland expands north in South Africa and west in North America
 * Japan puts full efforts towards exploring Indonesia.
 * Colonization of South America is complete. Florence resumes all of it's economic subsidies. Their empire is consolidated during this period.
 * England continues to expand their fleet. All of Nigeria and Cameroon is under English control at this point in time. The army and legions continue to be reformed and improved.
 * Muscovy continues to advance along the Scandinavian peninsula, the king of the Kalmar Union, John of Denmark, declares a full military retreat from Scandinavia, and Muscovy begins plans to cross the Kattegat and and invade Denmark itself.
 * France continues to expand its territory in Indonesia to another island.
 * The Ottomans continue to expand in weaponry and develop a rifle of their own. They also create a liquid that is really sticky and really flammable, they call it black fire. After the fiasco of the new powder geting out quickly, they keep the recipe and samples of the liquid under lock, key and guard.
 * China finishes their wall divideing korea into, the chinsese korea and Japanese korea.
 * The new wing of the Hapsburg alace in Vienna is finished. This commemorates the ascention to power of the Monarchy on the Continent. The Austrians finish setting up their initial network of interconneected satellite states, by giving nominal independence to Hungary and making it a District Republic like Bohemia, Bosnia, Poland, and Lithuania. Ths is a policy that will be continued when new land is conquered. The colony in Morocco expands eastward, along the Spanish border, which is more fertile than the desert in the south.
 * The Mamluks build more cotton plantations. They ask the Ottomans fro the black fire, and they also expand west.

1513



 * The Irish expand northward in Africa.
 * The Japanese, while scouting out Indonesia, discover Eastern Australia and set up a colony there. Meanwhile, the Japanese accept the English's offer for a triple alliance.
 * The Mamluks began to consolidate their empire. The Mamluk Army is made considerably larger.
 * Austria invades the Kingdom of Serbia. Despite hard resistance, the superior equipment and training of the Austrian army allows them to triumph. Serbia is conquered and turned into a District Republic, adding on to the Hapsburg network of satellite states. Troops stay there to ensure that the new government is not challenge by remnants of the Serbian army.
 * Scotland founds a colony in West Africa, as well as one in Indo-china. Transport links are built across Scottish India. Hibrasil is consolidated and large amounts of Poles and Serbs arrive in the area, escaping Hapsburg rule. Borealia becomes more densely populated.
 * English colonists arrive on Kangaroo Island and Tasmania, claiming the land for king and country. The army and Legions are continually reformed and expanded. A smaller colony is also set up on East Timor and one on Cape York, while Welsh colonists set up in and around the Barossa Valley.
 * Florentines arrive in force in Victoria and New South Wales. The government claims all of New South Wales itself, granting each settler's family some 12,000 acres. The navy and merchant marine are expanded considerably.
 * The Ottomans will give the mamluks the black fire if they give the ottomans some of their land in africa. The Ottomans also sail south from their Maldives colonies and form a colony in western Australia.

1514



 * Ireland consolidates its power. Conditions in Irish territories, though very good compared to most nations are improved even more. Ireland also launches a campaign against Iceland.
 * France continues to expand its Southeast Asian colony.
 * Msucovy now controls the entirety of the Scandinavian peninsula, and now launches its invasion of Denmark.
 * After uprisig occur in Spanish Morocco, Austrian troops move in and occupy the area. Protests from Spain are ignored. The Hapsburgs believe that the Spanish are not strong enough to challenge them.
 * England has not forgotten the war they lost to the KU in the previous century, and join in in the war on Muscovy's side. Oldenberg, the Shetlands and the Faroes are taken, while Iceland is invaded. The colony on Tasmania now encompasses the entire island while more and more colonists (most out of Kent and Sussex) make landfall in Victoria. The navy is expanded.
 * Florence expands their holdings in New South Wales. The islands of Flores, Sumba, and Sumbawa are taken. Fortifications are built and troops moved into the Nile River Valley. The army is considerably expanded.
 * China founds a colony in northern Australia.
 * The Empire of Trebizond launches an invasion of Burma, intent on gaining access to the Pacific Ocean. Pontic settlers which also set sail from St. John's Isle the previous year reach the islands of Bangka-Belitung, colonizing both and finding the land fertile enough for growing crops and setting up a major imperial trading post. The native population make friends with the Greek merchants, offered access to massive quantities of silk, glass, and gold in return for allowing the settlers to build their colonies there.
 * The Mamluks capture one of the larger Islands in Indonesia.
 * Japan expands further inland in Australia

1515



 * Ireland expands its African colony upwards
 * Japan expands further inland in Australia
 * Muscovy continues its campaign against the Kalmar Union with their invasion of Denmark proper. The navy of Muscovy blockades the capital city, Copenhagen, as a land army is brought to invade Denmark in the country's west. The plan is to starve Denmark's capital so that when the army comes to conquer it, it will be very easy.
 * France continues to expand its Indonesian colony.
 * The Empire of Trebizond brutally crushes Burmese resistance with heavy artillery and their powerful guns. Rangoon is taken by storm. Trebizond now has 3,000 of their mobile merchant vessels across the world. These vessels are very close to the water and shaped like 'floating crackers'. However, their rotating gun turret and small, low, size ensure that their cannons can blast holes in the hulls of larger ships while the taller military vessels cannot target them easily because their mounted cannons are too high to aim them efficiently. One such vessel makes its appearance in the East Indies, landing settlers on South Kalimantan. The new colony is organized under the same administration of Trebizond's other Indonesian islands and becomes known as the 'Greek East Indies'.
 * the ottomans expand their colony in austrailia
 * China gives Scotland an ultimatum, leave Vietnam or risk war
 * The Hapsburg connect their Moroccan territories. They also pay the nomads in the desert money to make maps of where the oasises are in the desert. Knowledge of settlable places in the desert expands, and the Hapsburgs preapre to colonize it.

1516



 * Ireland expands northwards in Africa. They offer to help Scotland if the Chinese go to war with them.
 * Japan expands further into Australia.
 * Scotland replies that it has no territories in Vietnam, only in Burma-an area free of Chinese influence-but that is has taken the words of the Chinese as a direct threat to its territory in Burma. Jarl Saul appoints various Greek aristocrats to new duchies across the empire, inan attempt to consolidate the spread of colonial expansion into the Scottish feudal system and to ensure the Phillipine hegemony. One of the nations finest generals takes stewardship of the Burmese colony. Troops are mustered to defend their territory. Scotland states that any Chinese agression will be a direct assault on Christendom.
 * The Empire of Trebizond, viewing the looming war between Scotland and China with amused interest, sends a message to Scotland announcing that their maps are apparently of very poor quality, because it seems that the Scottish settlers who thought they landed in Burma landed in Vietnam instead. They announce that Burma is now one of their imperial territories, with no Scottish colonies there. Despite being in control of Rangoon and the Burmese coast (Through a series of military outposts on the Indian Ocean), much of inland Burma remains lawless jungle, with no real Trapezuntine control. The emperor believes he will reach the Pacific Ocean and orders his armies to the east. The Southeast Tagma is formed for the defense of Burma and other southeastern territories. Unlike traditional Byzantine Tagma's, the Trebizond Tagma consists of several units organized into one army, similar to the ancient Roman legions.
 * The Mamluks send soldiers to Vietnam to assist the Chinese in their war against Scotland. They harass Scottish supply lines.
 * The ottomans military is on high alert with the crisis with china and scotland
 * China Tells scotland one last time that if they dont leave vietnam they risk war with their alliance (Muscovy, Ottoman Empire, Mamluks) and the Empire of Trebizond.
 * England continues expansion of it's Australian colonies. They expand their fleets and improve their infastructure.
 * Florence continues expansion of it's Australian colonies.
 * The Hapsburgs begin settling the oasises in the Sahara, spreading their influence. They leave the natives alone, and connect their colonies with high walled roads, in order to keep sand from covering them.

1517



 * The Irish expand northwards in Africa. They offer assistance to Scotland in case of a war. They improve their army and interior as well.
 * Japan expands its Australian colonies. They improve their military and interior as well.
 * The Muscovian Navy has blockaded Copenhagen to near starvation, but the King still refuses to give in and waits as the Muscovian Army reaches the city and begins to lay seige to it.
 * France expands its colonial empire by expanding its colony in West Africa.
 * The emperor of Trebizond reshuffles his military. The imperial army, rigidly disciplined and kept in constant training, is now one of the largest and most powerful in the East. The 250,000 regulars are divided into individual Tagma's across the empire and dispatched to strategic locations along Trebizond's eastern borders. Meanwhile, a policy is also instituted in urbanizing the vast expanse of the Central Asian steppes. New cities are founded, and Greeks are attracted by free land and special advantages to come and settle there. Great numbers of enterprising Greek traders from Byzantium and Trebizond alike soon flock there to set up businesses, and everywhere they begin to form the ruling class of these new cities.
 * The Hapsburgs set up a colony on Baffin Island. They also expand the roads that connect their colonies in Morocco, expanding them, to make commerce easier. Austrian guard stations are set there to protect travelers from nomadic raiders. They also increase their military presence in the America to protect settlers from the influx of natives there, who have ben driven into their territory by the other colonial nations.
 * The Scottish send an expeditionary force to Indo-China to garrison their claimed area an defend it from Chinese attack. Jarl Saul thanks the Irish for their promised help. He then goes on a pilgrimage across Europe to Rome, where he visits the Pope and requests help if the Chinese and their Muslim allies try and fight for Vietnam. Saul also visits Vienna where he speaks with the Hapsburg Emperor. Elswhere, more aristocratic positions are created across the empire. A distinctly Greek upper class begins to take root in the Scottish Republic, with even the ethnically Scottish nobles adopting Greek as a second language.(Like how Russian nobles tended to speak French)
 * The Pope gives the Scots his blessing to fight in Vietnam against the Muslims and their Chinese allies, but expresses worry that the war is dragging Christian nations who are bound by their alliances. He notes one such as Muscovy, which the Papacy has not had any previous quarrels with. At the same time, the Papacy tells the nations of Western Europe they are perfectly free to come to the aid of the Scottish government, but that is their choice and theirs alone.

1518



 * The Burmese Tagma of Trebizond campaigns against aggressive native tribes to the east of the former Burmese kingdom. Meanwhile, the mainland colony in the Greek East Indies swells, and merchants sailing from there colonize the Tambelan archipelago, which falls under the administration of the Greek East Indies. The native population are soon taught how to sufficiently govern themselves with qualified imperial representatives selected by the emperor. Meanwhile, the Imperial Academy for Sciences is founded in Trebizond in an attempt to mirror the ancient Hellenistic Academy for Research established by the ancient successor states to Alexander the Great's empire. Here, doctors recruited from Greece, Persia, Arabia, and Palestine constantly work on revising Byzantine medical textbooks. Scholars pore over Roman and Greek manuscripts, deciphering, concluding matters of accuracy, and compiling grammar books and Greek dictionaries.
 * Ireland amps up its military might. They are ready to wage war at moment's notice.
 * France continues to expand its colony in West Africa, mostly expanding it along the coast.
 * The Muscovian Army continues its siege to the KU capital, Copenhagen. But as a harsh North European winter sets in, many people in Copenhagen rebel against the army and the king. Army stores are destroyed and army men are taken and killed. The king is killed in early December and the Muscovians enter the city a week later, victorious and proud. Muscovy now declares itself owner of all of Denmark and the KU disbanded, leaving Iceland for Britain.
 * England completes it's invasion of Iceland and expands it's Australian colonies, as well as expanding it's African colonies eastward. The navy is improved and expanded.
 * Florence expands it's African colonies, as well as expanding and improving it's navies.
 * The Hapburgs order an large increase in the size of the army. They are worried by Muscovy's growing might, and feel that their army would not be able to stop Muscovy's if they go to war. Many young men are pulled into the armed forces, where they are to be taught for 3 years how to fight if they receive the call to arms.
 * Naples sets up a colony in Western Africa, and calls it New Naples.
 * Jarl Saul declares that if the Chinese leave the tiny colony in peace, the Scottish will not provoke a conflict. But any aggression will not be tolerated. Elsewhere, the enobling of Greek followers and the subdivding Borealia into new duchies is almost coming to an end. The Indian Legions are founded. They are used to expand territory in Africa. A group of wealthy men of the Colonial Company challenge the power of Saul over the Chinese Question. Saul reacts by calling a Grand Moot, the event to elect a new Jarl, the first time it had happened during the reign of a Jarl. The strength of the new aristocracy is displayed in that even with massive campaigns to remove him by the Colonial Company, Saul is overwhelmingly re-elected. The Phillipine Dynasty secures absolute power over the Scottish Republic and Saul is confident that his successors will hold power in Scotland for a long time to come. He abolishes the Colonial Company.

1519



 * The Scottish Republic expands in West Africa, naming the new colony Phillipinia after the ruling dynasty. Elsewhere, colonies are builin the Arctic islands of North America and an attempt at a new colony in Australia is attempted.
 * Hapsburg Emperor Maximilian I dies. His son, Charles V, takes the throne. He reaffirms his commitment to the HRE and the Pope. He also renews his promise to help Scotland in the event of war.
 * Asiatics, educated in Trebizond's schools and speaking the Greek language, now also take their places in the ranks of Pontic Greeks to form a Graeco-Oriental aristocracy. To help manage such a large empire, the emperor allows conquered peoples freedom over local government. Following the old Roman way of ruling, provinces are re-divided into urban municipalities. Vanquished tribes and nations are organized into districts with one major city as the capital. Encouraged by the imperial administration, the local people use their own wealth to improve what they have in their respective district. By the end of the year, the new organization has left the Empire of Trebizond more or less a vast patchwork of self-governing provinces with a local freedom protected by the emperor.
 * The Commonwealth declare their neutrality in the looming Scottish-Chinese conflict, bt announce that they will permit millitary access to Bulgaria to all the nations taking action in this war and also decree their defense of the Pope's kingdom if any form of invasion is brought upon him.
 * France establishes a colony in eastern Australia.
 * Following the end of the Kalmar-Muscovy War, Vasili the III, Muscovian Emperor, declares Muscovy the Russian Empire and begins expanding the Russian Army and Navy.
 * New Naples expands eastward, bringing great riches for the Kingdom of Naples.
 * The Ottomans expand their austrailian colony.
 * China offers scotland a proposal, well let you keep the colony if you pay for it leave us alone and give us some land in africa. They also expand their austrailian colony'.
 * The Irish expand northwards in Africa
 * The Japanese expand their colony in Australia
 * Many advances in the Mamluk Sultanate are constructed for astronomy and math, and the Mamluks' main export, cotton, helps the empire build new universities and military academies. A man named Mahmud Uqias becomes Sultan. The citizens adore him because he was born the son of a merchant, not born into the royal family like most Sultans. Sultan Mahmud promises to bring the empire to greater glory and orders the construction of cannon foundries, drafting peasants into the army, and training them to be minuteman, ready to fight at a moment's notice. They expand westward in africa.

1520



 * Scotland gives China many chests of gold as well as one of their Central African colonies. Elsewhere, slaves are shipped to plantations in Borealia and India. Aztec architecture and culture is adopted across the Scottish Central American and Carribean colonies. They are united into the Dominion of Aztlan. Scottish colonists arrive in Australia.
 * The Ottoman military stands down after being on high alert from the possible scottish-chinese conflict. They expand their austrailian colony.
 * China accepts Scotland's gold and territory. They start sending settlers to the new colony. they also expand their Australian colony.
 * France expands its Australian colony.
 * Russia establishes a colony in southern Greenland.
 * The Mamluks establish a colony on the coast of Australia. It is called New Somalia. A few hundred settlers are sent to build up the colony, and several Imams are sent to convert the population to Islam.
 * The Empire of Trebizond lands small garrison forces on the five islands of North Maluku. Construction begins on a small outpost on the largest island to defend the invaluable natural harbor there. The native peoples prove hostile, but are beaten back and chased through the jungle with heavy artillery. The trees for a mile around the outpost location are cut down for timber and to prevent native ambush parties from sneaking out of the jungle and attacking the settlers. Meanwhile, Trebizond officially annexes the remaining provinces between its eastern provinces and China.
 * The Hapsburgs expand their colony on Baffin Island.

1521

 * The Scottish Australian colonies are expanded, as are the West African colonies. A colony is also established in Greenland. Jarl Saul dies and is repalced by his son, Phillipos II. Under Saul, the Empire reached new heights and Scotland has experienced a Golden Age.
 * The Irish expand northward in Africa
 * The Japanese expand in Australia.
 * The Ottomans crown a new Sultan, Sultan Suleiman I. To Start off his rule greatly, the sultan orders the making of a new grand city. He names the city of Koltuk, it is located on the southern part of turkey at the locations of OTL Antalya. The city will be massive, it will have a series of aquaducts to provide water, many public baths, a series of schools and a huge university, in the center of the city there will be a huge walled citadel/palace and to top it off he plans to build a grand mosque in the city. The austrailian colony expands.
 * China sends an emmisary laden with gifts and good wishes to the new ottoman sultan. Their austrailian colony expands.
 * The Haspsburgs expand their colony in Morocco.
 * The Empire of Trebizond begins pushing inland with their African colony. It is renamed 'Greek West Africa'. Meanwhile, settlers also expand the colony on South Kalimantan. A colonial office is established there to manage affairs of the Greek East Indies for the emperor. The Empire of Trebizond asks the Mamluk Sultanate for permission to build a trading post in Somalia. They tell the Egyptians that if they build a major port there, it can be become a very rich trading spot for European ships passing between Europe, America, and Asia. Of course, they will give half the money earned from the port business to the Mamluk Sultan if he allows them to build it there.
 * France continues to expand its colonial empire by establishing a colony in Tazmania.
 * Russia expands its colony along the Greenland coast.
 * Naples expands their SA colony
 * Sultan Uqias more than happily allows the Greeks to build a trading post in Somalia, seeing it to be benifical for both nations. The Mamluk Australian colony expands. A fort is built within the colony, and a garrison of 500 soldiers is stationed there. The colony thrives thanks to its fishing industry, and cotton plantations are built, along with a port on the coast, with supplies the colonist with vast amounts of fresh fish from the sea. By the end of 1521, almost 5,000 people live in the colony. Many imams are succesful at converting the Maori natives, and the Maori become so religous that they form a special leage of holy warriors called Muttawia. Sultan Uqias also sends gifts to Suleiman I. The Sultan gives Sulieman 1,000,000 florins to help construct Koltuk.

1522

 * Scotland expands control in Australia and the toe hold colony in West Africa is also expanded. Jarl Phillipos encourages Scottish nationalism and glorifies the Catholic faith, turning many duchies into ecclesiarchies upon their dukes deaths. These ecclesiarchies are ruled directly by the Catholic Church within the Scottish Republic. It is deeply unpopular with the locals, who distrust the remote Roman Church and dislike an overbearing influence of the religious on their lives. As well as this, though Catholiscism is the religion of the upper class, an upsurge in other heresies is growing.
 * Ferdinand I, son of the Hapsburg Emperor Charles, marries into the Castillan royal family. The colony in Morocco is expanded.
 * Ireland's African colonies grow.
 * Japan's Australian colony grows.
 * France establishes another colony on the South Island of New Zealand.
 * Russia continues to expand its Greenland colony.
 * The Ottoman Sultan thanks the mamluks for their gifts and assures them that their money will be used well in the production of the city. The austrailian colony expands, they build several forts in the colony and garrison the colony with 15,000 soldiers and artillery pieces.
 * China expands their austrailian colony. they build several forts in the colony and garrison the colony with 10,000 soldiers and artillary pieces.

1523

 * Ireland's African colonies grow and their military improves.
 * Japan's Australian colony grows.
 * Scotlands Greenland colony expands, as does the West Africa one. The Central African colony also expands northwards. Harl Phillipos travels to England and requests control of Glasgow and Edinburgh back.
 * Thanks to the marriage of Ferdinand I into the Castillan royal family, the Hapsburgs initiate closer relations with the Castillans. This includes increased trade, and the Hapsburgs send military advisors to Castille to see the status of their military and suggest improvements. The advisors bring back word of an untried spanish style of warfare, which involves professional soldiers arranged into deep ranks with an assortment of weapons to deal with any situation on the battlefield. The Austrian High Command takes note, and realizin the combat potential, starts reorganizing their military along the lines of the Spanish Tercio. The Baffin Island colony expands westward.
 * The new Ottoman city is near compleation and is looking amazing. They expand their austrailian colony and build a university in the colony to provide quality education. The native peoples are treated very well. They love the increased quality of life they received. They all convert to islam. They sail south and found a colony in OTL Perth. They keep the name Perth, the native peoples the Noongar, hearing of the goodness of the quality of life for the Yapa, accept the ottomans and convert to islam. The Ottomans build ports, towns, roads, forts, aquaducts and a school in the new colony. They garrison 5,000 troops and artillary pieces there.
 * China expands their austrailian colony. They build roads to connect all the cities, towns and villages, build aquaducts, and a university. Because of the increase of quality of life they have very good relations with the native peoples the Yolngu, Tiwi, Anindilyakwa and the Yapa.
 * The Mamluks expand their Australian colony much further inland. The colony is named Ahmerrad, and the population increases to 20,000. The natives are friendly with the Mamluks, trading with them and telling them the layout of the land. The colony in Indonesia sends them supplies, but the Ahmerrad can support itself now. Goods are sent back to New-Cairo, where they are traded to other nations. Ahmerrad becomes yet another source of wealth for the Mamluks. A university is built in Ahmerrad, and walls are built along the colony to keep out any hostile natives or other threats. The Imperial Mamluk army and Navy are made much larger.
 * France continues to expand its Oceanian colonies, establishing a military garrison of 20,000 in Australia and 10,000 on New Zealand.
 * Russia expands its colony on Greenland, moslty inward, and builds a fort to support their military interests on the island.

1524

 * The Hapsburgs expand their Baffin island colony inwards. They finish reorganizing their army into Tercios.
 * The Irish expand their South African Colony. Irish/Mamluk relations begin to go sour and the Irish expand their military.
 * The Japanese expand in Australia and they expand their military.
 * Jarl Phillipos is assassinated in Borealia. The southern areas especially revolt against the ecclesiachies and begin preparing troops to defend against a Papist invasion. More shockingly, the nobles in these areas symapthise with the rebels. Baron Tovios Avios-McDonald leads the rebels. Jarl Karolos takes power in Scotland and readies a fleet to crush the rebellion.
 * France's Oceanian colonies are massively expanded, as a plan by the French government to block other nations' abilities to expand in the area.
 * Russia continues to expand its Greenland colony and increasing the military garrison along the coast, building another fort and port to add on.
 * The Mamluks, growing concerned about Ireland expanding their military, begin sending troops to their borders.
 * The English expand their Australian colony, and set up military bases there, to support their alliance with Japan, and Far Eastern ambitions.
 * The ottomans expand their austrailian colonies. The construction of Koltuk is nearly compleats.
 * China expands it's colony. Their is rebellion in the Phillipenes, but they are swift to crush it.

1525

 * Japan expands in Australia.
 * Florence expands it's colony in Australia south and west. They also begin to invade the nation of Madrahapit in eastern Java, easily sweeping through it. A great amount of public buildings are built, like universities, roads and aqueducts. The Universitá di Firenze (University of Florence) opens. That same year, a young man named Martin Lutero writes 92 thesis about the Catholic Church's absolute domination, it's corruption and it's hipocrisy, and places them on the Santa Maria dei Fiore cathedral's gate. Soon, a new wave of discontent among the Florentine populace appears against the Church. By the end of the year, a new branch of religion called Lutheranism has been created and placed under Lorenzo II de' Medici's tolerance enactment. Lorenzo, although doesn't convert, supplies and offers his protection to Martin Lutero, placing him under full protection by the Duchy of Florence.
 * The Irish begin to make amends with the Mamluks. However, due to the recent heretical behavior, the Irish place Martin Lutero under arrest and Irish Assassins search for him. Meanwhile, Protestants are put in jail for heresy in Ireland. Meanwhile, the military is improved.
 * The Ottomans expand their austrailian colonies.
 * China expands it's austrailian colony and sets up one on the island of Papua New Guinea.
 * The Mamluks expand Ahmerrad much further inland. The population of Ahmerrad reaches 100,000. The Mamluk Navy grows vastly in size.
 * Lutheranism starts to catch on in England, although harsh persecution from the royal family keeps it largely underground. The English expand the navy more, to a very large size.
 * The Hapsburgs expand their Baffin Island colony. They aren't sure how to react to the new sect of Catholicism, but decide to give it time to see if it catches on widely.

1526

 * Martin Lutero is found and brought to the Pope to be put on trial. Meanwhile, the Irish expand in Africa.
 * Japan expands in Australia.
 * Florence, offended by Irish kidnapping of a person protected by the Doge himself, especially because he was kidnapped in Florence's sovereign territory, asks for the Pope to release Martin Lutero and transport him back to Florence. Also, as Martin Lutero is captured unfairly in the Florentine's opinion, and more and more people convert to Lutheranism, including much of the royal house. Lutheran levels rise to 20% of the Florentine population, causing it to become the second largest Christian sect in Florence. The Florentines also expand into the remains of Madrahapit.
 * France continues to expand its Oceanian colonies.
 * Russia continues expanding its colony on Greenland.
 * Luutheranism stays low in England, due to continued Christian persecution. The English expand in Australia.
 * The Hapsburgs demand that Venice turn over control of their Balkan territory to Austria, and pay them money, or there will be war. Lutheranism grows in Austria thanks to Florentine emigrants. The Hapsburgs begin moving troops to the Venetian border.

1527
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 * Martin Luther is taken instead to an Irish court. He gets a fair trial. In the end, he is found guilty of heresy and is excecuted. Meanwhile, the Irish expand in Africa.
 * Due to his fathers' rise to prominence as a theologian at Henry College in New Plymouth, John Calvin is sent to the prestigious University of Ute to study philosophy annd religion. He quickly becomes a well-known apolegetic and an ecumenical activist there, putting together protests outside the newly-erected Lutheran churches around the province.
 * Florentines are outraged by the Irish trial, which they call unfair. Lorenzo also cuts relations with Ireland, as Martin Lutero was under Florentine protection. Many people convert to Lutheranism within the Italian mainland. The Medici, however, stay Catholic. Lutheranism also spreads later in the year to Florence's American holdings, when several hundred Protestant priests leave Florence to spread Lutheranism. By the end of the year, Florence is mostly Lutheran.
 * The Pope refuses to excommunicate Florence on account of their Lutheran faith, as long as the leadership remains Catholic. He shows no remorse for the Irish execution of Martin Luther, but no particular joy for it either, as he was kidnapped from his own nation. The Papacy issues an edict to the Holy Roman emperor, the Hapsburgs, and the King of the United Kingdom, telling them to discriminate against Lutherans in order to keep their numbers low.
 * The Empire of Trebizond expands their African colony inwards due to a mass migration of Greeks leaving overcrowded cities in Pontus and Georgia. The new settlements quickly swell.
 * The Ottomans expand their austrailian colonies. The City of Koltuk is completed, it is largest and most grand city every built. It is 10 miles wide and 11 miles long and is ringed by a foot thick and 100 feet tall wall, and every 1/4 mile there is a watchtower with 4 cannons in each tower, cannons line the wall. There is an inner citadel with the same defenses as the outer walls. There are multible markets, theators, schools and mosques in the city. The Grand Mosque of Koltuk is the largest and most beutiful mosque in the muslim world. The Black Rock of the Kaba is moved there. The city is fed by multible huge aquaducts and ports for food, trade bside the multible land routes. The city is so magnicent that the seat of power the empire is moved to the city and Koltuk is the new capital of the ottoman empire.
 * China expands its austrailian colonies. They set up ports, towns and roads in their new colony in papua new guinea island.
 * The Hapsburgs occupy the Venetian Balkan territories, and gives it to the District Republic of Serbia. They acknowledge the Papal edict, but do not enforce it too harshly, as they do not see it as a threat, and even see some good bits in it.
 * The English continue to persecute the Lutherans harshly, earning the English queen the nickname of "Bloody Mary". The Enligh translation of the New Testament arrives in England.
 * The Scottish army sent to crush the Reformist rebels in Borealia is humiliated in the north. The leaders seize on Lutheranism and begin organising an army and navy to spread the new faith across the Empire, displace the Phillipine dynasty and re-establish order and true faith witin an almighty Scotland.
 * France continues to expand its colony on Oceania, now spreading a lot along the eastern and southern Austrlian coast, as New Zealand has all been colonized.
 * Russia continues to expand its colony on Greenland.

1528

 * The emperor of Trebizond lands a sizable force on Southern Sumatra to begin subduing the native peoples there. As a result of massive overpopulation, the emperor begins drafting more and more Asiatics and Greeks into the imperial army and sending them abroad. Veterans of previous colonial wars are given tracts of land in Greek West Africa, while others are sent in ever-increasing numbers to become merchants and businessmen in the island of Sulawesi.
 * The Pope, frustrated by the growth of Lutheran influence, calls for a union of the Churches. Martin Luthero preached of the Papacy's corruption, and the Pope hopes something can be done to amend the points brought up by Luthero. He asks for a meeting with the Scottish and Florentine Lutheran Church leaders in Rome.
 * Ahmerrad grows in size. Sultan Uqias orders the construction of a new city in Somalia called Narra. The city will be built along the coast, and a huge palace will be built there. The empire expands further west into Africa. The elite Mamluk warriors, the Askari, are sent to help conquer land in West Africa.
 * John Calvin continues his education at UU. He is taught by such figures as Alexander Alane, Heinrich Bullinger (a staunch Lutheran), Martin Bucer, and Huldrych Zwingli.
 * France expands it colony on Australia, now bordering even the Chinese colony.
 * Russia expands its colonial empire by establishing a colony on the islands north of Canada.
 * The Ottomans Expand their austrailian colony. They ask to by the land seperating the main part of the empire from the arabian part for 15,000,000 florins. Sultan Suleiman I invites foreign leaders, dignitaries and ambassadors to see the empires new capital city.
 * China expands its austrailian and papua new guinean colonies and captures the last Philippine islands. From their African colony they set up a new colony in OTL Cameroon.
 * The English continue hunting down Lutherans. They expand their Australian colony.
 * The Hapsburgs expand their Baffin island colony. The growth of Lutheranism in Austria continues, with the Hapsburgs seeing that it will cause change for the better, they give the Lutherans a wink and a nod to converting people to their new form of Christianity.
 * The Irish expand their military. They grow concerned that the Mamluks might try to invade. Meanwhile, the African colony is expanded.
 * Japan expands in Australia.
 * I'm ging on a trip for a couple days, till around Wednesday. I dn't know what my internet acess is going to be, so don't rip my countries apart until I say I'm back. OK guys? Azecreth 22:26, December 17, 2010 (UTC)

1529

 * The Irish expand their military and the African colony.
 * The Ottomans expand their australian colonies
 * China expands all of its colonies.
 * Lorenzo II dies during his sleep, at age 89, possibly the oldest person in Florence at the time. He is mourned throughout Florence, as he brought the Republic into a golden age. His successor, Alessandro I, implements a series of military and civil reforms. He eliminates the Florentine exception of the tolerance policy towards Muslims. He also amps up and diversifies the Florentine Army. It modernizes it's infantry, usually changing hand cannons for matchlock rifles. It is also diversified, as Florence takes up Middle Eastern, European and Inidgenous American soldier types and weapons as part of the Florentine Army. The same happens with cavalry and artillery. However, it's the Navy which gets the most advances. It becomes larger and better armed, designed to protect commercial and transport ships crossing the seas. Some Medici also start converting to Lutheranism: the Doge, however, stays Catholic. Some Medici and other religious leaders also start sending missionaries to various nations: Ireland, England and the Ottoman Empire are the most heavily-targeted, due to political tensions and those nation's general intolerance towards Lutheranism. Florence also expands it's Australian colony so that it takes up all of the territory between the English and Japanese colonies.
 * A man named Hayreddin Barbarossa comes to Sultan Uqias, offering to be a general in his army. The Sultan says yes, and Barbarossa becomes the lead general in the Mamluk Army. The army is modernized, musketeers fill the ranks of the Mamluk army. After crushing an African Warlord's army while conquering land in Africa, Barbarossa is appointed heir to the throne. Meanwhile, the Imperial Navy expands. Ahmerrad expands further along the coast of Australia. The navy constructs a new kind of ship. A massive 75 gun ship with 3 decks. Over 150 of these ships are made.
 * The Pope again calls for Florence and Scotland to negotiate for a Union between the Churches. He warns a major war may follow if they refuse. Meanwhile, the Papacy also rejects the Turkish offer for the Kingdom of Aram. As Florence is becoming increasingly Lutheran, he abolishes Florentine interests in Aram, but because of the doge's continued faith the Pope allows Florence to maintain Tripoli, Edessa, and Antioch.
 * The Empire of Trebizond overruns the last established Indonesian state of South Sumatra. The royals of each kingdom and tribe are executed as a show of power. This new block of territory becomes known as Greek Sumatra, in joint administration with the Greek East Indies. Agitated by the growing number of Lutherans arriving in the empire fleeing persecution in Europe, the emperor bars them from swarming the borders of his dominion and begins to enforce strict immigration laws for Western Europeans entering Trebizond or any of its overseas territories.
 * The English offer to help the Papal States in any wars against Lutheranim. They begin preparing their forces for a potential conflict, while continuing to persecute them.
 * The Hapsburgs start to realize that maybe it would be best to at least pretend they are trying toget rid of the Lutherans, in order to maintain their alliance with the Papal States, and to further their interests when the election for the next Holy Roman Emperor comes around. The Baffin Island colony expands and the Hapsburgs establish a bigger presence there.

1530

 * The Irish excecute any Lutheran missionaries. They begin modernizing their army as well. They begin working on upgrades to the Matchlock Rifle. They urge the Scottish, a longtime ally, to reject the heresy spreading throughout Europe. The African colony expands.
 * Florence demands that the Papal States give them Aram back, as Aram has always been a Florentine dominion, because the missionaries are not official, and that the leadership is for now, Catholic. Florentine troops stationed in Aram or other Crusader states refuse to leave the region. Alessandro, although he wants to mantain peace in Europe, is forced by the Military Forces of Florence to greatly increase the numbers of the armies, and that he modernizes them even more, as they are afraid that the Pope will soon declare war. Many Catholic churches are turned into Lutheran ones: Alessandro tries to stop it and send an army to detain the persecutions, but the army, in fact, joins the Lutherans in the task, as most of the army is Lutheran. Troops are stationed throughout all Florentine territories, but the most heavily armed are the territories of the Kingdom of Kemet, the Principality of Antioch/County of Edessa/County of Tripoli, the Kingdom of Saba, the Kingdom of Aram (even though it is not officially a Florentine territory anymore), Continental Florence, the Florentine East Indian Territories, Florentine North America, and Florentine Central America. Tensions also start to mount within Florence between Alessandro and the remainding Catholics, and another son of Lorenzo named Lorenzo as well, which has the support of Protestants and most other religions within Florentine territories.
 * The Borealian Lutherans invade Scotland, with popular support. Many working people have been disgusted by the decadence of the Catholic Church. The invading armies ranks swell with volunteers and the army heads towards Aberdeen, the capital of the Scottish Republic.
 * John Calvin undergoes a spiritual reformation on a trip to Cabela (the Florentine Dakotas). He begins to see the corruption and innately hypocritical teaching of the Church, and is shocked by his previous actions. He moves to a small town in central Borealia, and begins work on an English translation of the Bible from the original Greek.