1000-1099 (Abrittus)

Section currently under re-construction.

The 11th century AD is marked by an almost global outbreak of the Black Death between 1030 and 1070, which kills almost a quarter of the population of Europe, Africa and Asia. The pandemia disrupts the order of many nations. Developed nations which manage to maintain social order and strict hygienics protect their urban populations, but cannot find ways to help their rural citizens, who inevitably live together with rodents and fleas. Global trade and communication break down for half a century. The European settlers in Atlantis cut off all contacts with Europe in the successful attempt to prevent the pandemia´s spreading to their new continent. This has complex implications for the development of Atlantis.

The pandemia contributes to a revival of all sorts of religions in Europe and the Middle East and to the establishment of a strictly literalist Christian sect, Lukianism. In competition to religious healers, medical schools and hospitals also work feverishly towards discovering the source of the problem and finding ways of combatting it. As the latter finally succeed in identifying the Yersinia pestis bacterium in rats, fleas and infected humans` secretions, and manage to contain the pandemia not through religious rituals and appeal to the gods, but through the use of barium carbonate as a rodenticide, arsenic and other insecticides against fleas, and paper face masks against the spreading of the pulmonary variety, several traditional cults descend into a severe crisis, and the social prestige of medics and chemists increases dramatically.

The last decades of the century are characterised by reconstruction efforts.

Economy & Technology
Due to the outbreak of the Black Death, no significant technological advances are made in this century. Economically, the pandemic causes a severe setback.

Military

 * The Black Death interrupts armed conflicts across Europe, Africa and Asia.
 * The Tolteks and Mayans acquire firearms from Ostrogothic merchants and use them to go to war against each other and against neighbouring Mesoamerican cities.

Philosophy / Science
The Horon deepen their ideological chasm to their Simonist neighbours and former brothers by developing a pro-capitalist libertarian political theory, which they propagate at home and abroad combined with horror stories of how terrible life among the Simonists is.

Religion
In Norway, a radically Bible-literalist branch of Christianity, Olavism (after its founding father, a former monk from one of the many Celtic Church monasteries which have turned Norway`s sparse population mostly Christian), develops.

Nations of Europe

 * The Baiuvarian Civil War ends with the intervention of a Roman peace mission. The association is restored.
 * In Norway, Olavists begin to mobilise the population against the "corrupt, sinful and treacherous" aristocracy and their allies in the Celtic Church monasteries.
 * The Venedian tribes South of the Baltic Sea (OTL East Germany and Poland) are united in a federation under the leadership of the booming port town of Vineta.

Nations of Africa

 * The Horon extend their trade network, supported by political domination, all over the continent`s Atlantic Ocean coast. Either due to the translation of their autonym, or due to their new and pronounced political philosophy, their nation becomes known in the Latin-speaking world as "Liberia".

Nations of Atlantis

 * As Ostrogothic trade volumes with Europe and their credit networks break down during the depression, desperate Taino-Ostrogothic enterpreneurs look for other lucrative businesses and turn Westward. The Maya and especially the Toltecs have gold. Several clever businessmen from the Taino Sea come up with the idea of selling them Eurasian innovations in exchange for that gold - and the gold would provide the security on which renewed trade and trans-Atlantic Ocean investments could be based. As a result, the Maya have carts with wheels at their disposal since 1020 and the Toltecs in Coatzacoalco are sold 24 horses in 1021. Even more profitable businesses were those which the Atlantic trading partners were unable to reproduce themselves: from 1027 on, both Toltecs and Maya bought firearms from Taino-Ostrogothic merchants - and from the 1030s on, they also had to buy vaccines against smallpox, which made a small company from Guaynia, that had hitherto produced modest quantities of antibiotics and vaccines for Borikén´s famous university hospital, very rich. - - - major consequences, I need a while and some input to draft the timeline - - - 
 * Attacks on the Southern Taino islands and attempts at invasion by Caribs are staved off easily by the Ostrogoth-Taino`s use of firearms.

Nations of Caribia
Salvador79 (talk) 01:04, May 14, 2014 (UTC)

Abrittus