1400-1499 (Abrittus)

The 15th century is characterised by large-scale wars and sociocultural upheaval.

Han suprematist and absolutist Jian China, allied with a Bangladesh-led alliance of communist Indianised states in Eastern and South-East Asia, contends for world power with the conservative Roman and Celtic Empires. In Eurasia, Iran knits an alliance with Türkestan, which is forced to make peace with Great Perm. Together, these three manage to maintain their independence in spite of pressure from both West and East.

In Atlantis, Jian China annexes more and more territory in the West, while the Celtic and Roman Empires exert more and more direct control over various East Coast polities in order to be able to access their ressources at profitable conditions. Celtic and Roman colonies increase in size, too, and more troops are stationed in Atlantis.

Liberia conquers significant portions of Eastern Caribia.

Back home, women`s liberation is under way. In Jian China and Bangladesh, this procedes relatively smoothly: women are gradually allowed more freedom and greater responsibilities in a generally highly controlled society. The world`s leader in feminism is Eran, where women enjoy equal rights with men, and a number of feminist religious movements revitalises Zoroastrianism/Mazdakism - the sect with the most enduring influence would be Lysianism. In Mahaaryabhata, the Roman and Celtic Empires and their Germanic and Slavic fringes, though, gender conflicts are unmitigated. Political elites are unwilling to grant women equal rights. Industrialisation had provided women with job opportunities, which they had not had in the age of exclusively male collegia and societates liberorum. More and more women decide to live a family-less life - a situation deemed very dangerous in a geopolitical climate of imperialist warfare, where sinking birth rates meant less soldiers in the future.

///to be continued///