1584(831)-1619(866) (Ætas ab Brian)

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 * The Tang

Next was Spvrivs Caecilivs From Cyrenaica at 43. His rule was normal but for increasingly frequent diseases which found their way out of the regions of northern india. These caused some trouble with Parthia’s trading and stability. The illnesses were determined to move through polluted air, usually from rotting organic matter. This made provincial governors make garbage handleing more strict. This seemed to not help so much as intended. The sicknesses continued in Parthia and spread to the other eastern provinces, several hundred were recorded dead by 1599(846), news from the Tang Empire also reported unusually common plagues always coming up from India where they would cause a lot of trouble for both isolated and open cities.

In spring of 1600(847) a plague larger than all the recent epidemics combined totally swept out of the east. It killed quicker and more morbidly than any known disease, marking those infected with red or black bloches beneath the skin. Shortly behind the wave of death, all order broke down. Reaching Asia Minor in a matter of weeks, it immediately spread to Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, from there the rest of the Empire was open to the invasion.

In response to the outbreak, the Senate tried a miriade assortment of decrees from banning grain imports to halting all Black market speculators. These also did not help, in fact, it insigated many riots, rebellions-especially amongst slaves because they were making up over 60% of the deaths counted and had little assistance. Parthia was lost in the fall of 1601(848) and became at worst tiny factions of warring cities, to at best lands of total anarchy where nothing happened for the next 60 years. In late winter 1601(848) Greece, Gaul, Africa, Mauretania, and Italia were struck. Caecilivs himself was infected.

It was now undoubtable that the diseases was some form of microbe that got into everything and everyone, minority groups got a beating. More services of every kind were being performed by every recognised religion but none had any effect.

In the month of Avgvstvs 1601(848) Habasiah revolted, in September, Nubia and Arabia Felix followed. The main sources for the Kushite region were lost and the legions had to be disbanded In Terranova, the disease still had yet to make its horrendous landfall and the provinces, excluding Tainocai rebelled and declared themselves the Commonwealth of Terranova. There were massive battles until mid 1602(849) when the plague, now being called the Miasmata came in and killed all the loyal legionaries and an unkown amount of Terranovan rebels; all contact with Terranova was lost by Rome by the late of that year. By now the Miasmata was killing off Britannica, Hispania, and Dacia. So far the amount of dead in the Empire (none were sure if this included the lost provinces) was counted at around 140 million. Amazingly also this year, Caecilivs recovered from the disease, it had been known that a few who caught the disease lived and these miracles were claimed by the Shrines but the public’s faith had now become annoyance and the religions lost so much power that many crumbled into the history books. More secular leaders and policies were demanded by the citizens. The Roman custom of creamation both became unpopular and banned by the govenrmnet because of the potential of spreading the disease. Huge pits where there were enough people still alive were dug, filled with the dead and limed. Medical praticitioners By 1603(850) Hibernia and Germania Inf. Were being struck, Bosporas part revolted, part died out and was lost. Rebels resurged in the Sahara and both pockets of revolt kingdoms and a push back of the borders occurred. Luckily, the land losses levelled out for the most part but now vast fields lay fallow and there were few farmers and fewer slaves to work for them. This year, a Sinican compound called Niter by the Romans makes it though the chaos engulfing the world. The few messengers to survive the trip tell of how the Tang Empire was being even harder hit and in desperation to quell uprisings this powder was used to project metal bearings into the crowds, or in works of fire in the sky. The Romans invent the Canna, a casted iron pipe for the Niter, firing huge iron balls into rebel walls. This does well for ending sieges. In 1604(851) the Miasmata sputtered out, making only small deathcounts in Scandia and far east Germania. It would continue into the Barbarian lands as a unnotable roaming disease though. After 5 years, 120 million slaves and 80 million Roman Citizens were dead out of the 496 million total before. After a few years, intermitten contact is made with the Tang. About 45 million of their 135 million are dead. Land costs are far down, slaves are scarce-really scarce, like 20 million left in the whole empire scarce, but there is still porportianally more food available, and slaves are out-bought by buyers with rewards of better pay and freedoms. This made some slaves very rich and brought about the ideal of Abadse (number-one). It is an ideal of self employment and doing whatever is nessesary to make money on one’s own. These ‘Abadsetors’ flock to the Black markets, replacing the spectators and investing all over the place to turn profits without doing any work. The snippets of education they have gotten serve them well. Eventually they start reserving and supplying other people’s jobs and businesses. 1609(856) a devastating earthquake struck the Parthian rebel state, 250 000 were believed killed but in this era of crisis, records were usually lost if they were kept at all. This same quake hit Achaea, killing 50 000. Some slaves were becoming so rich and free in all ways but name that a few were imprudent enough to start dressing like Citizens. The Senate made laws on how much a slave could be paid and wear but this lead to enormous slave revolts, especially by the Caucasus’ gothic squatters. The province was lost in 1613(860). The economy was already hurting from lack of labour so they were forced to allow slaves their freedoms and pay. By the time of Caecilivs’s death in 1619(866) the Empire and indeed the world was in a sorry state. Most of the rebel provinces were totally devastated, they probably would not withstand Rome should it recover

the known world was left in a depression.

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