Principia Moderni IV (Map Game)

The Ming Dynasty still rules over the vast lands of China. On the other side of the world, the Hundred Years War continues between England and France. Europe is still stuck in the old ways of feudalism and chivalry while the notions of a New World are considered figments of imagination.

We welcome you to the long awaited fourth expansion of that immortal series. Welcome to Principia Moderni IV! Starting in 1400 AD, this is the dawn of the modern world and the tail end of the Middle Ages. The Renaissance is just kicking off in Europe, while the nations in the western side of the continent are locked in the last gasp of the Hundred Years War. The Muslim world is still reeling from the invasions of Turks and Mongols, with the Caliphate resting in the collapsing Mamluk Egypt and the Ottomans on the rise in Anatolia. Make it count.

The first game was the most successful on the wiki, leading all the way to the modern day with mostly plausible posts and little controversy. The second game reached almost to the modern day, but failed due to a plethora of ASB events and moderator bias. The third game was much more worthy of the first, almost running into implausibility but climbing back into a shining glory by the end. Riding on the latest reforms of map games since the end of PMIII, this is the most logical next step in that evolution. Remember above all other rules — have fun.

Important Pages

• Rules and Algorithm
• Alliances
• Holy Roman Empire
• Feudal Dynasties
• College of Cardinals
• Nations

The Night's Watch (Moderators)

• Lord Commander Scrawland
• First Ranger Wolves
• First Builder Callumthered
• First Steward SkyGreen24
• Septon Nathan1123
• Maester GunsnadGlory
• The Mountain that Rides Feudy McPlagueface

The Wildlings

All users currently on the wiki may play unless otherwise noted.

Banned Users

A ban from plausibility strikes lasts thirty days, after which the third strike is repealed and the banned player is unbanned. However, the newly unbanned player rejoins the game with two strikes, as a form of probation.

• Bear - 1648

Banned temporarily

• Dev - 1682 (60 days)

Plausibility Strikes

Three strikes and you're out! Each strike resets after 30 years of the most recent strike.

• Adolf Coffee - I (1732)

Moderator Strikes

These are strikes for moderators and how they moderate. The same three strikes rules apply. If a moderator is banned from moderating, however, they can still play as their nation. Mod strikes can be delivered in one of three ways:

1. If a sufficient number of players (more than half of all players voting) vote to give a moderator a strike.
2. If I, Scraw, give them a strike.
3. If a majority of all mods (ie more than half of the total number of mods, excluding that moderator) vote to give a moderator a strike.

Moderators can be given strikes for the following reasons:

1. Exhibiting bias that would benefit the nation they are playing.
2. Exhibiting bias that would negatively affect a player they have a personal dispute with.
3. Making a ruling that contradicts a proven fact from OTL or an established fact from earlier in the game.
4. Overruling a decision of a majority of moderators.

The Game

1740

Some muslims in India where english diplomats can reach agree to move towards English India bringing many rich muslims to the english colonies

The Rozwi reorganize their forces and following the disastrous first battles agree to a tenous alliance with Iberia.

Frederick Hohenzollern personally begins testing concepts for Curiassiers and Light Hussars. These developments become the most effective with his pioneering attitude heavily outpacing his nearest competitors, Russia, France, and Belka.

The Kanem Empire after quietly biding its time begins to explore to the south actively claiming territory towards the west Africa coast. 

Tondo, following years of buildup in secret unleashes 50,000 troops on Dai Viet planning on turning them into yet another protectorate.

The Japanese Empire now following years of internal stability and development begins a new wave of its own expansion signing agreements with multiple tribal leaders and kingdoms across Sulawesi and some smaller surrounding islands effectively gaining control of the islands.

The Outbreak of war in Western Europe again brings much of western european trade in direct issue with the war with rampant piracy and privateering underway effectively destroying much of the established trade routes with piracy.

• France: In the Year of Our Lord 1740 France continues to see unprecedented prosperity. As the human zoo continues to expand free from public view the King continues to work on his ethnically motivated exhibits this time adding Dutch, Burgundian French, and English. The English and Dutch are shown to be manipulative, uncatholic, uneducated, and greedy. Conversely the Burgundian French are show to be easily manipulated although they do express larger intelligence due to a language perfected from the conquers of the majority of Europe. These portrayals begin to lead to the assumption that English and Dutch are not to be trusted while the French Burgundians are lost souls in needing of a savior. In the field of commerce the French East India company continues to experience unprecedented profits from the gold mines at Or Noir to the spice monopoly in the East Indies. In terms of these profits a reinvestment scheme begins, the purchase and resale of opium throughout Europe especially concentrated around England and Burgundy, with an official moratorium on sales in France. The merchants in charge of the purchasing and resale form there own price fixing Cartel named after the port they are based out of. Thus the Bordeaux cartel is formed. The Cartel assumes the role of smuggling the drug into Burgundy and England. As the slave trade continues to be a profitable trade for the East India Company a new trading post is built on the OTL gold coast. As we are offered an alliance by the magnificent nation of Austria we accept and we request that a small portion of French speaking territory be designated the Duchy of Alsace along these borders. With a war in the colonial sector commencing a invasion of Jamaica with five thousand professional troops. We offer to sell the Phillipines to Scandinavia and lease the island of Borniquen for a period of ten years and to allow a garrison of up to 10k troops to be maintained there.
  • Scandi Dip: We accept both the offers, then offer the Burgundians and British a deal Scandinavia will sell The Philippines for Avelskamp and Prince Edwards Island.
  • HRE Dip: The Emperor permits this as it would make sense for the french speaking majority of the area.
  • OOC Person: F**k off, your not changing your turn after it has ended to something completely different. In the last turn all of your proffesional troops were busy now suddnely you magic 5,000 up in Jamica. Just cut it out. You changed your turn massively like a s**thead.

• Sicily: By early 1740 the situation is dire for the Sicilian military in its war against the Italian League. By this time all of Puglia and the eastern coast, most of central Sicily, and the area around Naples had already fallen to Bonaparte's advance. In early April the city of Naples falls to the Italians, but not before the king and his government, as well as the bulk of the garrison, manages to flee by sea. The king arrives in Palermo to established a new capital, while the armed forces under the command of de Marsala arrive in Calabria to aid the king's son, the Duke of Calabria, in the defense of the peninsula. By May, however, the Italian army essentially drives out the Sicilians from the mainland, leading to a general retreat to Sicily proper. The king calls for defenses to be placed all around the island, and refuses to consider peace no matter what. He orders letters be sent to the Papal States apologizing for breaking the peace, but requesting that the Papal States come to their aid to preserve the balance of power in Italy and preserve security for their own nation. He also threatens to break away from the church if the Papal States continues to interfere in the religious matters of the kingdom while not coming to its aid. Multiples letters are sent out, known as the Venosta Letter, after Sicily's foreign minister, although a few are believed to be intercepted. We also ask Austria for aid in invading the Italian League. The letters are sent, however, in June the king is deposed by the nobles of Sicily. Matteo Orsini, the king's son and one of the lead generals, participates in the coup in exchange for the throne, on the condition that he be open to a peace treaty. While the Italian League is presumably planning to invade the island, the king sends envoys hoping to establish a cease fire. In the meantime, however, war continues, with the armed forces now being tasked in an exclusively defensive manner.
• This is not allowed -Nate
• What about this wouldn't be allowed? Algorithm wise the Sicily player already lost the war and he agreed to the treaty that occured in 1740. We then both jointly worked on the war page, and if you read that you see that by 1740 that is the state of his nation.
• Italian League: The war continues against Sicily, and by the middle of the year the entirety of the kingdom aside from the island of Sicily itself is under Italian occupation. Delegations from both nations meet in Naples to arrange a treaty. We also invite Belka, Iberia, and the Papal States to attend. We offer to sell the two colonial possessions seized from Sicily via the treaty to Britain.
  • British Dip: We agree to the purchase.

• Saxony: With recent economic prosperity in the HRE and the threat of pirates Otto I of Saxony decides to commission a massive fortress built on an artificial island in the middle of the Elbe to guard from any assaults upstream on Dresden via the Elbe and to act as a new residence and impregnable fortress for the Saxon Royal Family. Around the walls of the Fortress a new city begins to rise named Elba. It quickly becomes a center of trade and so also quickly becomes known as the Trader’s Isle for the large amount of Docks, Taverns, and Markets for merchants to stay in the city for extended periods making it a necessary stopping point for ships coming up and down the Elbe where Ships can be repaired, Merchants can sell their goods, and Sailors can spend their coin on Ale and Prostitutes in the various whore houses and Pubs also scattered on the Island. Also, looking to bring in more trade goods and secure sea access Saxony sends an offer of an Trade Agreement to bring the Furs, Sugarcane, Rum, Molasses, Timber, and Minerals from Scandinavian Overseas Colonies into Saxon Markets. Along, with this a request to purchase Oldenburg for 4 Million Silver Krals, along with is Special Trade Tax exemption for Scandinavian Merchants in Saxon ports is offered. (Scandinavian Reply)

• Scandinavian Dip:They accept and offer 500000 Krals for Newfoundland the same offer is given for Prince Edwards island
• South India: The sewage and water supply system of Mysore is revamped. A group of architects lay down rules for town planning and expansion of the cities on orders of the Raja. Catholic missionary activity rises steadily especially in isolated villages, converting tribes and Muslims. Buddhist missionary activity increases in the urban areas especially among the 'lower' caste Hindus. Raja Nageshwar Rao 1 is widely regarded and respected as a divine king. The invasion force of 30,000 troops supported by 40,000 unprofessional troops begins preparing for the naval invasion of a nearby island. The invasion force also consists of the 1st Balochistan Scouts. The entirety of the 800 strong fleet is positioned in the Bay of Bengal while 30,000 trained troops guard the west coast under the 1st Army. The remaining 30,000 trained troops under the 2nd Army remain in standby. Developments in agriculture continue. Granaries are constructed by the government and surplus food grain is stored in government granaries. The feudal system has eroded away in southern Kerala due to the commercialization of agriculture. As the landowners have become direct cultivators the skilled farm laborers and tenants have moved to neighboring Tamil areas and Northern Kerala. The commercialization of agriculture has led to an increase in wages in southern Kerala and the standard of living in Southern Kerala. The Raja visits southern Kerala hearing of the standard of living and general prosperity of the people in southern Kerala. Greatly impressed by the absence of a feudal system, he decided to implement the same in other areas but remains quiet about his ideas, deciding to implement them later. Economic prosperity and standards of living increase steadily. The island of Maladweep is further developed.
  • Meluakam: The 50,000 strong Baluch 1st Army guards the borders and the coast. 10,000 mercenaries are hired. These preparations are done in light of the Iranian invasion attempt. The small Baluch navy of 50 ships patrols the coastline. Developments in Meluakam continue. After 50 years of South Indian presence, many communities have become integrated with the growing South Indian community which has settled down in irrigated areas and around the towns. These communities include the Brahui and the Zoroasters. The Dravidian language is now understood by the majority of the people. The construction of a large temple, dedicated to Shiva is started in Uttaranagar, the capital. Dravidian culture, mainly Carnatic music and Dravidian architecture begin penetrating Baluchi culture.
• Russia: The Cossacks train themselves in crude hussar tactics on the Russian steppe. Tuvov is expanded 20px in the Tuvov inlet and Peninsula. Kodiak is expanded 10px across the island. Novoarchangelsk is expanded 10px inland. The Tsar sends the 280,000 men into Circassia and seizes Circassia and Shirvan with little resistance and makes a several demands. Cede Circassia to Russia, in return Russia would not intervene in the Ethiopian-Arab War (Player Response). Despite fearing the Okhrana, many students in Novgorod University begin to spread rumors about forming a Parliamentary Democracy. However the rumors are kept to a minimum to prevent exile to Northern Siberia. Speaking of northern Siberia, the Okhrana themselves open up labor camps in uninhabited far north Siberia. Orthodox missionaries continue to travel to Arcadia, Japan, and the Khanate. A couple armaments factories are built in Kiev and Moscow. The Russian population continues to growth at 16.5 million.

• ‘’’Sweden:’’’ 500 men are sent to the Islands of St. Thomas and St. John’s along with 500 men to the coast of Guinea to set up forts near the Iberians forts. Along with the expansion of Prince Erics land, 20 of the largest ships in the Scandinavian fleet are sent to Tobago to intimidate the local government the Admiral of this fleet tells the governor to surrender to Scandinavia and Keep his position as governor if he and the populace pledged allegiance to King Gustav in Stockholm. Another 20 ships did the same in St. Croix. (Mod Response) Finally, an emissary was sent to Paris to offer 2 million Krals for Puerto Rico(Player response) along with 1 million Krals too Spain for the island of Trinidad.(Player response)
• Kingdom of Mzerka and Wiyot:We begin to make basic laws and import and export laws.Our labourers in the chumash islands begin to make some churches and our missionaries begin to convert the local chumash to christianity.Our Goverment also begins paying more people to setle in land of the Chimariko and New river Shasta.

• Jin dynasty: The Qianlong Emperor launches an edict officially abolishing the increasingly-irrelevant and useless Korean caste system. Instead, the caste system is reformed into a five-rank system based off Chinese social structure, and is implemented in both China and Korea. The castes include (hierarchically): landlords and other aristocratic positions, white collar workers, merchants, craftsmen, and peasants (divided into land tenants and free peasants/labourers). However, the system is no longer hereditary, with the status of nobility and having to be obtained via imperial examination. Contracted servitude has now fully replaced remnants of institutionalized serfdom, with aristocrats having to pay labourers for service, and land tenants (which replaces the role of the serf) having to pay rent (usually in the form of agricultural goods). Property laws are further liberalized, and wages are heightened. An investigation into potential government corruption begins. The public distribution of Confucian classics, a lax intellectual climate, and improved education causes a revival in Confucian thought and various reinterpretations of Confucius' teachings, with the silhak (renamed into shixue) sect gaining the most followers. Basic sanitation is promoted; public bathhouses, spas, latrines, and sewage systems are all built. Pluviometres and water gauges are manufactured to maximize agricultural productivity, and the further adoption of New World crop varieties (mainly sweet potatoes and maize) in places where wheat or wet-rice cultivation is not feasible is encouraged. The Grand Canal is expanded and renovated to accommodate greater boat traffic, and in-order to provide adequate irrigation to more the far-flung inland rural communities. To facilitate transportation and internal commerce, roads are paved with stone. The policy of militarization continues to be pursued, with shipyards, arsenals, and industrial facilities dedicated to producing armaments being built. Commercialization and the division of labour continues, resulting from a heightened demand for commercial goods from both the domestic and foreign market. The baekjeong class (descendants of Khitans) are continued to be forcibly assimilated, with ghettos being torn down. This is met with resistance, with the baekjeong primarily engaging in revived banditry. The ban on footbinding is enforced, with instead small shoes or false shoe stilts being replaced as an equivalent. Meanwhile, due to influence from shixue, women's property rights are instituted while girls and childless women are encouraged to work out in the fields with their male siblings or husbands. However, they are still exempted from tax and womanly virtue including the principle of the Three Obediences (obey father, then husband, and eldest son after widowhood) are promoted.
  • Nivkh Commandery: The Nivkh Prince-Governor (which is the member of the Nivkh Ayzik branch of the House of Kim) continues to adopt Korean and Chinese architecture, paving roads to facilitate transport, and replacing wood and thatch roofing with stone bricks and clay tiles, respectively. The assimilation of various non-Nivkh tribes living in the area begins, with many Nivkhs convincing fellow tribesmen like Oroks or Ainu to adopt a civilized sedentary lifestyle. The baking industry booms, with various pastry recipes being produced and proving quite popular.
  • Sakha (protectorate): The Khan continues to adopt Korean and Chinese architecture, paving roads to facilitate transport, and replacing wood and thatch roofing with stone bricks and clay tiles, respectively. Siberian crab-apples become a local renowned fruit, and is particularly prized in Korea and northern China.
  • Xizang (protectorate): Lhasa, the capital, is expanded and modernized. Advisors are sent to assist the Tibetan clergy in administrating the protectorate. Many Tibetans are encouraged (via financial incentives) to become more sedentary, with food instead being supplied from nearby Sichuan (thereby reducing overreliance in inefficient herding). A permanent military presence of a thousand troops are established. News of the yeti attacking the expedition causes mass hysteria, taking advantage of the situation, some local merchants sell "urine and silver" bags as a method to "repel potential yeti".
  • Port of Nangang: The Emperor decides send more emissaries to the Angu peoples and peripheral tribes in Haegajang in-order to enrich the knowledge of their culture, while sends more colonists to cement the colony of Nangang from any tribal intrusions.
• Ethiopian Empire: The military continues to be deployed north against the Arab invaders. The cities in the eastern delta were recaptured from sieges, and the military pushes further to push the Jaffarid invaders out of Egypt completely. Emperor Theodore directs the attack from his center of command in Herekropolis, while at the same time organizing the logistics for the empire. Ethiopia will keep fighting the war against the Arabs until they propose a peace. Cairo remains occupied, with the Caliph and Ulema safely hidden. This begins to upset much of the Arab population, but so far is kept pacified. Antiquarians begin investigating the great history of Egypt, looking back through its archaeology to ancient times. Also, they look at modern history, of what the Caliphate accomplished in the last decades of its existence. Religion flourishes across monestaries. Ministers in Medina Jamil begin considering reaching out for foreign aid agaisnt future threats from the Arab world. 
• Ququququ: The Koito reform continues and his Angu-Zia son is elected new Namton A'fao for a lifelong term As the Ququququ nation is finally stable enough, the outlying tribes are contacted in order to induce them into the Union. (basically, slow map expansion, approved by Feud)
  • Bilibil: With the help of numerous Ququququ workers the Bilibil rebuild their trade canoes and restore some homes, while new ones are built on the coast of the Ququququ union. This bring the Bilibil much closer to the Ququququ heartland.

• Swahili:We continue our agriculture policies and adapt more plants to the Swahili climate. The army continues convincing contracted servants. We continue colonial expansion in Northern Somalia, in the South and in the Malindi and Mombassa area. . Colonisation steadily increase as medicine and weaponry becomes more widespread. Several libraries are built in Swahili.  Technological advances speed up as a result of the cultural and technological exchanges in the embassies. Cake and pastries begin to appear in urban Swahili due to the availability of sugar. Potatoes are planted in mountainous or cold terrain. The mathematician Maofa develops normal distribution. The flying shuttle is invented/adopted in a textile mill in Malindi after struggling to meet the orders of military uniforms. Dar as Salaam continues being constructed. With the Iberian intervention, the attack into Aliwa is put into standstill. We mobilize our 2 modern fleets of 150 ship each to patrol the waters of Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel. Coastal forts are also constructed at Sofala. The Iberian trade post in Pemba island is allowed to continue yet trade will be regulated and inspected to prevent smugglers and supplies to the Rowzi. Iberian trade ships are allowed to pass after an inspection and must go directly to their trade quarter in Pemba.
  • Lakshadweep: The island of Lakshadweep is further developed.
  • Olungu: Olungu expands and is further develop
• Archduchy of Austria: With fashion continuosly on the rise, Ana Abeyta, a seemstress and clothing designer opens up a new shop in Vienna for the worst off citizens. Due to pricing being low this leads to high demand of suits and dresses for the costumers. In the coming months, Ana finally manages to develop a tool very similiar to the OTL Flying Shuttle but instead is called the Abeyta. This tool becomes wildly used throughout the shop and is then finally produced in workshops across the country all owned by Ana and are sold off to other shops and seemstress's and designers across the country. 3,500 copies are sent to shops across Bohemia for sale. More roads are built across the countries of Bohemia and Austria. A new design for the Military is being worked on and a design should be ready for manufacturing sometime next year. With land being cleared out across the country, the tiny village of Fucking, Austria sees a boom in population. By the end of the year, 8,800 people reside in the area raising the rank of Fucking into town status. 3 churches and 1 synogogue are planned to be completed in the town by next year being in average size. The Jewish population continues to rise and due to jewish propaganda, the hate against the people dwindle leading to less persecution. A snowstorm buries Prague this Christmas leaving the city as a winter wonderland. We request an alliance with France this year as well and a trading deal with The Italian League ( Player Responses). 
• Jaffarid Arabia: We begin losing our front of the war, and to continue citizen support for the war, begin spreading anti-Ethiopian propaganda shaming Ethiopia for collapsing the Caliphate and effectively humiliating Islam. We tell our Muslim brothers in Ethiopia to rebel against the Coptic nature of the nation to help restore greatness to our holy religion and to our holy state, as well as to free our true leader, the Caliph. We secretly prepare what should be are final push in the Ethiopian War, and if our Muslim brother's trapped inside the confines of Ethiopia were to succeed in rebelling, then we should be able to make a large push to re-occupy the Sinai and much of the eastern region of Egypt. Upon re-occupation of those locations, we would seek a formal end to the conflict if possible.
  • Russian Dip: Cede Circassia to Russia, in return Russia would not intervene in the Ethiopian-Arab War.

• Iberia: João II dies this year at the age of 71. He is succeeded by his son Henrique (Henry), who is crowned King Henrique I of Iberia. Ascending the throne at the age of 15, the young king is deeply interested in all the affairs of the empire, especially its colonies. He takes a particular interest in developing the Mêcicipi colony. Heralds are sent to all the kingdoms of Europe to spread news of the new king's coronation -- long live the king! Emboldened by the diminishing French presence in the Caribbean, Iberia claims the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Inagua Islands. Iberian privateers seize a small pirate haunt at OTL Cockburn Town and transform it into a permanent settlement. The islands are mostly used for salt production. The statesman Tello de Briones signs the Treaty of Naples on behalf of the king, but the Italian League is pressured to cede San Gennaro and Santa Croce to Iberia. After narrowly avoiding Swahili patrols, 18,000 troops are quietly landed on a hidden part of the Rozwi coast. From there, they attack the Swahili-occupied Rozwi coast in unison with the Rozwi forces, supported by a fleet of 70 ships (this happens only if Rozwi supports with their army). 500 troops and numerous Iberian settlers capture the remaining Qamarid settlements on Santa Apolónia (OTL Réunion) and build a fort on the island. Jacó do Sequeira, famed for his exploits in India, leads an assault Mombasa with 61 ships, 12,000 troops, and about 3,000 mercenaries. Iberia's "patrol" fleet in East Africa numbers 87 ships. Traders and explorers form a trading post at Ziguinchor. Training of the grenadiers and development of modern ships of the line resumes. Fur traders build trading posts up the Mississippi and Missouri, expanding the Mêcicipi colony upriver. Maranhão expands into the OTL states of Maranhão and Piauí as more of the interior is colonized.
• Sultanate of Cyprus: Sultan Jalil begin to invest in reconstructing his fleet after it was stolen by the Italians. Rumors are still around that the succession could cause frictions between the Sultan and his son. Many in the population believe that the current problems of the island are due to the openess of the island, while other believe the conservative attitude of the Sultan is only making things worst. Sultan Jalil is attempting to zap the popularity of Farid and paint him as a conspirator of the Italians, with little success.
• United Kingdom of Great Britain: The colonies enter a second year of conflict with French colonise. In an attempt to scale up the war 100 ships of the Royal Navy are sent out to act as privateers seizing all french flagged cargo ships obviously avoiding enemy war fleets or anything the privateers can't handle. 80 of the ships remain in the Atlantic going after transatlantic trade while 20 ships dock at New Canterbury and hit any french shipping trying to go past the cape. This is designed to affect french commerce. Additionally 50 ships and another 10,000 professional troops are sent from Britain to the Americas to support the fighting. 50 British and 50 Burgundian ships blockade Borniquen (Puerto Rico) tightly stopping food and troops from entering or leaving making it only a matter of time before the large french troop presence starts to suffer from lack of food. A task force of 100 ships supported by 40,000 troops we sail down to OTL Fortaleza and attack it with these 40,000 troops. After that we dig in at Fortaleza. The newly arrived forces from Britain and Burgundy are stationed in Avalon for this year.
  • Swedish Fleet 50 Swedish frigates move towards Puerto Rico Carrying a letter stating their nations non aggression pact and another stating the Scandinavian ownership over the Island they are told to vacate the blockade or they will villianzied for brutally attacking a neutral nation that they had a non aggression pact with.
  • British Dip: Look, we were here before this sale and we aren't moving. Scandinavian ships are free to move provided we can verify there is no contraband on board them. Your hosting french soldiers on your lands so yeah you violate your neutrality in this conflict so until such time as there are no french soldiers on the island this island is under a search cordon. Your ships can fire first on ours if they so wish.
  • Sacandi Dip: Let the solders go If they drop their weapons let them go to Brazil.
  • British Dip: No these are french soldiers, they need to surrender. The fact they're going to Brazil shows they will be re armed there.
  • Scandi Dip: Fine what if they stay here and settle.

• Kingdom of Burgundy: another 10,000 men are sent to help with the war in the colonies. Some 100 ships are sent out on privateering missions in the Atlantic against French shipping. In Ceylon, the Burgundian East India Company has a joint exersize between the Ceylonese Colonial Guard, and a 20,000 man detachment of the Acehnese-Sumatran, as the organizations are expected to cooperate should one or the other be needed in another theater. Some 70 ships are also stationed in the area for anti-French operations. An envoy is sent to the Papal States, saying that the Bishops of Metz and Verdun will be permitted seats in the Burgundian States-General if their lands two are incorporated into Burgundy (Papal response pls).
• Maghreb: A period of economic and political growth happens in Maghreb. The Sultan begins to lose his mind and a regency council is appointed. The Council is mostly members of the Parliament and Islamic Colonial Company. The Regency Council begins distancing themselves from the Arabs and Persians and begin a policy of Neutrality with what they deem "great empires". Muslim Missionaries are sent to Benin and Kanem. Technological advances continue to be made. The population grows as more and more people immigrate to Maghrebi Colonies.
  • Fulo Empire: The Emperor begins establishing a cult of personality around himself and attempts to synthesize a combination of Kuzirist and Muslim faiths. The Emperor begins instating the Fula language in Seluja. He also prepares for war against the neighboring states to his west between Mali and Maghreb.
  • Sultanate of Bamako: Bamako begins being integrated into the overseas Vizierates department.

  • Overseas Vizierates: Immigration continues as the colonial populations are more berberized. The Vizierate of Ardu Bayda in Bahia Blanca expands 10px down the coast.

  • Islamic Colonial Company: The Forts in Cabinda spawn some small towns around them. Trading begins with the Sultanate of Zayiyr. The voyage to Australia is blown off course and the ship ends up near the Sandwich Islands. A small settlement is founded before they realize that they are close to Tajamman and decide to make another voyage to try and get to Australia.

• Guuti Empire: Guuti III starts creating patrols around the border with Scandinavia, raiding what they can. He also offers inuits suffering in the cold of the little ice age refuge in his empire in exchange for fighting Scandinavians. Warriors begins training with guns stolen from scandinavians. A group of rogue Guutists move west to establish their own state. Guuti Philosophy begins to grow as its own thing and not as just worship of Guuti. Three major settlements grow as proto-cities in the empire, Ts'aotsine(the capital), Y'a'an on great bear lake, and Sla'va, on Great Slave Lake. Slow expansion begins to the south.

1741

Player of Sicily: It is not allowed for a player to suicide their nation for any reason. If you don't want to play your nation, you can switch, but allowing yourself to be conquered is not permitted. -Nate

With rampid piracy against European ships in East Asia, the nortorious pirate Tomco raids ships of concubines being sent to the Jin Emperor to recruit for his crew. 

A lot of piracy also begins in the North Atlantic out of released criminals of Saxon origin, mostly raiding southern British colonies in Arcadia. 

In the Indian Ocean, a group Qamarid pirates plaguing Iberia attempts to set up their own nation out of part of Rowzi's territory, called Al-Huriya, and ask Swahili for support.

Baroque art phases out of much of central Europe, particularly Austria and Saxony, in favor of a Neo Classical style. 

Russian population is slowed down. No particular reason.

A secret conspiracy of nobles in Baloch seek to accept rulership of the Shah of Persia.

Large numbers of Swedes set to colonize the Caribbean die of scurvey. 

A single Japanese ship reaches Papua and contacts the Quququ...qu.

Surfing begins to be popular in Mzerkan Chumash. 

• Jaffarid Arabia: We begin this year by declining the offer that Russia had offered, saying that Circassia is a valuable asset to Arabia. We make a final push for our troops into Ethiopia, and are able to, for the most part, occupy the Sinai and some of eastern Ethiopia, albeit not that much. Patriotism slowly dwindles down, with many blaming Sultan Umar for their current situation with Ethiopia and numerous other Christian nations. Small christian protests begin in Damascus and Baghdad, but remain primarily peaceful for the time being.

• Russia: The lack of Winter uniforms in the Caucasus leads to General Nikita Petrovich abandoning the region, and returning home. The army becomes a small professional force of 60,000 men, mainly stationed in Belarus and the Baltics. Tuvov is expanded 25px east. Kodiak covers the Island. Novoarchangelsk is expanded 10px. The North Siberian Labor Camps are collectively refered as Gulags.The population stands at 16.5 million. 5 galleons and 10 frigates are added to the Pacific Fleet. The population of Alyeska is 10,000 and slowly growing with the Eastern Migration and settlement of Siberia. The current population of Siberia is 3 million.

• Scandi Dip: They Offer to buy the Bahamas and Puerto Rico from France for a combined 4 million
• Papal States: The Pope sends a Special Legate to the negotiations for the Treaty of Naples, and he very quickly agrees to the terms, hoping to put the conflict behind the Italian Peninsula. Pope Urban VII writes to Burgundy accepting the compromise, glad to see that the Bishops wil retain some form of governmental power. With the increase in piracy, the Pope calls on the Hospitallers, Burgundy, and Britain to engage in a solid effort to stop the scurge of piracy. Missions continue, and the Zulu are asked whether the Immaculata could build a mission in their mighty kingdom [Mod response please].
  • Birhopric of St Peter-in-Brazil: The nuns of the Prayerful Congregation of Our Lady of Pituba decide that they want to establish a university to supplement the school that they already run from their convent. Unfortunately, the nuns themselves-whilst educated-are not ready to run a university. Thus a small number of nuns is given leave by the Abbess to travel to Rome to take degrees. The Bishop is pleased with the plan, since he feels that the presence of a univeristy in his governorate will increase its prestige in the New World. 
  • Saxony OOC: Just as a side note Callum... Burgundy is no longer emperor and the Austrian Emperor is a lot more for religious powa... so except it to maybe reversed. 
• Ethiopian Empire: The military of the Kingdom of Egypt begins its own push against the Jaffarid forces. The cities of Lower Egypt are recovered, giving liberty and revivalment to the Coptic population once more. The Pope Mark VI dies, and a new election places Pope Matthew IV to fill the seat in his stead. With the Arabs pushed mostly out of Lower Egypt, the military closes in to their positions on this side of the Red Sea, preparing for a full invasion of the Sinai peninsula. Once the military reached the border of Egypt, the cannons are used to bombard the Fatha Al-Farun, forcing the Jaffarids from their defensive positions. The Emperor and his court are unsure about a peace agreement yet. Antiquarians continue to uncover the old history of Egypt, especially from the Museum of Alexandria already in place. 
• Maghreb: The Regency council takes more power from the Sultan and begins to take power from the parliament. Traditionalists grow angry about limiting the power of the sultan, while Progressives grow angry about limiting the power of the parliament. The Maghrebi Navy is built up more as more pirates are recruited into the navy. A revival of ancient islamic art begins to supplant the Arab Baroque and european art in Maghreb. More people in Maghreb begin identifying as Berber rather than muslim. The berber muslim traditions slowly drift away from arab traditions. Secularism continues to grow. The Settlement in Cabinda slowly grows and Bamako is incorporated into the overseas vizierates. Fulo Empire grows militarily. The Settlement in the Sandwich Islands grows.
• Guuti Empire: Guuti philosophy continues to grow as local shamans develop their own strains of it. Rogue Guutists successfully establish a state on the west coast of Canada above Washington known as Zatzina. They bring Guuti farming and battle techniques over to that area. They begin to grow with their leader who is proclaimed as Slamas Guuti. Guuti III sets out to spread Guutism more and instates a missionary program. Missionaries travel to the Iriqious, Inuits, and Yukon peoples to establish Guutism there.  A large pyramid is constructed in Ts'aotsine which is made as a tomb to the Guuti royal family. Diamonds are embedded in it and the sarcophagi which the monarchs are put in are coated in Guuti's tears, a poison. Guuti Warriors also begin coating the bullets of their guns with Guuti's tears to make them more effective at killing. A rogue shaman named Slamas begins speaking out against the organization of the seven shamans and begins getting his own following. The Chieftain of a neighboring Dene tribe is invited to Ts'aotsine to show him Guuti riches and splendor in an attempt to join their nation/establish a Guuti temple in the other tribe. Word is also spread to other tribes about the evils of white men to the west.
  • This constitutes a strike -Sky
  • Why is that?
• South India: Catholic missionary activity rises steadily especially in isolated villages, converting tribes and Muslims. Buddhist missionary activity increases in the urban areas especially among the 'lower' caste Hindus. Raja Nageshwar Rao 1 is widely regarded and respected as a divine king. Granaries are constructed by the government and surplus food grain is stored in government granaries. The feudal system has eroded away in southern Kerala due to the commercialization of agriculture. As the landowners have become direct cultivators the skilled farm laborers and tenants have moved to neighboring Tamil areas and Northern Kerala. The commercialization of agriculture has led to an increase in wages in southern Kerala and the standard of living in Southern Kerala. Economic prosperity and standards of living increase steadily. The island of Maladweep is further developed.
  • Meluakam: The conspiracy of the Muslim Baloch nobles is discovered and is ignored as these nobles are not held in high respect by the people of Meluakam apart from a few native Baluch. The South Indians have helped the Baluch develop their homeland by a great margin. Large amounts of investment, food grains and trade goods flow from the mainland into Meluakam. The culture of Balochistan is much more similar to that of South India due to the majority of people being South Indian farmers while the Baluchis are mainly nomads and herders. The Baluchis who have settled down have adopted South Indian culture. The Baloch nobles are imprisoned and sent to a jail in the Maldives. Though their imprisonment causes anger among many communities, these are very far away from each other and are not able to coordinate any joint action. Though this leads to an increase in nomads attacking settlements such as towns and cities.
• Malaya: With the passing of the King in 1738, minor squabbles between the two Princes have been resolved, with the creation of a biarchic monarchy. This is expected to last for the reign of the Two Princes, while maintaining the stability of the country. With the increase in Japanese prescense nearby, we send diplomats to conduct trade and cultural exchange with the Japanese Kingdom. Fearing competition, we begin preparing for further expansion into Borneo, starting with the coastline as charted out by expeditions years ago. Urbanisation continues, with the population in Sabah totalling at 1,145,000 and counting as settlers from the mainland enter the region.
• Belkan Empire: Ivan Vasilev this year suffers an attempted attack on his life. However his platoon of personal guards from the Black Guards regiments are able to fend off the assasination. The group of assassins are wiped out however the final one is shot in the leg personally by Vasilev who has him treated and kept alive. It is revealed a group of the Empires Bereaucrats contracted the assassins the end Vasilevs snooping around in the finances of the empire. This however has now ended badly. Rather than approach the Duma, and the Czar, he goes straight to Czar Vladimir who is outraged. Vladimir and Vasilev congregate all of Belkas generals as well as the noble families traditionally involved in warfare and military matters and all agree the Bereaucracy has gone too far. Czar Vladimir personally orders the death of most of the Belkan bereaucrats. With a combination of Impaling, and just plain and simple firing squads in the span of 2 weeks much of the Belkan bereaucracy is purged and wiped out. While much of the money spent and stolen by these men is lost it does curb the problem of the treasury absolutely hemorhagging money. The loss of the Bereaucracy in general is a hit to Belkas internal stability and the replacements brought in by the Czar are particularly mediocre. The instability this causes makes the Czar extremely unpopular who is forced to use military force to begin clamping down on the nations problems hoping to keep things under control. This includes the general abolishment of the press and other forms of freedoms. This does not go over well with the enlightenment thinkers who immediately begin discussing the situation. A Notable individual and his apprentice both show up to the meeting of enlightenment thinkers. Field Marshall Kamarov and Crown Prince and heir Apparent Czar Ferdinand who sit in on the meeting. Ferdinand is quickly swept up in the movement and becomes a practicing enlightenment thinker who actively studies.

• Swahili:We continue our agriculture policies and adapt more plants to the Swahili climate. The army continues convincing contracted servants. We continue colonial expansion in Northern Somalia, in the South and in the Malindi and Mombassa area. . Colonisation steadily increase as medicine and weaponry becomes more widespread. Several libraries are built in Swahili.  Technological advances speed up as a result of the cultural and technological exchanges in the embassies. Dar as Salaam continues being constructed. We send support to the Huriya in return from them becoming a protectorate/vassal. The Iberian trade quarter is closed down. 150 ships are sent to attack the Iberians in Sofala while the other ships are sent to attack Mombassa. 50,000 soldiers are raised and sent to attack Mombassa too. The navy is ordered to respond to any attacks or landings on Swahili coastal cities. The 2 50,000 strong armies in Sofala are ordered to support eachother
  • Lakshadweep: The island of Lakshadweep is further developed.
  • Olungu: Olungu expands and is further develop
• Persia: The land of Persia is worked on as the Sha Al Faris works on expanding trade into India and the Jaffarid state. The city of Tehran is picked the capital as most trade hubs are sit up around it. The military is re organized as generals are picked for loyalty and and effectiveness. With the new military gear from the mid east we begin to work on copying them into a Persian form. Horse men from mostly the North East of the nation are picked to join special assault units " Al Farsi", they are sent to the Sha to give Ba'yah to him in Theran and are given high stature in the army after completing harsh military training. This foundation begins to gain more support as youth from mostly middle class families begin to follow the new organisation. The navy is worked on to have 50 warships in peace time and up to 300 ships ready for war. Traders are sent to India and S.E. Asia as they begin to work as trying to have Iran be seen as the gate to the East and West (in trade). The government begins to work on creating waterways, creating man made rivers and organizing ways of farming to help improve the population. The military is improved as more men begin to join it. The army is resent into Arabia where they base themself Sina and are renamed as rear guards, the army, at the same time to Navy is pulled out to put a blockade into Sina land. A tiny trade boat from Persia makes it way to France, the captian of the ship is thier to conduct trade of normal assest but of Opuim. (here you go Oct)
• Sultanate of Cyprus: The tensions between the conservative faction of Sultan Jalil and his popular and more liberal son Farid finally clash. While Farid was on a trip in Cairo to meet the Caliph in February, one of his friends is implicated into a corruption scandal in the Mujtamae Alhadariu (Urban). The Sultan use this as an excuse to arrest every associate of Farid, including the former Grand Vizier Mu'Tamid al-Satter, who had aligned with the heir since he was fired from his office. After this scandal, many of the young liberals in prisons are executed, and the Sultan accuse his son to be in cohort with the “traitors”, and disinherit him from the succession, favouring his eldest son Hasim instead. This cause many popular porotests from the population, with who the Sultan is unpopular, while Farid is seen as the miracle man who will fix the country. Being blocked from the main harbours of Cyprus, Farid is finally able to get into the port of Limassol, thanks to the help of a couple of Maghrebi merchants (Maghreb having a fleet in the port of Limassol). He is welcomed with cheers from the population, and quickly many defects to him, launching a general uprising in favour of Farid. Soldiers in the palace in Nicosia quickly switch side and lead a coup against the Sultan, leaving the city open to Farid. In June 13, 1741, Farid become Sultan at 32 years old after overthrowing his father. He promise that new liberal policies will help the island recover from its problems.
  • Maghrebi Dip: Maghreb welcomes Farid to the throne and offer some of the Maghrebi military to be stationed in Cyprus to help quell any instability.
    • Cyprus Dip: Sultan Farid gladdly accept the help of his ally, and thanks the Maghrebi for helping him access the island.
• Ququququ: The Koito reform continues and his Angu-Zia son is elected new Namton A'fao for a lifelong term As the Ququququ nation is finally stable enough, the outlying tribes are contacted in order to induce them into the Union. (basically, slow map expansion, approved by Feud). The Japanese are greeted with pigs sago and other foodstuff.
  • Bilibil: With the help of numerous Ququququ workers the Bilibil rebuild their trade canoes and restore some homes, while new ones are built on the coast of the Ququququ union. This bring the Bilibil much closer to the Ququququ heartland.
• United Kingdom of Great Britain: England has 6.6 million people and inside of that London has a population of 0.8 million, Wales has 0.6 million, Ireland has 2.1 million people and Scotland 1.0 million people. The army undergoes a shifting of forces to the south of England with 10,000 in London, 5000 in Portsmouth, 2000 in Dublin and 1000 in Cork, 1000 in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen each and 2000 in Cardiff while an additional 9000 troops are overseas with 5000 in Arcadia, 2000 in English Maiam, 1000 in Haiti as well as 500 in St George, St Helena, New Canterbury and Bay of Kost. The fleet is divided with 150 ships stationed in Portsmouth and 200 ships stationed in Bristol. Trade with colonies in a triangular trade going through Africa, America and Europe is profitable.Within Britain the education system continues through the running of universities, grammar schools, travelling education and the boarding academies of the London Civil Service academy and the Oxford Preparatory school. The maintenance of the canals and the roads is continued with further expansion of the network from the coal mines to the midlands cities. The steam engine is invented for us of pumping water out of the mines and after initial testing starts to grow in use. Agriculture continues to change with almost all farms being enclosed, the four field crop rotation system being universal and the use of moldboard plough. The major landlords now find themselves with the problem of losing farmhands to the colonies and the demand for rural work has decreased as the formerly disposed commoners have moved to the cities or colonies and found jobs leaving the rural areas sufficiently staffed but low pay and heavy head hunting for knowledgeable farm workers has forced landlords to allow for more sharecropping as opposed to direct work on the lord's land. Parliament passes the land ownership act of 1741 establishing greater protections for the sale and purchase of land by requiring ownership to be registered locally but this ensures the courts acknowledge the full rights of the land owners such as control over what occurs on the land. James Watt is born this year.
  • British Arcadia: The 5000 British troops in Arcadia are spread out with 1000 in New York, 2000 in Henry's land, 1000 in New Gwynedd and the remaining 1000 are divided between the remaining areas. In addition local militia forces do exist but they aren't standing and are spread out although they are armed. In Avalon frontiers push 50px northwards into OTL Quebec as waves of farmer frontiersmen push in coming from Britain encouraged by offer of free land and vote in the colonial assemblies. Each colony is given it's own assembly to govern it in accordance with the British Crown and significant land owners. The sale of furs, sugar, tobacco, coffee, bananas and other cash crops continue to bring in good money. There is a militia of 21,000 citizens who are while unprofessional do have weapons and supplies. The colonies are at 2.2 million people. The City of England continues to prosper. The Royal Navy from Britain are dispatched to end the raiding by pirates as patrols and targets on their bases and fences are carried out to reduce this. 

• Iberia: Iberian forces retreat from Mombasa and the advancing Swahili army, but not before plundering the city. Jacó do Sequeira's fleet makes scattered raids on the Swahili Coast, then anchors at Goa. From Goa, he attacks Lakshadweep and Socotra. The army on the Rozwi coast is withdrawn to the Gulf of Guinea, where they join with a second fleet of 14 ships and 7,000 troops to seize the port of Olungu. In the Caribbean, Iberian privateers build a small settlement on Great Inagua, challenging French claims to the island. The Ilhas de Sal (OTL Turks Islands) become inhabited by Iberian salt collectors. Fur traders build trading posts up the Mississippi, expanding the colony. Maranhão expands along the Tocantins and Araguaia rivers and into the OTL states Maranhão, Tocantins and Piauí. Belém grows to become the largest city in the colony. The town of São José de Macapá is founded at the site of a former military garrison at the mouth of the Amazon.
• Saxony: Saxony continues work on the Fortress Elba and the surrounding trade town. Meanwhile, Oldenburg is heavily invested in with new roads, shipyards, and trade posr going up to use the new sea aces she to it's fullest. So Saxony also builds forts along the coast to fend of any Pirates. Also, Saxony sends a request for Catholic missionaries to convert the Protestants in Oldenburg back to Catholicism and the right path even thought they had strayed from it. (Papal Diplomacy)

1742

Another day another thunderstruck turn, you have one hour SupremeSensualSamrāṭSky 22:00, July 24, 2017 (UTC)

The Pope complains about how he broke his coccyx a few years ago.

The self-proclaimed Jumhuriya Al-Huriya (Republic of Liberty) accepts being protectorate of Swahili. In order to establish an organized nation, they create a council of all the greatest pirates Qamarid in Mombasa to formulate the "Pirate Code".

The conspiracy of the local satraps assassinates the local Indian leaders in Baloch, leading a general rebellion and ask for Persia's support. 

Japan begins trade with Quququ.. in order to use their growing navy to challenge the Jin's monopoly of trade.

In Cairo, a street brawl between some people results in the death of a prominent Muslim merchant. This rapidly devolves into widespread rioting and protesting across the city and sectarian violence between Muslims and and the governing Coptic class. As Cairo burns, the pleas of the leaders to end the fighting are ignored.

• Sultanate of Cyprus : Under the more “liberal” regime of Sultan Farid, the legacy of Jalil begin to change. Once seen as the man who brought independence and reforms to Cyprus, the new historians paint him as a man who killed his brother to claim power and who started a war with the Italians to protect outdated ideologies. Mu'Tamid al-Satter, now 66 years old, is once again named Grand Vizier, this time to help Farid turn the regime into a more enlightened direction. When hearing about the brawls in Cairo, Farid decide to act quickly, and send the disgraced admiral Mufeed el-Galla (the one who started the war with the Italian League) at the head of a ship to meet with the Cypriot ships in Cairo (the one escorting the traders of the Caliphate in India). Farid offered this to the admiral as a way to redeem himself, and tasked him to get the Caliph and the family members of royal families (the one that were sent to study under the Caliph) out of the city so they could be brought back to Cyprus until things calmed down. El-Galla, who want to regain his prestige more than anything else, is ready to do anything to make his mission a success.
• France: As the King realizes that his human zoo is becoming to big for the palace he arranges for the permeant human zoo to be built on more land and to provide more space to the groups displayed. The human zoo at Paris will retain a rotating position of of the humans from this rural zoo. In the field of opium smuggling the Bordeaux Cartel retains the position of the superior smugglers. A smaller cartel intended for opium and other drug smuggling is created in the city of Sarzana. The Srazana Cartel acts as a sister cartel to the Bordeaux cartel. A request is sent to Baloch to purchase the port of Gwadar (MOD RESPONSE)
• Russia: The population is at 16.6 million. Settlement of Siberia continues, however due to the cold some people begin to set up small communities in Outer Manchuria, Yakutia, Mongolia, and even the Khanate. We offer to buy the west bank of Lake Baikal from Mongolia (Mod Response). Tuvov is expanded 25px east. Novoarchangelsk is expanded 15px inland. Fur trappers begin to operate more farther south of the Pyotr Archipelago. Attu Island is settled by fur trappers. However due to talking with namly the Aleuts and other tribes, there are rumors going around Alyeska. This doesn't help when a fur trapper near Novoarchangelsk goes missing, or when a giant sturgeon is caught off the coast of former Novoaleutia. There are many names these creatures that supposedly haunt the woods and islands of both Alyeska and Siberia. Near Tuvov their called Water Stalkers, near Novoarchangelsk their called the Otter People, or the Kushtaka. 5 galleons and 10 frigates are built for the Pacific Fleet. Construction of the Vostok and Port Sibir Forts ends. Settlements tied to Novoarchangelsk are established at OTL Craig and Klawock.
  • You wylin, Mongolia is a dirt poor nation with a government that hasn't been elaborated on since 1405. Ain't no buying going on there, especially since the Mongolians still live there. Force is prolly mandated, and idk if you can get support behind that.
    • ​~~ They Call Me Guns
• Maghreb: The Regency Council's approval ratings continue to go down as their decisions remain unpopular. The parliament is temporarily suspended after disagreements between the Lord Regent and the parliament. The fate of the Sultan lies in question as he is driven to the brink of insanity and his heirs are all judged as incompetent. Faith in a monarchical system dwindles. Several Mercenaries and pirates go to fight in Cairo to help the Muslim cause. The Emirate of Mali is fully incorporated into mainland Maghreb as an administrative autonomous province. A Maghrebi pirate discovers an ancient Byzantine manuscript in a shipwreck and brings it to a linguistic scholar in Fez who translates it and learns about a substance known as War Fire(Greek Fire) and begins working with other scholars on replicating it for battle. Several pirates who are inspired by the Pirate Republic in Rowzi start their own pirate state near Mapuche named the Laurentian Pirate Republic.
• Plausibility strike-Sky

• • Islamic Colonial Company: Forts in Cabinda continue to be lucrative and the second mission around the horn of Africa succeeds a little better with the colonists stopping off in Zayiyr, and Jumhuriya Al-Huriya, and Swahili to make trade agreements and lease ports from them before heading on to Baloch, where they help out rebels before heading on to the Bahmani Sultanate to establish trade and an alliance with them. They stay in Bahmani and set out for Australia next year. Forts are also built below the Kanem on the coast.
  • Overseas Vizierates: The Settlement in the Sandwich Islands(specifically the western one) expands more and grows into a full time settlement, being incorporated into the Tajammanid Vizierate. The Vizierate of Ardu Bayda continues to grow along the coast and bumps into the Burgundian Colony in Patagonia. Maghreb offers to buy this colony in Patagonia and the colony in the eastern sandwich islands from Burgundy in exchange for a few ports in Mali, the Emirate of Ard Al Zuhur, and the ability to convert these gained lands to christianity.
  • Fulo Empire: The Fulo Emperor launches an invasion of his neighbor to the west, the Nara Empire, with Maghrebi support. The Nara capital is captured and the emperor instates his rule there.
  • Sultanate of Seluja: The Sultan helps out Fulo and establishes a presence in conquered Nara. The Sultan, who happens to be the ruler of Maghreb's son, who is very competent and liberal, offers to be the new sultan. The Regency council forbids this but he grows in popularity.
• Ethiopian Empire: Having seemingly crushed the Jaffarid invaders just short of the Sinai peninsula, the military regroups and resupplies in preparation of their invasion of Arabia. However, news of (completely unexpected) revolts across Lower Egypt completely changes their plans. After Cairo burns, similar riots and revolts are seen in major urban centers across Egypt. Emperor Theodore, in his capacity as King of Egypt, rallies together local militas of the Coptic nobility in Egypt to put down the rebels, and scatter the dissenters from the urban centers. However, knowing he cannot keep down a popular Arab rebellion at the same time of fighting a war with Arabia, the Emperor and his court proposes a Second Treaty of Cairo to end hostilities on all fronts. Antiquarians continue to compile history of the Caliphate from across its history, both ancient, medieval and modern. Ancient history is compiled first, and is mostly simple due to the works of archaeology in previous dynasties. As the the treaty is accepted, the Emperor of Ethiopia produces the Caliph and Ulema from hiding, and returns them unscathed back to their home in Cairo. 
  • Maghreb would accept a second treaty if Egyptian arabs were given their own state/the ethiopian empire allowed muslims into ruling positions.
  • Ethiopia Dip: The treaty includes a greatly expanded city-state of the Caliphate, and gives the Caliph more direct authority over Muslims in Egypt 
• Jaffarid Arabia: The insurgency and rioting in Cairo pushes the citizens of Arabia too continue the war, seeing as the rioting could allow Arabia to have a more cunning victory in the conflict. With Persia assisting us with their naval blockade and helping us in-general, we exploit the Islamic uprising by sending in any remaining troops in the field to Cairo to encourage the uprising and to "add fuel to the fire (شيي بعثم فخ فاث بهقث)". By the time we make it to Cairo, although with many of casualties on both sides, we continue to spread mayhem by giving the rebellions weaponry and promoting an anti-Ethiopian perception to the citizens. Due to seeing the Ethiopians wanting to end the war formally, we tell them that we are open to a final diplomatic resolution.
• Scandinavia: The King sends men to each one of the Empires colonial holdings he offers the King of Prussia's daughter a marriage to his son Crown Prince Eric of Scandinavia.(Mod Response) the King asks both Prussia and Russia to share military technology (Mod and Player response) Forts are built on both side of the strait between Sweden and Denmark and are armed heavily. Along with improving defenses in Riga. The Kingdom wants to increase their presence as a trading power so they Offer Britain a trade agreement and non aggression pact (Player response) They offer the same trade agreement and non aggression pact with Burgundy (Player response) and Offer the same Non agression pact and Trade agreement with France.(Player response) Finally, they offer a trade agreement and non agression pact with Iberia.
• Marriage yes, tech no. -Sky
  • Scandinavian West Indian Company: The Crown Prince Eric is named Governor of all of the Empires Caribbean holdings, He makes a large offer to the King of France for the Island of Puerto Rico and the Bahamas. (Player Response) He also commissions a large fort to be built overlooking the natural harbor on St. Thomas He requests his Father grant him 2,000 Professional men from the Scandinavian Army as well as a dozen ships of the line and two dozen second rates. He begins importing slaves from West Africa to help with work on the Plantation on St. John's and St. Thomas which has been named the capital of the Scandinavian west Indian holdings. Finally, more settlers are brought in to replace those lost to scurvy prior the cure for scurvy is lemon. a doctor suggested giving the ailing patients lemon and it is seemed to work the Prince orders every Man, Women and Child allotted a lemon every week.
  • Scandinavian Prince Eric's Land: Johann Anderson is appointed Governor of the Northern territories He requests around 2,500 Professional troops to be sent to Prince Eric's Land along with 5,000 Militia men to be raised in the case of any clashing with the nearby Native tribes. King Gustav orders the Governor to try and establish friendly relations with the natives. Governor Anderson sends 500 settlers to attempt to form a town on the banks of the large lake that had been found years earlier. The main colony expands farther south and expands to encompass most of the northern shore, another attempt is made to purchase Newfoundland from the Kingdom of Burgundy the emissary explaining that the fishing off the coast is valuable and they are prepared to offer 750,000 Krals for the Island.(Player Response)
    • No way france sells those -Feud.
    • Guuti Diplomacy: The Guuti warriors greet the diplomats in their language and offer them food and a powerful hallucinogen to take back to their tribe in exchange for guns.
  • Scandinavian West Africa: Lars Olson is appointed Governor of all of Scandinavia's West African Holdings. He makes a request for preferential treatment of Scandinavian merchants in goods such as Gold, Ivory, Salt, and Silver. He also requests from the Maghrebi government to be granted full access to the Gambian river and the ability to build 2 militarized ports on both sides of the mouth of the river, along with the increase in Forts from 5 to 10 over the course of the next decade. in payment for this Governor Olson makes a 20,000 Kral donation to the Royal Family and a 100,000 Kral payment to the Sultanate of Maghreb. (Player Response) The governor also requests settlers to travel south to the Cape and settle an area on the eastern and to open diplomatic relations with any peoples they find there. around 10,000 go mainly from the islands of St. John and St. Thomas and around 500 from the African Forts along with a large portion from the Scandinavian homeland. the first boats leaving St. Thomas and West Africa leave in January by the end of the year, around 2,000 colonists have arrived along with 1,000 Professionals to defend the colony from attack . King Gustav sends 500 Professionals to West Africa along with more traders and some settlers. Where they land they declare Port Maria after the queen of Scandinavia. They attempt to establish good relations with the native africans giving them rum and iron tools. in exchange for help adapting to the area (Mod response) They build a stockade around Port Maria and if relations with the natives improve build a wooden wall around the settlement.
  • yes-Sky
    • Maghrebi Diplomacy: The Maghrebi government doesn't like the idea of militarized forts, but would allow scandinavian traders and the building of Scandinavian forts under Maghrebi supervision. Maghreb would allow Scandinavia to build militarized forts and to have the Gambian river as a colony in exchange for the islands of the Scandinavian West Indes and a port in Prince Eric's Land.
    • Scandinavian OOC: That's a little odd and not fair Why does Maghreb want things in The west indies or Prince Eric's land?
    • Maghreb OOC: Maghreb already has a small colony in Florida and wants to expand it to prevent Burgundian annexation. They don't need a port in Prince Eric's land actually.
• South India: The assassination of the Governor of Meluakam shocks the nation. The Raja takes immediate action and diverts the landing force of 30,000 trained troops to Meluakam. Another 20,000 troops are sent to Meluakam supported by 450 ships. Catholic missionary activity rises steadily especially in isolated villages, converting tribes and Muslims. Buddhist missionary activity increases in the urban areas especially among the 'lower' caste Hindus. Raja Nageshwar Rao 1 is widely regarded and respected as a divine king. Granaries are constructed by the government and surplus food grain is stored in government granaries. The feudal system has eroded away in southern Kerala due to the commercialization of agriculture. As the landowners have become direct cultivators the skilled farm laborers and tenants have moved to neighboring Tamil areas and Northern Kerala. The commercialization of agriculture has led to an increase in wages in southern Kerala and the standard of living in Southern Kerala. Economic prosperity and standards of living increase steadily. The island of Maladweep is further developed.
  • Meluakam: The Baluch coup sends Meluakam into a civil war. The large Hindu community supports the South Indian side while the Muslim community supports the local satraps. The Balochistan army splits into two groups, 30,000 support the local satraps and 20,000 support South India. The satraps also hire 10,000 mercenaries while 5000 South Indians and Brahui volunteer to save their home. 50,000 troops arrive from the mainland. They drive out the Baluch army from Hindu and Zoroastrian areas and keep the eastern part under control. A treaty to end the civil war is drafted. The Treaty of Uttaranagar, the treaty proposes 1)The creation of an independent state for the 1 million Baluch Muslims in the modern-day Iran and Afghanistan areas of Meluakam and 2)The rest remains under South India as home of the 1.3 million Hindus, Zoroastrians and Brahuis. 3) The belligerents sign a 15-year Non-Aggression Pact. ((MOD RESPONSE PLEASE))

• Jin dynasty: The Qianlong Emperor continues land distribution in Korean Manchuria, giving free tracts of cultivatable land to select groups of landless peasants. The new five-rank caste system is enforced, and due to contracted servitude aristocrats are coerced into heightening wages. Oppositional aristocrats are purged, while investigation into government corruption continues, with convicted aristocrats being stripped of their titles and sent into exile as peasants in Haedo. Property laws are strengthened, and liberalized as to make the market more competitive. Inheritance, while still a valid form of wealth transfer, is deemphasized. Due to taboo against merchants being torn down under the efforts of the shixue faction, restrictions against merchantile activities are removed, and merchants are now able to participate in government participation. The distinction between "good" and "bad" commoners is also deinstitutionalized. The lax intellectual climate sparks interest in Western scientific practices introduced by Jesuits, though Jesuits are barred from participating in court politics as they have previously done. Basic sanitation is promoted; public bathhouses, spas, latrines, and sewage systems are all built. Pluviometres and water gauges are manufactured to maximize agricultural productivity, and the further adoption of New World crop varieties (mainly sweet potatoes and maize) in places where wheat or wet-rice cultivation is not feasible is encouraged. The Grand Canal is expanded and renovated to accommodate greater boat traffic, and in-order to provide adequate irrigation to more the far-flung inland rural communities. To facilitate transportation and internal commerce, roads are paved with stone. The policy of militarization continues to be pursued, with shipyards, arsenals, and industrial facilities dedicated to producing armaments being built. Commercialization and the division of labour continues, resulting from a heightened demand for commercial goods from both the domestic and foreign market. Due to the influence of Northern Chinese and Koreans (which has been culturally in-contact with more egalitarian Central Asian tribes) on the imperial court (rather than the more islamicized South), and prominent female aristocrats, the laws pertaining to women in Korea are now standardized in China as well. This brings an era of relatively lax status for women, not seen before since the Tang dynasty (though it is still conservative in-comparison to the Tang dynastic era). However, gender roles are still enforced, but there is now renewed emphasis on meritocracy. Patrilocality and patrilineality is encouraged, though matrilocal marriages are however increasingly common as poorer commoner families marry into the families of their richer wives. While (childless) women now are encouraged to aid their male counterparts (siblings, fathers, husbands), and are now once again granted legal rights to property, the concept of Chinese kinship and nuclear family is promoted, with the concept of the Three Obediences being heavily promoted. Shame killing is criminalized, fathers/husbands are forbidden to sell their wives or daughters, though are allowed to purchase concubines and sell them (who are seen as commodities). The Emperor also discourages widows from committing suicide on their husband's deaths, stating that it is an act of despair and not loyalty to the husband.
  • Nivkh Commandery: The Nivkh Prince-Governor (which is the member of the Nivkh Ayzik branch of the House of Kim) continues to adopt Korean and Chinese architecture, paving roads to facilitate transport, and replacing wood and thatch roofing with stone bricks and clay tiles, respectively. The assimilation of various non-Nivkh tribes living in the area begins, with many Nivkhs convincing fellow tribesmen like Oroks or Ainu to adopt a civilized sedentary lifestyle. The baking industry booms, with various pastry recipes being produced and proving quite popular.
  • Sakha (protectorate): The Khan continues to adopt Korean and Chinese architecture, paving roads to facilitate transport, and replacing wood and thatch roofing with stone bricks and clay tiles, respectively. Siberian crab-apples become a local renowned fruit, and is particularly prized in Korea and northern China.
  • Xizang (protectorate): Lhasa, the capital, is expanded and modernized. Advisors are sent to assist the Tibetan clergy in administrating the protectorate. Many Tibetans are encouraged (via financial incentives) to become more sedentary, with food instead being supplied from nearby Sichuan (thereby reducing overreliance in inefficient herding). News of the yeti attacking the expedition causes mass hysteria, taking advantage of the situation, some local merchants sell "urine and silver" bags as a method to "repel potential yeti".
  • Port of Nangang: The Emperor decides send more emissaries to the Angu peoples and peripheral tribes in Haegajang in-order to enrich the knowledge of their culture, while sends more colonists to cement the colony of Nangang from any tribal intrusions. The shipyard in Nangang is expanded, with a more larger dock being constructers. Amount of settlers now breach a thousand, with anti-miscegenation laws (pertaining between locals and Chinese settlers) being instituted. While mixed-race relationships are permitted, infanticide and abortions of mixed-race babies is permitted.

• Swahili:We continue our agriculture policies and adapt more plants to the Swahili climate. The army continues convincing contracted servants. We continue colonial expansion in Northern Somalia, in the South and in the Malindi and Mombassa area. . Colonisation steadily increase as medicine and weaponry becomes more widespread. Several libraries are built in Swahili.  Technological advances speed up as a result of the cultural and technological exchanges in the embassies. Dar as Salaam continues being constructed. The fleet with 150 ships and 50,000 soldiers are sent to reclaim Socotra and Lakshadweep, as well as Goa. The other fleet is sent on a search and destroy mission on the other Iberian fleet. The military launches an offensive to find and destroy the Iberian reinforcements to the Rowzi.
  • Lakshadweep: The island of Lakshadweep engages in passive resistance.
  • Olungu: Olungu engages in passive resistance.
• Guuti Empire: Slamas, the rogue shaman, begins preaching a form of Guutism based off of the freedom of the individual, and not the strength of the collective. This will later become known as Slamatist Guutism, and will reject the rulings of the Seven Shamans. Guuti III continues to build up his settlements and increase farming and food output. A second diamond mine is built in Sla'va to go with the one in Ts'aotsine.
• No diamond mines-Sky
• Ququququ: The Koito reform continues and his Angu-Zia son is elected new Namton A'fao for a lifelong term As the Ququququ nation is finally stable enough, the outlying tribes are contacted in order to induce them into the Union. (basically, slow map expansion, approved by Feud). The Japanese contact continues, and Ququququ begin adopting children born of interracial relations in the Jin port, in order to avoid the infanticide.
  • Bilibil: With the help of numerous Ququququ workers the Bilibil rebuild their trade canoes and restore some homes, while new ones are built on the coast of the Ququququ union. This bring the Bilibil much closer to the Ququququ heartland.
• United Kingdom of Great Britain: England has 6.7 million people and inside of that London has a population of 0.8 million, Wales has 0.6 million, Ireland has 2.2 million people and Scotland 1.0 million people. The army undergoes a shifting of forces to the south of England with 10,000 in London, 5000 in Portsmouth, 2000 in Dublin and 1000 in Cork, 1000 in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen each and 2000 in Cardiff while an additional 9000 troops are overseas with 5000 in Arcadia, 2000 in English Maiam, 1000 in Haiti as well as 500 in St George, St Helena, New Canterbury and Bay of Kost. The fleet is divided with 150 ships stationed in Portsmouth and 200 ships stationed in Bristol. Trade with colonies in a triangular trade going through Africa, America and Europe is profitable.Within Britain the education system continues through the running of universities, grammar schools, travelling education and the boarding academies of the London Civil Service academy and the Oxford Preparatory school. The maintenance of the canals and the roads is continued with further expansion of the network from the coal mines to the midlands cities. Steam engines grow in use in the mines for pumping water but are hampered by their high inefficiency. The puckle gun is invented which has a high rate of fire but is heavy and unreliable so not ever purchased. Increase in weaving in London as new and more efficient looms are commercially available. Agriculture continues to change with almost all farms being enclosed, the four field crop rotation system being universal and the use of moldboard plough. There is a continued shortage of trained workers and holding onto good farm workers leading to higher wages as many people see the cities of growing industry or the Americas as a better alternative. Seeing issues in Baloch which affect regional stability, an offer is made to the rebels for the British to support an independent Baloch due to the diverse nature of Baloch with Hindus and Muslims gaining the support of Persia could lead to further violence while the British support of an independent state offers a far greater autonomy and will leave minorities less isolated due to the British working with other states in similar circumstances. (Mod response)
  • British Arcadia: The 5000 British troops in Arcadia are spread out with 1000 in New York, 2000 in Henry's land, 1000 in New Gwynedd and the remaining 1000 are divided between the remaining areas. In addition local militia forces do exist but they aren't standing and are spread out although they are armed. In Avalon frontiers push 50px northwards into OTL Quebec as waves of farmers finishing their contracts go looking out for their own significant plots. push in coming from Britain encouraged by offer of free land and vote in the colonial assemblies. The assemblies continue to function. The sale of furs, sugar, tobacco, coffee, bananas and other cash crops continue to bring in good money. There is a militia of 21,000 citizens who are while unprofessional do have weapons and supplies. The colonies are at 2.2 million people. The City of England continues to prosper. The Royal Navy from Britain are dispatched to end the raiding by pirates as patrols and targets on their bases and fences are carried out to reduce this. 

• Saxony: King Saxony: King Otto I seeing the opportunity to continue to expand his influence in the Baltic offers to buy Visby Island of Scandinavia for 500,000 Krals. (Player Response) They want Visby to act as a Baltic trade post for Saxony so they could more easily access the Valuable Trade Goods of Russia and Scandinavia. Also, this would allow Visby to become a central stopover point for trade coming to and from Scandinavia and Russia. Along with this Forts are built up around Ports on the coast of Oldenburg and has been funding new government owned Trading Companies. Also, another request is sent to Scandinavia asking for permission to start a fur trading company in Prince Eric’s Land (Player Reply)
• Scandinavia Dip: They refuse the offer for Visby, but accept the offer for a small fur trading outfit in Prince Eric's land
• Italian League: With the war with Sicily having been concluded via the Treaty of Naples, we begin working on reparing our nation and fulfilling our promise to improve our southern vassal. New governors are installed in newly annexed territory, and the military continues occupying Sicily.
• Iberia: With King Henrique's regency ending this year, the war against Swahili becomes more of a trade war to break the Swahili monopoly on the Indian Ocean. Olungu is fortified and garrisoned by 800 troops. The rest of the fleet sails to Mozambique and up the Swahili Coast, intending to capture important trading centers and reduce Swahili influence in East Africa. They invade the central Swahili Coast (OTL Tanzania), attacking Mikandani/Mtwara, Kilwa, Dar es Salaam, and Zanzibar. During the battle of Dar es Salaam, the Iberians set fire to the city. The rest of the fleet blockades Mozambique Channel, preventing traffic from entering or leaving the ports of Madagascar, the Comoros, or the mainland. Meanwhile, a detachment of 13 ships and 1,000 troops from Jacó do Sequeira's fleet captures Mafia Island. Two fleets of 15 and 19 ships are sent to the Indian Ocean to ensure that control of the Laccadives and Socotra remains contested. These smaller fleets only directly engage fleets of similar size, but make raids on larger ships, especially transports. Fur traders build trading posts up the Mississippi, expanding the colony. Maranhão expands along the Tocantins and Araguaia rivers and into the OTL states Maranhão, Tocantins and Piauí.

1743

Another day another smartphone. One hour for 1742 SupremeSensualSamrāṭSky 22:07, July 25, 2017 (UTC)

Following the Papal Coccygeal issues, coccyges become more interesting to European physicians.

Upon returning to Cairo, a newly elected caliph denounces Farid, claiming he has illegally usurped power. In the same year, the Caliph commissions trusted scholars in Egypt to compile a history of the Caliphate since the Mamluk era in order to legitimize himself and his predecessors.

Every 60 seconds in Africa.... a minute passes.

• Sultanate of Cyprus: Farid decide to go on a trip in the rural parts of Cyprus to meet with his people after he was advised to do so by al-Satter, while the Grand Vizier stayed in the capital to work a new economic policy to revalue the Fils (Cyprus money) with the Mujtamae Almal. In the capital, al-Satter received a series of news from Cairo, first from el-Galla, who inform him that the Caliph died as he was trying to get him out of the city, and that he had been unable to get the royalty in Cairo. Slowly after came the news of the election of a new Caliph was chosen. And finally, that the new Caliph called Farid a usurper. These news were quickly known from the population of Nicosia, and the fact al-Satter first tried to hide them made things worst. Feeling that things were going in their favour, former allies of Jalil lead a reactionary coup in Nicosia, which turned into a bloody struggle for control of the capital. The fear of religious punishment for going against the Caliph lead many citizens to side with the rebels, and by July the capital was under the control of the rebels, who claimed to follow the will of the Caliph and to restore the rightful Sultan of Cyprus. Al-Satter made it out of the city, and met with Farid, who had established a provisional capital in Paphos, in the western part of the island. During that time, the rebels liberated Jalil from his cell to put him on the throne. However, they found Jalil sick and  in a bad health condition, forcing them to install a regency for the Sultan. The regency would be a council composed of the rebel leaders, including General (and self-proclaimed First Regent) Rafeed Mu'sad Sarraf, Grand Vizier (named by the Sultan and First Regent) Umaar Taysid and Prince Hasim (the first son of Jalil). As for the Sultan, he is still healthy enough to sign official declarations and write official letters, but no more than that. In Paphos, Farid wrote a letter to the Caliph, angrily asking him to return his son to him (his son still being under the care of the Caliphate), and one to el-Galla, asking him to return at once with the ships. Things got worst when pro-Jalil in Limassol attempted in September to take over the fleet in the harbour, but were pushed back. In the fight, a couple of Maghrebi sailors were killed (as Maghreb has ships in Limassol), but it is unclear which side is responsible. Both Farid and the Regency Council send letters to foreign powers, asking them to recognize them as the legitimate government of Cyprus.
  • ​Maghreb Dip: Maghrebi Soldiers and Sailors stationed in Cyprus mutiny from the Maghrebi government and lead an uprising in Limassol. These soldiers were there to help Farid quell instability and have taken it upon themselves to do so.
    • Cyprus (Farid): Farid welcome those soldiers and their will to help. The Sultan even officialy promote the leader of the insurection to the rank of General in the Cypriot army, thus legitimizing the occupation of Limassol.
    • Cyprus (Regency Council): First Regent Mu'sad Sarraf send a letter to Maghreb (signed by Jalil), asking support and offering an alliance to deal with Farid and the mutiny.
      • Maghrebi Dip: The Lord Regent decides to send reinforcements to help out Farid and take back control of the mutineers. The Lord Regent also uses this as an opportunity to criticize the Caliph for not backing the Liberal Farid.
  • Saxony: Recognizes the Sultan Jalil as the rightful leader of Cyprus and sends 20 ships with 2,000 European Line Infantry to crush the Maghrebi Soliders.
• Maghreb: The Lord Regent, a prominent general with ideas about running a country like one would run the military,  begins minimizing the power of the rest of the regency and parliament to give power to him and his generals. The Lord Regent starts spending more and more on modernization of the military. Maghrebi populations continue to grow.  The scientist studying the byzantine manuscript about Greek fire comes up with an experimental formula for it.  Support for the Lord Regent continues to grow in the bureaucracy and military. A trade road also begins being built to the Kanem Empire in the Sahara and settlements grow along it.
  • Overseas Vizierates: Expansion begins to encompass the Burgundian colonies in Patagonia as more and more people migrate to Ardu Bayda.
  • Islamic colonial company:  Explorers spot a large landmass to the south of Indonesia after their travels,  but are unable to reach it. Expeditions become more frequent as Maghreb begins trade with Zayiyr, Swahili, Bahmani, and various states in Indonesia.
  • Fulo Empire:  The emperor executes the leaders of Nara and begins a harsh rule there.
  • Seluja: The sultan becomes the Lord Regent’s most popular opponent and is seen as the heir to the throne due to the maghrebi sultan’s insanity.
• France: New Valois begins a aggressive northern push to the Tocantins river. We again request to buy Gwadar (MOD RESPONSE).  We also request a allaince with Prussia (MOD RESPONSE).