Chapter 13: Escugeau's Rankings
I woke up late in the day, around 1:00, as I normally do, since I have no obligations of any sort. It had appeared that the Sultan had left for his trip to Rome to attend his glorified march through the city earlier this morning. However, I knew from previous absences by the Sultan that Aamir would be taking care of me, instead of the Sultan’s primary servant, Khalil. Generally, when Aamir took care of me, I got less to eat and was pretty much left to myself; so today, I decided that I was going to take a look around and see what I could find. I left after Aamir gave me my daily rations, which consist of various insects ranging from grasshoppers to caterpillars. I then propped up one of my conveniently provided twigs up against the wall (as you can tell, I have been planning this for quite some time) and climbed out of the habitat. After scurrying through the hall I entered the library. There were once many books in the library that I could read, but when Yusurf III westernized Granada, he burned many of the books written in Arabic, deeming them heretical and a so-called “threat to the state”. After searching and scampering through the library for an open book to which to read, I stumbled upon “Jeffery Escugeua’s Rankings of the Known World of 1434.” Miraculously, it had been translated into Arabic and it survived the book purge. Opening it up, it provided the following Rankings:
Economy:
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Technology:
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Army Size:
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Naval Size:
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After finishing reading what I could (I’m not totally fluent, jeez) I scurried back the chamber, climbed into my habitat, and went to sleep
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I woke up late in the day, around 1:00, as I normally do, since I have no obligations of any sort. It had appeared that the Sultan had left for his trip to Rome to attend his glorified march through the city earlier this morning. However, I knew from previous absences by the Sultan that Aamir would be taking care of me, instead of the Sultan’s primary servant, Khalil. Generally, when Aamir took care of me, I got less to eat and was pretty much left to myself; so today, I decided that I was going to take a look around and see what I could find. I left after Aamir gave me my daily rations, which consist of various insects ranging from grasshoppers to caterpillars. I then propped up one of my conveniently provided twigs up against the wall (as you can tell, I have been planning this for quite some time) and climbed out of the habitat. After scurrying through the hall I entered the library. There were once many books in the library that I could read, but when Yusurf III westernized Granada, he burned many of the books written in Arabic, deeming them heretical and a so-called “threat to the state”. After searching and scampering through the library for an open book to which to read, I stumbled upon “Jeffery Escugeua’s Rankings of the Known World of 1434.” Miraculously, it had been translated into Arabic and it survived the book purge. Opening it up, it provided the following Rankings:
Economy:
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Technology:
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Army Size:
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Naval Size:
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After finishing reading what I could (I’m not totally fluent, jeez) I scurried back the chamber, climbed into my habitat, and went to sleep
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