A Storm from the West: a Sunset Invasion AAR

[Kazanov]

Chapter 3.35 The Second Great Hunnic War Part II, 601-610 CE​

Oh, look, the Ummayads destroyed the Assyrian Empire ​

The Hunnic Empire was once the undisputed master of the east and over the centuries had faced many attempts from minor powers to displace them from that position and they had survived all of them, even after many internal civil wars and Hordes like the Ugekid and Shambatid creating their own realms from lands that once belonged to the Empire. But now, they were fighting many powerful foes at once and they were about to face the full might of the mercenary armies of the Mediterranean Confederation in their inexorable advance towards the Danube. Their resilience as an Empire was about to be tested again and this time maybe they would be not able to survive.

The combined armies of the Mediterranean Confederation marched east in fear that a huge Hunnic army would appear on the horizon at any moment due to the memory of the carnage of the Battles of Sopronof the war against the Shambatid was still on the mind of the survivors and even in the minds of men who never fought these battles or even traveled to the “fields of the dead” and saw its devastation, the bones of the fallen in the open and the stench of thousands of bodies rotting together, the stories and myths surrounding that place would last for generations and the Huns were not known as people who surrendered easily, maybe these Christian soldiers marching to the Danube were to experience a fate even worse than their antecessors in the last war. But reality proved otherwise, the idyllic towns of the Balkans welcomed them as liberators and even the Huns living amongst them accepted them into their homes, gave them their animals and served as local guides, the local population was tired of the internal wars of the Hunnic Empire and accepted the Mediterranean Confederation into their lands as a mere change of administration, if something else.

The war against the Hunnic Empire was almost a peaceful occupation of the lands south of the Danube, from time to time the armies of the Confederation would face small warbands trying to pillage the lands abandoned by the Huns but they never saw a full army and it seemed that the hordes of the Huns were busy elsewhere because in almost three years a huge amounts of lands were almost peacefully occupied and controlled by Emperor Anoki and his mercenary armies and when the Huns sent an army to deal with the invasion it was too late, after a minor battle forgotten by history for its insignificance the war against the “Black Horde” as the Hunnic Empire was known, was over.

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After the victory of the Mediterranean Confederation over the Hunnic Empire the Great Hunnic War extended against the small Khanates of the southern Balkans until the Spring of the year 610 CE, when the Emperor created the Kingdom of the Frontier on the eastern border of the newly conquered lands and gave it to one of the branches of the Q’uk’umatz family. The idea behind the new Kingdom was to cement the power of the ruling family while sending all the possible claimants to the Throne of New Tikal far away from the Capital and keeping them busy patrolling the new lands and exerting control over the new trade routes. The Mayan Kingdom of the Frontier will be in charge of the east while the Mayan Kingdom of the west will be in charge of Iberia.

The Etruscans are getting more aggressive …​

The intensity of a war that lasted more than a decade had put great pressure on all the viceroyalties that made up the Confederacy because they had to supply the combined armies in the front constantly with food, men and transports. Military spending almost managed to bankrupt the coffers of the Confederacy despite the fact that after the victory against the Shambatid horde there were no major battles and the war was more a battle against time and bankruptcy than a confrontation against the formidable Hordes of the past, most of the gold going out from the coffers of the Imperial capital of Carthage to the Balkans went to the new baronies and fortifications being built in the new frontier.

One of the biggest problems that the Emperor had to face was the possibility of emptying the coffers of the Confederacy in the most expensive war in the history of the peoples of the Mediterranean until that point of history. The worst thing is that this war had a mandatory nature due to the strategic nature of moving the border towards the Danube and if it had not been for loans that the Emperor got from different Jewish merchants in New Tikal and Carthage the war would have been lost as they would have lacked the monetary resources to fund the Mercenary armies, even after the victory in the Second Great Hunnic War the project proved to continue to be expensive as the The Emperor's priority was then to fortify the towns and build new baronies on both sides of the Danube river after paying the loans given by the merchants, this meant cutting off the funds of any other project in the entire Mediterranean Confederation and ignoring the needs of the Viceroyalties for an indeterminate amount of time.

Even with the Viceroys knowing the realities that Emperor Anoki had to face on a war that he did not started and in fact inherited from his antecessor there were factions plotting to break their bonds with the Mediterranean Confederation, Mayan leadership began to be seen as an oppressive tyranny over the peoples who had willingly put them in charge of the Confederation and as the Hunnic threat began to be seen as thing of the past because most of the nobility believed the victory over them in the Second Hunnic War to be complete and then, at least in their minds, the necessity for such an alliance under a foreign Emperor was over.

A revolution was on the horizon.

 

[Kazanov]

Chapter 3.36 Winds of Change 610- 626 CE​

Meanwhile the Mediterranean Confederation was fighting the Second Great Hunnic War to secure their borders against the Hunnic incursions from the east a new faith appeared in the sands of the Arabic Peninsula to permanently change the status-quo of the region. The Arabs, a group of tribes that were oppressed by foreign powers for most of the known history of the world united under the banner of a mysterious Prophet and were able to kick the Assyrians out of their lands and with that destroy the last Empire that had survived the catastrophic end of the Hellenic era.

The Rise of Islam is far less successful than in our timeline, but the Assyrians fell and i don't think they will recover from this.​

According to some Etruscan Scholars the new faith was known as Islam and was a heresy spawned from certain eastern Christian sects like the Ebionites or the Apollinarians. The merchants coming from the region told stories about Islam being more related to Judaism than to Christianity as it was known in the west, regardless of the origins of the religious movement the people of the Mediterranean Confederation were too busy dealing with the aftermath of their victory in their war against the Huns and with their own problems to care about a distant conflict on the east that did not represented any threat to Christianity or to the Viceroyalties of the Confederation.

On the Steppes, a group of nomadic tribes known collectively as the Magyar was wreaking havoc east of the Hunnic lands and had vassalised the Persians after a short but brutal war. Persian leadership was preparing from an invasion from the Muslims of the west and never expected the Magyars coming from the northern mountains and because of it were quickly subdued.

The classical Magyar conquest of Persia​

With the defeat of the Hunnic Empire in the Second Great Hunnic War a new nomadic dynasty took control of the lands of the now fallen Empire, they were known as the Uldin horde and dedicated themselves to establish control over the lands once occupied by their predecessors and even tried to have good relationships with the Shambatid, the most powerful Khanate of the West.

The Shambatid and the Uldin Khaganates dominate the East.​

While this was happening at the east of the Mediterranean Confederation, Emperor Anoki Q’uk’umatz was worried about the dangerous political situation that resulted from the victory against the Huns, the financial situation was particularly dangerous to him because if a Civil War started –and he believed that the Etruscans were plotting against his rule- and the independence faction at court gained more adepts he had no fund to raise an army to stop the rebellion without abandoning the recently conquered lands to the Huns. A reform was needed to calm the Viceroys and avoid a catastrophic civil war, that’s why he summoned a second Great Assembly in the summer of the year 614 to address all the issues that were causing tensions in the Mediterranean Confederation.

The problems between the Etruscan center of political power (the Germanic Viceroyalties, the Papacy and of course Etruria)that wanted to gain more influence in the Confederation or to secede from it even if that would make them vulnerable to Hunnic Invasions and end like the Ostrogoth. The Mayan Viceroyalties of North Africa, Iberia and the Balkans that were defending their religious and economical privileges as founders of the Confederation and were enjoying an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity and the Slavic Viceroyalties that did not cared much about politics as long as they received funds to fulfill their duty as protectors of the Frontier and to settle more of their people on the new cities and baronies were the main issue of the Second Great Assembly. When all the viceroys were reunited they were given the rights to discuss the current situation, their regional worries and problems, most of them wanted even more autonomy and of course, to limit the power of the Emperor.

After a few days of discussion it became clear to Emperor Anoki that the way to long-term stability was giving more concessions to the viceroyalties and he way to achieve short-term stability was bribery, reason why he took another loan from the Jewish merchants in Carthage and gave great gifts to key Viceroys… money was the key to the loyalty of some people after all.

In the Great Assembly were decided major reforms that the Viceroys and the Emperor believed to be necessary for the long-term survival of the Confederation:

• All Viceroys and Duchies that were under the direct rule of the Emperor were granted the right to vote and be elected as the Emperors of the Confederation after the death of the current one. In the case of the newly adquired territories this will be after 10 years of joining the Confederacy.
• The Emperor lost the right to declare wars in the name of the Confederation or to hire mercenary armies to expand his personal demesne in the persuit of personal glory.
• The Emperor had the obligation to finance the construction of forts, cities and baronies in the border regions.
• The Emperor gained the obligation to pay the random of priest taken prisoners by the pagans they tried to convert into the true faith.
• To increase the control of the Church over the Confederation, the Pope was raised to the position of Co-ruler and was given the power to bless and approve the election of new Emperors.

After the Great Assembly of 614 Emperor Anoki was invited by the farbas Maghan IV of Ghana to oversee the building of a new church on his name during the next year, it was a good opportunity to improve his image and also free himself from the boredom of his court, he did not expected the travel to be interesting at all and was surprised to see how the people of Ghana not only adopted Christianity as their faith, but also adapted some of their cultural practices to the new faith in the decade after their conversion, he was so amazed at the Africans that he spent a whole year in Ouadane, the capital of that Kingdom.

Ghana converted to Christianity, this may change things for Sub-Saharan Africa on this timeline.​

After enjoying the marvels of Ghana he returned in 616 CE to the boredom of his life in the now peaceful Confederation and reigned ten more years until his death in 626 CE. The Viceroys then elected Haitili of Carthage, Viceroy of Carthage and part of the Q’uk’umatz bloodline that promised to increase the prosperity of the Mediterranean Confederation by focusing his government policy on trade and on establishing good relations with nations beyond the borders of the Confederation, as well as continuing to send priests to the pagan world to convert them to Christianity.

The Maya lost their status as the Imperial Overlords of the Confederation, but Haitili belongs to the same family...​

 

[Kazanov]

February was an horrible month at work, but i return as always, there are a few chapters left for this part ​

Chapter 3.37 The Long Peace 626-719 CE​

Rule of Emperor Haytili the Just of Carthage (Carthage) 626-645 CE​

As promised by Haytili, his reign started an era of peace of prosperity were trade and independence from the power of the Emperor was the norm, the Q’uk’umatz were divided between the Kingdoms of New Tikal in Iberia and the Frontier on the Balkans.

One of the main policies of Haytili was giving support to Armenian rebels who were fighting the Huns in the Caucasus and managed to carve their own Kingdom from the carcass of the Hunnic Khanates of the region, the Mediterranean Confederation gave resources to the eastern Kingdom and protected it from the Huns threatening to start another Great Hunnic War against them if they even dared to set a foot on the Caucasus, a bluff that worked because for the next century the Huns never tried to do anything in the region.

And the Celtics are sacrificing the priests as always​

An Alliance with the Shambatid Horde secured the eastern border while in the west the Slavs were being converted to Christianity peace and prosperity was secured for many years because of the system of alliances that Haytili put in place, when the Emperor died in 645 CE a new election was held and a Q’uk’umatz from the Kingdom of the Frontier was elected.

Rule of Emperor Yaxum-Balam Q’uk’umatz of Philippopolis (Kingdom of The Frontier) 645-647 CE​

The election of Yaxum-Balam was expected because he promised to continue the policies of his antecessor. He ruled from Philippopolis, the capital of the Kingdom of the Frontier but his reign was short because he died during an outbreak of the Great Pox that also killed thousands in the region.

Rule of Emperor Bor Q’uk’umatz of New Tikal (New Tikal) 647-654 CE​

Bor Q’ukumatz was the next elected Emperor, as he was from the Kingdom of New Tikal he ruled from the old Mayan capital and after a minor raid carried out by the “Kemetic Huns” of the Tuldilid Khaganate against the easter frontier he declared a holy war against them to take the Ducky of Bythinia that he quickly won.

Yeah, the historical accuracy of Kemetic Huns​

He assigned the new lands to the Kingdom of the Frontier and continued the alliance with the Armenian Empire (who conquered more lands in the name of their branch of Christianism and formed an Empire) by marrying the new Ahau of Bythinia to their Imperial heir and with that dissuading any enemy that would try to attack any of them.

Emperor Bor died at the young age of 34 years old from cancer and in the next election the candidate of the Etruscan faction won and for the first time a Vandal became the ruler of the Mediterranean Confederation.

Rule of Emperor Almerich Silingi of Mercia (Carthaginensis) 654-669 CE

A brown-skinned Vandal Emperor, yes, this is an amazing timeline.​

Emperor Almerich was the first Emperor elected that belonged to the Etruscan faction and as such he tried to enforce the agenda of his allies and wanted to strengthen the Church even more and proclaimed that he could convert all the members of the Confederation to Christianity, he started sending missionaries to the recently created viceroyalty of Garamantes, in cities were pagans and Christians used to coexist in peace now the Christian priests were incarcerating the leaders of the pagan cults, attacking their holy places and burning their holy texts, the Maya-Christians in the region ignored the pleas of their eastern brothers when they were also targeted by the forceful conversions sponsored by the “Vandal Emperor” even if they disagreed with the violence of the methods used by the priesthood because the unity of the Confederation mattered more to the Mayan nobility than “a few pagans and Maya-Christians being persecuted in a distant land”.

But things changed when the Emperor tried to enforce the same policy on the Viceroyalty of Carthage, then the Viceroys of New Tikal, Mauria, Gaetulia, Carthage and Lusitania went to the Imperial Court personally to protests against the actions of the Christian church on “Mayan lands protected by the laws of the Confederation since its foundation”, but Emperor Almerich argued that the same men that were protesting now against the religious persecutions he was sponsoring were silent when the priests of the Church were doing their holy work in the Viceroyalty of Garamantes and even sent troops to quell small uprisings organized by the eastern pagans there and that he could not stop the work of the servants of God against the pagans. The Viceroyalties then answered by revolting against the Imperial Authority and raised their armies to fight against the oppressive Vandal Emperor.

Maya-Christians are converting to the main Christian denomination, Mayan Pagans are being persecuted, a revolt was only a matter of time.​

The two opposing forces met at the Battle of Gibraltar in 668, there the Emperor was able to defeat the Mayan rebels who in turn fled to the mountains of Lusitania and sent Balam-Quitze Q’uk’umatz, the Ahau of New Tikal as their envoy to the Imperial Court to try to convince the Emperor about a peaceful end to hostilities and the stop of the religious persecutions against Mayans, he accepted the position even if the rebellion was almost defeated and seemed that the Etruscan faction would succeed in their fight to abolish the privileges of the Mayans inside the Mediterranean Confederation. The rebel forces tried to reorganize their army but they were surprised by the death of Almerich Silingi and the election of their diplomatic envoy to the Imperial Court as the new Emperor, who was then crowned as Balam-Quitze II Q’uk’umatz.

Rule of Balam-Quitze II of New Tikal (New Tikal) 669-716 CE​

The first thing Balam-Quitze II did when he was crowned as Emperor of the Mediterranean Confederation was to secure the religious rights of the Mayans as was tradition and pursued an even bigger alliance with the Armenians, the most powerful Christians on the east to dissuade the few Hunnic Khaganates that still existed in the region and the growing threat that the Ummayad Arabs represented. As was tradition, marriage was the key to these alliances and the Muslim Arabs would never try to invade Armenia as long as their Alliance with the Confederation remained strong.

Islam is growing strong.​

The peace allowed the Emperor to pursue an almost monastic life in the great Church he built in New Tikal, some said that he was favored by God himself and that his rule would last forever. When in 672 a great outbreak of the Bubonic plague expanded across the Mediterranean and killed three Popes in the same year along with thousands… the Emperor was infected but survived without consequences and many Mayans began to believe that his purity made him immune to any mortal disease, the work of the Christian priests to cure the population and the myths surrounding the Emperor caused that many Maya-Christians and Mayan pagans converted to Christianity just because of the example of the pious Emperor and the miracles attributed to him.

The Deadly Plague.​

In 682 strange news came from the east, the Ummayad Caliphate had fallen after Khatun Aruvanki the Great conquered Arabia after adopting Islam as the faith of her people. This guaranteed that the two Muslim Empires would each other for the coming decades and that the expansion of Islam would stop at least on the Mediterranean.

WHAT IS HAPPENING OVER THERE, why a Tamil female got to invade Arabia? how?, why? well, Islam will be screwed by the instability of the nomads and the wars that will happen afterwards ​

Emperor Balam-Quitzé II died in 712 at the old age of 72 years, many believed that instead of dying he ascended to the heavens to watch his people from the skies, many reported seeing a comet the night he died and that the Mayan astrologists did not registered that on their codex because he was not a Pagan like the Emperors of the old times.

Rule of Xiu Oncan of Bizantium (The Frontier) 716-719 CE​

The successor of Balam-Quitzé II in the next Imperial election was Xiu from the old Mayan house of Oncan, he was one of the disciples of the late Emperor and was decided to continue on his pious path and made his capital on the city of Bizantium, he planned to create a fortified city with a great church that would shine like a star in the pagan east…but he died in the third year of his rule from another outbreak of the Bubonic Plague alongside with all his dreams and projects.

I had great hopes on creating a Maya-Styled Byzantium​

Hilarious Sambatiolus, Viceroy of Etruria was elected as the new Emperor of the Mediterranean Confederation, he promised to start a campaign of religious conversions north of the border to honor the legacy of the past two pious Emperors.

 

[NarcomancerPL]

32nd Dynasty of Egypt is Hunnic? Or do they even have Egypt? if they don't they could be kind of this timeline Khazars. I'm really interested where this going to lead to.
Indian Khaleesi is interesting too

 

[Midnite Duke]

Do the Celts sacrifice lawyers and doctors in addition to priests? Be careful, my lord.

 

[Kazanov]

Do the Celts sacrifice lawyers and doctors in addition to priests? Be careful, my lord.

They have killed countless priests that have tried to convert them to Christianity, the Islands will remain pagan

32nd Dynasty of Egypt is Hunnic? Or do they even have Egypt? if they don't they could be kind of this timeline Khazars. I'm really interested where this going to lead to.
Indian Khaleesi is interesting too

These Huns converted for some random reason... Egypt remains as the only place in the entire known world that has not been invaded by any of the people who migrated in this period.

And the Tamil "Khaleesi" is the most strange character on this entire series, i dont understand how a Tamil nomadic character exists because there were no nomads on India, and there were until now no Muslim Tamils.

Anyways, the tide of Islam was stopped by her. I dont think Islam will get to North Africa or Anatolia at least on this part of the AAR

 

[Kazanov]

Chapter 3.38 The Great Pilgrimage 719-726 CE​

Rule of Hilarious Sambatiolus of Ravenna (Etruria) 719-727 CE

As the first Etruscan Emperor in generations and after the long peace experimented in the past century Hilarious Sambatiolus wanted to do great things, first, he ended the long rivalry between his political faction and the Mayans proclaiming Emperor Balam-Quitze II of house Q’uk’umatz as the first Christian saint and ordered a full month of festivities all across the Confederation with the authorization of the Pope, who of course, saw the piety of Saint Balam-Quitze was well known in the recent tradition of the Church and he believed that this proclamation could be the end of Mayan Paganism for good.

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His second action was to announce his aggressive evangelization campaign, hundreds of priests were sent to the Slavic tribes of the north to proselytize and convert all the pagans who had not yet seen the light of the true God, some of the biggest Kingdoms asked the Emperor to aid them with their conversion process. As more and more foreign realms converted to Christianity in the first three years of rule of the first Etruscan Emperor of the Confederation many on his court dreamed with expanding the borders to the north and to the east… restoring what once formed part of the old Etruscan Empire.

Many other Slavic realms converted, but they are too small to be of any relevance and succumbed to internal revolts​

Seeing how the popularity of the Emperor Hilarious had increased notably among the clergy and the population of Rome due to the constant successes of his evangelistic campaigns, Pope Damasus felt that it was time for the church to become more aggressive and take the initiative, and what better than the Pope himself to lead a great religious procession to the northern islands, where the Celts still did not know the message of Christ? The expedition was quickly organized and a large contingent of priests with armed guards and civilian followers left Rome for the north with the permission of the Emperor with many people joining them on the way to the Islands, the Summer of 723 CE saw the first great Christian Great Pilgrimage in history.

They were wearing crosses but this was not a Crusade​

The Emperor gladly sent even more men to accompany the Pope, mainly priests and nobles who were a political obstacle to him in the Imperial court and would be better off trying to convert the Welsh, Britons and other Celts in a faraway land to the True Faith, he had secured the support of the Mayans and had most viceroyalties aligned with his political decisions, and believed that maybe, only maybe, he could be the man who restored the Etruscan Empire to its proper place in the world after centuries of humiliations and defeats. No Mayan or Phoenician would dare to rule over the proud Etruscan people again, no Hun would dare to set even a single foot in the west without the authorization of an Etruscan Emperor…

The Emperor and the Pope in 723 CE, Phoenicians have a great influence in the Confederation in this period.​

Two years after Pope Damasus started the Great Pilgrimage to the north troubling news were received in the court of Ravenna, the caravan commanded by the Holy Father had tried to pass through the kingdom of Celtica without authorization from its rulers because they considered that the pagan kings had no authority over the Pope and over the men of the Confederacy so they ignored all diplomacy and marched across it to the north, with the Christian soldiers marching ahead of the holy men looting towns and stealing food on their way to the islands... but when they thought they reached the North Sea they found an army that promptly encircled and attacked the True Believers and defeated them after a short battle, executing the wounded and making slaves of those who managed to surrender, Papa Damasus had the worst of fortunes along with most of the priests who followed him because they were sacrificed to the Celtic gods on Christmas 725 CE.

These pesky Celts!​

This news devastated Emperor Hilarious because was the first time a Pope was killed by heathens in the entire history of their faith and now the entire Confederation claimed revenge for the Holy Father. It was time for war.

 

[NarcomancerPL]

This entry was kinda short. Left you waiting for more

 

[Kazanov]

Chapter 3.39 The last years of the Confederation 726-772 CE​

Make Etruria Great Again
Rule of Hilarious Sambatiolus of Ravenna (Viceroyalty of Etruria) 719-727 CE​

The nobles in the Imperial Court of Ravenna were furious, not only the pagans had brutally murdered the Pope who only tried to convert them to the True Faith but also enslaved and killed many nobles who accompanied the Holy Father, they demanded retribution and were trying to pressure the Emperor into declaring a war against the Slavic and Celtic Kingdoms of the north, it was not like Emperor Hilarious did not wanted to go to war, but he knew that the volatile nature of the Viceroyalties and the taxes he would have to raise to finance a campaign of such magnitude would cause revolts inside the Confederation sooner than later from the same nations that now were asking for a war.

Meanwhile, the Pagans of the North were preparing for the inevitable conflict and for the first time were trying to create an alliance to stop the Mediterranean Confederation from invading their lands like they did in the past against the Huns, such alliance was a complicated affair because all the tribes had differences between them even if they looked the same from the outside and they were not enthusiastic about accepting the orders of a single leader and valued their independence above everything else. The “Pagan Alliance” was better prepared for war compared to the Mediterranean Confederation who had not experienced much warfare for the past decades and just threw unprepared men into the northern lands at the start of the conflict; Slavic troops took the initiative and won the first battles of the Holy War for Celtica of 726. But that would not last forever

The Slavs are difficult to defeat even divided.​

Emperor Hilarious realized that he had to take command of his troops if he wanted to win the war, thing he did in 727 CE after a few battles but then he wanted to take advantage of the situation and declared war against the Kingdom of Raetia-Noricum in the northern Alps region claiming that they were occupying lands that once belonged to the Etruscan Empire, the Imperial Court, believing that the expansion into the northern lands would secure the borders against any future incursion for the Slavic pagans approved the war and trusted the Emperor and gave him the resources needed to conquer the Raetians.

But then, in one of the greatest mysteries of history, the seasoned Etruscan Emperor decided to cross the Alps to surprise the Slavs and siege their capital in an attempt to quickly end the war and was killed in the Battle of Innsbruck by an army at least four times smaller. With the death of the Emperor and the defeat of the majority of the armies of the Mediterranean Confederation the war got into a stalemate.

Yeah, i did not wanted that to happen, but i had limited resources so choose the shortest route to the capital of the enemy.


Rule of Makarios Ursus (Achaia) 727-736 CE​

The Electors choose Makarious Ursos “The Chaste” of the Viceroyalty of Achaia as the new Emperor and the wise man tried to put order in the precarious situation the Empire was now, but when the army defeated and the coffers depleted he had to raise taxes and take loans to hire mercenaries to fight against the Raetians. For the next three years the war continued in a precarious stalemate while the political situation in the Mediterranean Confederation worsened over time.

Mochcouoh Murzukid, Viceroy of New Phoenicia declared a war of Independence alongside other Viceroys that were tired of paying taxes and sending young men to die in the wars of the Confederation. His revolt worsened the situation of Emperor Makarious that now had to fight the war of the Etruscan Emperor and quell the revolt before the Confederation he was elected to lead disintegrated. Trade in the Mediterranean Sea was interrupted on many parts of the trade network used by the Confederation and in many places famines were followed by peasant revolts; it seemed like the end of the world for many pious Christians in the region and religious zealots prayed in the streets about the end times like in past occasions.

Without a possibility to end the conflicts the Emperor had to station his troops in the Gallic region while trying to stop the Slavs from taking the rich agricultural lands of the area and the rebels from gaining the upper hand.

Chaos
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Emperor Makarious died in 736 from a natural death and the electors choose a man from the prestigious Haytili family from Carthage to led the Mediterranean Confederation in these troubling times. That Phoenician family had given some of the best administrative Emperors in the past and because of this the Electors agreed that the only way to stop the wars and save lives was to elect Aylayanheh Haytili the Viceroy of Achaia and one of the most capable nobles in the Confederation and their new ruler.

The first Greek Emperor since the fall of the Empire of Lydia at the start of this part



The Phoenician Period (736-759)
Rule of Aylayaneh Haytili of Carthage 736-740

The first thing Aylayaneh did as Emperor was to pick his battles carefully and send the hired mercenaries to places where he knew he could obtain small but strategic victories, avoiding the mountainous regions were the Raetians were skilled fighters and using every small terrain advantage he had to gain the upper hand and end the disastrous war as fast as he could manage… which he did in a matter of months but the Confederation at large was still suffering from food shortages and bankruptcy.

Wars can destroy your economy, luckily i sent the Mercenaries to weaken the Slavs before getting bankrupted​

After signing a peace treaty with the Slavic Kingdom of Raetia he focused on the Independence revolt and was lucky because many of the revolting Viceroys died in the following weeks, with the titles returning to him and the new rulers appointed by him disbanding their armies claiming that the revolt was pointless since it started, the remaining rebels signed a white peace in 737 CE, ending a seven years revolt and bringing peace to the Confederation once again.

This was pure luck, they were at 97% warscore and winning, then their main leaders died and their titles returned to the Emperor, ending the civil war for good.​

As the founder of his family once did, Aylayaneh Haytili worked to improve the financial situation of the Confederation and set a trend that would last for at least the next 20 years. He died in 740 CE from a natural death and was succeeded by his son, who was elected to honor the feats of such a good Emperor.

Rule of Maksineh Haytili 740-752 CE​

Maksineh greatly improved the economic situation of the Empire but he focused even more on improving and increasing the power of his family on the Confederation, gaining more lands in the Balkans while trying to gain a reputation as a pious man converting the Raetians, thing he achieved in 742 CE.

He created the Viceroyalty of Gallia in 747 CE and gave it to the Galliya to rule, a people who was born from the union of the Gallic tribes who had inhabited the area for centuries with the relatively newly arrived Christian Slavs that came from the east in many migratory waves.

The Galliya have been living in the region for some decades after the first wave of Slavic Migration, but now are part of the Confederation​

Maksineh had a successful and peaceful rule but an unknown party tried to assasinate him in 749 CE and he died comatose in bed in 752 CE, his brother Baalshillek succeeded him as ruler of the Mediterranean Confederation

Rule of Baalshillek Haytili 752-759 CE​

Baalshillek was a talented administrator and during his short reign he increased the riches of his family and of the Confederation as a whole, creating a system of alliances with the Raetians in the north and with the Armenian Empire and Hunnic Hordes of the east to protect the peace on the Mediterranean.

He was murdered by an unknown perpetrator in 759 CE, some historians agree that another family member lost to history tried to get elected as Emperor by murdering Baalshillek but his plans were frustrated by Balam-Quitzé Q’uk’umatz from the Kingdom of the Frontier, who was elected almost unopposed.

The oldest trick in the book



The Mayan Rivalry (759-772)
Rule of Balam Quitzé III Q’uk’umatz “ The Victorious” (The Frontier) 759-769 CE

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For centuries the Mayans had mingled with other peoples of the Mediterranean without problems, but since the Kingdom of the Frontier was created by Emperor Anoki Q’uk’umatz in 610 CE a great division was created amongst the ruling family of the Mayan people. The Q’uk’umatz clan was historically united under a single leader but after the division of the family on two great branches (and a third, still “pagan” and mostly irrelevant, exiled to the Atlantean islands –Madeira, Canarias and Azores of OTL-) the Mayans were politically divided and were becoming bitter rivals over time. The Q’uk’umatz that ruled over Kingdom of the Frontier in the east considered themselves to be the true heirs of Q’uk’umatz and saw themselves as the warriors of the past, and guardians of the military traditions of the family. Meanwhile the Q’uk’umatz rulers of the Kingdom of New Tikal saw themselves as the main branch of the family and saw the participation of their eastern brothers in the Imperial Court as an offense to their honor, the fact that the last Q’uk’umatz Emperors of the Confederation were from the Kingdom of the Frontier made this rivalry even bitter.

Balam-Quitzé III Q’uk’umatz ruled over the strongest version of the Confederation that ever existed, but the most divided one, and even if he tried to rule with a just hand and to appease the Q’uk’umatz of New Tikal it was not sufficient and two equally strong factions aligned with the two Mayan Kingdoms started to compete for power. It was something that maybe always existed in the politics of the Confederation…with the Etruscan and Mayan factions of the past, or the Trade and Conservative factions of the Mayan Empire…but now with one of the most important families waging a political war for dominance the peace of the Confederation was fragile and as the Viceroyalties had become richer and more powerful after the “Phoenician Period” a civil war would be the end of all of them.

Balam Quitzé III died at the young age of 47 due to complications related to gout but his faction claimed that he was murdered by the Q’uk’umatz of New Tikal, not wanting to destroy the Confederation in a bitter civil war in such prosperous times both factions agreed on electing Anoki Q’uk’umatz from the Kingdom of the Frontier as the new Emperor

Rule of Anoki II Q’uk’umatz (The Frontier) 769-772

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Emperor Anoki II Q’uk’umatz was the greatest politician on the Mediterranean Confederation; some historians would claim what he, in fact, was the greatest in human history. But even a brilliant man like himself could not see what was about to happen.

Everything started with King Balam-Quitzé of the Kingdom of New Tikal asking the Pope Alexander II for an Ecumenical Council to settle the disputes between what remained of the Maya-Christians that were absorbed by the main Church over the past century and the doctrine of the Church, the Emperor, not wanting to create unnecessary theological tensions in the Confederation agreed.

The Third Ecumenical Council was organized in the city of Rome in 770 CE, in it the Church accepted some of the minor Maya-Christian traditions that not affected the Doctrine of the Church at large and accepted some of the deviations made by the Armenian Church to not create unnecessary tensions between the two major Churches of Christianity.

31 intrigue!, and it happened without me trying to breed him or anything.​

After two years Balam-Quitzé of New Tikal asked Pope Alexander II and Emperor Anoki II for another Ecumenical Council, this time to discuss the nature of the power of the Papacy and …the role of the Pope as co-Ruler of the Confederation, the Fourth Ecumenical Council would to be celebrated in Carthage during march of 772...

 

[Idhrendur]

That was a close class with the war.

And Ecumenical Councils can either be very boring or very interesting from the political perspective of the empire.

 

[NarcomancerPL]

Hope March of 722 will come soon. Will it be the last CK 2 part?

 

[Kazanov]

That was a close class with the war.

And Ecumenical Councils can either be very boring or very interesting from the political perspective of the empire.

They can change everything or just be random theological discussions amongst people with too much time in their hands.

Hope March of 722 will come soon. Will it be the last CK 2 part?

Spoiler: yes

Spoiler: maybe

Spoiler: Maybe

i lost anything before chapter 14 a time ago...but there it is...

 

[Midnite Duke]

Cycling through leaders. Take care my Emperor.

 

[Kazanov]

Cycling through leaders. Take care my Emperor.

The AI has some problems managing big Empires, they create new titles, start to bordergore and i feared the nightmare that is cultural assimilation.

 

[Kazanov]

Chapter 3.40 The Fourth Ecumenical Council. 772 CE​

The Fourth Ecumenical Council started in Rome with some minor discussions about the nature of the Virgin Mary and the possibility of the integration of the Armenian Church into mainstream Christianity , but at the end the matter that took priority was the political position that the King of New Tikal and his faction supported: the possibility that the Pope to have the right as head of the Church and symbolic co-ruler of the Emperor of the Mediterranean Confederation to take total control of the latter…after all… if it was created to protect Christianity from the Huns and other pagans who could be better than the Holy Father himself to protect the interests of the Church?

Pope Alexander II " The Snake"​

The Cardinals and the priests that came from all parts of the Christian world including Armenia and Ghana had a bitter discussion that lasted for weeks and seemed to never end, the principles of the Fraticelli movement at the core of the Church mandated that monks and priests should live in poverty and separated from the “material” world…but after decades of prosperity and peace some men of the cloth began to deviate from these principles and to employ excuses to live luxurious lives using arguments like the fact that the Churches had traditionally used their funds to help those in need and if the pope became Emperor, then all the resources of the Mediterranean Confederation could be used to help eradicate the poverty from the Christian world and enforce the will of God on earth.

After a full month of theological discussions that involved a brawl between Mayan and Etruscan priests –that started over a meaningless insult lost to history- the Fourth Ecumenical council ended after suspending the final session many times because of mysteriously ill or disappearing priests and the Pope sent an envoy to Byzantium to inform the Emperor about the results of it.

- The cult of Mary as Mother of Christ was accepted as canon

-The Doctrine of the trinity embraced by the Etruscans and Greeks was announced as “tolerable” but not part of the canon of the Church.

- The position of the Church about dyophysitism would remain to be canonical and those who opposed it would be excommunicated if their remained in their heretic ways.

- The Armenian Church would remain independent from Rome as there was no politically viable option to include either the Armenian Empire not their church into the Mediterranean Confederation.

- The Biblical canon was expanded and added the two “letters to the Assyrians” wrote by the fathers of the Church and that were recently discovered.

-The proposal of the King of New Tikal to increase the political attributions of the Pope to be elected to take temporal titles was accepted and the Pope, at least according to the view of the Church was able to be elected in the next election as leader of the Church and Co-ruler of the Mediterranean Confederation.

The last declaration caused an huge uproar at the Imperial Court because of the implications of having the Church competing for the title of Emperor of the Confederation, the Emperor himself was not satisfied with the results of the Fourth Ecumenical Council and was concerned with the idea of transforming the de-centralized Confederation into a de-facto Theocracy with the Pope at the head of it. He claimed that as a Christian he respected the decisions taken by the Church but that he had to summon a Great Assembly to discuss the legality of such change.

A month later all the Kings, Viceroys and Electors were reunited in Byzantium, Capital of the Kingdom of the Frontier and current seat of the Imperial Court to discuss the implications of the legal change the Church made about their temporal powers. The Pope was invited to the Great Assembly and was given the right to speak and to vote for the first time on this instance.

The faction behind the Emperor knew that this religious-political movement was nothing more than a maneuver made by Balam-Quitzé of New Tikal to discredit the position of the Q’uk’umatz family branch that ruled over the Kingdom of The Frontier and nothing more, because if the Pope truly succeeded to take over the Confederation the Church would turn the Imperial Court and the power dynamics of the Noble houses completely pointless, and what would stop the Cardinals from seizing the viceroyalties in the future in the name of God?, the power of the nobility would be nullified by such a move and that was unacceptable to all the people involved in the Great Assembly with the exception of the Pope, of course.

Emperor Anoki II used all the tricks at his disposal to defeat his kinsman in the political war that was the Great Assembly, he had tried to do the same with the Ecumenical Council but the distance between the Imperial Capital and Rome was too much, but now he could easily bribe, blackmail or even poison the opposition with ease, and with the majority of the Electors at his side he obtained an almost complete political victory against the King of New Tikal and the Pope. The Great Assembly rejected the possibility of the Pope to be elected as the next Emperor by a wide margin.

Without obtaining the political victory he expected and knowing the dirty tricks employed by the Emperor, the King of New Tikal returned to Iberia, raised his levies and sent an ultimatum to the Emperor. He demanded that the Emperor had to organize another, clean, election on the neutral city of Carthage or he would start a civil war to gain independence from such a corrupt and tyrannical Emperor.

Even his allies were impressed for such a display of foolishness or overconfidence from the otherwise wise Quitze-Balam II, because a civil war would devastate the Empire beyond recovery and the Huns or the Slavs could take advantage of that to destroy Christianity once for all. But the Emperor knew what to do. Instead of waging a self-destructing war or recognizing that he had done wrong on the Great Assembly of 772 CE he summoned all the electors to the Second Great Assembly of 772 in Carthage, there he accepted the Independence of the Viceroyalties that backed New Tikal on this religious-political struggle.

The Kingdoms of New Tikal, Mauria, Lusitania, Gallicia, Carthaginensis and Gaetulia were created and got independence from the Mediterranean Confederation.

Mayan Paganism saw a resurgence in the past decades while Maya-Christians got absorbed into mainstream Christianity, i wonder if the original religion of the Mayans will survive until the end of this period.
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The Etruscan alliance, seeing this as an opportunity to get free from paying taxes to a foreign noble family forced the Emperor to acknowledge their independence too, the Kingdoms of Tolosa, Galia, Sardinia and of course, Etruria were freed from obligations to the Mediterranean Confederation and the Emperor was completely unable to argue or do anything to keep the rest of the Confederation together, the only option he had to save face from such a political catastrophe was to give up his title to Pope Alexander and declare the Independence of the Kingdom of the Frontier.

Etruscans took over Italia over the decades and maybe will return to prominence, Galliya are Slavs that mixed with Gauls and Franks effectively replacing them...and the Visigoths are slowly converting into Castillians and Catalans...​

So, the 18 of August of 772 CE the Second Great Assembly ended more than 200 years of Christian unity under the Mediterranean Confederation, and without the threat of the Huns or other invaders the whole point of accepting foreign rule in exchange for protection was over and all the people that once worked together to save their people from oppression were now in their own.

Im worried about the survival of the eastern Kingdoms, Dalmatia, The Frontier and Pannonia could be conquered by the Huns in the future, but who knows...​

But as the world around them had changed a lot across the centuries, also did the people who banded together to survive in these tumultuous times, and the end of the Migration Era will continue for several decades.

The world in 772 CE, i will put the game on Observer Mode for the next century so we get to see what happens, and thats it for this part, i hope the Huns dont take over the West....but the Christian Kingdoms are stronger now....they can survive.​

 

[NarcomancerPL]

Mayan insurrection? Hope the church will deal with it

Is it time for Deus Vult???

 

[Kazanov]

Mayan insurrection? Hope the church will deal with it

Is it time for Deus Vult???

I dont know how these pagans survived if Fraticelli had 100% MA... maybe i will end using that for the next part, Mayan Pagans fighting against Crusaders

 

[Midnite Duke]

Thank you for many YEARS of entertainment. I remember reading Ishfania.

 

[Idhrendur]

That's quite the shake up! But as you pointed out, with no more Hunnic threat, there's not a ton holding the Empire together.

 

[Kazanov]

Epilogue: The Last Century of the Migration Period 772-861 CE​

The Conflict in the Balkans 816-861​

After the dissolution of the Mediterranean Confederation a conflict started in the Balkans between the Kingdom of the Frontier and the Kingdom of Etruria as both competed to rule over the Slavs of the region, this led to minor skirmishes between the two former allies that increased when in 816 CE the Etruscans started a major expansion campaign into the east under the rule of King Nertomarus. Fearing a full war between the Mayan Kingdoms and Etruria the King “invited” the Uldin and Octarid Hordes to take the land between his realm and the Frontier, subjugating the Slavs and threatening to unleash the full might of the Huns over the now isolated Mayans of the east.

The Etruscans tried to expand to the east...​

Threatened by the situation, the Kingdom of the Frontier made an alliance with the Shambatid Horde of the cold north and that created a stalemate between the two factions, who were about to start a major war but remained in a tense cold war for the next decades.

Inspired by the tension in the West, one branch of the Uldin Khaganate declared its independence from the rest of the Uldin Horde and proclaimed a war to unify all the old Khaganates under the Hunnic Empire like in the old glorious days of their people. This weakened the Etruscan alliance in the east and was a great opportunity for the Frontier-Shambatid Alliance to end the stalemate.

With the Uldin fighting a civil war, the Shambatid Horde went and invaded Etruria without warning, taking their western lands in 838 and creating the Kingdom of Ferrara, the first instance of Huns stopping being nomads and started to live sedentary lifestyles like the westerners.

A bitter war was fought then by the Etruscans to expel the Huns from their lands, but without much success and in 854 CE the Kingdom of the Frontier took many lands from them…giving a death blow to the Etruscan Kingdom, who was about to collapse. Meanwhile in the West, the Massin family –of Mayan origin- proclaimed the Empire of Hispania claiming that the right of the Q’uk’umatz family to rule over the Mayans ended with the apparent death of the old faith. The prominence of the Kingdom of New Tikal in the region started to fade while the House of Massin made many alliances to stop the Q’uk’umatz from ever gaining the upper hand in the Iberian Peninsula. All the other Kingdoms that once existed in Iberia after the end of the Mediterranean Confederation collapsed and were conquered by the two warring Mayan Kingdoms.

In 861 CE, after decades of war the Etruscan Kingdom collapsed into small duchies and their lands were ripe for the taking, if not for Pope Marcellus forcing an end of all hostilities in the region, a truce was imposed in the region and even the Huns of the Shambatid Kingdom of Ferrara respected the will of the Holy Father because of the risk of starting a new Great Hunnic War or a unification of the Christian Kingdoms under the Mediterranean Condeferation.

Will the Pope be able to preserve the Etruscan Culture after the fall of their Kingdom...?​

Most historians consider that the Fall of the Kingdom of Etruria in 861 and the Huns starting to become sedentary after the creation of the Kingdom of Ferrara by the now extinct Shambatid Horde are the indicators of the end of the Migration Period, some challenge that position saying that there were more groups of people migrating after 861 CE but none of these groups would be as relevant as the Mayan, Germanic, Hunnic and Slavic people that caused the end of the Hellenic period and heralded a new age with the introduction of new religions and cultures into mainland Europe.

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The Fifteen Kingdoms

From chapter 4 of the book "End of the Migration period" written by Heraldus of Ravenna, 872 CE.

Spoiler: And the Ledger, of course

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"In the period between the Atlantean Invasion of Iberia in 250 CE and the fall of the Kingdom of Etruria in 861 CE many Kingdoms and Empires rose and fell in a violent succession of events, the Turdetani, Babilonian, Lydian, Etruscan and Carthaginian Empires that dominated the Mediterranean for centuries fell one after another, with only the Egyptian Empire remaining as the sole survivor of a Golden Age of humanity. The Atlanteans (the so-called Mayans) destroyed the Old Turdetani Empire in Iberia and only the Lusitanian people remain of the original inhabitants of the region while the Carthaginians were also destroyed by the Atlanteans and the Vandals , the Slavic and Germanic peoples destroyed the Lydian and Etruscan Empires from within and the Babylonian-Assyrian Empires fell to the Muslim Arabs. The Migration period was a tumultuous period and the world was forever changed by the mass migration of people in the bloodiest centuries ever recorded by any historian. At the end of this sad era, fifteen Kingdoms are the most powerful and prosperous, and they will surely be influential in the centuries to come.

I ignored India for most of the AAR, but they created the most powerful Empire on the map.​

1.- Going unnoticed by most Western Historians of the Period because of the constant state of chaos in the eastern kingdoms experienced in the last centuries, the Charuvratid Empire managed the unify the northern tribes of the Indian Subcontinent and had become by far the most powerful Empire on our planet, some merchants in Carthage talk about their luxurious palaces and unbeatable armies clad in armors made of pure gold…other say that the Charuvratid aren’t the most powerful people of our era because there is an ever bigger Empire further east…but that land is so far away that only the most brave are capable of crossing the war-torn lands of the east and they return with improvable histories about a Christian Kingdom fighting a long war against an Empire called “The Tang” of impose our faith. Anyways, the Charuvratid are indeed the most powerful known Empire on Earth while the other is just a legend.

They were a threat in the beginning of the AAR, but then became isolationists while the world was burning around them.
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2.-The second most powerful Kingdom of the end of the migration period is the only truly undefeated people and the oldest in the while Mediterranean, the Egyptians not only managed to preserve their old religion, culture and heritage, they also survive all invasion attempts and took the lands of the Hellenes from the Carthaginians, they also stopped many Muslim attempts to seize their lands. Xenophobic and isolationists Its believed that they will continue to worship their God-Kings for the centuries to come.

They betrayed their roots for a greater cause and have close ties to the Kingdom of Ghana to the south​

3.- The Atlantean-Maya Kingdom of New Tikal, more than 600 years after the arrival of the newcomers from the Atlantic Islands and after the dissolution of the “Second” –we will never know if there was a “First” because that is only a legend- Mayan Empire and the Mediterranean Confederation, the Atlanteans –their true name, they call themselves “Mayan” in their language but that is irrelevant to our objectives in this book- have created the most prosperous Kingdoms in Europe, something surprising coming from a people who originated in the poor islands of the Atlantean Sea, New Tikal has enforced their dominion in North Africa and have established strong ties with the Kingdom of Ghana in the south. Fully Christian, they are still hunting down those who still dare to follow the old ways.

Mayan Byzantium?​

4.-The Kingdom of the Frontier, born as a shield against Hunnic incursions and as a strategy to send away the ambitious secondary line of the House Q’uk’umatz…they ended becoming an independent Kingdom after the dissolution of the Mediterranean Confederation and expanding into the resto of Anatolia after a series of wars against the Kemetic Huns. After the fall of the Etruscan Kingdom in 861 CE they are projecting their power in North Italy and now broke their alliance with the Shambatid of the Kingdom of Ferrara to stop them from exterminating the Christian Etruscans…again.

I was about to change their family name, but i cannot contradict the will of the RNG-Gods.​

5.- After the collapse of the Ummayad Caliphate and the invasion of the nomadic Tamils in 682 CE, Islam, a new religion in the world has struggled to survive in a land of constant conflict, the Wahabid clan rose from the ashes of many Kingdoms in the Arabic Peninsula 30 years ago and is trying to unify all the lands once ruled by Muslims to continue the conquests done by the Ummayad in the past.

This was an unexpected but welcomed development.​

6.- After centuries of oppression under the Assyrians and the invasions led by the Muslim Arabs and Tamils the Persians managed to break free from oppression led by Djamasp “the liberator”. After a successful uprising against their enemies they have slowly expanded into the west. Little is known about Djamasp, but his Kingdom is known across the Mediterranean as the last remnant of a pagan Assyrian Empire even if they are not even related to them.

Not Again! the RNG-GODs are trolling me.​

7.-The Uldin Clan resurrected the title of the old Hunnic Empire and is currently recovering from a disastrous civil war. They are like a dragon that lay dormant in the steppes of the east and are a threat anyone who dare to share a border with them. But the bigger enemy of a Hun is another Hun with more horses…so who knows how much time this new Empire will endure before being destroyed by their own people like so many other powerful Hunnic Hordes in the past.

There will be no French or Germans in this timeline, only different flavors of Slavic Kingdoms.​

8.- The Slavic Invasions were the most surprising and devastating success of the migration period. These mostly unknown people who participated in the fall of the Lydian Empire centuries ago migrated to the west in the 6th century wiping out entire cultures and faiths in their ruthless advance. After mixing with the local Gallic population, a group of Slavs became known as the Galliya and became subjects of the Mediterranean Confederation. After gaining independence they created their own Kingdom, the most successful of the Slaving nations of this era.

There are no Garamantes in CK3, so they will be small duchy in North Africa -Tripolitania- and thats it.​

9.- One of the Mayan Kingdoms that were formed in the last decades are the so-called “Empire of Africa” led by a pagan warlord, successful at first, they have been weakened by the desertification of their lands and looks like they will collapse or be absorbed by Carthage or the Egyptians at any time in the next years. They have become a safe haven for all the pagans fleeing persecution in Christian Europe.

Oh, great, another Mayan Empire, i wanted a Castillian/Visigothic Kingdom ...​

10.- The Empire of Hispania is another Mayan Kingdom that has risen in Iberia and is currently challenging the power of the House Q’uk’umatz, they rule over Suebi, Visigothic, Castillian, Phoenician and Mayan subjects and some wonder for how much that unity will last.

Pala Kingdom and that's it.​

11.- The 10th Kingdom of this period is an unknown Indian Kingdom that is fighting against the Charuvratid and has managed to retain their independence. They are currently ruled by a family coming from Gujarat, a western land in India that is shrouded in mystery.

In this timeline there will be no British, only Pictish, the Pictish Empire will rule the waves?​

12.- The last remnant of the old Celtic Religion that once occupied most of Europe is in the Pictish Islands of the North, most merchants use the name of Scotland or Pictish Kingdom to identify that land full of heathens that are very fond of human sacrifice and cannibalism according to the Priest, who don’t even dare to travel there since they sacrificed Pope Damasus in 725 CE. Because of this we know more of the people from India than about these Pagans.

She is an heretic, but Raetians are Fraticelli like everyone else.​

13.- Another Slavic Kingdom and one that is familiar to the Etruscans because of the war Emperor Hilarious of the Mediterranean Confederation had with them are the Christian Slavs from the Kingdom of Raetia. Slowly advancing towards the north, they are trying to convert the Christianity the rest of their kin.

The Shambatid will continue to be a pain for the Christians in the next part?​

14.- Civilized Huns. That would have been the matter of a joke a century ago but the Kingdom of Ferrara is a proof that nothing is impossible on this world, the Shambatid Huns have adopted many of our customs and abandoned their tents in favor of cities and houses… its quite an spectacle to go to their cities and watch them trying to imitate our lifestyle.

They were ascending to become something else but then they had a war against the Egyptians and got to the bottom of this ranking.
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15.- An unlikely survivor of the Migration Period, the Carthaginians achieved with guile and intelligence what others tried using the force. Not as stronger as they were as the start of this Period they recently lost Greece to the Egyptians and Syracuse to the Mayans of the Empire of Hispania but they are trying to regain their old lands by the use of diplomacy and other non-military resources.

Spoiler: More maps

Religious Map of the world in 861

Cultural map in 861

Political map in 872, i created a similar world in Ck3 and then gave it 10 years to settle.

This AAR will be continued in Ck3....​