Joachim I Nestor 1499-1535
Age of Revolution- Fall of Rome
Our new monarch started with very bad omens, two loans due in two years and not a lot of friends.
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Our monarch's first goal was to improve our relations with our neighbors. We failed a marriage with our long enemies Saxony but succeded in marriages with Georgia, Palitant, Austria, Cologne and Byzantium. Then our trade began to suffer.
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We lost all but two merchants in Venice, along with many in all other locations. Our trade has fallen so low and our economy was suffering so greatly we would have to take more loans if they did not raise.
And our two loans were extended to 1506 and 1507.
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Our trade and economy has suffered so greatly that much of our military has been disbanded and our scientific and artistic researched has been stopped alltogether. Then total disaster strikes. A plauge has been spread by the rats and dogs of East Prussia and Memel, cutting their population in half. Our loans are also impossible to pay and one was payed off using borrowed money while the other was extended.
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Our alliance has ended leaving us with few possible allies, England is one of them and becomes our ally. Milan, a nation far to the south of our glorious nation, has fallen and rerisen from their conquereres, the nation of Helvetia. This shook up the European world and allowed us to get marriages with Sweden and Holstien, but a revolution is the smallest change in the face of Europe.
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Our king has been spending money to try and reboost our economy, unfortunately it only put us deeper in debt. And then comes the greatest change in the history of Europe, the Reformation.
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We ask the Tuetonic Order to join England as our allies, and we make a bold move to gain land. We declare war on Poland-Lithuania and Moldavia. Both of our allies joined us in our endevor and the war begins. We suffered two quick defeats and one major victory by wiping out Poland's largest standing army. We besiege West Prussia and Lithuania while T.O. rushed to defend Welikia from Poland.
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All seemed to be going as planned, untill Moldavia strikes. They land with a small force and sieged East Prussia. We sent troops in to attack but failed to break the siege and the enamy is quickly reinforced by Poland.
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Eire rebels against our allies England and becomes Protestant, we have no trust or respect for this renegade country. In local matters, On Oct. 15th 1516 the siege of Prussia was finaly brocken and the war was soon to end.
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Sept 4th, our nation, deep indept from our first monarch and then from our newest war, declares banckruptcy and our stability falls to two below and rebelion rears it's ugly head. Peace talks are pathetic and we gain only one territory, Western Prussia.
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We have many friends and just as many enemies, and times ahead seem dim. Magdeburg returns to the true religion, Catholosism, and the newest Holy Roman Emperor, Karl V of Austria.
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Age of Revolution--
Magdeburg, Memel, Kustria, and Western Prussia all revolt numerous times and are all put down, at a heavy cost of lives and lands. Times are not going well, but will soon get better, I hope.
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Wutenburg becomes Protestant, shocking Europe and beginning a series of events from which there will be no return. A series of marriages follow, followed by a series of conversions as Hessen, Hans, and Sweden become Protestant.
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We have finaly replayed our final loan! I am now much more confident in our monarch's skills. This news was followed by another boost in our nation's history. Our monarch has choosen Insterburg as a minister, maybe we are inline for an economic boost after all.
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Our alliance has ended and soon after we use our good relations with England to join her alliance with Portugal and Spain. Our rebellions might have ended but the rest of the world is racked with probelms. Austria feels the harms of the religious reformations as Transylvania spawns a revolution.
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Thurigen and Hannover become protestant, leaving us with only one friend, England. Our allies declare was on France and her allies, so we join to keep our friendship strong. Memel converts to Catholosism, but then a drastic change occurs, Henery VIII of England brakes from Papal authority. France and all her allies but the Pope, seddle for a white peace, showing the papal's arrogance and follishness. England Spain and I invade the Papal lands, then england makes a drastic move, he sieges and conquer's Rome, leaving the Pope stranded in Florence.
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Following this amazing turn of events England is left with few freinds, and the Aztecs, a group from across the sea, join the alliance. In another turn of amazing events Transylvania declares indapendance and the Turks siege the trapped nation of Byzantium.
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Our economy is stable and our sciences have been reinvested. And as our monarchs final act he leads us into the Baroque age of Trade, allowing us to commit trade embargos. On Dec, 24th 1534 Joachim I Hektor passed away in his sleep. He achieved greatness, at the cost of many lives, and much money, but still brought us into the veiw of the great nations of Spain, France and England.
(TADA!!! ouch!)