Part V: The end of the Empire
"December 11, 1604 : The people of Albania declared independence from Venice."
"December 11, 1604 : Albania are now our vassals."
After giving independence to the poor, orthodox and wrong albanians, Marco named the Bishop Antonio as his interior minister, thus giving him the power to restart the missionary activities stopped for more than a century.
The mints worked at full capacity, to provide the funds for the missions. More governors were promoted, and to help, the next year was an exceptional year. It seemed that the Barbango's luck was back. And, after more 100 years of activities, he learned all that a good leader needs to know. And the minister Marco, after showing good results, gained the Marco's trust, and stood there with Marco until... nobody knows.
(In game, what really happened was that I took the right to manually trigger the excelent minister event, just to convert Banat, that was my objective. Then, before that event ends, the same event happened and... the effects of that event didn't stop.)
Venice then managed to end his nonsense wars against northern countries, at a price of 25 ducats to Scotland and 25 to Denmark. However, Wallachia got a very good peace treaty with Denmark.
"September 5, 1606 : Wallachia accepted peace with Denmark on the following terms : Denmark pays 200$ in indemnities. "
Antonio, in fact, started an extensive missionary activity in Balkans, and got very good results, even unexpected ones, but some fails in the middle of the process. The good results are shown above:
Province . . . .Date of conversion
Bosnia............April 1, 1607
Macedonia......October 2, 1607
Crete.............December 1, 1607
Rumelia..........April 22, 1609
Banat............November 18, 1610
Bulgaria..........March 20, 1611
Hellas............February 28, 1613
Serbia............July 13, 1616
Smyrna..........September 28, 1617
And the influence of Antonio also took place in external politics.
"March 7, 1617 : Venice is now the sole defender of the Catholic faith."
This explorer set sail to the uncharted waters of the pacific ocean, discovering some islands plus New Zealand, Australia and gold in New Guinea, before he dies. He was of great help to the colonial development of the republic.
In May 1, 1617, the Maggior Consiglio decided that no one else could be called roman empire, so the total destruction of Byzantium was necessary, and the Declaration of War was delivered to the emperor. Again, Venice used its supperior warfare and reliable navy and the result was good. Byzantium had recently annexed Turkey and its Mahe TP. This is how Mahe came back to venetian hands, after being burned by the portuguese some time ago.
"May 3, 1620 : Venice accepted peace with Byzantium on the following terms : Adana to Venice, Trabzon to Venice, Mahe to Venice & Angora to Venice."
"May 3, 1620 : The people of Turkey declared independence from Venice."
"May 3, 1620 : Turkey are now our vassals."
As the stability cost and Bad Boy were very high, the Maggior Consiglio determined that Turkey had its right to exist under venetian "protection", and then released it as vassal. At this point, things were hot in England-France.
"May 1, 1621 : The people of Huguenots declared independence from England."
"May 1, 1621 : The government of England has fallen."
"May 1, 1621 : England converts to Catholic."
The Huguenots eventually forgot their rivalry against French Catholics and they formed a good alliance in the future.
Marco also invested in manufactories. Corsica and Messina gained Naval Equipments; Emilia and Napoli gained Refinery; Bulgaria and Krain, Weapons.
The objective was to reach soon level 6 infra, to build goods manufactories in Siena and Lombardia.
However, the objective of destroing the empire was more urgent, so another DoW was made. This time, that was the result.
"February 5, 1627 : Venice accepted peace with Byzantium on the following terms : Armenia to Venice, Kurdistan to Venice & Sivas to Venice."
"February 5, 1627 : The people of Armenia declared independence from Venice."
"February 5, 1627 : Armenia are now our vassals."
"February 5, 1627 : The people of Dulkadir declared independence from Venice."
"February 5, 1627 : Dulkadir are now our vassals."
(What a full day for the diplomats...!)
Exactly five years later, like a clock, the sixth and final war against the empire begun. The city of men's desire, now is part of the roman empire.
And the colonies also grew. Netherlands is a cause of preocupation:
There was also a religious map, showing that in the european territories, only Thrace remains orthodox. I lost it. Would be possible to convert Thrace?
"December 11, 1604 : The people of Albania declared independence from Venice."
"December 11, 1604 : Albania are now our vassals."
After giving independence to the poor, orthodox and wrong albanians, Marco named the Bishop Antonio as his interior minister, thus giving him the power to restart the missionary activities stopped for more than a century.
The mints worked at full capacity, to provide the funds for the missions. More governors were promoted, and to help, the next year was an exceptional year. It seemed that the Barbango's luck was back. And, after more 100 years of activities, he learned all that a good leader needs to know. And the minister Marco, after showing good results, gained the Marco's trust, and stood there with Marco until... nobody knows.
(In game, what really happened was that I took the right to manually trigger the excelent minister event, just to convert Banat, that was my objective. Then, before that event ends, the same event happened and... the effects of that event didn't stop.)
Venice then managed to end his nonsense wars against northern countries, at a price of 25 ducats to Scotland and 25 to Denmark. However, Wallachia got a very good peace treaty with Denmark.
"September 5, 1606 : Wallachia accepted peace with Denmark on the following terms : Denmark pays 200$ in indemnities. "
Antonio, in fact, started an extensive missionary activity in Balkans, and got very good results, even unexpected ones, but some fails in the middle of the process. The good results are shown above:
Province . . . .Date of conversion
Bosnia............April 1, 1607
Macedonia......October 2, 1607
Crete.............December 1, 1607
Rumelia..........April 22, 1609
Banat............November 18, 1610
Bulgaria..........March 20, 1611
Hellas............February 28, 1613
Serbia............July 13, 1616
Smyrna..........September 28, 1617
And the influence of Antonio also took place in external politics.
"March 7, 1617 : Venice is now the sole defender of the Catholic faith."
This explorer set sail to the uncharted waters of the pacific ocean, discovering some islands plus New Zealand, Australia and gold in New Guinea, before he dies. He was of great help to the colonial development of the republic.
In May 1, 1617, the Maggior Consiglio decided that no one else could be called roman empire, so the total destruction of Byzantium was necessary, and the Declaration of War was delivered to the emperor. Again, Venice used its supperior warfare and reliable navy and the result was good. Byzantium had recently annexed Turkey and its Mahe TP. This is how Mahe came back to venetian hands, after being burned by the portuguese some time ago.
"May 3, 1620 : Venice accepted peace with Byzantium on the following terms : Adana to Venice, Trabzon to Venice, Mahe to Venice & Angora to Venice."
"May 3, 1620 : The people of Turkey declared independence from Venice."
"May 3, 1620 : Turkey are now our vassals."
As the stability cost and Bad Boy were very high, the Maggior Consiglio determined that Turkey had its right to exist under venetian "protection", and then released it as vassal. At this point, things were hot in England-France.
"May 1, 1621 : The people of Huguenots declared independence from England."
"May 1, 1621 : The government of England has fallen."
"May 1, 1621 : England converts to Catholic."
The Huguenots eventually forgot their rivalry against French Catholics and they formed a good alliance in the future.
Marco also invested in manufactories. Corsica and Messina gained Naval Equipments; Emilia and Napoli gained Refinery; Bulgaria and Krain, Weapons.
The objective was to reach soon level 6 infra, to build goods manufactories in Siena and Lombardia.
However, the objective of destroing the empire was more urgent, so another DoW was made. This time, that was the result.
"February 5, 1627 : Venice accepted peace with Byzantium on the following terms : Armenia to Venice, Kurdistan to Venice & Sivas to Venice."
"February 5, 1627 : The people of Armenia declared independence from Venice."
"February 5, 1627 : Armenia are now our vassals."
"February 5, 1627 : The people of Dulkadir declared independence from Venice."
"February 5, 1627 : Dulkadir are now our vassals."
(What a full day for the diplomats...!)
Exactly five years later, like a clock, the sixth and final war against the empire begun. The city of men's desire, now is part of the roman empire.
And the colonies also grew. Netherlands is a cause of preocupation:
There was also a religious map, showing that in the european territories, only Thrace remains orthodox. I lost it. Would be possible to convert Thrace?
I strongly urge you convert Thrace, it is quite possible BTW. Typically converting is a pretty random business though.
