Historical Divergences and Timeline

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Historical Divergences and Timeline

The Godslayings

ca. Real-Earth 2270 to 2215 BC, reign of Sargon of Akkad, also known as Sargon the Great "the Great King" (Akkadian Šarru-kīnu, meaning "the true king" or "the king is legitimate"),[1] was a Semitic Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 23rd and 22nd centuries BC.

Within 100 years after his death in, the godslayers and namtar-demons were at work in the world, tearing down the temples and killing gods.

1627 BCE and 1600 BCE Real-Earth range of dates for the Thera eruption, the destruction of the Minoan civilization. (had existed from approximately the 27th century BC to the 15th century BC)

1336 BC or 1334 BC Death of Akhenaten
Imperfect suppression of the cult of Aten

13th century BC, Troy of Homer.
Destruction layer at ca. 1190 BC., Real-Earth dates. It is the most often-cited candidate for the Troy of Homer and is believed to correspond to Assuwan Wilusa known from Hittite sources dating to the period of roughly 1300–1250 BC.

Saul circa 1079 BC – 1007 BC. End of witchcraft in Judea. End of golems.

The Rise of Rome

146 BC Fall of Carthage
Precisely as in Real-Earth.

48 BC Julius Caesar did not accidentally burn the Great Library of Alexandria down when he set fire to his own ships.

44 BC/1 AC The Failed Assassination of Julius Caesar
Brutus protected Caesar. Informed him of the pending attack on his life, and assembled senators and legionnaires to protect Caesar's life. Took one of the assassin's knives through his own back as he and others protected Caesar from the conspirators.

All of the conspirators were tried, found guilty, and executed.

Julius Caesar was crowned Emperor/Imperator the same year, and his successor, his son, Caesarian, commanded that the calendar be re-ordered to commence with the ascent of his clearly god-born father to the throne.

Caesar himself was 66 when he ascended the throne. He set aside his 'adopted' son of Octavius in favor of his natural son by Cleopatra. This angered Augustus, who tried to lead a rebellion against Caesarion on Caesar's death in 15 AC.

15 AC Ptolemy XV Julius Caesarion Philopator Philomator, or Caesarion the God-Born

He was by this point eighteen years old and very much a ruler of Egypt, and very much god-born on both sides. His mother, Cleopatra, was his co-ruler in Egypt, and taught him well; she also took him to Rome, where he was educated as a Roman noble from 5 AC until 15 AC.

Caesarion was god-born on both sides; he was a lineal descendant of Osiris, the lord of the dead and rebirth, and of Venus/Aeneas.

It is said that Octavian started with an assassination attempt, before the boy pharaoh could also be crowned Rome's new Emperor. No poisoned cup could catch him, however; he drank freely of whatever was placed before him, and the poisons had no effect. Whether he took the path of Mithridates, and dosed himself with every known poison daily to build an immunity, or whether his god-born body was simply proof against poison was a matter of debate in antiquity.

What is not in debate is that as he walked to the Senate to be crowned, as his father had, before him, Octavian and seven conspirators set on him with knives.

Contemporary accounts state that the seven conspirators dropped to the ground, dead, as beetles poured out from between the stones of Rome's streets, stinging and biting them to death. And Octavian himself died of a stab-wound to the heart, as Caesarion, a young man of eighteen, and not the sixty-six year-old his father had been on facing his own assassination attempt, caught his attacker and used his own weapon against him.

The plebeians of Rome said that this was a sure sign that Mars himself was looking out for the young man, who had lead his first army to victory the year before, in Germania, looking for one of the lost Eagles of the legions. And finding it.

Caesarion ruled from 15 AC until 55 AC, dying at the age of seventy. He had expanded the Empire's borders and made peace with Germania and Gaul, bringing in many new regions as client states of the Empire. He held Rome to a period of stability unlike any experienced during the Republic, which had had many civil wars… and without the turbulent Triumvirate period of Real-Earth, Rome was united and strong by the end of his reign.

During his campaign against Pompey, Caesar issued a variety of types that featured images of either Venus or Aeneas, attempting to associate himself with his divine ancestors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency \

26 AC This is the year, 70 AD, in which the Siege of Jerusalem resulted in the destruction of the Second Temple, Real-Earth.

In Edda-Earth? This never happened Caesarion's envoys met with the Zealots, and offered them improved self-rule in exchange for loyalty, with the Legions waiting on hand to burn Jerusalem. Caesarion knew and understood the region, being born in Egypt, in a way that no Roman, born of Rome, could.

Judea accepted. The rioting and fighting stopped, and Judea became loyal. There was never a power vacuum into which other religions could develop in the region. Rome was never distracted by internal conflicts. The strong economy of Judea, like the breadbasket that was Egypt, helped fuel the rising Roman Empire.

The benefits of a strong central government were clear.

55 AC Caesarion's death. He was followed by his son, Phillometrus Julius Caesar Albius. Caesarion's death did prompt a brief period of instability as the Senate and nobles tried to reassert power.

Phillometros was having none of that, and being just as god-born as his father, and having the backing of the Legions, put down the rebellions with comparative ease.

114 AC Colosseum construction begins in the reign of

264–324 AC First hot air balloons developed in Qin for military signalling.

350 AC The Edicts of Diocletian II

Diocletian decreed that all subject/client states had autonomy in matters of religion.

Novus Mundus

500 AC The Colonization of the New World Fleet led by Hrolfr Njordr crossed the Sea of Atlas/Atlantic Ocean and landed in Newfoundland. Second fleet landed near what is now Novo Trier in 515, and more boats canvased the entire eastern coast of Caesaria Aquilonis by 600 AD, as far south as the Bláthach peninsula.

550 AC-675 AC Early Decadent Period

675-750 AC Reform period.

700-880 AC Building of Domitanus' Wall from Judea through northern Asia Minor.

880 AC Kievan Rus attempted to invade Asia Minor. Domitanus' Wall construction halted, series of armed forts built along northern border, instead.

1000 AC Lief Dalgaard circumnavigated the globe.

1100 AC Sea-trade with Qin and Nippon and India now possible, as well as the overland Silk Road.

1150 AC Gunpowder introduced to the West and dismissed, largely, as a novelty item; cannons tended to explode.

1190 AC Gold discovered near what becomes Burgundoi, making this city-state in Nova Germania fabulously wealthy. This gold actually helped fund the fleets that now began to sweep around the globe.

1190 AC Cuzco begins to be settled by Inca.

1215 AC Invention of sheepskin condom in Hellas.

1223 AC Mongols begin invasion of Kievan Rus.

1250 AC Mongols invade Qin. Romans aware of this as a disruption in trade.

1264 AC Mongols attempt to invade Byzantium… and are vigorously repelled by the much more technologically advanced and organized Romans, and also thanks to the series of forts present there. Their various summonings are repelled, and with extreme prejudice.

1275 AC Mongols diverted east into Persian subject kingdoms, and get as far south as Judea, where cannons are used for the first time effectively from Domitanus' Wall.

1304-08 AC Plague Ships. Several dozen merchant ships were lost at sea in this four-year span, and a number of port cities suffered from the Plague, but the result was limited, because so much of trade was conducted by sea… and many of the ships were simply lost with all hands as a result of the virulent plague. Sightings of Ghost Ships were very prominent from this era onwards. Total effect on Europa's population: -2 million people, not the -75 million or -100 million of Real-Earth's Black Plague.

1325 AC Tenochtitlan built

1334 AC And, of course, the palace of the emperors crowned the Palatine Hill, with an open plaza before it. The building itself dated back to Caesarion I; the plaza was a more recent addition, built in 1334 AC.

1350 AC Rich silver lodes found in the white-capped Nivalis mountains, east of Burgundoi. Accessing this required massive innovations in mining technology. Gunpowder explosives used.

1360 AC Inca begin to expand, forming the empire of Tawantinsuyu.

1427 AC Rome meets the Nahautl Empire, newly formed, and demands an end to the human sacrifices if they're going to be neighbors. The residents of Novo Gaul weren't appreciating being captured and dragged off as sacrifices.

The Industrial Revolution

1450 AC Industrial Revolution begins.

1475 AC First contact between Novo Gaul, Novo Germania, Rome, and Tawantinsuyu.

1480-1490 AC Plague years in Tawantinsuyu.

1497 AC Tawantinsuyu agrees to formal treaty with Rome, becoming a subject state.

1500 AC Discovery of electricity.

1501 AC Small Roman colony founded at the southern tip of Africa, focused solely on resupplying ships. This small colony, named Cyrenus, was intended to compete with established trade routes that involved portaging cargo across the Sinai desert to the Persian Gulf, and from there, to Qin, Nippon, India, and eventually, Australia.

1505 AC Wan Quan publishes study on the efficacy of inoculating against smallpox by taking the dried scabs, powdering them, and blowing them up a patient's nose with a blowpipe. This variolation method became transmitted by medical texts to the west over the next one hundred years.

1528 AC Steam engine invented.

1528 AC Rebellion in Nahautl against Rome. Gauls, Celts, and Germanic troops march down from the north and put down the rebellion, with a vengeance.

1531 AC Hellene physicians discovered the anesthetic properties of diethyl ether.

1548 AC Locomotives invented and tracks begin to be laid.

1550 AC Thomas Mauritis helps determine that ley-energy can power an engine just as well as steam or electricity.

1565 AC Locals, mostly migrating Bantu tribesmen, trade a few shiny rocks to the Romans at the port. It takes over a year for the shiny rocks to migrate their way to Rome, where they're discovered to be very large diamonds.

1568 AC Mauritis develops the incandescent bulb as a novelty.

1575 AC Eadward Gann, in Britannia, used cowpox as a method of inoculating against smallpox. This, mingling with the notions of Wan Quan, begins to change medicine forever.

1576 AC Diamond mining expedition sets up camp outside of Cyrenus. The local tribesmen think that the Romans must be *crazy* for digging in this fashion, but some leave off, and dig alongside the Romans, and wind up being paid the same price for their diamonds as the Roman dig-crews are for theirs.

1585 AC Germs and microbes observed with microscopes for the first time. Germ theory developed. Judea.

1590 AC Telegraph invented by Samuel Maurus, the son of a Roman man and a Judean woman, in Judea. Competing inventors included Agapetus Metaxus, who developed the code system used for telegraphy to this day.

1600 AC-1750 AC Latter Decadent Period

1601 AC Incandescent bulbs replace oil lamps in parts of Europe.

1607 AC First tethered hot air balloon flight, in Rome, done as a novelty at the Imperator's palace.

1615 AC First coal-fired power plants come online in Judea to produce electricity.

1645 AC First untethered hot air balloon flight, again demonstrated in Rome, this time by the Gaulish Locinna brothers. Largely a novelty, except in Judea, where it was used to conduct surveillance over the Wall.

1660 AC Temple of Jupiter rebuilt in Rome after a great fire had swept through the city. The emperor of that period, Julian III, had rebuilt the temple, larger and grander than before.

1675 AC Laudanum distilled, precursor to morphine.

1697 AC Morphine developed for use in battlefield medicine.

1701 AC Chloroform and ether used for the first time to allow for first non-agonizing amputations and surgeries in the Invasion of Asia Minor. Antiobiotics still unknown.

1750 AC Laws giving slaves rights passed in Rome.

1756 AC Penicillin developed and used in field hospitals during the War of the Caspian Sea (1753-1763; Rome vs. Raccia, Raccia vs. Mongols, Mongols vs. Rome, Mongols vs. Persia, Persia vs. Rome. It was ugly.) Dr. Alexander Argyris the first to really study the mold that had been a folk remedy for generations.

1769 AC Reginleif born.

1771 AC First successful Caesarian in medical history, in which both mother and baby lived. Conducted in Jerusalem.

1825 AC First manned plane flight performed just outside Novo Trier, by a pair of Trieri brothers by the names of Ursus and Wystan Abered. The two brothers came from a large ship-building family. Their goal was to break the stranglehold of the existing shipping companies over the northern Sea of Atlas, and to do so, they decided to try to build ships of the air. After several notable failures with hot air and hydrogen-filled balloons, they addressed most of their efforts to fixed-wing, heavier-than-air craft. The result was the first biplane.

Not used in war for scouting, except in Judea; everyone else has spirits and god-born and people capable of flight already! Became a faster method of overseas travel and transport.

1830-1845 AC Mongols invaded Qin.

1850 AC Radio invented, in Hellas.

1855 AC-1860 AC Caspian Crisis; Mongolia attempted to annex most of the Caspian Sea, resulting in a four-way battle between Rome, Raccia, Mongolia, and Persia; this was the first major war since the War of the Caspian Sea a hundred years before. Well, other than Mongols vs. Qin.

1875 AC Helicopter invented, Judea. Widest adoption in Raccia and Novo Germania, however.

1885 AC Hormonal birth control invented in Nova Germania, associated with women's rights movement.

1895 AC Ornithopter invented, Persia. Has been broadly adopted and adapted by India, Qin, Mongolia, and parts of the Quechan and Tawantinsuyu subject kingdoms of the Roman Empire. In Persia and Mongolia, the ornithopters are actually powered by compelled, enslaved spirits; in Qin and other areas, ley-powered engines are used to give the beating wings their motive force.

1900 AC Far-viewers developed, in Nippon.

Recent History

1905 Livorus born.

1910 AC Sigrun Caetia born, Cymri, Nova Germania, Caesaria Aquilonis.

1915 AC Jet turbine engine developed.

1926. Sigrun to the Odinhall.

1923. Livorus into the Legions.

1924. Kanmi born.

1927-1930. Raccia-Mongol Conflict.

1928. Trennus born.

1929 AC First rocket launched into space from Judea, sparking space-race between Hellas, Judea, and Nippon, with Britannia an interested observer.

1929. Adam ben Maor born.

1930. Sigrun leaves the Odinhall.

1930. Minori Sasaki (Ijiun) born.

The Shadow War. 1930-54, and sporadically ongoing. (Re-ignites every 4-7 years or so).

Persia’s attacks on Judea, through some of its minor subject kingdoms, are a proxy war, really. They really want to attack Rome, and Roman interests. Judea just happens to be there and looks an apt target. They’ll also sometimes prompt one of their subject kings to mount some sort of provocative action on an outlying Roman town. Domitanus’ Wall runs from Judea to the edge of Roman holdings in Asia Minor, as much as geography permits; some places, there are just mountains plain in the way.

It’s as visible from space as the Great Wall of China… but Rome knows it’s useless against, say, the Mongols, because the Wall doesn’t continue north into Raccia. The Mongols, with their lightning-fast attacks, could pour north into Raccia, pull around the Wall, which is hundreds of years old, and pour into the Empire through the north. As such, there’s a line of armed camps marking the northern border of Rome with Raccia as well… with minefields scattered here and there, off the roads.

1930-1932. Sigrun on Roman-Persian Border, in Asia Minor.

1932-1934. Sigrun on Roman-Mongol border, within spitting range of Raccia.

1933-43, Livorus an aedile in Rome.

1943. Slavery abolished in Nova Germania and Novo Gaul.

1934 Transatlantic cable laid, allowing for overseas calls.

1934-38. Sigrun begins protection work for diplomatic envoys to the unaligned Scandinavian countries.

1938-1948. Sigrun works as an ǽlagol in the New World.

1939 AC/1889 AD Splitting of the atom in Judea.

1943, Livorus’ unsuccessful run for quaestor. Appointed diplomatic envoy to India, instead.

1944. Trennus’ mentor killed by a rogue summoner. He requests to go to Londonium.

1945 AC First satellites settle into orbit.

1946. Kanmi graduates the University of Athens and gets married. Immediately leaves for Mongol border.

1947. Adam goes to the Persian border.

1948. Caesarion IX crowned. (God-born)

1948. Livorus appointed ambassador to Qin.

1949. The Mongol-Qin Provocations.

1949. Sigrun recruited by Praetorians; appointed to Livorus' detail after the Mongol-Qin incidents.

1950. Kanmi returns home from Roman-Mongol border, knowing that some other country is at least taking the brunt of the Mongols at the moment, and not knowing if that should make him glad or guilty. Recruited by Praetorians.

1950. Trennus leaves Londonium for work with the gardia.

1951. Adam recruited by the Praetorians.

1953. Adam paired, late in the year, with Sigrun.

Our Story Begins

1954 AC Story start

1954. Kanmi transferred to Livorus’ lictor detail.

1954. Trennus recruited by Praetorians.

1955. Tlaloc and Judea

1956. Adam and Sig married.

1960. Tawantinsuyu

1970. Loki

1975. All slavery abolished everywhere in the Roman Empire.

1999 AC The end of Edda

Order of the Emperors:

Caesarion I, Reigned 15 AC until 55 AC
Phillometrus (Caesarion's son) 55-95 AC
Livianus (great-grandson) I 95-130
Diocletian I 130-180
Caesarion II 180-218
Flavian I 218-245
Philometrus II 245-283
Flavian II 283-333
Diocletian II 333-380 (Edict passed in 350)
Domitanus 700 AC


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