by Ken Hansen
1222 AH
(2559 AUC)
North Aztalan
The Great Displacement. Fed up with the constant rebellions and of the Juteslams, the Aztec Empire sends a larger army to Tetepe and destroys New Åarhus and other major Juteslam cities. To prevent further unrest in the area, the Aztec Empire removes several thousand remaining Juteslams on a forced march to the stable Latisilolal Province on the Pacific coast, which lies closer to Tenochtitlan and remains loyal. A third of the Juteslams die along the way. Tonquizalixco Tetepe is now almost entirely depopulated, except for the remnants of various Iroquois and Algonquin tribes and a few limited outposts of the Aztec Empire.
1224–circa 1350 AH
(2561–2683 AUC)
Aztalan
Freed from their only legitimate enemy (the Juteslams), the Aztec Empire gradually expands its frontiers to the north to cover the entire habitable Aztalan continent. As usual, it primarily relies on a tribute system, allowing local governments to maintain some control of their own peoples.
The wealth of the Aztec Empire grows and they begin to devote more resources to technology, the arts, and literature. They also begin to build larger ships with cannon. Due to their conflicts with the Juteslams, they are generally aware of a vast continent to the east from which the Juteslams ancestors, the Jutland Vikings, originated. Because of the Wise Men from the Sea, they are also aware of a vast continent to the west. With few enemies in Aztalan, they become increasingly concerned about their readiness to defend Aztalan from any invasion from across the great oceans. Therefore, they devote many of their military resources and technology to naval warfare.
1257 AH
(2593 AUC)
Aztalan
Juteslam Declaration, requiring all Juteslams in Latisilolal to live in one of ten different settlement regions outside of the cities and limiting other rights of travel and ownership of Juteslams.
1298 AH
(2633 AUC)
Europe and Southwestern Asia
Treaty of Florentia. Mediated by Emperor Flavius’s First Consul, Khanattinius, the Three Empires agree to cease hostilities and establish regular borders between them. The Sunni Muslim Empire agrees to turn over governance of Andalus (southwestern Iberian Peninsula) to the Second Romanus Empire in exchange for the assurances by Emperor Flavius to remain neutral with respect to the practice of Islam within the region.
1300–1410 AH
(2635–2742 AUC)
Europe and Southwestern Asia
Golden Age of the Three Empires. The entire region flourishes in relative peace. Romanus technologists begin developing the technological method. The Three Empires independently resist the technologists, finding them anathema to Allah.
1365 AH
(2698 AUC)
Europe
A scouting expedition of 5 tall ships from the Aztec Empire arrives on the shores of Gallia in the Mahdi Muslim Empire. The Mahdians engage in some limited trade with locals, but both parties remain very wary of each other.
1370–1395 AH
(2703–27 AUC)
Second Romanus Empire
Emperor Marcellus begins building ships for long voyages designed by his technologists in part based on drawings of ships from the Aztec Empire from local Mahdians. Concerns grow among the Three Empires about the strength of the new Romanus navy. Marcellus assures them he is merely trying to preserve all four empires from an attack by future naval expeditions of the Aztec Empire.
1402–09 AH
(2734–41 AUC)
South Aztalan
A naval expedition from Roma crosses the Atlantic to scout the Aztec Empire. It encounters ships of the Aztec navy in warm islands to the east of South Aztalan, where two Romanus ships are easily destroyed. The Aztec Empire eventually permits the remaining Romanus ships to return with both a stern warning against further attempted incursions and a proposal for future trade. Trade delegations travel the Atlantic for the next several years.
1416–17 AH
(2747–48 AUC)
South Aztalan
An army from south of Huitzlampatetepe (the southern mountains) moves north and raids an Aztec village. With its large navy, the Aztec Empire is able to transport a sizeable army to the northern shores of Apukallpa (the continent south of Aztalan), where it begins attacking the villages that it believes were the source of the raiding parties in South Aztalan. However, the raiders actually originated from small tribes at the extreme south end of Aztalan. Instead, the Aztec Empire has attacked the periphery of the primitive but enormous Incan Empire in Apukallpa. The Aztecs have inadvertently awoken a sleeping giant.
1416–28 AH
(2747–59 AUC)
Europe
The War of Romanus Aggression. Emperor Valerianus of the Second Romanus Empire rashly attacks two of the Three Empires, initially making huge gains against each of them. When they and the third Muslim Empire finally unite against the Second Romanus Empire, their unity buys them time to rebuild their armies and navies and eventually turns the tide in the war. As losses mount, First Consul Fabianus leads a palace revolt, killing Emperor Valerianus. Fabianus sues for peace, but the Three Empires insist on unconditional surrender. He refuses to surrender. When the Second Romanus Senate votes to proclaim Fabianus emperor, he refuses the crown and argues that the Age of Empires in Roma has come to an end, renaming the country the Second Romanus Republic. However, he continues to exert powers similar to an emperor. Eventually, during peace talks at Barcelona (after the Second Romanus Empire has retreated to the Alps and Italian Peninsula), the Three Empires split over their own post-war borders, triggering the Second War of the Three Empires.
1418–1510 AH
(2749–2838 AUC)
Aztalan and Apukallpa
The Aztec Empire and Incan Empire fight a series of battles in the northern reaches of Apukallpa and eventually in the southern reaches of the Aztec Empire. In 1425, the Aztec Empire returns much of its army to Aztalan proper, but keeps several limited outposts in North Apukallpa. The intermittent wars with the Incan Empire continue to drain the resources of the Aztec Empire and weaken it, particularly with regard to provinces in North Aztalan.
1428–1452 AH
(2759–82 AUC)
Eurasia and North Africa
The Second War of the Three Empires. With the Second Romanus Republic no longer a threat, the Three Empires begin fighting among themselves. The Second Romanus Republic remains neutral and actually withdraws 50–100 milia passuum from its previous positions to avoid conflict with the Three Empires. The war rages back and forth on four borders.
1437–40 AH
(2768–71 AUC)
Eurasia
Religious Revolts in the Three Empires. During the middle of the war, various Islamic sect minorities are mistreated by the majorities in their native empires. It begins with the mistreatment of Mahdians by Shiite vets in the Shiite Muslim Empire. When nothing is done to protect the Mahdians, they revolt, but their revolt is met with extreme force by the Shiite Emperor. Over ten thousand Mahdians, including women and children, are killed. Similar mistreatment and revolts occur in the other two Muslim Empires concerning their own minority sects.
1452 AH
(2782 AUC)
Eurasia and North Africa
1452 Peace of Roma between the Three Empires and the Second Romanus Republic. As part of the peace, the Second Romanus Republic agrees to become the Romanus Protectorate, an independent nation that will remain neutral with respect to any wars between any of the Three Empires. Each of the Three Empires pledges to protect the Romanus Protectorate by coming to its aid in the event it is attacked by either of the other two Muslim Empires or by any outside party.
1455–1575 AH
(2785–2901
AUC)
North Aztalan
Dismantling of Northern Aztec Empire. Various provinces in North Aztalan rebel from the Aztec Empire at various times during this period. The Aztec Empire generally regains some le
vel of control over many of them, but by 1575, the Algonquatl and Absáalobke Provinces in the far north have established permanent independence from the empire, and the empire’s hold on the Nepantla Province remains tenuous.
1457–90 AH
(2787–2819 AUC)
Europe
Limited trade resumes between the Aztecs and commercial enterprises of the Romanus Protectorate. This trade slowly expands to the Three Empires despite their frequent conflicts and rebellions.
1465 AH
Aztalan-Asia
The Aztec Empire sends ships across the Pacific to the western continent of Asia. When they ultimately land in the Chíeng Empire in southeastern Asia, they open up trading between the regions.
1481–1537 AH
(2810–65 AUC)
Europe
Age of Islamic Purges. The Mahdian Islamic Empire forces the removal of Shiites from the cities of Nuremburg and Leipzig. They are forcibly marched to the borders with the Shiite Muslim Empire, which reluctantly allows them to enter. In reprisal, the Shiite Muslim Empire begins its own purges of Mahdians from its territory. The Sunnis follow suit and eventually each Empire begins to force either conversion to its brand of Islam or expulsion from their respective empires. Jews throughout Europe and Southwestern Asia are also caught up in these purges. Though the Sunni Muslim Empire permits Jews to live in Andalus and Jerusalem, the other two Muslim Empires expel Jewish populations along with unwanted Islamic sects. At the behest of each of the Three Empires at different times, the Romanus Protectorate agrees to permit immigration of the expelled refugees from the various purges to areas within its borders.
1491–1585 AH
(2820–2911 AUC)
Tonquizalixco Tetepe
Tetepe Immigration. From among the purged populations of Eurasia and the Maghrib, a desperate number seek a new life in the depopulated region of Tetepe. Most of these are Jews, but a few are purged Sunnis, Mahdis and Shiites who have tired of the religious and racial battles in their former lands.
1515–16 AH
(2843–44 AUC)
Romanus Protectorate
Florentia Protocol. Civil war nearly breaks out in the Romanus Protectorate in various skirmishes between Sunnis, Mahdis, Shiites and Jews of various ethnic sects. The First Consul arrests the leaders and threatens to expel them and all former refugees and their children if they do not agree to the terms of a “settlement” reached among a few leaders in Florentia. This agreement becomes codified as the Florentia Protocol and is ultimately approved by all of the Three Empires as well. Under its terms, any persons coming into the Romanus Protectorate pledge to withhold from any proselytization of their religion within the Romanus borders, subject to criminal penalties from each of the signatories. After this Protocol, many of the refugees in Roma begin to join the exodus of refugees to Tonquizalixco Tetepe rather than live with the restrictions.
1535–1615 AH
(2863–2940 AUC)
Tonquizalixco Tetepe
Many skirmishes occur between the new Tetepian settlors from across the Atlantic and the previous Iroquois and Aztec inhabitants, especially over the Tetepian’s expansion down the Atlantic Coast. After a raid by the Tuscarora tribe in 1584, settlors attack the tribe, capture their chieftain, and execute him.
1585 AH
(2911 AUC)
Tonquizalixco Tetepe
Non-Alien Proclamation of 1585. Troubled by instability in the region, Emperor Itzcoatl VII of the Aztec Empire forbids additional immigration into Tetepe.
1603–15 AH
(2929–40 AUC)
Eurasia and North Africa
When the Romanus Protectorate and Mahdian Muslim Empire try to intervene to stop a war between the Sunni Muslim Empire and the Shiite Muslim Empire, the two empires turn on them. In the Treaty of Baghdad in 1615, the Romanus Protectorate agrees to dismantle the remainder of its navy and army and never raise forces in the future. The Three Empires enter into another mutual defense pact with the Romanus Protectorate in which the Three Empires individually agree to defend the Romanus Protectorate against foreign invaders and against each other.
1615–25 AH
(2940–50 AUC)
Tonquizalixco Tetepe
When the Aztec Empire attempts to re-establish control over Tetepe, a war erupts and the Tetepians seek help from the Three Empires and Roma. Sent by the Three Empires as their emissary, the First Consul of Roma brokers a peace between the Tetepians and Aztec Empire. The Tetepian Province will remain nominally a province of the Aztec Empire but with a quasi-independent government. A governor for the entire region is appointed by the Aztec Emperor from among 4 candidates chosen by majority vote of the inhabitants of the region. The Governor must rotate every four years between the five major ethnic/religious groups in the province (Iroquois, Algonquin, Aztecs, Jews and all sects of Muslims). Various joint cultural events are established to try to harmonize the populations.
1635–42 AH
(2960–66 AUC)
North Aztalan
Nepantla and Chgantlo provinces obtain quasi-independent status from the Aztec Empire when they threaten to secede. Instead of tributes paid by the provinces, the people agree to pay taxes on their international trade in products grown and manufactured in the area to compensate the empire for its protection of commerce through navigable waterways.
1655 AH
(2979 AUC)
Eurasia and North Africa
Technologies Treaty of 1655. The Three Empires enter into a joint treaty with the Romanus Protectorate relating to the development of technologies and operations of the growing numbers of technologists. Under the pact, the Romanus Protectorate agrees to remain neutral with regard to the dissemination of technologies to the Three Empires. In exchange, each empire agrees that the Protectorate will be its primary supplier of any new technologies and that it will respect the rights of technologists to the exclusive rights to their inventions.
1737 AH
(3058 AUC)
Tonquizalixco Tetepe
Tetepian Constitution of 1737. By now, the Tetepian settlors have become fairly well integrated with each other and with the Tetepian natives; however, all residents resent the control of a weakened Aztec Empire. When the Aztecs seek to enforce new taxes against Tetepe through their local governor, he refuses and resigns his post. He and other Tetepian leaders come together and write a new “Constitution” in which a new government will be elected through a form of representative democracy and the nation will be called the Tetepian Republic. Because the nation consists of many different ethnic and religious groups, they fear the powers of pure majority rule. Therefore, they include an article entitled “Rights of the People” in the new Constitution.
1743–1833 AH
(3064–3152 AUC)
Tonquizalixco Tetepe
Imperial Boycott of Tetepe. Emperor Acamapichtli VIII of the Aztec Empire confers with the Sunni Muslim Emperor about the new, radical form of representative government and minority rights established by Tetepians. The two emperors jointly agree to boycott trade with Tetepe to undercut this threat. The other Muslim Empires and the Romanus Protectorate join the longstanding boycott, condemning the region to relative poverty and general isolation for over a century.
1743–52 AH
(3064–73 AUC)
North Aztalan
Wars of Western Independence. Nanooko and Latisilolal rebel, this time successfully. The Aztec Empire officially agrees to treat Nanooko and Latisilolal as independent sovereign nations. Nanooko and Latisilolal monarchs agree to pay nominal amounts for naval protection by the Aztec Empire and to allow the Aztec Empire to maintain naval ports in their nations. Most of the merchant vessels are owned and operated by Juteslams, who have kept their seafaring expertise after The Great Displacement. Most Latisilolals distrust the Juteslam captains and crew and welcome the assistance of the Aztec Empire in keeping them in line.
1750–1800 AH
(3073–3120 AUC)
Latisilolal
Latisilolal aggression. As Latisilolal grows increasingly wealthy with trade in the Pacific, it becomes more aggressive with the Aztec Empire and ramps up its mistreatment of Juteslams, resulting in the Juteslam Anarchist Edict of 1800, under which all Juteslam ships and property are confiscated.
1805–10 AH
(3124–29 AUC)
World
War between the Sunni Muslim Empire and the Shiite Muslim Empire expands into Aztalan, with the Aztec Empire joining the Sunnis and Latisilolal siding with their Shiite trading partners. Nepantla and Chigantlo side with the Aztec Empire and send armies west. The two Asian empires refrain from joining the war. Latisilolal loses, its king is deposed, and an oligarchy of five prominent families gains control. In Eurasia, the Romanus Protectorate arranges a truce between the Three Empires and they pronounce the First Consul of the Three Empires as their official arbiter and representative in future conflicts among themselves and around the globe.
1811–17 AH
(3130–36 AUC)
Latisilolal
Ahuacatl, leader of one of the five Latisilolal families, consolidates power when he promises to restore order in the nation and then executes the heads of the other four ruling families based on trumped-up charges of treason.
1820 AH
(3139 AUC)
Latisilolal
Ethnic Prioritization Edict of General Ahuacatl, granting natives in Aztalan priority over any Juteslams and requiring all Juteslams to wear a three-horn insignia outside of any settlement areas to identify them as Juteslams.
1822 AH
(3141 AUC)
Latisilolal and North Asian Empire
Latisilolal King Ahuacatl enters into a “Special Trade Partner” compact with North Asian Emperor Dae-Sung, whereby Latisilolal is provided with various economic assistance in rebuilding its industries, and Latisilolal gives the North Asian Empire “Special Trade Status” with respect to any goods or services travelling between the two, including those shipped through the nation to other parts of North Aztalan. King Ahuacatl begins to re-arm Latisilolal.
