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Chapter 2: Era of Da Vinci (1450 - 1550)

They say that good rulers makes their rule good. The wise effort of many nations in Europe to avoid the plague as much as possible had succeeded, and everyone is alive. They cannot see what would have happened if a third of them had to die, and they would think such an idea of such genocide is absurd. The western church had found a way to blame this on God's opponents. It still hadn't help make people develop doubts about God being just after constant famines that arise after the plague. Blaming the Jews had also not worked to stop famines.

As of this time, the perpetual war with England and France, still continues passed a century, with forces still bolstered and large thanks to the survival of their available manpower from the plague. France's high survival during the plague had troubled the English across the channel to mount a proper invasion forces on the seas. Truce was constantly declared throughout the war, with occasionally invasions of English against France came every 5 years, like routine.

In 1453, Castille, forces bolstered from the surviving the plague, sieged and defeated Granada. Completing Reconquista. Spain emerged shortly after the unification of Castille and Aragon in 1492.

The constant famines made many question the church's logic. Once they held a sale of indulgences to raise money for a new grand church of St. Basilica, it was the last straw for someone like Martin Luther. Martin Luther, angered, posted his 95 theses on the walls of the church. Infuriated, the church ordered an army of priests against Martin Luther, only to bolster his logic as his works began to become widespread. Peasant revolts from frustration of famines were as widespread as ever before. The dangerous size of the peasant revolts was larger than in our history, and thus the church had to call a campaign for kingdoms to crush the revolts. Many of those who are educated enough to survive had survived in "secret underground societies". Those men of higher status are able to print what was to be declared contraband. Cells of reformers and heretics formed many and they will remain underground for years to come.

Not all is bad, however, a man by the name of Leonardo Da Vinci had led a different path. Being an inventor, engineer, botanist, and maybe a little bit of an artist, he made many ideas for contraptions and made inventions to help boost production of farming. His works had helped lessened the intensity of famines within the Italian states. His works in farming, by 1550, had spread out into Europe. He even worked for Emperor Andrinokos VI to build a grand bridge in the Byzantine Empire. With pressures at home, he moved to the Byzantine Empire to continue his inventions there. With knowledge of Constantinople there at his fingertips, this helped Da Vinci develop many machines including a flying machine that would be improved upon by the Byzantines and hated by the rest of Catholic Europe for centuries. Da Vinci's works had given way to the creation of airships in the distant future.

However, the Byzantine's growing tolerance of heretics and safehavens for reformers had angered the West. The rulers of the west, slowly being to the point of being puppeted by the church, cracked down heavily on many innovaters, declaring them "heretics". It was later called the "Catholic Inquisition", nobody expected the Catholic Inquisition as many were burned at the stake. The rift between the East and the West still widens. It is only a matter of time that this tension would boil down to open conflict.

