Talk:A Bad Past (Map Game)/@comment-5590986-20170504191603

Well I promised a new chapter so i'll make one

Chapter 4: The Last Crusades (1650-1750)

While Europe was under the grip of the Catholic Church by the Pope, a growing threat of Islam in the middle-east by the name of the Empire of Nine Realms, or the Caliphate, has made many Europeans nervous. The Calipgate was founded in 1639, taking up the reigns of the Old Caliphate, and managed to secure Northern Africa, Arabia, and the lands within the Fertile Crescent. By 1650, the Great Christian War had still exhausted the Europeans, with countries bordering the Caliphate (being the Latin Empire, whom took up the reigns of the fallen Byzantium and is weak, and Spain) had been unfortunate to be one of the least strongest of the Europeans behind them.

It happened on 1668, when the Caliphate invaded the Latin Empire and the minor crusder states in Anatolia. When the Latin Empire was unable to contain the muslim invaders in Anatolia (being pushed the Constantinople), the newly crowned Pope called for a crusade to rush to the defense of Constantinople. However, the other christian countries were still recovering from the Great Christian War and a famine (and the return of the plague) that passed through Europe a few years earlier had damaged the verocity of the so-called "Last Crusade". Only the Crusader States, Spain, Portugal, and some minor Italian and German states had joined in the conflict.

The siege of Constantinople was a fairly long one by the time the European relief force arrived. With combined effort they had managed to beat back the Caliphate forces. Meanwhile, having the casus belli to invade Spain, the Caliphate launched a successful amphibious invasion into Spain when Spain had attempted to reinforce Gibraltar. The Battle of Spain resulted in 400,000 casualties. It took another million more the next 2 years for Spain to surrender, causing France (and it's neighboring states that slowly drifted under French influence and annexation) to attempt to send a relief force into Spain, but was defeated after much effort by the Muslims. France was then forced to pay tribute (that helped Caliphate to turn the tides in the Last Crusade through additional funds) to the Caliphate.

The Caliphate, 4 years after the war started, was able to gather enough forces to overwhelm the crusaders in the stalemate in Anatolia and pushed them back to Constantinople where the second siege of Constantinople took place in the war. The historical Fall of Constantinople would be known where the force of 700,000 crusaders were reduced to 130,000 at the beginning of the siege before falling to 73,000 three years later after much starvation. A year later, by the time the Caliphate entered constantinople (at this point the war is 8 years), the multinational European force of a mere, 37,000 led by the famous Commander Cezar III the Great (he's a Romanian noble) (aged 34) had battled the islamic forces who entered the city, estimates were shown to be as high as 360,000.

After a valiant defense, the force retreated to the last remaining walls of Severan and Byzantion (built by Greeks and Romans), now numbering 13,700. Cezar was killed, but his younger sister (aged 26), the youngest of 6 in Cezar's family, had earlier begged to go with Cezar earlier in the war, and had observed and learned basic leadership skills during Cezar's campaigns, acting as an advisor. However, after Cezar is killed, she was turned out to be the highest commanding position in the force, being the closest to Cezar through position and blood. After much debate, She managed to win the argument of the lower peoples of power and now had led the force of now 13,000 to defend the walls. After the fall of the wall of Severan (and 9,500 troops left) she had ordered to use the city's fishing boats to be used to escape. A week later, the line collapsed and she had personally led 7,300 forces left to escape on the fishing boats. Only 6,000 managed to make it pass the Caliphate lines (and escaped the small chase). With the fall of Constantinople, Europe could not stop the Caliphate from pouring into the Balkans and going as far as Slovenia (explains why Balkan country's shapes is like it today). Finally in 1677, 10 years after the start of the Last Crusade, the Crusaders finally gave up. The surviving Christian states that now share new borders with the Caliphate took advantage of the large river to be able to block opposing forces and forcing the war into a 2 year stalemate. The war ended in mutual agreement after a small siege of Belgrade that ended in Caliphate's defeat. The war ended in 1679.

With defeat of Christianity in Europe, the pope's power weakens by 1700 and constant purges began to subside. The two states of northern Russia and Cumania slowly drifted towards each other as Orthodoxism started to re-emerge between those two states, with the two leaders of Suzan of Cumania and Nikolaus of Russia marrying and combining Russia and Cumania into a united Russian Kingdom as Nikolaus was crowned King of Russia under the new name of King Nicholas I of Russia. Poland's power began to weaken on Ukraine and Belarus after the war between Teutonic Order in 1712. The Teutonic Order lossed it's grip in most of the Baltics and resulted it reduced to modern Kalinigrad, to which it was formed into Prussia. The Kingdom of Prussia began it's adventure into German states in 1723. The Scandinavian Union was formed (and/or reinforced) between Sweden, Finland, and Denmark once more. Iceland was there too.

As the pope's power weakens and the purges began to stop, heresies of Orthodoxism began to arise along with conflicts between Christian states. This weakening of power had brought in the attention of underground Protestants, and from this; they plan.