MonsoonJR's Minecraft Server/Earth World lore

Description
Earth world is a famous Minecraft world series exclusive to MonsoonJR's Minecraft Server. It features a series of the same world as players move through time and change the course of history of Earth. MonsoonJR's Earth World sets the players in an alternate timeline from the real life timeline. The earliest known divergence is right before 10,000 BC where mysterious beings a lot similar to humans entered Earth through a portal and brought about magic, which may be the reason why players could enchanted objects and travel between worlds.

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Early Stone Age (Before 10,000 BC)
Not much known about this Era, but according to Wikipedia; Throughout the Paleolithic, humans generally lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers. Hunter-gatherer societies tended to be very small and egalitarian,though hunter-gatherer societies with abundant resources or advanced food-storage techniques sometimes developed sedentary lifestyles with complex social structures such as chiefdom, and social stratification.

Late Stone Age (10,000 BC to 1350 BC)
The earliest known divergence is right before 10,000 BC where mysterious beings a lot similar to humans entered Earth through a portal and brought about magic. They shared this with the populace of the newly establish communities. They taught them how to enchant and craft weapons and gather supplies. However, in secret the beings from another world had sought to subjugate the entire planet into their empire. Each community became aware of this and somehow kicked out the foreigners. They soon buried their knowledge of Magic, saying it's a "bad omen".

Bronze Age (1350 BC to 300 BC)
Worlds: Distorted Europe (1000 BC to 990 BC)

The setting takes place as roughly 1000 years before Earth world, the lands of the North are covered in an Ice Age, but the signs have said the ice is slowly retreating. According to legend, 300 years before, a powerful wizard by the name of "Merlock" unleashed the Enderdragon onto Earth. An army consisted of 300 men led by ten heroes made their way towards the Enderdragon deep within the lands of Iceland. After many deaths, the surviving 200 men (and the nine remaining heroes) vanquished the Enderdragon to the end (which would later be slain by the Tricians, and later its child would be slain by the Equestrian order mercenaries in 254? AD). However, the Wizard swore revenge and put a curse on the world that would last for 1000 years. Every century there will be a large catastrophe that will rock the world and reshape the terrain. The nine remaining heroes and their 200 men went home to find there is nothing left, the nine men went their separate ways and founded their own kingdoms, on which few survived to today.

Three Cataclysms later, The ice age of the third Catastrophe is almost over, and Humanity is starting to enter its Golden Age of the East. However, when the Ice melts, the 4th Catastrophe, the Great Flood, will send most of Humanity, which lies upon the coast, to their doom.

Meanwhile in the East, there have been tales of an Empire, and its capital is made of Emeralds, where everything is bought and sold by Emeralds. And the armor of their Armies blind their enemies from their gloriousness. But most dismissed this as hogwash.

Nations in this world aren't as connected, most are isolated from each other. Likely due to the Ice Age. The Major civilizations as far are what lies in the Middle East are the Medicians, a vast Empire stretching from Kuwait to Anatolia. They are at odds with the thirteen major tribes of Thrakia, whom are attempting to unite against the Empire.

Several other civilizations had been scattered around Europe as well, though most have died out because of the previous three catastrophes. However, all of them are city-states until the Trician Empire.

'''However, the most notable out of all of them is the Trician Empire which took a step farther to establish its hegemony throughout Europe with control of multiple cities and to become the center of culture. After a brief period of instability it fell into chaos when rebels, whom led by Scandinavia, established itself as the so called "Protector of the young states" and its ultimate goal is to kill off the Trician Empire. Obviously, Tricia won't roll over and die, and a cold war ensued between Scandinavia and Tricia, with Europe as their "chessboard". Eventually, Tricia made peace with the rebels, sometime bringing about whats left of "Trician" peace over the world.'''

'''A few days after Tricia was founded, The Gherensi Caliphate was founded. The founder 'Amine Gherensi' confused and lsot accidentally founded Algiers in Tunisia. Despite having a small city compared to Tricia's, The Gherensi Caliphate spanned across the North African coast. There was many border disputes with Tricia for example Sicily and Iberia. Algiers showed off some of the best architecture in the world, if not the most beautiful. They helped in the sacking of Istre, Rome and Genoa. This was one of the factors leading to Tricia's fall in power. Algiers had experienced five terrorist attacks. Amine Gherensi was worshiped by a few in China. This religion was called Creatorism and remained in popularity.'''

Tribes of the east started migrating towards Europe in an attempt to escape the growing threat of the Empire of the East, which will form the modern barbarian tribes of Early Earth world. Rumors of a city made of Emeralds in the east.

'''Bedazzled explorers to travel outside Europe in search for this city, but are unable to find it. However a flood came in sometime around late Distorted Europe and crippled the peaceful Trician Empire, which protected Europe from Eastern invasions. It allowed the newly rebuilt Medicians and the Empire of the East to occupy Europe. Shifting power to the East had forced the tribes to migrate farther West. The Trician government gathered whatever people they could and went to a secluded Island off of Europe. They won't return to Europe until 300 BC.'''

On 600 BC The Empire of the East conquered most of Medicia. However, its focus on the Middle East caused rebellions in Europe. They later lost Europe in 600 BC, they then gradually collapse in 350 BC. Many villages were built over the time in Europe, populated by villagers, of both European and East origin, which later became city-states after the fall of Empire of East fell. Tricians eventually return to Europe in 300 BC and colonized it as city-states.

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Iron and Dark Ages (300 BC to 750 AD)
Worlds: Earth World (20 BC? to 0 AD), Earth World revived (250 AD to 256 AD), Earth World revived revived (500 AD to 510 AD?).

Between 300 BC to 20 BC, the city-states began to grow in power after they colonised Europe. Two city states Lyvonis and Syracuse form a confederation, with both of them having a royal marriage each other to what will later be the Imperial bloodline. The Imperial bloodline establishes themselves as an empire as Praetoria in 20 BC.

'''Praetoria expanded throughout Italy and Iberia, it took France and had a small cold war with Aurania. it later annexes Aurania as the Vasco-Praetorian Empire in 0 BC. Meanwhile Aurania was the first trading state and wished to expand into France to stop Praetoria. Maricopia was conquered after Praetoria and Vasque unite, with Stravia later being conquered'''

Praetoria between 0 BC to 50 AD had continuously expanded east.

On 200 AD (150 years after Earth World) the Empire had mounting pressures within its borders. With each generation of Praetorians getting less competent leadership than those before it, the Empire had suffered mounting corruption, with each cohort succumbing to different barbarian cultures as the incompetent leaders gave bits of land to the Barbarians in exchange for autonomy and military service. And the government got more decentralized as the local populace demands more power in the government. Barbarian factions entered from the East, and sacked Lyvonis and destroyed Vasque.

Without a strong central government, each cohort were left to defend for themselves. Each slowly fell as corrupted officials laid claims to whats left. One such barbarian tribe, its leader took over the Celethor cohort and established a conquering Empire, claiming to be the most powerful Praetorian Successor state. And it still is a century later.

Ruman barbarians had entered the alps and forced Emperor Batran V (Batran's Great Great Grandson), the last Praetorian Emperor, was forced to abdicate from the throne. As Rumas claims to be the true Praetorian Successor State. With alps as their strongest defense, they have the best advantage by terrain. On former Kentarchate lands, they inherit the Kentarch people's political and stealthy abilities. Not sure what happened 100 years later.

However, whats left of the Praetorian Army had fled to Italy, they had their times as conquerors, but do not wish to reclaim the Empire. Instead selling themselves as mercenaries, most descended from Praetorian Royal families, they are one of the strongest factions to roam the server, with enchanted diamond weapons, multiple military bases and recruitment centers, and superior military leadership. They are just in it for the action, as they fear the pressures will return if they start conquering again. They formed the Equestrian Order of Former-Praetoria.

With the invasion of the Rumans and the foundation of Rumas in Italy, the Praetorian citizenry began to split. The Western Praetorians advertised themselves as mercenaries, in it for the action, as they fear the pressures will return if they start conquering again. The Eastern Praetorians, however, had brighter ambitions and did not fear further conquest. They looted the ruins of Vasque City, finding its untouched riches of diamonds. Migrating to Bulgaria and founding the Holy Bulgar Empire, the Eastern Praetorians became the Bulgars and founded the city of Pliska.

100 years later, the world was thrust deep into the Dark Ages, and the Dark Ages won't end until 750 AD

Medieval Ages (751 AD to 1450 AD)
Worlds: Earth World Revived Revived Revived? (Earth World Part 4?)

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