From: brehob@plantain.cps.msu.edu (Mark W Brehob)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd
Subject: campain history, Lousy ASCII file, nasty real world history You were warned
Date: 23 Dec 1992 07:49:22 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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the following ia a ASCII version of a WriteNow file for the NeXT.
I would like feedback on this if anyone can make it in the ASCII version
If not sorry for the waste of bandwidth.
Mark Brehob

The commonly known 'history of the world'.
Compiled by C Wilicus Clemans Jr. 
A Brief History of Time:  The known history of 'this Earth' starts at  
about 300 B.C.  A group of invaders came to Earth, using magic and  
technology.  They enslaved the people of Earth, and used the planet as  
they wished.  They mined huge amounts of metals and other minerals from  
the Earth.  They used her people as fodder with which to train their  
warriors.  All told a very unhappy time period.  The best known account of  
the territory can be found in the Bible.*
	About 200 years after the birth of Christ, there was a significant  
revolt among the people of the Earth.  A great spell was cast that removed  
magic from the land.  At this time many of the peoples of the Earth acted  
to destroy the invaders.  While the enemy still had access to great  
technological weapons, they had been cut off from the rest of their kind.   
Europe was more-or-less free of them after 260 A.D.  Then came the Dark  
Ages.
	The Dark Ages are very similar to our own Earth.  In fact  
remarkably so.  About the only areas of difference that I could find  
recorded were in agriculture, and printing.  In agriculture the practice  
of three field crop rotation did not exist until the 1850s.  Also the  
printing press had been created, but no cheap method of paper production  
had been devised.  Due to the people's great fear of technology, it is  
doubtful that even the simplest advances in paper production will come  
about in the near future.
	The great fear of technological advances still is evident with all  
of these people.  A left-over from their great war with their conquerors,  
over a thousand years ago, no doubt.  In fact even during their  
reformation, each of the protestant religions maintained that such  
advances were 'Satanic' and 'witchery'.
	The first historical notable difference I could discern between  
this world and our own occurred in 1553.  Henry VII was killed in February  
1533, the day after the Act for the Restraint of Appeals was passed.  His  
death was linked to his first wife Catherine of Aragon.  It is not widely  
agreed upon if Catherine was responsible for his death.  She was executed,  
and her daughter, Mary, fled to Spain.
	Elizabeth the I thus became Queen in 1533, her reign lasting until  
1603.  In 1561 Elizabeth married William of Orange (William the Silent).   
Both King and Queen ruled their own lands.  Their son, (King Christian I)  
was married to Philip II's daughter (Queen Isibela).  This quick chain of  
marriages unified 3 diverse nations under one rule, after the death of  
Elizabeth I.  The Holy Roman Empire and France attempted to unite against  
this 'triple monarchy', but failed in the battle of Westfailia, 1637.   
Slowly, with the support of the papacy, France and Germany fell under  
control of the Empire.  
	Religion is an interesting change from our world also.  Elizabeth  
did not have a country with the protestant strength that she inherited in  
our world.  She, and her husband remained Catholic.  Because Elizabeth and  
Williams power the Council of Trent(1545-1561) met, not under the control  
of the pope, instead was greatly controlled by William.  They met 3  
different times, and adopted a number of changes.  They included most of  
the same rules that our world's council developed.  In addition, there  
were changes in a number of issues relevant to the protestants.  This  
included, the granting of letters of indigence, the withholding of the  
Eucharist cup from the laity, and to an extent a weakening of the role of  
saints and their relics.  In 1563, the role of saints was restored.  None  
the less, these changes adopted by the Council, seem to have slowed the  
spread of protestantism.   
	Even with all of these changes, this world seems to have a great  
similarity to our own.  The new world became Vespuchi, named for the same  
map maker.  Significant land masses retained the same names.  In fact a  
major territory, in a place just south of the great lakes, is called  
"Stolen land".  Or Indiana.  The large city south of the great lakes is  
called "Dgenie goad" or "windy city".  (Indiana is apparently Elvish, and  
Dgenie goad is a combination of Gypsy and one of the Solivic languages.   
Things like this appear commonly, as one reads the history books.  Names  
also often repeat.  The first king of Vespuchi was George I.  The court  
wizard and great diplomat was named Ben Frankson. 
Translated from the original Latin by Terrence Hall. From a journal  
entitled "Other Worlds of Wonder." (1962, month unknown) . It has been  
hacked by Mark Brehob.  Possible mis-spelling of proper names not changed.   
Hack completed Dec. 23, 1992.  "The Western Heritige" by Kagan used as  
referance. 


This is a history for an AD&D game.
Hobit
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