Second Worlda War

The Second Worlda War was an extensive and global conflict that lasted from 187AD to 195AD. It was one of the largest conflicts in history, involving many of the largest nations in the world at the time. It is generally considered to have started with the declaration of war against the Byzantine Empire by Bharat in 187AD, which ended with the Treaty of Borobinsk in 191, although the Treaty of London in 195AD occurred later. While originally mainly focused on the Mediterranean region, the war later shifted towards Africa. 
== Background and Pre-War Events ==
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== First Phase of the Second Worlda War ==
=== First declarations of war and early battles ===
After years of tensions between the Byzantine and Bharatian empires, in the early months of 187AD, the Empire of Bharat declared war upon the Byzantine Empire, with the goal of "total extermination of the Byzantine concept, culture and peoples". This was met with a response from Byzantium declaring war on them in response for "bordering them in Africa and Europe, as well as bordering their allies" likely referring to the aforementioned border gore. Bharat's first offensive of the war focused on pushing into the Danube region and into Bulgarian lands. This offensive was quickly countered by a large offensive from Byzantium centered in Ukraine, Moldova, and Russia, threatening to cut Bharat's eastern lands off.
New Portugal also declared war on Bharat in response for declaring war on their ally, and began their own invasion through Borneo to Cambodia. Bharat made minor gains in Moldova, while Byzantium continued their counteroffensive by pushing into Romania, and cutting off all of Bharat's eastern European holdings temporarily. New Portugal continued their push in Cambodia, but faced setbacks due to the harsh terrain. The link between Bharat's land in eastern Europe became a battleground, as the two sides began fighting to secure it.
=== Libyan intervention and escalation ===
Soon after the conflict began, the First Libyan Empire declared war on Bharat to obtain the Malian lands taken by them, and began pushing into Malian lands temporarily. However, they switch sides and retreated following Bharat promising to gift them all of Mali after the war ended. Libya's first attack against Byzantium began in Sicily, with Byzantium and Libya fighting for control over the island before being pushed into Italy. With the Byzantines now forced to fight two fronts, Bharat used this to their advantage to push Byzantium back all the way to the Black Sea, where a stalemate started. Bimbisara also relocated to a secret location in Central Asia for unknown reasons.
Libya surprised Byzantium by pushing into Albania, taking the region quickly. Byzantium attempted to privately sway Libya back to their side, to no avail. Bharat temporarily advanced into Crimea, before Byzantium pushed both them and Libya back. With both sides not being able to advance further, a temporary stalemate began. New Portugal relocated their capital to Anchorage, and made no more advancements during the first stage of the war.
Both Byzantium and Bharat temporarily broke the stalemate, but got pushed back rather quickly. A Libyan offensive made it as far as Macedonia, but was countered by Byzantium and pushed back to Albania, resuming the stalemate. A short conflict between the Daigo Dynasty and Bharat also started, with Bharat resolving it by granting eastern China to them. During this, Gohelm also began an invasion of Sweden. It is unclear if this should also be counted as part of the Second Worlda War or not.
== Conflict stagnation and death of Bimbisara ==
By the end of 187AD, the conflict had reached a total stalemate. Both Bharat and Byzantium were unable to inflict any major defeats on each other, and all attempts to break the stalemate ended in failure. As a result of this, many people within Bharat began to protest the continuation of the war, seeing it as a waste of time. However, things would not escalate until 189AD. During this year, Bimbisara made his first public appearance in Pataliputra since the war began. During one of his speeches, a disgruntled member of the nobility pulled out a gun and shot him. Immediately after his death, ethnic groups throughout the empire began rebelling. Over 15 rebellions began immediately after his death, with many more breaking out later. Several territories were also entirely abandoned, while generals attempted to carve out their own states near Byzantium. Not many of these states survived.
However, the Second Worlda War did not continue. This is likely due to the army of Bharat already fighting dozens of rebellions in their main territory. Why Byzantium did not choose to attack while Bharat was already dealing with these rebellions is unknown. Within a few months of the sudden rebellions, some of them began to fight each other. These rebellions are usually considered part of the Second Worlda War due to them being directly caused by it. The main war would stay stagnant until 191AD.
== Second Phase of the Second Worlda War ==
=== War on Libya ===
Main article: War on Libya
During the middle of 191AD, a dispute broke out between Libya and Bharat over the treaty that lead to Libya switching sides. Despite the original treaty specifying Mali, Libya attempted to dispute the meaning of the treaty and claimed it referred to the entirety of West Africa once owned by Bharat. The dispute expanded to Byzantium, Gohelm and New Portugal as they defended the original treaty's meaning, while Libya continued to dispute the treaty's meaning. With tensions rising once more due to this, the Unified Global Alliance was founded by Byzantium, Bharat, Gohelm and New Portugal to counter Libya. The alliance shortly after declared war upon the First Libyan Empire on terms of "illegal activities in West Africa as well as attempts at manipulating the great powers into ceding the land".
Following the declaration of war, Bharat landed on Zanzibar and used it to invade Tanzania, while Gohelm invaded their land in Norway, and Byzantium pushed into Egypt. For unknown reasons, rather than fight them off, Libya chose to focus on continuing to attempt to assert their claim over West Africa by expanding there. New Portugal also invaded Libya's part of the Yucatan peninsula in America. With all the major powers continuing to invade their land, Libya soon surrendered to the alliance.
The Borobinsk Conference took place soon after to divide Libya and end the war. Byzantium claimed Tunisia, Sardinia, and part of Morocco. Egypt became an autonomous area within Byzantium. Gohelm claimed the Congo, Somalia, part of Norway, and Venezuela. New Portugal claimed all of Libya's Central American territories, and also forced Libya's demilitarization for the foreseeable future to prevent another war. Bharat claimed the Maldives, Zanzibar, Tanzania and Kenya's coast, Mozambique's northern coast and northwestern Madagascar. Finally, Libya was forced to abandon all territories outside of modern-day Libya. This officially marked the end of the War on Libya, and is seen by many as the end of the conflict as a whole.
=== Gohelmese Wars ===
includes:
war of the north, gohelm-lithuania war, quebec-gohelm war, that one time gohelm invaded central asia for some reason
== End of the war and legacy ==
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