Kongo

Kongo is a nation on TeenagersGaming Earth, one of the founder states of the United Minecraft Nations and for a time one of the largest factions in the server, based in the real life Brazzaville, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Founded by Thenoobcraft74 in the early days of the server it would come to have a rich history that has been untold for a long time.

### Faction Enemies

KalmarUnion (Unofficially neutral)Superiority

## History

### **Classical Age / The Beginnings**

Kongo was formed in the real life location of Kinsasha-Brazaville in the two Congos, deriving its name "Kongo" from the pre-colonial name for the nation. Kongo was underdeveloped compared to it's African sister nations, leading to mass raids and pillagings from the Texan Soviet Republic. A member from the Fruit faction gave Thenoobcraft74 some blaze rods as a gift for sheltering them during a Texan raid, essentially elevating Kongo technologically above all other African nations at the time, Theeno forged an alliance with Fruit. When the Fruit crusaded against Texas, Kongo offered one of their players to go fight in the war, they were never seen again. Due to Texan military harassment Kongo was unable to expand or properly establish diplomatic relations at the time.

### **Dark Ages / The Kongolese Imperial Golden Age**

When Texas began it's decline, Kongo began it's rise as a global power, the industry grew, and while most Kongolese held an autarkical foreign policy regarding trade this wasn't the same when regarding politics. The King and the Princes, seeing how the power system limited expansion into the Congo region, devised a new plan to expand their influence across the lands: The African Confederation. This is an association of states that sought to increase their power and influence by swearing fealty to an Emperor, the Kongolese Crown usually filled this spot, and acting as one unified Empire under a federal administration. This catapulted Kongo into golden age as factions from across Africa swore fealty to the Kongolese crown, Kongo even established a permanent protectorate in the Nile to gain better access to Europe, administered by PokeStarFam. The Kongolese claim that Kongo was the birthplace of imperialism, as they were able to become 21 people in the Confederation via diplomatic unions.

### **Dark Ages / Imperial Decline and Eventual Collapse**

Empires come, and empires fall, Kongo saw it's eventual demise clearly, but accepted it would happen, people became more inactive due to a lack of general outside players and the other federal duchies and kingdoms fell apart, leaving Kongo with a population of 5, which all were inactive too. The protectorate of the Nile died off soon after, and with it, the First Kongolese Empire, but not before a new colony could be established in India and the admittance of Catalonia into the Confederation, attempts had been made to integrate the old Dutch, now the reformed Knights Templar, into the Confederation too, resulting in failure.

### **Renaissance Age / International Golden Age**

With a dwindling playerbase, Kongo and other factions were struggling to maintain activity, an idea proposed by Theeno and Finnish\_Person to make an internationally protected forum for all players, from any faction, where everyone can gather and trade, settle diplomatic issues and seek to ease diplomacy between factions, thus the United Minecraft Nations was born. The initiative strengthened Kongolese-Russian-Newfoundlander relations among with other factions. The Confederation's administrative policies had been the framework idea from which the UMN developed it's administration, and Kongo still fills a very important administrative role within the UMN.