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This is an EXTREMELY ROUGH timeline (the beginnings of it, anyway), for a world I'm developing for Dominus' ICN over on Yahoo Groups.
**hunches shoulders and prepares to have TL torn apart like a shredded head of lettuce**
The Fall of the Sassanids and the Rise of Carthage: 619-799
619: Heraclius, Emperor of the Eastern Romans, decides to move the seat of Empire from Constantinople to Carthage, in his home province of North Africa. Despite pleas from the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, Heraclius saw no hope for the future of the Empire’s Anatolian and Balkan territory, trapped as they were between the Avars to the west and the Sassanid Persians to the east.
620: The move to Carthage is completed late in the year. Beginning of Norse attacks on Ireland.
621: Persia overruns Anatolia and captures Constantinople.
622: Heraclius renames his domain the Second Carthaginian Empire.
626: The Carthaginians retake Egypt, defeating the Persians, who are stretched thin battling the Avars, Alans, and other barbarian tribes. Edwin of Northumbria founds Edinburgh and begins Christianizing his country.
628: Battle of Damascus – Persians driven out of the south. The Treaty of Palmyra signals an end to the war, leaving Carthage victorious in Egypt and the Levant, while Persia is weakened and overextended, facing large-scale army mutinies and major incursions by the Avars.
635: First major Muslim Arab invasion, targeted at Damascus, fails. Rebuffed in their attempts to move westward into Egypt and Africa, the Arabs concentrate their attacks on the north. In less than six years, the Persian Empire has been totally destroyed.
638: Seat of Persian government moved to Constantinople.
641: Constantinople falls to Arabs. Yazdigard III, last Emperor of Persia, killed by Arab troops near Nicomedia. Founding of Heracliopolis (OTL Cairo). Zoroastrianism banned by Arabs. End of the Persian Empire.
642: In the last great act of his reign, Heraclius signs treaties of friendship and trade with King Tulga of the Visigoths, securing Carthage’s western borders and allowing the Empire to concentrate on keeping out the Arabs, and expanding south and east, towards the Indian Ocean and the African interior.
644: Death of Heraclius, succeeded by Constans II, his grandson. Chinese make Korean kingdoms client states.
649: Carthage cedes lands in southern Iberia, taken by Justinian in 554, back to Visigoths. Carthage keeps Balearic Islands.
650: Chinese artists first use lamp-black ink for taking rubbings, which leads to introduction of wood blocks for printing. Khazars conquer Bulgar nations in southern Russia.
659: Umayyad Caliphate founded, governed from the old Persian city of Ctesiphon.
662: Grimoald usurps Lombard crown. Last visit to Rome by a Carthaginian Emperor (Constans II) for a century and a half.
664: Synod of Whitby – King Oswiu of Northumbria decides in favor of Roman ritual.
670(approx): First Orthodox missionaries in Makkura, Alwa, and other African states south of Egypt.
673: Death of Childeric II leads to civil war and anarchy in Frankia.
675: Bulgars settle in districts south of the Danube.
680: ‘Egyptian Fire’, a missile weapon of sulfur, rock salt, resin, and petroleum invented by Martinos of Alexandria; first used that year against Umayyad fleet near Cyprus.
685: Battle of Nechtansmere – victory of the Picts prevents Northumbria gaining control over Scotland.
686: Sussex, last heathen kingdom in England, converted to Christianity.
687: Victory of Pepin the Younger at Testry unites Frankia.
694: Arabs overrun Armenia.
695: First Arab coinage introduced.
696: Paoluccio Anafesto becomes first Doge of Venice.
698: Latin confirmed as official language of Carthaginian Empire after several motions to replace it with Greek.
700: Water wheels for mills in popular use throughout Europe. Population explosion in China – the first large urban centers develop.
701: Codification of Nihonese political law; the Mikado becomes sole proprietor of all land.
712-714: The ‘Great Invasion’: The Umayyad Caliphate mounts a massive invasion of Egypt and is driven back by Carthage, incurring devastating losses.
720: Umayyads overthrown; establishment of the Sulkhanid Caliphate.
722: First Orthodox missionaries arrive in the region of OTL Senegal and western Mali.
725: High point of Buddhist civilization in China.
730: Beginning of Tang Chinese reforms aimed at integrating the Uighers and other peoples into the Tang Empire.
737: Battle of Tulusa between Franks and Visigoths results in Frankic victory; expulsion of Visigothic settlers from Frankic lands.
742: Beginnings of turmoil between Carthaginian Emperors and the Popes over idolatry and image-worship. Charlemagne born.
749: Burgundy conquered by Frankia.
750: Kiev becomes well-known as trading center. St. Vitus’ Dance epidemics in German lands. Beds first become popular in Frankia. Nubian kingdom of Makkura becomes Carthaginian client-state.
751: Battle of the Talas River: Arabs defeated by Tang Chinese.
752: Sulkhanids overthrown by Abbasids; center of government moved to the newly-founded city of Baghdad.
755: Carthaginians take Achaea (southern Greece).
759: Lombards, with Carthaginian help, resist Frankic efforts to subjugate them.
760: Arabic numerals of Indian origin known in Baghdad.
766: Venice conquered by Carthaginians.
769: Pope Agatho II excommunicates the Carthaginian Emperor.
770: Carthaginians back several powerful chiefdoms in western Africa, resulting in the formation of the kingdom of Ghana. Carthage receives privileged trading status.
771: Charlemagne becomes sole ruler of Frankia after the death of his brother Carloman.
772: Limited trade begins between Arabs and Chinese; paper manufacture introduced to Arabs by Chinese scholars.
785: Visigoths begin to convert to Orthodox Christianity.
788: Bavaria annexed by Frankia.
790: Charlemagne condemns Carthaginian acceptance of image-worship.
794: Repeated Frankic attempts to annex the Lombard duchies result in a declaration of war by Carthaginian Emperor Tiberius III. Viking era in Britain begins with attack on Lindisfarne monastery.
795: First Norse landings in Ireland.
796: The crossbow comes into use in Frankia, other nations.
797: Abbasid Caliph Ramal al-Qahir sends an embassy to the court of Charlemagne, which is expelled by the Franks. Horse-changing posts for royal messengers installed in Frankia. Attempted Carthaginian landings in Italy repulsed by Franks.
799: Grand Alliance formed to combat the Franks, composed of Carthaginian Empire, most of the Lombard duchies, Venetian Republic, many Adriatic kingdoms and chiefdoms. Bretonna conquered by Frankia.
**hunches shoulders and prepares to have TL torn apart like a shredded head of lettuce**
The Fall of the Sassanids and the Rise of Carthage: 619-799
619: Heraclius, Emperor of the Eastern Romans, decides to move the seat of Empire from Constantinople to Carthage, in his home province of North Africa. Despite pleas from the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, Heraclius saw no hope for the future of the Empire’s Anatolian and Balkan territory, trapped as they were between the Avars to the west and the Sassanid Persians to the east.
620: The move to Carthage is completed late in the year. Beginning of Norse attacks on Ireland.
621: Persia overruns Anatolia and captures Constantinople.
622: Heraclius renames his domain the Second Carthaginian Empire.
626: The Carthaginians retake Egypt, defeating the Persians, who are stretched thin battling the Avars, Alans, and other barbarian tribes. Edwin of Northumbria founds Edinburgh and begins Christianizing his country.
628: Battle of Damascus – Persians driven out of the south. The Treaty of Palmyra signals an end to the war, leaving Carthage victorious in Egypt and the Levant, while Persia is weakened and overextended, facing large-scale army mutinies and major incursions by the Avars.
635: First major Muslim Arab invasion, targeted at Damascus, fails. Rebuffed in their attempts to move westward into Egypt and Africa, the Arabs concentrate their attacks on the north. In less than six years, the Persian Empire has been totally destroyed.
638: Seat of Persian government moved to Constantinople.
641: Constantinople falls to Arabs. Yazdigard III, last Emperor of Persia, killed by Arab troops near Nicomedia. Founding of Heracliopolis (OTL Cairo). Zoroastrianism banned by Arabs. End of the Persian Empire.
642: In the last great act of his reign, Heraclius signs treaties of friendship and trade with King Tulga of the Visigoths, securing Carthage’s western borders and allowing the Empire to concentrate on keeping out the Arabs, and expanding south and east, towards the Indian Ocean and the African interior.
644: Death of Heraclius, succeeded by Constans II, his grandson. Chinese make Korean kingdoms client states.
649: Carthage cedes lands in southern Iberia, taken by Justinian in 554, back to Visigoths. Carthage keeps Balearic Islands.
650: Chinese artists first use lamp-black ink for taking rubbings, which leads to introduction of wood blocks for printing. Khazars conquer Bulgar nations in southern Russia.
659: Umayyad Caliphate founded, governed from the old Persian city of Ctesiphon.
662: Grimoald usurps Lombard crown. Last visit to Rome by a Carthaginian Emperor (Constans II) for a century and a half.
664: Synod of Whitby – King Oswiu of Northumbria decides in favor of Roman ritual.
670(approx): First Orthodox missionaries in Makkura, Alwa, and other African states south of Egypt.
673: Death of Childeric II leads to civil war and anarchy in Frankia.
675: Bulgars settle in districts south of the Danube.
680: ‘Egyptian Fire’, a missile weapon of sulfur, rock salt, resin, and petroleum invented by Martinos of Alexandria; first used that year against Umayyad fleet near Cyprus.
685: Battle of Nechtansmere – victory of the Picts prevents Northumbria gaining control over Scotland.
686: Sussex, last heathen kingdom in England, converted to Christianity.
687: Victory of Pepin the Younger at Testry unites Frankia.
694: Arabs overrun Armenia.
695: First Arab coinage introduced.
696: Paoluccio Anafesto becomes first Doge of Venice.
698: Latin confirmed as official language of Carthaginian Empire after several motions to replace it with Greek.
700: Water wheels for mills in popular use throughout Europe. Population explosion in China – the first large urban centers develop.
701: Codification of Nihonese political law; the Mikado becomes sole proprietor of all land.
712-714: The ‘Great Invasion’: The Umayyad Caliphate mounts a massive invasion of Egypt and is driven back by Carthage, incurring devastating losses.
720: Umayyads overthrown; establishment of the Sulkhanid Caliphate.
722: First Orthodox missionaries arrive in the region of OTL Senegal and western Mali.
725: High point of Buddhist civilization in China.
730: Beginning of Tang Chinese reforms aimed at integrating the Uighers and other peoples into the Tang Empire.
737: Battle of Tulusa between Franks and Visigoths results in Frankic victory; expulsion of Visigothic settlers from Frankic lands.
742: Beginnings of turmoil between Carthaginian Emperors and the Popes over idolatry and image-worship. Charlemagne born.
749: Burgundy conquered by Frankia.
750: Kiev becomes well-known as trading center. St. Vitus’ Dance epidemics in German lands. Beds first become popular in Frankia. Nubian kingdom of Makkura becomes Carthaginian client-state.
751: Battle of the Talas River: Arabs defeated by Tang Chinese.
752: Sulkhanids overthrown by Abbasids; center of government moved to the newly-founded city of Baghdad.
755: Carthaginians take Achaea (southern Greece).
759: Lombards, with Carthaginian help, resist Frankic efforts to subjugate them.
760: Arabic numerals of Indian origin known in Baghdad.
766: Venice conquered by Carthaginians.
769: Pope Agatho II excommunicates the Carthaginian Emperor.
770: Carthaginians back several powerful chiefdoms in western Africa, resulting in the formation of the kingdom of Ghana. Carthage receives privileged trading status.
771: Charlemagne becomes sole ruler of Frankia after the death of his brother Carloman.
772: Limited trade begins between Arabs and Chinese; paper manufacture introduced to Arabs by Chinese scholars.
785: Visigoths begin to convert to Orthodox Christianity.
788: Bavaria annexed by Frankia.
790: Charlemagne condemns Carthaginian acceptance of image-worship.
794: Repeated Frankic attempts to annex the Lombard duchies result in a declaration of war by Carthaginian Emperor Tiberius III. Viking era in Britain begins with attack on Lindisfarne monastery.
795: First Norse landings in Ireland.
796: The crossbow comes into use in Frankia, other nations.
797: Abbasid Caliph Ramal al-Qahir sends an embassy to the court of Charlemagne, which is expelled by the Franks. Horse-changing posts for royal messengers installed in Frankia. Attempted Carthaginian landings in Italy repulsed by Franks.
799: Grand Alliance formed to combat the Franks, composed of Carthaginian Empire, most of the Lombard duchies, Venetian Republic, many Adriatic kingdoms and chiefdoms. Bretonna conquered by Frankia.
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