This is a GURPS insprired timeline that combines the histories of two of their worlds from Alternate Earths I. Most of whats written was done by the original authors, but I added some of my own inventions to keep the story going. Hope you like it:
Tenochca vs. Rome
508 BC: Carthaginian explorer Belsalem discovers the New World.
500 BC: Carthaginians plant Suradast (New Tyre) colony on Cuba, begin transatlantic trade; iron working, horses, wheeled vehicles, alphabetic script filter into Mesoamerica.
207 BC: Romans take Carthaginian Spain. Carthaginian monopoly in New World is broken. Suradast is now completely independent of Carthage.
200 BC: As Carthaginian refugees swell Suradast, Suradastians colonize Kinadast (South American mainland); colonies slowly hybridize into native states with Punic elites. Celtic trading post Manannan (Manhattan Island) becomes permanent colony.
130 BC: Hopewell culture at its height. Hopewell –Europe trade carried on by Celtiberians, Britons, Nervii; potato, maize, tobacco reach Europe.
51 BC: Caesar conquers Gaul; Celts flee to Britain, New World.
9 BC: Drusus pacifies Germania to the Albis (Elbe).
14: Augustus dies; Drusus becomes Emperor.
29: Drusus dies; Germanicus becomes Emperor.
68: Gaulish and Hispanian maize and potatoes replace Egyptian and Sicilian wheat as staples of Roman Empire.
75: Germanicus’ great grandson Gaius Drusus conquers Armenia; becomes patron of Hero of Alexandria.
77: Rebellions in Britain (Celts) and Judea (Christians) are put down by the Romans.
85: Teotihuacan adopts Roman legion organization for its army, begins rise to empire.
Agricola conquers Caledonia (Scotland) and Hibneria (Ireland).
95: Emperor Gaius Drusus dies without issue; the Senate selects Nerva as Emperor. Nerva adopts the general Trajan as his successor.
101: Trajan completes the conquest of Germania to the Viadus (Oder).
121: Hadrian uses Heronian steam engines to dredge the Nile-Red Sea Canal.
173: Commodus executed for treason, Marcus Aurelius adopts the German tribune Vitigius as his successor.
234: Emperor Junius Persicus crushes Sassansians at Susa; Persia and Parthia become Roman provinces.
256: The Great Plague hits the Empire.
300: Collapse of Hopewell trade network leaves Celts in control of trade between Teotihuacan and Rome.
Arius spreads a revitalization of the Roman Gods throughout the Empire that gains many converts among the Germans.
307: Emperor Maxentius begins annexing Scandian, Gothic client kingdoms.
315: Zoroastrianism spreads throughout the eastern Roman Empire, competing with Orthodox Roman polytheism and Christianity.
395: Emperor Titus the Cruel assassinated; civil wars break out.
400: Augustine of Hippo spreads Christianity among the Berbers of North Africa.
433: Attila invades the Roman Empire, ending Imperial control over the provinces. New successor states under “proconsuls” emerge in Europe.
451: Attila conquers Gaul, Italy, and Greece. Roman successor states of Thrace and Africa survive Hunnish onslaughts.
502: Teotihuacan takes Punic nations of Kinadast; it has surpasses Europe and rules an empire from Lake Michigan to Orinoco Valley and from Baja to the Potomac.
527: Ephthalite Hun ruler Mihiragula sacks Alexandria, burns its library; scholars rebuilding the collections rediscover the works of the Heronians.
532: Anthemius invents the paddle-wheel steamboat.
565: Eastern Turks invade China, sack Cang-an, disrupting the growing power of the Northern Chou (Sui). China remains disunited.
600: Plague hits Teotihuacan. Siouans migrate south. The Roman nation of Saxony conquers the rogue nation of Britain. Hibneria prospers from trade with New World. Cahokia founded.
610: Proconsul Heraclius of Carthage takes Roma, declares himself first Emperor of the Second Empire. Most of the western Romans swear loyalty to new Emperor except for the eastern Romans.
635: Teotihuacan sacked and burned by rebellious Toltecs; end of Teotihuacan Empire. The Roman Empire retakes Byzantium.
742: Gasparus Victor, first of the Arabian Emperors, completes the conquest of the East.
767: Aianus Gebir invents mustard gas.
788: Capture of Pataliputra ends the hollow Gupta Empire; India Superior made a province.
794: The continent north of Kinadast (North America) becomes popularly known as Tir Tairngire.
813: Mayans fight with Toltecs for control of Mesoamerica.
816: Toltecs are victorious against Mayans making them the supreme power in Mesoamerica.
848: Conquest of Taprobanc (Sir Lanka) completes Roman conquest of India.
867: Emperor Basil, more of a scholar than a politician, begins the Macedonian dynasty and moves the capitol to Alexandria.
900: Massive Celtic immigration to Tir Tairngire; last remaining pure Celts removed from Europe. Manannan becomes the most important city on the coast.
906: Magyars invade northern Europe. Roman legions battle them to keep them out of the Empire.
920: Based on a misunderstood report of acupuncture, Rasis of Ctesiphon accidentally invents vaccination.
987: Romans establish colonies on Markland (Newfoundland). Celts and Algonkins fear Roman expansion in Tir Tairngire.
1013: The Roman Empire expands the borders of Markland farther south and west.
1095: Last of the ineffective emperors of the Macedonian dynasty dies without an heir. Senate chooses a successor, but it is contested by the legions of India who choose Deoliberus Bolos. The Wars of Division begin.
1152: Eastern Romans found the Empire of Babylon, its capitol the rebuilt ancient city of Babylon.
1161: Kurds side with Babylon and drive into Anatolia while Egypt falls to the Babylonian legions forcing the Emperor to flee to Rome, which once again becomes the capitol of the Empire.
1170: Chinese fishermen from Tsingan blown off course, discover Fu-Sang (California).
1200: Tenochca (Aztecs) enter Anahuac and win victories over the Toltecs. Iroquoians move north, driving the Algonkins into the Romans and Celts starting several border wars, which drain Legions from the fighting against Babylon.
1211: Mongols attacks on Chinese kingdoms begin.
1216-1240: Mongols conquer Central Asia and Northern China and begin driving into the Babylon Empire. Wars of Division end after Babylon makes peace to fight Mongols. Chinese refugees flee to Fu-Sang.
1237: Mongols attack the Roman Empire from Ukraine and Middle East. Magyars who had settled down on the Roman Empire flee from the Mongols.
1241: Mongols drive into Gaul; Romans flee to Britannia, Caledonia, and Hibneria.
1252: Babylon is sacked by the Mongols, ending the Babylonian Empire. The Emperor himself is killed when the Mongols stampede their horses over him
1260: Fons Golias, leading a newly independent Egypt (from Babylon) that controls all of North Africa, defeats a Mongol army keeping them out of Africa. Refugees from Europe come to Egypt.
1265: Cahokia traders contact the Chinese colony of Fu-Sang through the Anasazi and their trade routes. Chinese goods reach east coast of Tir Tairngire.
1274: Mongols sack Rome. Long Night falls on Europe. Britannia, Caledonia, Hibneria, Scandia, Egypt, and Markland are the only Roman provinces to flee the Mongol onslaught. All are independent.
1276-1295: Kubilai Khan conquers Japan, Southern China, Burma, and India. Chinese and Japanese flee to Fu-Sang.
1320: Egypt conquers West Africa and builds colonies on the eastern coast of Kinadast (Brazil).
1325: Founding of Tenochtitlan.
1336-1352: Black Death sweeps Eurasia.
1340: Uzbeg Khan forms Khanate of Urop. Gunpowder first used in the New World by Markland.
1361: Black Death hits New World; Toltec Empire and Mississippian cultures devastated; Mexico Valley becomes battleground.
1405: Mongol Khan Timur dies conquering Java. Mongols would also go one to claim Australia.
1420: Egypt begins trade with Muskogca, Natchez, and Suradast.
1428-1440: Reign of Itzcoatl and the beginning of the Tenochca Empire. His chief minister Tlacaelel reforms Tenochca religion, ritual, army, court and commerce. Toltecs are the first to fist to come under their dominion.
1435: Papermaking reaches Europe after a Marklander named Gaius Mocatesimus steals one from Fu-Sang.
1453: A Tenochca mathematician invents decimal notation and algebra.
1464: Ruler of Egypt takes the title of Caesar and declares the beginning of the Third Roman Empire (still referred to as being Egypt to most of the world). Vows to retake Europe from the Mongols. The new Romans begin building a navy to take control of the seas around Europe.
1471: First new steam engine built in Alexandria.
1500: Pressures from Egypt, Scandia, and Britannia begin to shrink Urop. New states gain independence in the Middle East and Northern Europe.
1520: Tenochca invent first arquebus.
1525: Death of Montezuma II and ascension of Cuautemoc I. Tenochca expands borders further into the north and south.
1534: Civil war in Inca Empire leads to Tenochca intervening. The puppet state of Quechueti is created. Deneh (Apache) is also absorbed into the Tenochca Empire.
1535: Egypt makes contact with Quechueti. They also meet representatives of the Tenochca and the meeting turns out to be a bad one. Both nations see each other as threats in the future.
1552: Autosteamer invented in Timbuktu, Egypt.
1570: Deganawidah and Hiawatha found the Iroquois League. The new league fights for more room against Algonkins, Celts, and Romans of Markland.
1573: The Consul of Markland swears fealty to the Emperor in Egypt. Egyptian legions defeat an Iroquois army that came to deny Markland to the Third Roman Empire.
1579: Quechueti War. A short border conflict between Egypt and a joint Tenochca/Quechueti force. It ends in a stalemate but it is the first time “Romans” and Tenochca fight.
1582: The reinvention of the paddlewheel steamboat in Egypt. The newest models successfully travels down the Nile on its first voyage.
1588: Tenochca sacks Cahokia taking the Mississippi valley for the Empire.
1606: Celts and Algonkins ally with Egypt in fear of continued Iroquois expansion.
1607: Tenochca begins to trade with Urop for European slaves.
1610: Egypt takes Syria and Anatolia from Mongols.
1640: The North Atlantic Wars begin. A series of confrontations between the Iroquois and the Egyptian led alliance.
1643: Steam powered machine gun invented in Egypt by Maximus. Though large and unwieldy it proves effective against Mongol calvary.
1660s: Britannian sailors add lateen sails to deep-draft oceangoing ships. Britannia merchants can now go father around the world expanding the power of Britannia.
1680: Tenochca seize Surat and Goa from the Mongol Khan of India, their first oversees colonies.
1695: Tenochca begins experimentation with their own steam engines after stealing one from the Egyptians.
1700: Flintlock invented by the Iroquois and begins using them against Egyptian legions and their Celtic/Algonkin allies.
1704: Britannia conquers Caledonia and Hibneria.
Mongols retake Surat and Gao with help from Britannia who too are worried about the expansion of the violent Tenochca.
Egypt takes control of Hispania from Urop.
1721: Celts and Algonkins are absorbed into the Egypt while peace is made with the Iroquois who have become nervous of Tenochca.
Tenochca produce their own version of Britannia’s ships.
1726: Egyptian army wins victory in Gaul over Mongols, but is stopped from heading toward Rome because of heavy causalities. They resign themselves from consolidating their new conquests while creating closer ties with Britannia and Scandia.
Britannian navy defeats both an Urop and Tenochca fleet ending the European slave trade.
1730: Flintlocks become the standard arm of the Tenochca army.
1734: Tenochca conquer Fu-Sang and found the city of Xochiquetzalatl (Los Angeles). Most of the Chinese/Japanese population is enslaved.
1740: Tenochca invent telescope and microscope.
1750: Tenochca navy uses their new steam ships to take control of the Punic nations of the Caribbean and Kinadast.
1751: Tlingit Confederacy founded to halt Tenochca expansion up the Pacific coast. Tenochca founds Ciuaceatlan.
1752: Tenochca begins First Muskogea War by conquering the Chickasaw. Egypt, Britannia, and Iroquois give what aide they can to Muskogea.
1761: Refugees from Muskogea flee to Iroquois Confederacy and Egyptian Tir Tairngire after the Second Muskogea War.
1764: Tenochca navy begins exploration of Pacific and conquest of Polynesia.
1773: Tenochca conquer Xhosa and establish a colony on the Cape of Good Hope.
1778: Egyptians capture Rome. Khanate of Urop collapses into petty states. Historians see this as the official start of the Third Roman Empire.
1781: Capitol of Empire is moved from Alexandria to Rome after city is rebuilt.
1787: Conference of Rome begins between the Roman Empire, Britannia and Scandia. It will decide the future of the three nations now that Urop has been defeated.
1788: After months of negotiations Britannia and Scandia rejoin the Roman Empire. They joined after getting the emperor to surrender some of his powers to the Senate, effectively making him a constitutional monarch, and giving some autonomy to the provinces.
1791: Germania retaken from rogue Roman consul who refused to attend the Conference of Rome or accept the new emperor as his lord.
1795: the Zulus who are armed with the latest weaponry from the Romans stop Tenochca expansion in South Africa.
1808: Roman Empire expands its border farther east into Eastern Europe.
1809: Marcus Caelius Tarascus begins his reign as Emperor of Rome.
1810: Dacia (Romania) and Sarmatia (Ukraine) are conquered by Rome.
1817: Roman scholars recatalog the Library of Alexandria and rediscover chemical secrets.
1820: Tenochca invent their own autosteamer. Conquest of Great Plains commences with attacks on Comanche and Lakota.
1822: Tenochca priests discover Uranus.
1830: The first handgun is constructed in Alexandria. It becomes standard among the officers of the Legions.
1837: Tenochca takes Formosa from Mongols.
1838: The Third Muskogea War ends with the conquest of Muskogea by Tenochca. Iroquois and Rome both militarize their borders.
1840: The Tenochca defeats the last organized resistance of the Lakotas, securing the Great Plains for the Empire.
1841: Tarascus dies having expanded the empire into Eastern Europe, but failed to regain Imperial power lost to the Senate. He is succeeded by Marcus Claudius Aeris.
1844: The reconquest of Persia is completed.
1850: Ethiopia is conquered by Rome.
1857: The reconquest of India begins. Tenochca suggests to Rome to partition the state, but they refuse. This does not stop Tenochca from capturing Sri Lanka. Tensions increase between the two empires.
1868: Gnaeus Septimius Aquileus becomes emperor of Rome.
1872: India officially reconquered by the Roman Empire. Celebrations in Rome mark the first celebration of Unification Day (the reunification of the land under the Second Empire).
1876: The Tenochca Empire and Iroquois go to war when a Tenochca army crosses the Serpens (Ohio) River. The Roman Empire stays neutral but doesn’t know how long this will last.
1878: Iroquois ask the Romans for help. Septimius decides that it is only a matter of time before war between the two empires will occur and so decides now is the best opportunity to finish Tenochca. Rome declares war on the Tenochca Empire and is joined by the Tlingit Confederacy and Zulus, while Tenochca is supported by their ally the Quechuetl Empire. The Mongol nations remain neutral, liking neither empire.
The Great War has begun…
Thats where I will end it, but I do have ideas for the "Great War" but I'm not sure what format to put it in. If anyone liked this timeline and I would like to see another combined GURPS worlds timeline, I have ideas for a few new ones:
Dixie vs Reich 5 (I'm leaning toward this one, who wouldn't want to see the CSA vs Nazi Germany?)
Dixie vs Gernsback (A CSA with strange tech)
Reich 5 vs Gernsback (A Nazi Germany with strange tech)
Shikaku-Mon vs Ming 3 (Chinese Empire fighting against Catholic Europe)
Shikaku-Mon vs Centrum (Steampunk tries to hold off paranoid fascist empire)
Ming 3 vs. Centrum (China tries to hold off paranoid fascist empire)
Cornwallis vs. Aeolus (US loses revolution and republicans don't get their chance until the 20th century)
Midgard vs. Caliph (Super advance Muslims and Vikings, plus aliens!)
Tenochca vs. Rome
508 BC: Carthaginian explorer Belsalem discovers the New World.
500 BC: Carthaginians plant Suradast (New Tyre) colony on Cuba, begin transatlantic trade; iron working, horses, wheeled vehicles, alphabetic script filter into Mesoamerica.
207 BC: Romans take Carthaginian Spain. Carthaginian monopoly in New World is broken. Suradast is now completely independent of Carthage.
200 BC: As Carthaginian refugees swell Suradast, Suradastians colonize Kinadast (South American mainland); colonies slowly hybridize into native states with Punic elites. Celtic trading post Manannan (Manhattan Island) becomes permanent colony.
130 BC: Hopewell culture at its height. Hopewell –Europe trade carried on by Celtiberians, Britons, Nervii; potato, maize, tobacco reach Europe.
51 BC: Caesar conquers Gaul; Celts flee to Britain, New World.
9 BC: Drusus pacifies Germania to the Albis (Elbe).
14: Augustus dies; Drusus becomes Emperor.
29: Drusus dies; Germanicus becomes Emperor.
68: Gaulish and Hispanian maize and potatoes replace Egyptian and Sicilian wheat as staples of Roman Empire.
75: Germanicus’ great grandson Gaius Drusus conquers Armenia; becomes patron of Hero of Alexandria.
77: Rebellions in Britain (Celts) and Judea (Christians) are put down by the Romans.
85: Teotihuacan adopts Roman legion organization for its army, begins rise to empire.
Agricola conquers Caledonia (Scotland) and Hibneria (Ireland).
95: Emperor Gaius Drusus dies without issue; the Senate selects Nerva as Emperor. Nerva adopts the general Trajan as his successor.
101: Trajan completes the conquest of Germania to the Viadus (Oder).
121: Hadrian uses Heronian steam engines to dredge the Nile-Red Sea Canal.
173: Commodus executed for treason, Marcus Aurelius adopts the German tribune Vitigius as his successor.
234: Emperor Junius Persicus crushes Sassansians at Susa; Persia and Parthia become Roman provinces.
256: The Great Plague hits the Empire.
300: Collapse of Hopewell trade network leaves Celts in control of trade between Teotihuacan and Rome.
Arius spreads a revitalization of the Roman Gods throughout the Empire that gains many converts among the Germans.
307: Emperor Maxentius begins annexing Scandian, Gothic client kingdoms.
315: Zoroastrianism spreads throughout the eastern Roman Empire, competing with Orthodox Roman polytheism and Christianity.
395: Emperor Titus the Cruel assassinated; civil wars break out.
400: Augustine of Hippo spreads Christianity among the Berbers of North Africa.
433: Attila invades the Roman Empire, ending Imperial control over the provinces. New successor states under “proconsuls” emerge in Europe.
451: Attila conquers Gaul, Italy, and Greece. Roman successor states of Thrace and Africa survive Hunnish onslaughts.
502: Teotihuacan takes Punic nations of Kinadast; it has surpasses Europe and rules an empire from Lake Michigan to Orinoco Valley and from Baja to the Potomac.
527: Ephthalite Hun ruler Mihiragula sacks Alexandria, burns its library; scholars rebuilding the collections rediscover the works of the Heronians.
532: Anthemius invents the paddle-wheel steamboat.
565: Eastern Turks invade China, sack Cang-an, disrupting the growing power of the Northern Chou (Sui). China remains disunited.
600: Plague hits Teotihuacan. Siouans migrate south. The Roman nation of Saxony conquers the rogue nation of Britain. Hibneria prospers from trade with New World. Cahokia founded.
610: Proconsul Heraclius of Carthage takes Roma, declares himself first Emperor of the Second Empire. Most of the western Romans swear loyalty to new Emperor except for the eastern Romans.
635: Teotihuacan sacked and burned by rebellious Toltecs; end of Teotihuacan Empire. The Roman Empire retakes Byzantium.
742: Gasparus Victor, first of the Arabian Emperors, completes the conquest of the East.
767: Aianus Gebir invents mustard gas.
788: Capture of Pataliputra ends the hollow Gupta Empire; India Superior made a province.
794: The continent north of Kinadast (North America) becomes popularly known as Tir Tairngire.
813: Mayans fight with Toltecs for control of Mesoamerica.
816: Toltecs are victorious against Mayans making them the supreme power in Mesoamerica.
848: Conquest of Taprobanc (Sir Lanka) completes Roman conquest of India.
867: Emperor Basil, more of a scholar than a politician, begins the Macedonian dynasty and moves the capitol to Alexandria.
900: Massive Celtic immigration to Tir Tairngire; last remaining pure Celts removed from Europe. Manannan becomes the most important city on the coast.
906: Magyars invade northern Europe. Roman legions battle them to keep them out of the Empire.
920: Based on a misunderstood report of acupuncture, Rasis of Ctesiphon accidentally invents vaccination.
987: Romans establish colonies on Markland (Newfoundland). Celts and Algonkins fear Roman expansion in Tir Tairngire.
1013: The Roman Empire expands the borders of Markland farther south and west.
1095: Last of the ineffective emperors of the Macedonian dynasty dies without an heir. Senate chooses a successor, but it is contested by the legions of India who choose Deoliberus Bolos. The Wars of Division begin.
1152: Eastern Romans found the Empire of Babylon, its capitol the rebuilt ancient city of Babylon.
1161: Kurds side with Babylon and drive into Anatolia while Egypt falls to the Babylonian legions forcing the Emperor to flee to Rome, which once again becomes the capitol of the Empire.
1170: Chinese fishermen from Tsingan blown off course, discover Fu-Sang (California).
1200: Tenochca (Aztecs) enter Anahuac and win victories over the Toltecs. Iroquoians move north, driving the Algonkins into the Romans and Celts starting several border wars, which drain Legions from the fighting against Babylon.
1211: Mongols attacks on Chinese kingdoms begin.
1216-1240: Mongols conquer Central Asia and Northern China and begin driving into the Babylon Empire. Wars of Division end after Babylon makes peace to fight Mongols. Chinese refugees flee to Fu-Sang.
1237: Mongols attack the Roman Empire from Ukraine and Middle East. Magyars who had settled down on the Roman Empire flee from the Mongols.
1241: Mongols drive into Gaul; Romans flee to Britannia, Caledonia, and Hibneria.
1252: Babylon is sacked by the Mongols, ending the Babylonian Empire. The Emperor himself is killed when the Mongols stampede their horses over him
1260: Fons Golias, leading a newly independent Egypt (from Babylon) that controls all of North Africa, defeats a Mongol army keeping them out of Africa. Refugees from Europe come to Egypt.
1265: Cahokia traders contact the Chinese colony of Fu-Sang through the Anasazi and their trade routes. Chinese goods reach east coast of Tir Tairngire.
1274: Mongols sack Rome. Long Night falls on Europe. Britannia, Caledonia, Hibneria, Scandia, Egypt, and Markland are the only Roman provinces to flee the Mongol onslaught. All are independent.
1276-1295: Kubilai Khan conquers Japan, Southern China, Burma, and India. Chinese and Japanese flee to Fu-Sang.
1320: Egypt conquers West Africa and builds colonies on the eastern coast of Kinadast (Brazil).
1325: Founding of Tenochtitlan.
1336-1352: Black Death sweeps Eurasia.
1340: Uzbeg Khan forms Khanate of Urop. Gunpowder first used in the New World by Markland.
1361: Black Death hits New World; Toltec Empire and Mississippian cultures devastated; Mexico Valley becomes battleground.
1405: Mongol Khan Timur dies conquering Java. Mongols would also go one to claim Australia.
1420: Egypt begins trade with Muskogca, Natchez, and Suradast.
1428-1440: Reign of Itzcoatl and the beginning of the Tenochca Empire. His chief minister Tlacaelel reforms Tenochca religion, ritual, army, court and commerce. Toltecs are the first to fist to come under their dominion.
1435: Papermaking reaches Europe after a Marklander named Gaius Mocatesimus steals one from Fu-Sang.
1453: A Tenochca mathematician invents decimal notation and algebra.
1464: Ruler of Egypt takes the title of Caesar and declares the beginning of the Third Roman Empire (still referred to as being Egypt to most of the world). Vows to retake Europe from the Mongols. The new Romans begin building a navy to take control of the seas around Europe.
1471: First new steam engine built in Alexandria.
1500: Pressures from Egypt, Scandia, and Britannia begin to shrink Urop. New states gain independence in the Middle East and Northern Europe.
1520: Tenochca invent first arquebus.
1525: Death of Montezuma II and ascension of Cuautemoc I. Tenochca expands borders further into the north and south.
1534: Civil war in Inca Empire leads to Tenochca intervening. The puppet state of Quechueti is created. Deneh (Apache) is also absorbed into the Tenochca Empire.
1535: Egypt makes contact with Quechueti. They also meet representatives of the Tenochca and the meeting turns out to be a bad one. Both nations see each other as threats in the future.
1552: Autosteamer invented in Timbuktu, Egypt.
1570: Deganawidah and Hiawatha found the Iroquois League. The new league fights for more room against Algonkins, Celts, and Romans of Markland.
1573: The Consul of Markland swears fealty to the Emperor in Egypt. Egyptian legions defeat an Iroquois army that came to deny Markland to the Third Roman Empire.
1579: Quechueti War. A short border conflict between Egypt and a joint Tenochca/Quechueti force. It ends in a stalemate but it is the first time “Romans” and Tenochca fight.
1582: The reinvention of the paddlewheel steamboat in Egypt. The newest models successfully travels down the Nile on its first voyage.
1588: Tenochca sacks Cahokia taking the Mississippi valley for the Empire.
1606: Celts and Algonkins ally with Egypt in fear of continued Iroquois expansion.
1607: Tenochca begins to trade with Urop for European slaves.
1610: Egypt takes Syria and Anatolia from Mongols.
1640: The North Atlantic Wars begin. A series of confrontations between the Iroquois and the Egyptian led alliance.
1643: Steam powered machine gun invented in Egypt by Maximus. Though large and unwieldy it proves effective against Mongol calvary.
1660s: Britannian sailors add lateen sails to deep-draft oceangoing ships. Britannia merchants can now go father around the world expanding the power of Britannia.
1680: Tenochca seize Surat and Goa from the Mongol Khan of India, their first oversees colonies.
1695: Tenochca begins experimentation with their own steam engines after stealing one from the Egyptians.
1700: Flintlock invented by the Iroquois and begins using them against Egyptian legions and their Celtic/Algonkin allies.
1704: Britannia conquers Caledonia and Hibneria.
Mongols retake Surat and Gao with help from Britannia who too are worried about the expansion of the violent Tenochca.
Egypt takes control of Hispania from Urop.
1721: Celts and Algonkins are absorbed into the Egypt while peace is made with the Iroquois who have become nervous of Tenochca.
Tenochca produce their own version of Britannia’s ships.
1726: Egyptian army wins victory in Gaul over Mongols, but is stopped from heading toward Rome because of heavy causalities. They resign themselves from consolidating their new conquests while creating closer ties with Britannia and Scandia.
Britannian navy defeats both an Urop and Tenochca fleet ending the European slave trade.
1730: Flintlocks become the standard arm of the Tenochca army.
1734: Tenochca conquer Fu-Sang and found the city of Xochiquetzalatl (Los Angeles). Most of the Chinese/Japanese population is enslaved.
1740: Tenochca invent telescope and microscope.
1750: Tenochca navy uses their new steam ships to take control of the Punic nations of the Caribbean and Kinadast.
1751: Tlingit Confederacy founded to halt Tenochca expansion up the Pacific coast. Tenochca founds Ciuaceatlan.
1752: Tenochca begins First Muskogea War by conquering the Chickasaw. Egypt, Britannia, and Iroquois give what aide they can to Muskogea.
1761: Refugees from Muskogea flee to Iroquois Confederacy and Egyptian Tir Tairngire after the Second Muskogea War.
1764: Tenochca navy begins exploration of Pacific and conquest of Polynesia.
1773: Tenochca conquer Xhosa and establish a colony on the Cape of Good Hope.
1778: Egyptians capture Rome. Khanate of Urop collapses into petty states. Historians see this as the official start of the Third Roman Empire.
1781: Capitol of Empire is moved from Alexandria to Rome after city is rebuilt.
1787: Conference of Rome begins between the Roman Empire, Britannia and Scandia. It will decide the future of the three nations now that Urop has been defeated.
1788: After months of negotiations Britannia and Scandia rejoin the Roman Empire. They joined after getting the emperor to surrender some of his powers to the Senate, effectively making him a constitutional monarch, and giving some autonomy to the provinces.
1791: Germania retaken from rogue Roman consul who refused to attend the Conference of Rome or accept the new emperor as his lord.
1795: the Zulus who are armed with the latest weaponry from the Romans stop Tenochca expansion in South Africa.
1808: Roman Empire expands its border farther east into Eastern Europe.
1809: Marcus Caelius Tarascus begins his reign as Emperor of Rome.
1810: Dacia (Romania) and Sarmatia (Ukraine) are conquered by Rome.
1817: Roman scholars recatalog the Library of Alexandria and rediscover chemical secrets.
1820: Tenochca invent their own autosteamer. Conquest of Great Plains commences with attacks on Comanche and Lakota.
1822: Tenochca priests discover Uranus.
1830: The first handgun is constructed in Alexandria. It becomes standard among the officers of the Legions.
1837: Tenochca takes Formosa from Mongols.
1838: The Third Muskogea War ends with the conquest of Muskogea by Tenochca. Iroquois and Rome both militarize their borders.
1840: The Tenochca defeats the last organized resistance of the Lakotas, securing the Great Plains for the Empire.
1841: Tarascus dies having expanded the empire into Eastern Europe, but failed to regain Imperial power lost to the Senate. He is succeeded by Marcus Claudius Aeris.
1844: The reconquest of Persia is completed.
1850: Ethiopia is conquered by Rome.
1857: The reconquest of India begins. Tenochca suggests to Rome to partition the state, but they refuse. This does not stop Tenochca from capturing Sri Lanka. Tensions increase between the two empires.
1868: Gnaeus Septimius Aquileus becomes emperor of Rome.
1872: India officially reconquered by the Roman Empire. Celebrations in Rome mark the first celebration of Unification Day (the reunification of the land under the Second Empire).
1876: The Tenochca Empire and Iroquois go to war when a Tenochca army crosses the Serpens (Ohio) River. The Roman Empire stays neutral but doesn’t know how long this will last.
1878: Iroquois ask the Romans for help. Septimius decides that it is only a matter of time before war between the two empires will occur and so decides now is the best opportunity to finish Tenochca. Rome declares war on the Tenochca Empire and is joined by the Tlingit Confederacy and Zulus, while Tenochca is supported by their ally the Quechuetl Empire. The Mongol nations remain neutral, liking neither empire.
The Great War has begun…
Thats where I will end it, but I do have ideas for the "Great War" but I'm not sure what format to put it in. If anyone liked this timeline and I would like to see another combined GURPS worlds timeline, I have ideas for a few new ones:
Dixie vs Reich 5 (I'm leaning toward this one, who wouldn't want to see the CSA vs Nazi Germany?)
Dixie vs Gernsback (A CSA with strange tech)
Reich 5 vs Gernsback (A Nazi Germany with strange tech)
Shikaku-Mon vs Ming 3 (Chinese Empire fighting against Catholic Europe)
Shikaku-Mon vs Centrum (Steampunk tries to hold off paranoid fascist empire)
Ming 3 vs. Centrum (China tries to hold off paranoid fascist empire)
Cornwallis vs. Aeolus (US loses revolution and republicans don't get their chance until the 20th century)
Midgard vs. Caliph (Super advance Muslims and Vikings, plus aliens!)
