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8th map:
New colors- Atnet is the darker green (here it isn't totally conquered)
Naktechequ is the lighter green. Blue stripes means that Rejawhi has military control over both.
Light orange- Jareue recovers the bulge after the peace treaty, and in turn has to except that it got the bulge with the authorization of Rejawhi, which is free to position troops over there (anyway Jareue isn't in any shape to fight, and Rejawhi wants to control as much land with as small a force as they can get away with). Rejawhi is in the best political power it ever was, but in the same time it is very unstable. Other than the fact that it controls all of Florida from a kingdom a third as big, it is under cultural attack. the dominant culture is the Haquatechian one, and Rejawhi needs to survive for long enough to culturally convert a population about five times itself. Moreover they don't actually control them. They can do as they please, in the confinements of what the new superpower (who can and will use one kingdoms resources to fight another) will let them do. Sadly, this instable and fractured Florida is hardly united enough to trade with the Maya, let alone have a profound impact on the western hemisphere. But all that is about to change.
In the meantime in Mexico, Tantecheq bites off Kologhan's north-eastern end. In his south-west he isn't making good progress, as a group of city-states led by Ornet of Meyiwko rebels and wages war in order to free other countries.

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83 CE: Tantecheq is defeated. Kologhan the III uses the tactic he knew so well and accepts Tantecheq as his advisor. He puts him right on the job with the task to defeat the Meyiwko coalition of Mayan city-states.

85 CE: After marching down the Mayan kingdom and assembling an army, Tantecheq arrives at Ornet's gates, and demands him to admit defeat. Atnet is completely conquered. It is given to Cevyan, son of Atnet himself.

86 CE: Tantecheq returns to Meyiwko with the head of Mekaiyo- advisor to the king and son of Ornet, who admits defeat. He goes to exile for a few years. Cevyan discovers the effects of tobacco. It is soon consumed in the four palaces of Florida.

90 CE: Pirates start raiding the few trade vessels going to and from the Maya. Trade ceases, while coastal raiding on Florida intensifies. Kologhan tries to assassinate Tantecheq (who is solidifying the former Meyiwko coalition into a solid province- loyal to him only. When Kologhan hears about this he sends in the assassin). Tantecheq responds by announcing himself ruler of the Mayan people via the renewed coalition of Meyiwko, and marching on the Mayan capital.

93 CE: Tantecheq reaches the Mayan capital, and tries to force a battle. After 5 weeks, he backs up- burning villages as he goes, while Kologhan is breathing up his back- managing to cause severe casualties as he goes. Kologhan leaves Tantecheq after several days, and readies his army for a long march.

94 CE: Cevyan realizes the huge potential in tobacco, and asks Rejawhi to help him with trade. They agree to help fin the pirate's source.

95 CE: Tantecheq arrives in Meyiwko, to a sad fate. Twemkayu, Ornet's other son now rules the city, and refuses to give it up. After a short and bloody siege on the palace, Twemkayu's guards kill him, and place Tantecheq as king. Tantecheq now focuses on readying his troops for a counter attack (as he seeded informers along the way to give him days ahead alert) by Kologhan, and marching them back to strike him and not relent.

96 CE: Tantecheq's strategy payed off. He now has the leading edge, and simply needs to keep pursuing Kologhan's army, and not let it regroup. Cevyan discovers the pirate's base is deep in the death triangle. He tries to get funding to go into there- but to no avail.

97 CE: Tantecheq arrives at the royal palace, only to find Kologhan out already. It is known he took a boat to flee the incoming army, but what happened to him was a long lasting mystery. Cevyan finally gets authorization. Rejawhi take money from Jareue as a 'loan', and give it to Cevyan. He heads his mercenary army eastward.

Up next: The handy bonus of the Death triangle, what happened to Kologhan the III, and what were the sons of Farkeh up to?
From now there is going to be less action every ear, as the different cultures struggle to recover from decades of civil and trans-national war.
 

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Map #9: 82-90 CE.
Rejawhi takes over some of Atnet. The rest is a puppet-state. Rejawhi and Jareue also settle the fate of the land between them.
Meanwhile, on the Mayan side- Tantecheq is defeated, and conquers much of the Mayan territory back from the Meyiwko coalition, that is utterly destroyed in a series of battles, after Otnet is exiled. But, with continuing civil war the Maya can't even reach they're old border (seen in map 4, or even 7). They keep on shrinking, and when they do expand more than the last time, they will be vulnerable- so collapse will follow shortly.

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Map #10: 90-97 CE.
the Maeyiwko coalition splits off from the Maya kingdom, and is shown in a stronger color. It 97 CE Tantecheq conquers the Mayan kingdom, and inherits Kologhan's borders.

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99 CE: Cevyan's mercenary army goes into the death triangle. Progress is very slow.

101 CE: Tantecheq agrees that royals in the south may become autonomous (in the Mayan kingdom, royals were a special class- completely separate from the nobles. Royal houses were as many as the former kingdoms). Nobles on the other hand may only be advisors to the throne, and may not make a new client kingdom. The client kingdoms however had to pay a special tax to the king. He declares that his son is to inherent only the northern part of his kingdom, and that he rules simply as an organizer of the Mayan peoples. The royals of the north get upset, since they can't make client kingdoms.

102 CE: Cevyan's army starts to crumble. He turns around, only to ask for more money. The northern Mayan royals assemble a council. Tantecheq is quick to dismiss it, and that gets them even angrier. He says: 'What do you want from me? The land of the south are out to take, and you waste your time here! I didn't say who can have that land'. That speech opens a whole reign of war and mistrust, while Tantecheq rides on this relatively peacefully.

104 CE: Cevyan gets some money, and is told to come to the pirates via the sea. The Mayan royal's council is made once again, and Tantecheq announces that any noble with money can 'rent' his army, and go colonize other land. The land that they conquer- is theirs. The rush to colonize overcomes any thoughts of replacing Tantecheq. In order to deal with the demand for soldiers- he announces that military service is mandatory, and is now taken as a tax (on only the regular citizens of course).

107 CE: Cevyan raids the pirates, and ruins several villages. He discovers a Farkeh semi-nation in the death triangle- Yenka. He tries to conquer them, but is defeated again. He discovers the Yenka have iron weapons. They are literally invincible.

110 CE: Naktechequian nobles colonize New Mexico. Rejawhi pressures Naktechequ to retreat. Naktechequ responds by banning the new colony, and in turn Rejawhi stops the military occupation of it, except for a small representation. In fact, Rejawhi knows they will need those soldiers for conquering Yenka- they simply used that issue to solve another one in the process.

112 CE: The Naktechequian colony (now called Hachuechuq) has no one to rely on but the Mayan colonies. They agree to help with money and supplies, and have a free movement pact between the countries, but in turn want to erect a huge Mayan temple in the capital. They suggest it be used to teach the children of the nobles and the wealthy. Hachuechuq has no option but to agree. It starts to develop.

113 CE: The third attempt at destroying the Yenka (who have dominated the death triangle in the meantime). The Yenka make nice progress, and head toward Rejawhi later that year.

114 CE: The first soldiers start coming back from service. The begin to protest, only to be slaughtered by Tantecheq, who now demands a third more days per decade (to be payed in the first three years. it is not per year because soldiers can't go back and forth).

115 CE: Finally, the Yenka are flanked by the Rejawhi, in a siege battle. They didn't bring enough food to go, so they are forced to a horrible battle, in which the Yenkan king and two sons are taken prisoners. Riots resume in the Mayan cities by the former soldiers, who form the soldiers guild.

116 CE: A failed attempt of Tantecheq to destroy the soldiers guild leads to them taking over the army, after which Tantecheq separates his guards from the army. In Florida, a Rejawhian trick worked: After publishing a price tag for the third Yenkan prince, his head is brought to Rejawhi by a noble. Rekawhi and her vassals get access to rafts with sails, and iron works. The Yenkanian colonies refuse to accept their new rulers, and stay independant. Rejawhi now turns toward the Mayans and their colonies, for trade. They re-accept Hachuechuq as a client kingdom, with her Mayan partner-kingdom Korwem, under Hachuechuq's name. Hachuechuq is soon to sell the iron and ship to the Maya, so now they once again posses the same technology.

Up next: Otnet's return, the collapse of the first Maya kingdom, and the decline of Rejawhi.
 

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Up next: A Haqethechian holy book is written about the god wars, and about the Farkeh's father. But what would that do to the Farkeh themselves? And, someone is going to dominate water. How far will he go: Ships? Aqueducts? Or even domesticating fish?
 
I fail to see how domesticating yet another pack predator (remember they already had dogs) is going to make them into a more succesfull (relative to European invaders) civilization. Also fossil records indicate that fatalis went extinct some 10,000 years ago yet the first record is from 800 BCE.

Furthermore, you have civilization arrising in southern Florida which, until recently, was pretty much a mallarial swamp. The region has little in the way of natural resources (i.e. good stone, strong wood, metals) other than phosphates, and good soil for farming.

Do they have some other domesticates, preferably plants, that would help make up for this?
 
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