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Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a world war as soon as is historically possible. Obviously, there were world wars before the First World War - like the Napoleonic Wars, among several others - but your objective is to predate even those.

The criteria for a world war:
- at least twelve independent states must be directly involved
- each side must have at least two independent great powers
- each side must have at least three additional regional powers
- military campaigns must take place in at least six of the following general regions: East Asia, Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, Eastern North America, Western North America, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania
- the Americas must have been discovered

The earliest POD possible is 100 BC. Obviously, these criteria are kind of ridiculous and arbitrary, and you can challenge them and stretch them, if you want. Think of them more like guidelines. :p
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