THE EMPIRE OF A THOUSAND WORLDS (an empire in name only, because Imperial power was so diffuse as to be nonexistent).ĪGE OF PRETENDERS begins when Ceres is destroyed by rebellion, and the Imperial Seat ceases to exist as a single entity. SUSPENSOR-NULLIFICATION EFFECT discovered. Terra re-seeded and set aside (by Imperial edict) as a natural park. THE LITTLE DIASPORA: The solar system is colonized, and the population of Terra is eventually outnumbered by 20 to 1.Ĭeres gains the Imperial Seat after a planetoid strikes Terra. THE GOLDEN AGE OF INVENTION: Development of radio, television, atomics, rocketry, genetics, and the computer.įirst atomics demonstrated in an intraprovincial war.

Seat of Empire moved from Madrid to London. THE GREAT STRUGGLE: The Century Without an Emperor.ĭiscoveries in America allow Madrid to attain the status of the Imperial Seat.īATTLE OF ENGLICHANNEL. Imperial Seat moved to Byzantium in retreat before provincial rebellions and minor jihads.

ROMAN EMPIRE arises and conquers the known world, except for China, which resists until 14400. Interprovencial war in an effort to regain Menelaus’ wife, Helen. A CHRONOLOGY OF SOME IMPORTANT EVENTS IN HUMAN HISTORYīirth of Atreus (the Black), father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, theĪtreides referred to by the poet, Homer, and the founders of the patronymic

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