Thanks to the spread of that religion to Rheims, Napoleon soon converted his people to Judaism, as well, in 440 AD.  Now all of the major powers on the continent had adopted the same religion.  Relations soared and peace was plentiful.  Judaism spread in these years wide and far through Jewish missionaries.  Arpinum in 560 AD and Munich in 590 AD.  Harappan cities built Jewish temples and monasteries.  The monotheistic belief transformed lives across the continent.  Only the people of the frontier town, Kot-diji, refused a missionary, opting instead to remain strongly Christian.

440 AD

While religion flourished, the people of Harappa labored on a new project, Chichen Itza.  Completed in 455 AD, the imposing and sprawling campus increased the empire’s defenses and its magnificent temple was devoted to worship, a new haven to scholars of divinity.

455 AD

And as his people built and his religions spread, Mohenjo agitated at persisting questions and longed to answer them.

560 AD

Though Judaism reigned supreme throughout the land, King Mohenjo pushed ever deeper into the depths of divine discovery.  Like a poet in search of beauty, the leader-monk longed for revelation.  Then in 740 AD he devised a system of profound thought called Philosophy.  So Taoism began in Merhgarh.

740 AD

This new faith, true to its philosophical roots, lacked a central creed and even identity.  It represented an indefinable path and Taoist schools varied greatly from community to community as to the best means to experience this way.  The one tenant to which the philosophy did adhere was a joyful acceptance of life and a yielding to the natural world.  Even the rock, strong as it is, yields to the stream and will be shaped into beauty over time by the rustling water.  A peaceful creed, followers seek complete peace in this world and the spiritual.

King Mohenjo appreciated Taoism’s admonishment of peace and his government adopted the civic Pacifism.  This direction focused enlightened thought throughout the empire and attracted great scholars and leaders from all walks of life.  One such individual, Zoroaster the Great Prophet, emerged in Harappa in 770 AD and he joined the laborers there; working with, and living among, the people he loved.  His judgment, expertise, and intelligence inspired the people, who worked even harder.  By 815 AD Harappa was the bustling capital city to an emerging empire of one million souls.

815 AD

Judaism continued to spread throughout the continent at this time, finally supplanting itself in Kot-diji through the tireless efforts of Jewish missionaries.  And Mohenjo’s pacifistic leanings proved fruitful in foreign affairs, strengthening ties with neighbors.  In 905 AD, he agreed to a Wine for Dyes trade with Caesar and in 920 AD Victoria’s scientists gave the Harappan the secrets of Construction and 170 gold for Mohenjo’s righteous Code of Laws.  But still the King gazed intently out upon the spiritual horizon.

905 AD

In the year 995 AD, King Mohenjo received another spiritual epiphany, a revelation from the God of the Jews and the God of the Christians.  He conceived the idea of Divine Right.  So Islam began in Lothal. 

995 AD

Adherents of the new Muslim faith believed in a new scripture, a final revelation from God’s prophet to His people, an unerring law and holy code.  The nascent believers saw in this Word a correction of the old prophets of Judaism and Christianity and the true disclosure of God’s nature and His desire for His people.  Submitting themselves completely to His will, they stressed holy devotion, prayer, fasting, and giving to the poor.

With the seventh major religion founded by Mohenjo, Harappan civilization stood at the pinnacle of spiritual dominance on the continent.  All faiths spread to one corner of the land to another.  Judaism multiplied greater than all the others.  Missionaries continued to take their word to others, establishing that creed in the Roman town Arretium and in the empire’s own Lothal, the Muslim holy city.  Indeed the divine spark burned brightly!

1010 AD

In 1070 AD, King Mohenjo adopted an Alphabet for his people, which also increased relations with Harappa’s neighbors.  In 1070 AD, the King gave Napoleon his knowledge of Theology in exchange for the arts of Sailing, Currency, Bronze Working, and 10 gold.  Three decades later, Bismarck imparted the science of Iron Working and 160 gold for the system of Monarchy, to become a king himself.

But this time also witnessed the first disconcerting note to what had heretofore been a harmonious international symphony.  The Romans sailed around the north of Harappa and founded a settlement in the far northeastern corner of the continent, clearly land that should belong to the Harappan.  But never one to act rashly, King Mohenjo quieted and stilled his furious generals, hoping that beauty might overcome the colonial Romans far sweeter than fury.  “Remember the rock in the stream,” he counseled.

1085 AD

In the year 1148 AD the labor of all of King Mohenjo’s spiritual leadership bore fruit once again. A profound thinker and astute theologian, Ananda emerged in Harappa.  This spiritual teacher conceived of a great project, a holy shrine and temple to the flourishing Confucian religion called the Kong Miao.  So he traveled to the Confucian holy city, Mohenjo-daro, a quiet community already in the midst of greatness, itself.  There Ananda constructed his house of worship to which followers of this second-largest faith journeyed to pray, seek guidance, and offer tribute.

1154 AD

But that would not be all the people of Mohenjo-daro would witness in these days.  In the year 1178 AD the King invented Music, inspiring emerging artists everywhere, including a great and prominent man named Thespis of Harappa.  Mohenjo believe that his cultural contributions should benefit the Roman colony at Circei, as well as his own people, and so he ordered the playwright to Mohenjo-daro.  Thespis’ moving tragedy stirred the nation with its powerful pathos, and the town’s fame and prominence grew tenfold.  Even the Romans took notice.

1184 AD

The empire quietly grew and built during these days, improving its cities, and the land about them.  Workers finally mined the source of Iron south of Harappa in 1200 AD, giving Mohenjo and his army access to greater weapons.  The King devised a Calendar in 1214 AD and then followed up on Thespis’ momentous play to formalize Drama in 1244 AD.  Judaism spread to the French town, Avignon, and to the Roman settlement at Neapolis.

1200 AD

And then Mohenjo-daro completed a wondrous project on which they had labored for so long: the Great Library.  This large and beautiful structure was a repository of scrolls from around the land, a haven for scholars.  The wealth of scientific knowledge collected in this one place surely would be a boon for the great thinker Mohenjo.

1220 AD

But the King did not always re-discover the Wheel.  He was as astute a diplomat as he was profound a thinker.  In 1274 AD, he met with Napoleon and traded him the philosophy of Divine Right for the French art of Metal Casting, their Compass, and 10 gold.  Perhaps the seal to the deal was when Napoleon spied the amazing Spiral Minaret built in Harappa the same year.  This towering engineering marvel proved to be an inspiring and wealth-producing spectacle to all of the…Jewish faith?!?!

1274 AD

By 1298 AD, King Mohenjo instituted Feudalism, an economic and political system based upon titled lords governing different lands of the empire, yet pledging loyalty to the King, who still had ultimate authority over the affairs of the Harappan people.  This discovery lead to the implementation of Serfdom, a more efficient government civic.  Now, workers could complete improvements in half the time.  This immediately provided benefit in 1304 AD when a band of laborers built the first sugar plantation at Kot-diji and connected it via trade routes.  The sweet delicacy pleased the Harappan and Mohenjo continued to work the land with various improvements.

1304 AD

The early days of feudal society witnessed some important events in foreign affairs.  In 1304 AD, Harappa’s closest neighbor, Rome bordering on the west and south, demanded money from Mohenjo.  The King flatly refused.  Caesar did not take the threat further, but Mohenjo would not forget the insult and the construction of the Godspeed, the nation’s first naval unit, was no consolation.  Soon after the incident, he quietly ordered his army to strengthen the border garrisons and recruit new units.

Then in 1406 AD the Romans of Circei revolted under Harappan influence.  Longing for a better life and probably feeling stranded so far from home, the citizens of the far-flung coastal community attempted to overthrow Roman rule, but were quelled by troops stationed there.  No doubt the sentiment of secession lingered, however.  Then in 1418 AD Mohenjo met with his close friend Victoria of England and negotiated two significant trades.  Giving her Music, Victoria agreed to trade English Optics and 20 gold.  Then she was willing to pay 3 gold per annum for Harappan wine, which was quickly becoming legendary throughout the land.

1406 AD

Mohenjo also fostered religious studies, as usual.  So much so that in 1352 AD, Chaung-Tzu emerged in Harappa as a great and magnificent prophet.  He joined the people of the capital, employing reforms that increased the city’s economic and industrial output.  Then in 1412 AD, Harappa itself completed another wondrous religious structure – Angkor Wat – a dedicated temple to cultivate spiritual worship.  In the same year, the city of Novsharo completed an Heroic Epic, a martial and nationalistic account of the great Barbarian Conquests fittingly produced in the former barbarian settlement.

1412 AD

Novsharo had been growing in prominence for some years and its strategic significance increased as relations with Caesar seemed to deteriorate.  Centrally situated along the Roman border, Mohenjo began to prepare the city as a possible staging base for any war with Rome, if necessary.  Though he desired peace, he also had to protect his people and Harappan interests.  And Novsharo could easily threaten Rome’s eastern tip and provide a central jumping off point for several different campaigns.  So Mohenjo slowly built up the city’s cultural and industrial infrastructure, including a Barracks and the Heroic Epic, so that if necessary it could serve primarily as an induction center for new troops.  He had early discovered Machinery in 1352 AD to increase military science.

1418 AD

But for now, things remain peaceful and the Harappan people prospered, now numbering over 2 million souls.  Jewish missionaries spread that faith to the English city of Nottingham in 1442 AD.  And to boost the economy, Mohenjo introduced Banking in 1484.  Then one day, an age old prayer uttered thousands of years ago was answered again.  Are there other civilizations out there…?

After years of knowing only the land with which God had blessed them, the Harappan received a surprise visit in 1490 AD from a strange group of men exploring off the shores of Harappa, calling themselves Americans.  Sent by their leader Roosevelt, these discoverers only mentioned that they had sailed across a great water to reach this land.  Gratefully, King Mohenjo accepted the peace they offered, though he did desire to know exactly where these American came from.  He figured all would be revealed in time, either through further relations or explorations of his own.

In the meantime, the King led his people as competent as ever.  After some years of massive building projects, Harappa settled down to smaller tasks.  The capital completed a theatre in 1496 AD.  It certainly held a distinct prominence in the empire and was a shining jewel on the continent in economy, industry, culture, and especially spiritualism.

1496 AD

In 1508 AD a wise scientist, Isaac Newton, emerged in Mohenjo-daro and traveled to the bustling capital city to construct a great Academy, boosting the pursuit of knowledge and education there.

1523 AD

Furthermore, King Mohenjo adopted a new civic in 1525 AD called Bureaucracy, dividing up governmental affairs among several agencies increasing efficiency in the capital, Harappa.  A trade with Victoria of England made the new reforms possible when she agreed to give Mohenjo her secrets of Civil Service plus 40 gold for the King’s knowledge of Philosophy.  That same year, the King traded his first set of maps with Bismarck of Germany thanks to his invention of Paper six years earlier.

With Harappa rising ever glorious and magnificent, another devout and spiritual thinker emerged from the city’s religious fervor in 1529 AD – St. John.  This prophet set out for Mehrgarh, the holy city of the prospering religion Taoism, and there built a splendid shrine to that faith in 1535 AD – the Dai Miao.  This temple soon became a center of worship for followers of that belief around the continent adding culture and wealth to the community and empire.

1535 AD

In these days, Mohenjo did not neglect his military.  In fact, with recent developments, he made it a point to specifically address it.  In 1526 AD, the army constructed its first siege weapon, a catapult.  Completed in Novsharo, the measure was perhaps long overdue; or perhaps just in time?  For two new developments on the international scene gave the King cause for concern and joy, respectively.  First Napoleon converted to Taoism in 1538 AD, abandoning the Jewish faith so dominant upon the continent.  Relations immediately fell sharply with the French, unfortunately over something as silly as religious differences.  Then in 1541 AD, the Romans at Circei finally succeeded in their revolt, overthrew the local governor, and joined the Harappan Empire.  In a festive and joyous celebration, King Mohenjo personally traveled to the coastal community and welcomed the people into the Harappan fold, overseeing an official re-naming ceremony.  The town would now be known as Amri.

By 1559 AD, peace still reigned, the world opened up, an open borders agreement was settled with Roosevelt, and Harappa was poised for a new era.

A scholar and thinker since the dawn of Harappan time, King Mohenjo introduced Education to his people in the year 1562 AD, inaugurating a Renaissance in research, philosophy, and prosperity.  In all manners of society, politics, and daily life, the people of Harappa enjoyed success and peace.  The empire’s largest cities erected stunning Jewish Synagogues.  The army strengthened.  Towns thrived, teeming with activity and construction projects improving infrastructure, economy, and culture. 

In 1571 AD, the King met with Victoria and traded maps, giving him a much firmer grasp of the continent’s territorial powers, their lands, and their cities.  Mohenjo prayed that each might be content with their allotted portion and then his own would be enough for his people.

1571 AD

To that end, the King endeavored even more to provide for his subjects.  In 1598 AD he introduced Economics.  The breakthrough led to the emergence of Aretas III in Harappa, a powerful and wealthy merchant who agreed to undertake a long, dangerous, but potentially extremely profitable trading mission to London – all the way to the continent’s southern shore.  With this new financial knowledge, Mohenjo reformed his economy with the civic Free Market, increasing profit from trade routes throughout the empire.  While initiating such reforms, the King also switched to Organized Religion, considerably increasing the rate of construction projects in Harappan cities, all in the name of God.

Unfortunately, the Harappans’ booming economy proved too tempting a site for some greedy and desperate leaders.  For in the same year of Aretas’ rise, Napoleon of France sent a diplomatic courier to demand 200 gold from King Mohenjo.  Taken aback by this bold surprise, the King remained unflustered, calmly ordering the ambassador out of his site, without the coin.  It seems that in these days, Harappa was discovering who really were and were not its friends.  Quietly, the military shifted the bulk of its forces to the south, especially the border town of Kot-diji.

Insults and threats aside, Mohenjo’s primary duty was to his people and Harappan civilization.  Missionaries spread Judaism to Stuttgart in 1604 AD and then to their own town Amri in 1625.  Cities continued building and people continued living.  Word reached Harappa in 1616 AD that Aretas had arrived in London, his valuable mission netting 2250 gold for the royal treasury, and who knows how much personal profit for the merchant himself.

1616 AD

One of the most technologically advanced nations in the known world, Mohenjo diligently increased his studies and offered his people the idea of Liberalism in 1619 AD, leading to two other breakthroughs.  With such scientific prowess came the discovery of Astronomy with its better understanding of the stars and navigation, and also the new civic Free Speech, which Mohenjo quickly adopted to increase the empire’s cultural esteem and market wealth.

And before 1619 ended, yet another historic event transpired – the emergence of St. John of Harappa, an earnest and astute prophet.  Further evidence to the spiritual dominance which Harappa possessed among humankind, St. John traveled south, to Kot-diji and the holy city of Christianity.  There, in 1625 AD, he oversaw the construction of the Church of the Nativity on the traditional site of Jesus’ birth.  The imposing house of worship immediately became a magnet for the pilgrimages and tithes of those of the faith.

1625 AD

In foreign affairs, Mohenjo remained ever vigilant, protecting his borders, improving the military when possible, and searching for advantageous trades.  Every once in a while, some even fell into his lap.  In 1622 AD, a new ship appeared of the Harappan coastline, flying unfamiliar colors.  The sailors called themselves Aztecs and claimed that their leader, Montezuma, had provided them with great leeway in dealing with foreign heads-of-state.  So both parties agreed to peace and open borders, strengthen the new relations with a trade in knowledge – Mohenjo passing along the revelations of Divine Right for the Aztecs’ expertise in Engineering and 600 gold from their treasury. 

Yes, all seemed well and content.  And then, in 1628 AD, Napoleon of France sent a message that would shock the continent and turn the Harappans’ world upside down – an unprovoked declaration of war against Harappa.

Immediately upon Napoleon’s declaration, Mohenjo sent a flurry of diplomatic missions around the continent.  He had to know who his friends were and who were not.  At the same time, he felt that something must be done with the deceptive Frenchman.  This type of unstable behavior should not be tolerated by the international community as it was completely destructive to foreign harmony and trust.  Mohenjo asked the other continental powers to join the mighty Harappan in their punitive expedition against the Gauls.  Caesar agreed for 910 gold.  Victoria allied with him for the knowledge of Divine Right.  AndBismarck joined the fight in exchange for the secrets of Theology.  Now Napoleon was surrounded, and would have to fight on all sides.

But before the brunt of the allied offensive could bear down on the French, Napoleon marched into Harappa with a sizable strike force.  His target:  Novsharo.  So in 1634, the first blood of the French War was shed on the steps of that strategic industrial city.  Wave after wave of French horse and infantry assaulted the walls of Novsharo.  Andwith the loss of only one full division, Harappan defense forces repelled the invaders as the inglorious enemy attack smashed against the lines like a wave broken up by the shore’s boulders.  The enemy dead littered the fields by the thousands, their losses untold, but their defeat complete.  In the subsequent years, the army assembled in Novsharo destroyed the remaining elements of the French invasion force and then comprised the backbone of their own to march against the enemy.

1634 AD

As Harappan forces marched on the French border town of Chartres, Mohenjo discovered the secrets of Gunpowder to supply his army with a powerful weapon: the musket.  Powerful and inspiring, new units began training throughout the empire to use this new gun, that could easily pierce the armor of even the greatest French knights.  The new tool of war would not be available at the next battle, but it would also not be needed.

1640 AD

In 1640, the main body of Mohenjo’s expeditionary force against France reached the outskirts of Chartres and began a massive siege of the city.  With continual bombardments, the army choked the garrison and the people for three years, awaiting reinforcements from Kot-diji.  Once they arrived in camp, an army comprising thirteen divisions of horse and infantry stood ready to assault.  Charging courageously into a hail of arrows and wall of pikes, Harappan troops destroyed the garrison with modest losses, enjoying the same success they had in the defense of Novsharo.  The city fell and the troops plundered 184 gold and razed the city.

1643 AD

While the majority of the empire mobilized for war, her capital Harappa continue to prove her worth and prestige as a beacon to the world.  In 1646, that city completed the Globe Theatre, a mecca for culture and entertainment.  Other minor improvements saw completion throughout Mohenjo’s communities.  But his emphasis, no doubt, was in military expansion due to the conflict at hand.  In 1649, that endeavor saw fruition with the mustering of the nation’s first unit of Musketmen, writing a new chapter in the protection of Harappan civilization…just as the army set its eyes upon the symbol of another.

1649 AD

By 1661, a rejuvenated, resupplied, and reinforced army finally reached the gates of the French capital at Paris.  Rather than conducting a long and lengthy siege, as at Chartres, Mohenjo’s generals recommended a complete and immediate assault.  Paris’ five-division garrison, according to intelligence reports, could not withstand the twenty-division army now encamped just beyond her walls.  So the siege weapons so useful in bombarding now simply attacked the city.  While half were cut down, they caused so much damage and confusion in the fighting that Harappan troops, with enthusiastically high morale bent on revenge, easily destroyed the remainder of defenders.

1661 AD

In what perhaps is a blotch upon his ethical and moral record, in a fit of vengeful rage wrought by the memory of a treacherous proclamation of war, Mohenjo ordered the destruction of the great French capital hoping it would be a symbol of Harappan power and a warning to other neighbors who may be contemplating similar plans as Napoleon had.  Mohenjo also fully expected the French leader to agree to terms for peace after witnessing the furious destruction.  The divine leader wanted no more war and, with his thirst for revenge quenched by the razing of Paris, sent world to Napoleon seeking a resolution to the conflict.  Napoleon refused to consider any terms.  And so the war continued, the army healed, and a new plan formulated to march further.

While Mohenjo conducted the terrible conflict with one neighbor, the Harappan discovered two others across the oceans.  In 1649, a group of men calling themselves Persians brought greetings from their leader Cyrus, having sailed across the ocean in explorations of their own.  Some time later in 1664, the Harappans’ own navy discovered the land of a people calling themselves Americans and led by Roosevelt.  Mohenjo agreed to Open Border treaties with both powers.  Three years later, Mohenjo began negotiations with the Yankee leader to exchange Harappan wine for crabs.  And by 1670, a Jewish missionary spread that faith to Chicago, the first religion founded upon the new continent.  Napoleon also converted back to Judaism, but still would not consider peace with Mohenjo and his people.

1664 AD

1670 AD

In the meantime, the army mounted small offensives into the French heartland and attacked marauding French raiders invading Harappan territory.  While a large army marched against a new enemy target at Lyons, Mohenjo introduced Chemistry to his people in 1673 while pioneers founded the settlement of Surkotada near the ruins of Chartres.  Disturbingly, Victoria made a peace deal with Napoleon in the same year while Caesar opted out of the war three years later.  Mohenjo hoped that Napoleon’s crippling losses in the conflict to date would prevent him from mounting much of a counter offensive.  Luckily, Germany remained as an ally, creating a southwestern front, while Harappan forces continued to march in the north.  The recent developments certainly illustrated to need for a quick end to the fighting.

Religious fervor continued to spread throughout the second continent as both Azteca and America experienced great faith awakenings by 1682, the former converting to Christianity while the latter adopted Judaism as a state religion.  Mohenjo was pleased with these spiritual developments, but saddened with the reminder of the task at hand: finishing the terrible ordeal with the French.

To accomplish that, Mohenjo ordered the capture of Lyons – a large river community with fertile land in northern France.  The leader-monk sent a large contingent with plenty of new Musketmen to ensure victory for his troops, though he knew a bloody fight still awaited his beloved troops.  The army’s catapults softened the defenses and rained destruction upon the garrison.  Many men in the siege batteries gave their lives for their fellow comrades scheduled to assault in subsequent waves.  But they did their job so effectively, that the horse and infantry had little trouble in ousting the defenders and capturing the city with its treasury of 185 gold.  With the stronghold in Harappan hands Napoleon finally relented to Mohenjo’s dominance.  Ironically the Peace of Lyons was signed in 1691 on the very bloodied fields over which the Battle of Lyons was fought to the end the French War.  Mohenjo and the two million souls of the Harappan Empire rejoiced in the new peace.

1691 AD

With the nation enjoying peace, King Mohenjo committed his people again to the cultural pursuits with which they had gained so much prominence upon the growing world stage.  Harappan society enjoyed prosperity; its religion spread; and scientific endeavors multiplied.  The great monk also looked out on the political horizon, yearning to involve his people more and more in government.  The intervening years would be a Political Golden Age.

In 1700, Mohenjo discovered the Printing Press as a means to expand literacy throughout the empire and to educate his people.  Harappans now had access to mass produced books, journals, and newspapers.  The reporting of events reached the eyes of thousands as never before.  Scholars and scientists disseminated their works on unprecedented scales.  Religious books and tracts spread far and wide influencing untold masses with their powerful messages.  It was the embarkation for the nation’s voyage to governmental revolution.

The King also kept his foreign diplomats quite busy these years.  With the discovery of the second continent, new commercial opportunities opened and trade flourished with Harappa’s continental neighbors, as well.  In 1703, Caesar agreed to exchange precious Roman gems for beautiful Harappan marble.  At a productive trade summit in 1706, Mohenjo traded cattle to Alexander for 9 gold per annum and then signed an even grain exchange agreement with Roosevelt giving him rice for corn.  Some time later, Roosevelt inked an addendum to the deal which included American furs for marble.

While the empire devoted much of its resources to scientific endeavors with the founding of universities and observatories in most of the major Cities, Mohenjo did not neglect his spiritual proclivities nor keep his eye turned from faith issues around the globe.  In 1709, Cyrus converted to Buddhism while his neighbor, Alexander, chose Hinduism as the Greek state religion in 1724.  Jewish missionaries continued to preach their faith, spreading the creed to the former French town Lyons in 1718 and the Harappan border settlement Surkotada in 1724.

In that same year, the benevolent King introduced another sort of religion in its own right: Nationalism.  A patriotic fever spread rapidly through the empire, banding its citizens like nothing before and knitting together a disparate people across economic, racial, and religious demographics.  Just another stepping stone in the path of a nation’s political transformation, Mohenjo thought.  By 1738, the exploring sailors of the Sea Dragon II reached the Greek coast, spying an unusual sea creature and drawing a crude map of the two major continents inhabiting the world.

1738

1740

While the people continued to build and live and study and worship, two events transpired in the watershed year 1742 that would change the world forever.  First, Mohenjo adopted the Harappan Constitution and initiated civic reforms, converting government from Hereditary Rule to Representation.  Of course voters elected Mohenjo as president to continue as their leader – a reward for years of wise, consistent, benevolent, and fair rule as despot and King.  Certainly an experimental form of government, the first ever conceived by humans, the rest of the world kept attuned to events in Harappa.

But it was not the only event capturing the attention of the world’s powers.  For in the same year, Alexander declared war on Cyrus of Persia.  A new conflict emerged on the international stage and President Mohenjo, as well as all of the world’s rulers, kept an uneasy distance, observing, and waiting to see what this new event might bring to relations elsewhere.

Finally in 1742, St. Paul the Great Prophet was born in Harappa and remained in the capital to build the Mahabodhi, a prominent religious shrine for the Buddhist faithful around the world, bringing in even more tithes and offerings to the Harappan treasury.  Interestingly, six years later, the only Buddhist nation, Persia, converted to Taoism in the midst of its war with Greece.

1742

The ships Sea Dragon I and Sea Dragon II continued to travel along the second continent’s coast.  One glimpsed the Siege of Nubian as Greek forces surrounded the Persian stronghold.  Little of major significance had transpired in the Greek-Persian War in its eight-year history, but the Greeks were slowly weakening the enemy City.

1750

Back home, Mohenjo reached his political destination with the introduction of Democracy and the adoption of complete Universal Suffrage.  All Harappans, no matter what walk of life or creed or ethnicity, united behind the President and enjoyed equal voting privileges, all having a voice in government and the chance to participate in deciding the nation’s fate.  By the year 1772, Lord McCauley completed a monumental history, declaring Harappa the most advanced state in the world – one that had now set its sights upon new breakthroughs in transportation and with an ambitious vision of re-conquering its own territory.

1772

With the political landscape forever altered, President Mohenjo now sought to revolutionize the Harappan Empire with ambitious industrial initiatives.  The first cog in that machine would be the introduction of Replaceable Parts in 1774 and the formation of lumber mills throughout the nation’s cities to boost production and pave the way for further advances in manufacturing and transportation.  The first lumber mill was completed in 1790. 

1790

Meanwhile on the international scene, the scope of the Greek-Persian war widened when second continent neighbor Montezuma joined the fray against Persia in 1780.  Now with a two-front war with which to contend, the President fully expected Cyrus to enlist the support of another power to even the odds.  However, instead of seeking an ally with the Harappan people, he instead demanded the knowledge of Chemistry from Mohenjo in 1784.  The leader-monk thought that ultimatum quite odd, considering Persia was currently fighting two powers on her own continent, but perhaps it had something to do with Mohenjo’s favorable trading relations with the Aztecs, one of Persia’s enemies, including a new deal four years earlier exchanging cattle for 5 gold per annum.  Nevertheless in 1788, Cyrus did indeed procure the assistance of Julius Caesar and Rome in the cause against the Greeks.  How this power across the ocean could aid the Persians in any measurable manner remained to be determined.  However, these new developments made it quite apparent that meddling from the other side of the world might soon drag the Harappan peoples into its affairs.  The President was determined to be ready for that scenario.

Harappa entered the industrial era in full stride when Mohenjo discovered Steam Power with its amazing applications to manufacturing and transportation.  Scientists poured over this new knowledge and all of its attributes in fervent study, especially the dark mineral coal, newly uncovered near the industrial center of Novsharo.  The historic fort located on the hilly terrain in that area that had long guarded the entrance into Mohenjo-daro’s fertile wine valley would have to be dismantled so that mining operations could extract the coal.  These days, too, witnessed the construction of major national projects.  The Hermitage increased the thriving cultural hub at Mohenjo-daro, while a Forbidden Palace in Kot-diji provided increased governmental administration in the southern half of the empire, decreasing maintenance costs for the region.

1794

As Mohenjo discovered the secrets of Steel in his industrial fervor, ever pushing the limits of possibilities outward, he kept a close eye on the developing inter-continental war.  Harappa’s immediate neighbor, Rome, requested her allegiance in the struggle against the Greeks.  While straining relations with Caesar, Mohenjo had to decline as his people were not ready for armed conflict across the globe, though he was quietly preparing for such with a naval building program and other mobilization.  Oddly enough in 1808, after requesting the alliance, Caesar turned right around and made peace with Alexander, anyway.  Two years later, it appeared as if the conflict might end when Cyrus and Alexander, the instigators of the whole affair in the first place, also agreed to a cessation of hostilities.

With the minor threats of a spreading conflagration subsiding, though, Mohenjo continued to prepare his people.  As the last two combatants, Montezuma and Cyrus, left the peace table with a cease fire agreement in 1816, the first Harappan galleon Glory Bound arrived at Kot-diji.

1816

As always, President Mohenjo guided his people on their spiritual path, as well.  The city of Lothal built a Jewish synagogue in 1815, one of many such grand structures being erected throughout the nation.  Then five years later, St. Augustine was born in Harappa and traveled to that coastal city to construct the Masjid al-Haram – a holy shrine to the growing Muslim faith, so that the empire’s treasury continued its close  and intertwined relationship with faith and providential matters.

1820

Mohenjo took advantage of the world’s new peace in 1822 to negotiate several lucrative trade agreements, cementing relations abroad, increasing Harappa’s wealth, and determining the layout of the second continent.  Canceling the marble for furs deal with Roosevelt, the American instead offered 9 gold per annum for the beautiful stone and then purchased Democracy in exchange for his system of the Corporation, his world map, and 30 gold.  Victoria of England also desired Democracy, giving Mohenjo Rifling, her world map, and 50 gold.  Bismarck purchased Divine Right for 530 gold and his world map.  Finally Mohenjo gave Philosophy to Montezuma for 310 gold and the Aztec world map.  So, by 1823, President Mohenjo’s map makers consolidated this information, creating Harappa’s first complete map of the world.  No doubt a representation that might prove very handy one day.

1823