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The great Shoshone empire had been the hub of technological prowess since the dawn of agriculture. Starting from a small costal city soon covering the vast expanse of Africa, they lived in peace for millennia. Alas on the cold day of February the first in 1890 Hiawatha had publicly denounced the Shoshone people, contesting the land the Shoshone people had worked and loved for generations. Friends of the Shoshone came to their defense against Hiawatha; Japan acknowledging their long standing friendship with them, entering a pact of defense with them, and Pocatello showing his thanks in the form a small gift of gold. Years pass and insults are flung from both Hiawatha and Pocatello. 
 
 The Shoshone, being the culturally sophisticated peoples they are soon have philosophical ideas surging and clashing throughout the empire. Pocatello and the gov't behind him take an official stance on the matter after public demand, Pocatello delivering the first speech of it's kind tell his people of the greatness that is his civilization, and how to maintain this greatness and it's ideals they must fight any and all enemy with blood and ( figurative ) iron! The populace is the happiest they've ever been, enthused beyond belief for war. Soon the Shoshone build up a massive navy the likes the world have never seen. 
 
 In secret their navy amasses at the Iroquois border, but in 1910 a month before Pocatello attacks the deceitful Iroquois people Hiawatha, Dido, and Wu Zetian declare war on the Shoshone nation. The leaders claim they are on a quest to `` free the Shoshone people from an oppressive state'' but they do not understand true'Freedom' is in an Autocratic state. 
 
 Japan, bordering China, keeps them busy and soon takes two of their smaller cities. With the Shoshone navy already at the Iroquois border, the Shoshone capture their capital, but soon see a unit near their primary production city. 
 
 Pocatello moves his navy as fast as he can from the east of Africa to it's northern west, but his ships are too slow! With the city undefended it is soon taken by Carthaginian empire. Troops invade through land and after a long and grueling fight, the bastards take the Shoshone capital and soon the rest of it's empire. And with that, the greatest civilization the world had ever known, came to unfit end.
