It's the beginning of the 4th century AD. Italy, with around 14 million inhabitants, is the most wealthy, populous country in the world. It is also the center of the Roman-Byzantine Empire. At this time, the persecution of Christians became forbidden by law. Despite that, the tensions between Christians and pagans wer...
Keiko (17) visits a port town on Tamna (Jeju Island). She is part of a shamanistic dance group that is send together with an envoy from the Yamato court. Keiko used to be a cleaner-slave at the court of shaman Empress Iyo of Yamato. Life at the Imperial court was characterised by harsh labour and stern discipline. At...
The Yamato Empire battles a rival kingdom that occupies the Kanto plain. The rebel king, Tamaki, invaded the region around Mount Fuji. Consequently, the Fuji river became the militarised border between the two powers, with constant causalities on both sides. During this civil war, hundreds Korean families migrated int...
When Yamato is faced with an internal political crisis the leaders agree to annex the eastern tribes at the east coast. This military strategy unified the confederacy and lessened the national tensions. There were sailors from the 'Black tooth islands' living in the East. They requested peace. But the peace would cost...
Queen Himiko was only 14 when she became the head of state of Yamato/Yamatai, a unified polity containing 28 ancient Japanese kingdoms and several Korean statelets on the Korean peninsula. When Himiko turned 19 the prime minister of Yamato decreed a full annexation of the Korean peninsula. The Chinese Han court at th...
General Yu send a small envoy (30 men) to the court of Empress Himiko of Wa (ancient Japan). The aim was to negotiate about the military presence of Wa in Silla. In the Imperial Capital of Wa the Korean envoy received permission to install a small embassy, right next to the embassy of Baekje and China. The palace of t...
Five years after the edict of Milan was signed and ratified the living conditions of Christians still didn't improve. Violent persecution by city governments were still the daily practice, even though provincial laws granted them legal protection. In Britain, however, religious freedom became a practical enforcement i...
After a series of terrorist attacks that happened in the capital district of Wa, where rebels assassinated around 242 people within two months, the Emperor executed 112 conspirators (throughout the whole country). Furthermore, he banned 20 suspects towards the colony Usan.
Eunyeong is a Sillan girl who was captured by the army of the Yamatai confederation as a spoil of war. As a result she ended up as a slave in the palace of the shaman-Empress Himiko. After two years she is returned back to King Isageum of Silla, on the command of Himiko, to work as a hostess for an envoy from Gaul.
The Roman-Byzantine client country Albania send an envoy to Yamato with tribute. The Byzantine-Albanian ambassadors became involved in a domestic struggle between the confederate kingdoms of Yamato. Consequently, the 20 ambassadors became the scapegoat and the envoy was returned to Europe short after arrival. Three ye...