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and attempted to
keep the Empire going, collaborating with the Roman Church to
oppress small Christian sects who didn’t agree with the pope and
his followers. Another religion also swept the area, gaining
footholds in parts of the former provinces of Rome, such as Spain
and Gaul. They were the Muslims, who forced people to worship their
god or have their limbs cut off or even be-headed if they didn’t
comply. The Church made sure the normal everyday European was
illiterate, so they could maintain their power since nobody would
be educated enough to question the authority of the Church pope.
Europe went through a Dark Age, where no advancements happened,
while war after war, religious crusade after religious crusade tore
Europe, Africa, and the Middle East apart. It seemed to the Terrans
that Earth was descending into chaos again and even into a darker
kind of evil than before the Terrans left Earth in the first
place.
    To make matters a little worse, one of the
Terran scientists accidentally introduced a previously unknown
contagion on Earth, which turned out to be quite deadly to humans
native to Earth. It first infected fleas, then rats, and then the
cats and dogs who at the rats, and eventually affected humans as
well. The Terrans didn’t know exactly where the epicenter for the
outbreak was, but knew that the disease was spreading quickly. It
started in Europe and spread along trade routes all the way to
Asia, affecting anyone and everyone who came into contact with an
infected person. People began calling it the Black Death, because
it turned the infected victims’ skin a blackish color. In order to
contain this plague, leaders in Europe told their people to stay
home and not go anywhere; those orders made matters worse, because
some traveled anyway. More people died from contact with other
infected people, causing whole villages to die off. Terran
scientists quietly worked on a cure for the plague, trying to keep
millions more from dying. A year and a half later, the Terrans
invented an antidote, and quietly put the antidote in the drinking
water and wells all the people of Earth used, taking many months to
do so.
    In the meantime, Mongolian warriors raided
and destroyed towns in China, Manchuria, Korea, and other Asian
lands. Since everyone was sick, they had an easier time rampaging,
pillaging, and destroying. The leader of the Mongols, Genghis Khan,
decided to go further west for more destruction, so he and his
warriors traveled to the Middle East. Khan’s men came up against
Muslim warriors, led by Saladin, when the Mongols tried to siege
Baghdad. Before attacking each other, Khan asked for a truce so
both leaders could meet. Thirty minutes later, the two men met on
the banks of the Tigris River. They dismissed their aides and when
they were alone, Genghis began to talk, “So, we meet again, Sal.
I’m surprised the Terran leadership has let us get this far. Are
you at all surprised at how easy it is to lead these
primitives?”
    “So, you’re going with name Genghis? That’s
really interesting. I’ve also been wondering about what Terra will
do if they figure out who we are. I am amazed how easy it is to
lead these people, especially these Muslims. They are very
dedicated to their religion, the whole martyrdom thing and
seventy-two virgins in their version of heaven. I just tell them
that your men are infidels and away they go. How about the men
you’re leading?”
    “My men are definitely dedicated pillagers.
You tell them there’s gold or any kind of money involved, and
they’ll gladly tear apart a town or village to get it. Baghdad is
ripe for my men to pillage once they kill off all of your men. You
know, I’m glad my father was the first to manipulate these
primitives, because watching them slaughter each other for nothing
is definitely interesting,” remarked Genghis.
    That’s right, your dad was Merlin. Didn’t he
help another Terran set up a little kingdom of their own in the
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