♫ And they believe in God! ♫
Just one. He's got like a ten-step program.
Here's some huge heads. Must be the Olmecs.
The Phoenicians made some colonies.
The Greeks copied their idea and made some colonies.
The Phoenicians made a colony so big it makes colonies.
Here comes the Assyrian Empire.
Never mind, it's the Babylonian- Median-
♫ It's the Persian Empire! ♫
Wow, that's big.
Ah, the Buddha was just enlightened!
Who's the Buddha?
This guy who sat under a tree for so long he figured out and ignored the fact the world's dying.
We can make a religion out of this.
Oops! China just broke! But while it was breaking, Confucius was figuring out how to have good morals.
Ah! The Greeks just had an idea of thinking about stuff!
And right over here, Alexander just had the idea of conquering the entire Persian empire.
It's a great idea. He was great... and now he's dead.
Hopefully, the rest of the gang will share the empire evenly in between them.
Ah, it's Chandragupta!
He says, "Get the hell out of here. Will you get the hell out of here if I give you 500 elephants? Okay, thanks, bye."
♫ Time to conquer all of India! Most of India! ♫
But what about this part? That's the Tamil Kings.
No one conquers the Tamil Kings.
Who are the Tamil Kings?
♫ Merchants, probably... and they've got spices! ♫
Who would like to buy the spices?
"Me", said the Arabians selling it to the rest of the world.
Hey, China put itself back together again with good morals as their main philosophy!
Actually, there are three main philosophies.
Out here, the horse nomads ride wild and free and they would like to ransack your city.
Let's check the Greekification levels of the Greekified Kingdoms.
Greekification Overload.
"Bye" said the Parthians, "Bye" said the Jews.
"Hi", said the Parthians taking over the entire place.
"Hey", said the Romans eating the entire Mediterranean for breakfast.
"Thanks for invading our homeland", said the Jews starting to get tired of people invading their homeland.
"Hi! Everything's great", some guy who seems to be getting very popular and arrested and killed for being too popular which only makes him more popular.
We can make a religion out of this!
Want silk? Now you can buy it from China!
They made a-
♫ Brand new road to the world! ♫
♫ Or you can get there on water... ♫
"Sick! New trade routes", said India accidentally spreading their religion to the entire South-East.
Mmm, that's a good place for an epic trading kingdom.
(Continuation...)