So you have this big ass piece of new land in the middle of the ocean, what do you do with it?
You have a big ass war over it, that's what you do.
These wars were known as The Before Wars, and were basically just World War I on steroids. Everyone around the whole world was fighting for the land, and to sum it up, 90% of the history we know from these times changed. Some examples include:
-The Louisiana Purchase happened much later because France needed the land to continue fighting the war. After France had surrendered in 1825, the US finally bought the land in 1826 for about 20 million instead of 15 million, which doesn't seem like that big of a difference, but at this time the US was also paying for supplies in battle, so it made a bigger dent than it did before.
-The War of 1812 was another part of the wars, and therefore wasn't explained as its own separate part of history. It would always be grouped with The Before Wars as just another side war that was going on at the same time between the US and Britain.
-The Missouri Compromise didn't happen because it didn't have to. Slavery was completely abolished in the US 2 years after the wars started instead of in 1865 due to the Southern states in the US wanting to be unified with the Northern states so they could have a better chance of winning the wars. The only way the Northern states agreed to this was if the Southern states agreed to abolish slavery, to which they did. This was known as the North and South Abolishment Agreement (NSAA for short).
If there are any other historical events from this time period you wanna know about, don't be afraid to ask me!
Anyway, huge war happened, so who won this war?
Technically, no one.
The only two countries left in the war were Spain and Germany, and both ended up surrendering at the same time. Spain wanted to surrender and sent a letter to Germany saying so, but because it took so long to deliver the letter, Germany surrendered as well and sent a letter of their own. So now the two countries left were both waving white flags, and everyone kinda realized how stupid the whole thing was. So Pandora was split into 4 sections;
-The Northwest, owned by North America
-The Northeast, owned by Asia and Europe
-The Southeast, owned by Africa and Australia
-And the Southwest, owned by South America
For about 10 years there was finally peace between the countries, as the land was evenly divided and run by said governments. And then after those approximate 10 years, the people living on the lands decided to be independent, and then came The After Wars.
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