Authors note...
Hello everyone;
This was more of an exercise in alternative writing for me. I wanted to create a different earth with a new history. All while getting in a good bit of sex.
So, this is my attempt at doing that and I hope you will forgive my bad spelling and grammar enough to enjoy it. I'll add that this is not meant to fully reflect our own history.
Have fun reading and as always... please comment.
Thanks.
Felicity.
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This is an alternate History of an Earth...
My name is Felicia, I'm a house maid to the Dubikini family.
Like many white girls I had had a basic education and then found employment within a black household.
My duties were fairly simple because it's well known that most of us whites are not particularly intelligent and can't be trusted with anything more complicated.
Like most white girls, I had been encouraged to marry as soon as I was old enough, so when I was fourteen I had married Eric. He was far older than me at twenty six but he was a kind and loving man who I came to respect and care for a great deal.
My education had ended like all girls did at thirteen, we had been taught to sew, cook and clean.
When I turned eighteen, Eric found us a position among the Dubikini family staff and things were looking good for Eric and I. We had a little money saved away and we started to think about starting a family.
The Dubikini's were a very wealthy couple, well respected throughout London and considered to be one of the most powerful families. Their home was a mansion and it was staffed by several free whites and two slaves.
As Free Whites, my husband and I had our own room with a bathroom and a small kitchen beside a small bedroom which we shared. We considered ourselves very lucky and among other whites we were doing well socially.
Master of the house was Mr Joseph Dubikini, naturally I called him Sir or M'Lord. Just as I called his wife Mistress or M'lady. The proper forms of address for Black people had been ingrained into me since I was a child.
Again, I was lucky as Mrs Dubikini liked to talk. She also loved history and would chat with me for hours about it and once she leaned I couldn't read. She had taught me and made me read numerous history books so that we could have a proper conversation on the topic.
Despite my races supposed lack of intelligence, I found I was quite adept at understanding the texts she set me and we had some good conversations.
My mind started to open up too and I found myself becoming more and more interested in the history.
This is what I found.
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Africa.
In 4000 B.C.
A young man of fifteen took control of his tribe. His name was Umbeki and by the time he was nineteen he had united sixteen tribes that became the basis of a Nation.
He called it the Zulu Nation and reorganised his warriors into fighting units that utilised a short stabbing spear and shield, fought side by side as soldiers rather than individual warriors and worked as part of a larger army.
By twenty six, Umbeki and the Zulu's had conquered most of Africa and part of what is called the Middle East. Securing trade routes to what would later become China and Persia.
He was the first African Emperor and is hailed as the father of African world domination.
At his death he had one hundred and forty two wives, Thirty two surviving children and a secure empire that was thriving off trade. Africa was divided into states, each state under one of his children's rule while all bowed to the new emperor of Africa.
His children went on to rule the empire under his eldest son. And their descendants still rule much of today's modern world.
3000 B.C.
Emperor Umbeki the forth saw the wisdom of Greek culture and advanced thinking. He created centres of learning and expanded the paved roads his father had started to build between cities all over Africa.
With proper education becoming normal and more regimented. The Zulu nation soon saw itself becoming civilised in all walks of life. The already large cities grew ever larger. Bartering became the second way of trade as a monetary system was introduced and by Umbeki the fourths demise a proper banking system was in place too.
2500 B.C. saw the rise of a rival empire in the east. The Persians brought a new culture into being, new gods and even more highly skilled metal work.
Trade flourished between the two great empires and a third was on the rise too. Rome had entered the Race.
The three empires clashed occasionally, but for the most part were satisfied with what they had.
Rome held most of Europe, Persia held sway over most of the middle East, while Africa and some of the middle east was securely under Zulu rule.
In 1250 B.C. Rome was growing stronger and attacked into Palestine, smashing aside the Zulu's with modern tactics and far superior armour and weapons.
Emperor M'kili, first of his name, managed to halt the Roman advance at the Egyptian border. A stalemate grew and lasted for the next six hundred years. Trade with Persia was mostly cut off.
Around 400 B.C. that all changed when a Kenyan shipwright in Mombasa designed and built a new type of warship. Combining a Roman Galley design with Egyptian triangular sails and a new type of deep keel. He created a deep sea vessel that could tack with the wind, was fast and able to travel vast distances before making port.
The design was a massive success and the Zulu empire entered a new phase. One of dominating sea power.
Rome's main fleets were destroyed within a few months and Africa's new Emperor, Usagi Con Mufasa attacked across the Mediterranean sea with over twenty thousand troops. Taking with him the now legendary Masai legions and the equally ferocious Nigerian Simba Brigade.
Wisely seeing that to attack Rome directly was foolish. He instead took Spain, France and drove deep into Germany.
He stopped at the Rhine and secured his gains. Establishing Zulu rule over a large swathe of Europe which he handed down to his son when he died.
African rule was no harsher than Rome's. in fact many found it better and while the Gaul's were viewed as unintelligent people who lived in huts, they were treated better than under Roman rule. Given rudimentary education and allowed to keep their leaders and traditions, most white Europeans found Africa's rule bearable.
12 A.D...
Rome was over extending itself and was now more under the rule of it's Cesar's than the senate. They pushed deeper into Persian territories and fought long bloody campaigns that lasted years.
129 A.D...
Both Rome and Persia had nearly exhausted themselves. Christianity was on the rise throughout the Roman empire and Emperor Augustus the second converted to the new faith. Partially in an attempt to secure his place and partially because of a fascination with the story of a Carpenter's son who had changed the lives of so many.
268 A.D...
