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Conditions
- It is the year 1650 or later
- State religion is pagan
- Capital is in the region North America
Description
Close contact with Dutch colonists and the Hessian mercenaries employed during the American War of Independence made many Indians convert to Calvinism, becoming what was known as 'praying Indians.' Embracing the Christian faith paved the way towards formal alliances with the European colonial powers and gave the Indian nations access to larger numbers of gunpowder weapons, European medicine and more accurate maps of North America.Actions
A. Keep the faith of our ancestors
- Stability +1
B. Convert to Calvinism
- Change religion to reformed
- Change technology group to African
- The capital province converts to the state religion
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Conditions
- It is the year 1700 or later
- State religion is pagan
- Capital is in the region South Africa
Description
With the founding of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk in Cape Town in 1652, Calvinism was introduced to South Africa. The first native converts were slaves held by colonists in the Dutch East India Company's Cape Colony. They were later joined by the Xhosa and Zulu in the early 19th century.Actions
A. Keep the faith of our ancestors
- Stability +1
B. Convert to Calvinism
- Change religion to reformed
- Change technology group to African
- The capital province converts to the state religion
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Conditions
- It is the year 1600 or later
- State religion is pagan
- Capital is in the region North America
Description
Close contact with French colonists and Jesuit missionaries made many Indians convert to Catholicism, becoming what was known as 'praying Indians.' Embracing the Christian faith paved the way towards formal alliances with the European colonial powers and gave the Indian nations access to larger numbers of gunpowder weapons, European medicine and more accurate maps of North America.Actions
A. Keep the faith of our ancestors
- Stability +1
B. Convert to Catholicism
- Change religion to catholic
- Change technology group to African
- The capital province converts to the state religion
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Conditions
- It is the year 1600 or later
- State religion is pagan
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At least one of the following must occur:
- Capital is in the region South America
- Capital is in the region Central America
- Capital is in the region Caribbean
Description
Catholicism was brought to the Americas at the end of a sword: Spanish soldiers and missionaries forcibly converted hundreds of thousands of Aztecs and Inca throughout the 16th century (though the majority died of the numerous European diseases the Spanish brought with them), whilst the Portuguese massacred many of the Tapuia and Tupí people of Brazil who refused to recant their pagan beliefs.Actions
A. Keep the faith of our ancestors
- Stability +1
B. Convert to Catholicism
- Change religion to catholic
- Change technology group to African
- The capital province converts to the state religion
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Conditions
- It is the year 1500 or later
- State religion is pagan
- Capital is in the region West Africa
Description
Following increased contact with traders and explorers from Europe, Portugal in particular, several West African kingdoms converted to Catholicism from the 15th century onwards. The Kongolese king Mvemba a Nzinga (later baptised Afonso I) was a devout Catholic who developed close ties with the Portuguese and offered them land in which to construct trading posts and docks. Other native rulers converted, though many in name only or to heretical forms of the new religion based around their old pagan rituals.Actions
A. Keep the faith of our ancestors
- Stability +1
B. Convert to Catholicism
- Change religion to catholic
- Change technology group to African
- The capital province converts to the state religion
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Conditions
- It is the year 1400 or later
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None of the following must occur:
- State religion is miaphysite
- Capital is in the region East Africa
Description
The traditional faith of East Africa was Miaphysitism, or Oriental Orthodoxy, a theological position emphasising Christ as a single being as opposed to the notion that He maintained two natures, one divine and one human, after His incarnation. Though Miaphysites were traditionally limited to Armenia, Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia, all African Christians were in theory under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Alexandria, also known as the Coptic Pope and 'Patriarch of all Africa.' Thus, though Sunni Islam remained the dominant religion south of the Red Sea, influential Christian minorities existed in all East African sultanates and therefore the idea of conversion - particularly in the advent of an expansionist Ethiopia - remained a valid possibility.Actions
A. Keep the faith of our ancestors
- Stability +1
B. Convert to Miaphysitism
- Change religion to miaphysite
- Change technology group to African
- The capital province converts to the state religion
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Conditions
- It is the year 1500 or later
- State religion is pagan
- Capital is on continent Africa
Description
Pagan and Christian states in Sub-Saharan Africa had regular contact with Islam through trade, war and diplomatic missions - often involving large numbers of soldiers, merchants and scholars - whilst the many Arab and Berber traders who settled in African towns and cities brought their faith with them. Many non-Muslim rulers embraced Islam for entirely political reasons: Imams were well-educated and often wealthy, providing local rulers with important religious works, up-to-date maps and access to useful technology like gunpowder and ship-building techniques. Of course, many African rulers converted simply to foster better relations with nearby Muslim states, almost always larger and more powerful than they were.Actions
A. Reject the teachings of Islam
- Stability +1
B. Embrace the Sunni faith
- Change religion to sunni
- Change technology group to African
- The capital province converts to the state religion
C. Embrace the Shi'a faith
- Change religion to shia
- Change technology group to African
- The capital province converts to the state religion
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Conditions
- It is the year 1500 or later
- State religion is miaphysite
- Capital is in the area Sudan
Description
By the turn of the 16th century the part of Nubia formerly controlled by Makuria was home to a number of small states and subject to frequent incursions by desert nomads. The area was reunified under Abdallah Jamma, known as 'the Gatherer,' who came from the Nile valley, an area that had grown powerful and prosperous from the Red Sea trade and favourable relations with the Mamluk rulers of Egypt. Abdallah's empire was short-lived, however, as in the early 16th century the Funj people under Amara Dunqas arrived from the south - having been driven north by the Shilluk people of the Sudan - after which the Funj defeated Abdallah and set up their own kingdom based at Sennar. Though the Funj had originally practiced a religious mix of Animism and Miaphysitism, Islam also had an important influence and in 1523 the Sennar monarchy officially converted to Islam, though many elements of the previous faith would continue.Actions
A. Embrace the Sunni faith
- Change religion to sunni
- Change technology group to African
- arab will become an accepted culture
- The capital province converts to the state religion
B. Embrace the Shi'a faith
- Change religion to shia
- Change technology group to African
- arab will become an accepted culture
- The capital province converts to the state religion
C. Reject the teachings of Islam
- Stability -3
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Conditions
- It is the year 1500 or later
- State religion is hindu
- Capital is on continent Asia
Description
Islam was brought to Indonesia by traders from Gujarat in the 11th century, and by the end of the 16th century had surpassed Hinduism and Buddhism as the dominant religion of the peoples of Java and Sumatra. Bali retained a Hindu-practising majority, while the eastern islands remained largely Animist until the 17th and 18th centuries when Dutch Calvinism would finally take root.Actions
A. Reject the teachings of Islam
- Stability +1
B. Embrace the Sunni faith
- Change religion to eastern_sunni
- The capital province converts to the state religion
C. Embrace the Shi'a faith
- Change religion to eastern_shia
- The capital province converts to the state religion
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Conditions
- It is the year 1650 or later
- State religion is pagan
- Capital is in the region North America
Description
Close contact with English, Scottish, German and (to a lesser extent) Scandinavian colonists made many Indians convert to Protestantism, becoming what was known as 'praying Indians.' Embracing the Christian faith paved the way towards formal alliances with the European colonial powers and gave the Indian nations access to larger numbers of gunpowder weapons, European medicine and more accurate maps of North America.Actions
A. Keep the faith of our ancestors
- Stability +1
B. Convert to Protestantism
- Change religion to protestant
- Change technology group to African
- The capital province converts to the state religion
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Conditions
- It is the year 1600 or later
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None of the following must occur:
- State religion is pagan
- mandé is a state culture
Description
Following the fall of the Mali Empire at the turn of the 17th century, several of the warring factions - principally the Bamana warlords of Jenné and the city states of Segu and Niani - reverted to the Mandé people's old pagan traditions, largely as part of a reactionary rejection of Islam due to it being the religion of the ruling mansas (emperors) of Mali and therefore associated with their infamous lavish wealth and decadence.Actions
A. Return to the faith of our ancestors
- Change religion to pagan
B. Reject the old gods
- Stability +1