The world is now, figuratively speaking, shrinking rapidly. The Romans have just encountered the Mayan Conglomerate in its home territory and the Mongols were gradually connecting all of Asia together in one massive empire. Africa was being engulfed completely in the slave trade and slowly but surely were falling under Roman dominance. Even the natives of Columbia, once merely an amalgam of unrelated tribes is now a unified federation of Chiefdoms resisting the Mayan war machine.