The World is a very different place in the Ancient and the New. The Story is told from the point of view of someone in the year 700 A.D. Some areas of the globe (notably the Mediterranean lands, the Middle East, and China) are industrialized to the point that there technology is equivalent to that of the OTL 1940s. Other areas of the globe (Mexico, India, and Central Asia) contain nations that are rapidly developing to catch up with the Industrial world. Other kingdoms (in Northern Europa, East Africa, Peru,Tibet, and South-East Asia) have pre-industrial kingdoms in Ancient and Medieval eras. Despite some societies being far more advanced in this ATL than they were in OTL, the rest of the world (Most of the Americas, almost all of Africa, Australia, and Siberia) is in the exact same series