
If that sounded a bit too much like your old history teacher rabbitting on, and you began to fall asleep in the middle of the first sentence, then sorry, but Europa Universalis isn't for you. By 1492, the year in which Europa Universalis begins, the aristocratic gene pool had already become worryingly deficient from too many marriages to cousins and half-sisters, and Columbus was about to prove once and for all that you couldn't fall off the edge of the world, even if you wanted to.


From the mid-12th century for a period of about 300 years, the minor kingdoms and principalities of Europe began, through a series of border-defining wars and inter-marriages, to coalesce into many of the modern European nations we know today.
