The Detective (Johannes Cabal #2)

by Jonathan L. Howard

CENTRAL MATRICULATION BOARD: LEVEL 5 HISTORY PAPER SECTION 4: THE SECOND GALLACIAN CONFLICT Read the following brief description of the Second Gallician Conflict, its results and ramifications, and then answer the questions that follow it. This section is worth 10% of your overall mark. Show all working. Some four hundred years ago in Eastern Europe, Mirkarvia made significant inroads into the territories of two of its neighbours – Senza and Polorus. These conquests were accompanied and succeeded by a series of atrocities, mostly carried out under the pretext of counterinsurgency actions. Over the following decades, these acts settled into a pattern of ethnic discrimination and violent suppression. Finally, Senza – newly resurgent after the discovery of major gold deposits in the southwest and a generally burgeoning economy – militarised its border with Mirkarvia. The Mirkarvian emperor, Dulcis III, listened to the council of his hawkish generals, armchair strategists all, and declared war. This was exactly what the Senzans had anticipated; several secret treaties were triggered that ultimately resulted in Senza and Polorus, with support from their neighbouring states of Ruritania and Graustark, forming an alliance against Mirkarvia. The antiquated Mirkarvian army was quickly routed, and the captured lands recovered. Polorus argued for the occupation of the Mirkarvian capital of Krenz with the implied erasure of Mirkarvia as a state. Senza, however, had no desire to tr...