Ivan the Terrible

Know as the first Tsar of all Rus, Ivan added the Ta(r)tar khanates of Kazan & Astrakhan to his realm, turning it into an empire. However, the subsequent Livonian War was a disaster, the Ta(r)tar knanate of Crimea nearly succesfully raided his capital. During his reign, the conquest of the Ta(r)tar khanate of Sibir started. The New Chronology tells a similar story:

• The conquest of Kazan = The suppression of the Khazars
• The war in Livonia = The reformation in Europe
• The conquest of Sibir = The suppression of the Mexicans

Khan Kuchum ruled east of the Ural Mountains. Sounds can have different consonants, for example 'CH' = 'X' & 'K' = 'C': Reversing the consonants & switching the vowels might lead to 'Mexic(o)', whose reverse is '(O)cixem', or Shechem: Can we also associate it with 'Meshech', its near reverse, together with 'Tubal', refering to Tobolsk, the lands where Magog ruled, whereas 'Rosh' refers to Russia?

Грозный might be a duplicate of Великий, and in reality be an assemblance of four real characters, according to the New Chronology:

• Ivan Vasilyevich
• Dmitry Ivanovich
• Ivan Ivanovich
• Simeon Bekbulatovich

Is it a Romanov conspiracy to claim the Russian throne, after the Time of Troubles? It might fit in the framework of Wallerstein to alter real history for giving birth to nationalistic ideologies to supply the existence of a world-economy: Is it a coincidence that the VOC, the very first MNC, had its origin aroud that time?

The Oprichnina was a first answer to an attempt to gain power by the Romanovs, which they might have covered up later. What else happened to our real history?

Merlin the Magician

A shapeshifting druid functioning as the tutor of the legendary king Arthur: Emrys Wledig & Myrddin Wyllt are the historical sources for the famous wizard. Latinised as Ambrosius Aurelianus, the first source appeared in different historical sources:

• According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, together with his brother Uther, he returned from Little Britain to Great Britain: They landed on the same spot as Brutus of Troy, to defeat the Saxons, restoring British rule ...
• According to Nennius of Wales, he also defeated them. Before that happened, the druid existed as Myrddin Emrys, who became an advisor of Vortigern: The "Story of Llud & Llefelys" completes this "Tale of two Dragons" ...
• According to Gildas the Wise, he was the "Last of the Romans": After the devastating passage of Hengist, this surviving warlord organised an army and took revenge. Bede the Venerable tells a similar story ...

Is any of these stories fully correct?

It seems Emrys Wledig sent his troops to Ireland for cutting stones to be used in the construction of a memorial near the place of slaughter of their nobles. However, his soldiers weren't able to dismantle the stones, so he asked Myrddin Emrys for help: Applying his magic, in one night he managed to bring them from Mount Killaraus to Salisbury Plain, although archeological research seems to pone the stones stood, at least for a while, at Preseli Hills. Even that transfer of those stones is quite challenging: Did the druid have access to technology that might be lost today?

He also led the construction of Stonehenge: Giants helped him, though Brutus of Troy already wiped them out. Did Gogmagog & his brethren resurrect, or was Brutus a duplicate of Ambrosius that killed those giants afterwards, or did some stories mix up?

Great Wall

As protection against raging nomads from the Eurasian Steppes, Chinese Emperors deployed labour forces to build qualitative fortifications. Alas, it didn't stop some invading hordes conquering the country: Qin, the first dynasty of the united empire, initiated the project, while Qing, the last dynasty in that empire, crossed it to take power overthere. Manchuria is a region in Chinese Tartary, whereof cartographer John Cary drew the borders:

• The border with China follows the path of the Ming Wall
• The border with Russia is according the Treaty of Nerchinsk

Before Pugachev's Rebellion it seemed to belong to Great Tartary, together with Siberia & Turkestan, but Crimea was known as the distinguished Little Tartary: Were they even earlier united as one Tartary? On its borders with Persia, near the Caspian Sea, we also find walls:

• Near Gorgan on its eastern shore
• Near Derbent on its western shore

Dhu Al-Qarnayn or Alexander the Great might have built them to isolate Gog of Magog: In the Tartarus, where Giants are buried? In England, Gogmagog was killed by a companion of Brutus of Troy, as Goliath fell ...

Throughout Europe, the supposed descendants of Aeneas of Troy constructed the Roman Limes to keep nomadic tribes outside the empire, ranging from the Black Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, with the following extremities:

• Trajan's Wall to keep the Scythians out
• Hadrian's Wall to keep the Scots out

Did all those fortifications act as fences between a Heartland of a world-empire & the first parts of a separating Rimland?