The Garden of Eden
Human history begins in Eden with creation, prohibition, transgression and exile.
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Rosmer CreativeExplore IV / The History
From Eden to the First Crusade.
A chronology of the world before Book I begins—from sacred origins and the descent of the Watchers through the empires, churches and crusading politics inherited by its opening.
The Descent
Two hundred Watchers enter human history and become bound to its consequences.
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The antediluvian world is destroyed, but the consequences of the Watchers’ descent are not erased.
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Roman imperial power and Christian faith converge, transforming a persecuted movement into an institution able to define canon and heresy.
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A new imperial capital rises at the meeting point of Europe and Asia, becoming the center of the eastern Roman and Byzantine world.
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The Latin West and Greek East divide, deepening the religious and political fault line between Rome and Constantinople.
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Pope Urban II calls western Christians to the East, giving the First Crusade its defining public declaration.
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Armies and pilgrims begin their journeys east. This is the final historical threshold before Book I begins.
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