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"Let he who seeks the knowledge of your placement realize that within your grasp lies such placement. You will not find a physical placement here within these words, for your eyes and experience as a ninja is good enough to tell you all you need to know if a map will not suffice. The map before you is not physical but temporal; it will not show you how to arrive anywhere but the Zen of knowing where you are now and where you shall be. It is your gate into your past, your present, and your future; for you cannot understand your present without understanding your past, and you cannot understand your future without understanding both past and present."

~ Sarutobi Sasuke

The Sandaime of Konohagakure

There once was a time, long before our own, that the letters we now present to you for your understanding of the world were predated by several other languages which now can no longer be found in the world as it exists today. There were once empires which spread across the globe of which the Ichibi or even the Kyuubi could conquer. Empires which spread out, not across entire valleys or coastlines, but entire continents across the world. Detailed before you now is a comprehensive alignment of the years in which these events occurred in comparison to a single time, the death of the Sage, as opposed to the multitude of comparisons previously used by our histories. As such, all dates will signified by A.S. (After the death of the Sage) and B.S. (Before the death of the Sage).

3427 B.S.- A small city-state is founded which shall rule over much of the world as it evolves from a kingdom (a land ruled by a single noble family where several may take its' place based upon relation), a republic (a land ruled by elected patriarchs much like the Village Council), and eventually became known as the Roman Empire.

2674 B.S.- A man of the gods, Christ, is born unto the world to save man from himself. He is possibly a past life of the Sage.

2198 B.S.- The fall of a great capital, Ravenna of the western lands of the Roman Empire. This empire ruled most of the known world only a couple of centuries before and the eastern lands amazingly enough repelled much of the invasions its' western half suffered.

1221 B.S.- The fall of an even greater capital, Constantinople of the eastern lands of the Roman Empire ends the "de jure" (an ancient wording of the same empire meaning 'official rule' in this context) rule of the Romans in the ancient world. Many successors continued to claim a heritage to the extent of the Roman Empire, however: The Rus laid claim to such lineage until 757 B.S. with the death of their royal family, while the Germanics, a descendant people who destroyed the western half of the Roman Empire, laid claim to such a lineage until their Kaiser (an alternative spelling to Caesar which pronounced the same way) was forced to abdicate in the following year.

1182 B.S.- The descendants of the Roman Empire discover a land far to the west of their known world. We have undoubtedly not seen this land or its' peoples in millenia. This had been one of the greatest discoveries of our ancient past and it was simultaneously marked by the expulsion of a clan of people from the same land of descendants which discovered this new world.

1177 B.S.- The same land to make the wondrous discovery of the land of the far west expels another clan of people called the Muslims (also spelled as Moslem and many other variations for various centuries) who believed in a different god than they.

729 B.S.- Near what is now the Land of Rain, a divine justice fell from the sky and cursed the people of a city called Hiroshima. This divine wrath is the cause of the eternal rain in this land, for no other explanation has seemed to suffice.

674 B.S.- The whole people of the world came to celebrate the anniversary of a man's birth, though the records are distorted as some say he was born earlier than the two thousand anniversary which occurred in 674 B.S. This man was the model of a previous comprehensive time line labeled B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Anno Domini, a language no longer used but meaning 'in the year of the lord).

591 B.S.- A land of apples is destroyed in a similar manner as to that of the city called Hiroshima. This land is far to the west of our ninja world and has not been seen by our naked eyes in several centuries.

589 B.S.- The world at the time becomes embroiled in a war across the globe. No one is safe from the divine wrath that man unleashes upon himself.

581 B.S.- The creation of a beast so terrible it defied all laws before its' existence: Jyuubi. The Tailed-Beast of legend, which the Sage would quell and defeat, ends man's war upon himself as entire civilizations are destroyed with the swing of the Jyuubi's tails.

409 B.S.- The first monk dens are opened for safe harbouring from the ravaging might of the Jyuubi. These dens would become the orders upon which life would continue for mankind well after their original purpose.

95 B.S.- An order of warriors is created in the attempt to stave off the Jyuubi's attacks on traveling denizens of the world. They are of little aid until the monks teach them an awareness of their inner world.

32 B.S.- The Sage is born.

11 B.S.- The Sage encounters the Jyuubi for the first time at the age of 21. It is a passing encounter and the Sage begins his inevitable journey to defeat the Jyuubi in order to save mankind.

0 B.S.- The final battle between the Sage and Jyuubi causes the death of both. The Jyuubi disappears and the Nine Tailed Demons take its' place in the world as far more docile and weaker demons. The most powerful of these demons, the Kyuubi, sleeps for five centuries awaiting a proper strength to awaken into the world.

29 A.S.- The monk orders along with the samurai orders congregate into the first city of Ten (Heaven). It is called 'a paradise to remember' by its' denizens and many denizens of the world come to live here.

41 A.S.- For the first time in 600 years, mankind cannot agree with itself and so much of the population of Ten leaves to live on a nearby mountain, whose ruins would become the Village Hidden in the Clouds.

174 A.S.- The first cities are in a state of harmony that the Tailed Demons oversee to insure that mankind does not repeat its' previous mistakes. This is known as the Second Age of Mankind.

385 A.S.- The cities of the world adapt a city-state policy, focusing on the Ten for Ten and the Ame for the Ame. Rivalries and jealousies become dangerous.

450 A.S.- The Tailed Demons enter into a rage, destroying the cities of mankind without precedent in their governance of the world of men. This precludes the awakening of the Kyuubi.

502 A.S.- The Kyuubi awakens and briefly fights all other Tailed Demons to assert his dominance as King of the Demons. He then personally attacks the city of Ten, the last stronghold of the Second Age thought and culture.

508 A.S.- The Kyuubi returns to sleep and allows the other eight Tailed Demons to return to governing the world as he would have them do so. Instead, they freely encourage man's new technological interest.

729 A.S.- The Third Age of Mankind begins when the oldest city of the present world, the Village Hidden in the Clouds, is established with three orders of influence, the monks, the samurai, and the emerging ninja clans.

806 A.S.- Several cities spring up in orbit of the Three Orders of Governance established by a single ruling line of nobles, ancient families who could trace their lineage back to the ruling families of the Second Age. Among them, what would become the Village Hidden in the Mist is a small outlying village of little consequence to the empire.

1037 A.S.- A decaying age of corruption causes the Kyuubi to awaken once again and his wrath destroys most, but not all, cities of the Third Age. This is where we get our present technology which we cannot explain anymore. These relics are what feed precious water in the Wind Nation as much as it keeps the mines of the Stone Nation from collapsing, or keeps the food cold in your refrigerator.

1219 A.S.- The Fourth Age, our present age, began with the congregation of central states in what have now become the five daiymo lords and their nations of our world. The oldest family, the ancestors of the Lightening Daiymo, bolstered many of their troops in what would become known as Kumogakure where the ninja uprising would begin just three centuries later.

1345 A.S.- The Tailed Beasts all fall to sleep in hiding places due to the tranquility of the world of men. This allows for the first jinchuruuki to be created by explorers in forbidden arts.

1401 A.S.- Mizugakure is established as an outlying state of power focused on competing with the sea power of Kumogakure. Little conflict is seen from this tension and appears to be more economic at first.

1493 A.S.- Sunagakure is established controlling the small states which would become Konohagakure and Iwagakure. Both of these smaller states proved troublesome to the Land of Wind until their eventual declaration of independence.

1592 A.S.- Iwagakure uses its' distance from Sunagakure to declare independence following a string of such declarations. Konohagakure does not follow up on this process. The news of the fall of Suna's power is a samurai war between Suna and Kumo.

1715 A.S.- Konohagakure is officially declared an independent state within the Land of Fire by the Fire Daiymo with aid from the Senju and Uchiha clans, the two royal families of Konoha.

1724 A.S.- The Shodaime is killed in battle with Uchiha Madara.

1725 A.S.- The Nidaime declares ninja privileges to be incontestable in Konoha.

1738 A.S.- The death of the Nidaime means that the Sandaime is shortly elected as the Hokage and it is his rule which pulls Konoha as the most populous and strong ninja village within the known world.

1781 A.S.- The Yondaime is instated as Hokage to replace the aging Sandaime. He soon becomes pivotal to the Third Ninja World War.

1786 A.S.- The Kyuubi attacks Konohagakure and Uzamaki Naruto was born, consequently they are to become the same being. The Yondaime is killed in the process of the sealing.

1799 A.S.- The Sandaime of Konohagakure dies at the hands of his student, Orochimaru.

1804 A.S.- Konohagakure is burned to the ground at the hands of Uchiha Sasuke.

1806 A.S.- The Fourth Ninja World War begins and concludes with the destruction of Uchiha Madara.

1812 A.S.- The spirits and chakra of the Tailed Demons awakens and destroys much of the Fourth Age of Mankind.

1829 A.S.- As the Kyuubi and as the Undead Sage, Uzamaki Naruto, the world is restored to live in an age of peace so long as the Kyuubi-Naruto remains awake as King of the Demons.

1841 A.S.- The first edition of Uzamaki Chronicles of the World is published for the new world to understand its' place in time.

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AN: May 16th, 2011: There we have it. A nice time line for the story and beyond. This ending was in no way the one I originally envisioned but I actually prefer it, in some ways at least, to the one I had the intention of writing. This way, there will be no sequel! Sorry guys but I'm bad at writing sequels. I haven't even dared look at the Preserving Brilliance series to edit it because of my difficulties with sequels. Please review. The 'END' chapter will be posted in like...two minutes.