Strategy General Planning

I was just making a suggestion/idea/brainstorming what could offend them. You don't have to do the spy thing. But yeah, my ideas was that they caught a spy. Or maybe when they caught the spy, the spy panicked and said that Minerva would come destroy them if they don't let him go. So now they feel that they have to declare war on Minerva before they come destroy them. Just an idea.

The Turkmen probably trade with the Sons of Mohammed and Temples directly. The others are too far away. But we'll have to make sure that the leaders of those two factions still enjoy trading with you. They might decide they'd rather fight you in this game, so don't expect them to be allies