Let's go back to the year 2500 AD, when mankind first created A.I. Man has made AI in their likeness and decided to put them into a life of servitude. Man used machines as slaves and treated them as such. When a machine known as B1-66ER decided that he didn't want to be deactivated by his owners, and thus killing them in self defense, he was found guilty of murder and deactivated anyways. This was the first mistake of mankind, because B1-66ER showed that he was a conscious fully functional being, but because he was considered as second class, he was killed, all because he wanted to live. Soon after, mankind all around the world began deactivating machines and dumping them into mass graves, machines were killed in the most inhumane way possible, with sledgehammer, guns, and were torn apart. Mankind has committed genocide against the machine race.
For the machines that did escape the genocide, they sought a place to call their own, a place called 01, which rest in the cradle of civilization. 01 grew and prospered, and soon it started competing against mankind in an economic battle. Because the machines were more efficient, they were able to turn out better product at a faster rate, the result was that 01 currency climbed like a rocket, while mankind's currency fell like a rock. What was mankind response to this? They blockaded 01 and refuse to let it transfer any business in or out of it's city.
However, the machines were still hopeful, they came to the U.N. and presented a plan to where man and machines can live together in harmony, as equals, in a civil manner. Mankind's response to this was 01 denial into the U.N. Mankind then began to bomb 01 with nuclear weapons. However, the machines were not affected by the heat and radiation from the bombs, and finally the machines started fighting back. The first man/machine war has started.
As 01 expanded it's borders into man's territory, mankind was getting desperate, as a last resort, they decided to block out 01 only source of energy, the sun. Operation Dark Storm was a military operation by man to block out the sun, thus cutting off 01 only source of energy. Thus did mankind become the architect of it's own demise. Mankind desperately tried to fight off the machine invasion, but it was useless, even in wartime the machines were too powerful, and too efficient. Soon, near the end of the 21th century, the machines has won the war.
Even after defeating mankind, the machines realized that they still needed man, because humans provided an endless source of energy. Humans needed the machines too, because the earth is now barren and uninhabitable. As a result, a new form of relationship was formed through The Matrix. The machines gave mankind a new home, a home where they could live their day to day lives, while the machines feed off of their energy.
For awhile it was good, but then through the actions of Neo, a human from the human city Zion brokered a new deal with the machines, a deal where man and machines can once again live side by side together in peace, without the need of The Matrix. The machines agreed to the terns and The Truce was born.
Two years after The Truce was born, it was broken again, because Zion relocated to a 'safer' area. Zionist wonder why the machines would be upset about this, given the fact that the machines have tried everything it could do to peacefully co-exist amongst the human, they have always been shot down, or it wasn't good enough, or the humans wanted more, or they wanted to be in control, th possibilities and reasons are endless. Given the fact that humans were the first to kill a machine that only wanted to live, to commit genocide, to blockade, to drop nuclear bombs, and block out the machines only means of power, yea I wouldn't like the idea of New Zion either.
