Burgoignesc colonial empire

Throughout the and the  the coastal Duchies of Marialanus, Martilles, and Burgundie, of the Kingdom of Dericania, developed colonial empires of various sizes through trading companies. This was precipitated by the Expulsion of the Protestants from southern Levantia following their loss in the Great Confessional War. Many of those protestants were processed off-continent through Burgundie who turned them into a massive global exploration and force, known as Pharisedoms.

There were also some Catholic (e.g. Veraise and Islevenin) but it was not as common.

Historiography
The genesis of Burgoignesc colonial culture was to seek out the kingdoms of the and to unite "all the lands whose kings adored Christ". As such, at least at its genisis, what has been retrospectively termed a , was the search for co-equal kingdoms with which to join forces in service of Christ. The thesis that Balthazar, Melchior, and Gaspar came from Christian kingdoms was flawed from the start and meant that the Papally ordained/funded explorations of the coastal Derians never found what they were looking for. It did however, lead to a self-righteous bent of Imperialism and settler colonization that spanned Audonia and Alshar in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. Exploration and colonization in northern Audonia was justified under the banner of searching for the kingdom of, the same for southern Audonia in search of , and same again in Alshar in search of the kingdom of. This earning for oriental connection remains to this day but has been informed by many other factors beyond this initial concept.

This is also retrospectively used to describe Burgundie's general lack of interest in the colonization of Crona.

Early/Establishment Period Trends

 * 1598-1635
 * Emporia, minor ports and forts
 * Kiravia has made first contact in lots of places so Burg is vying for local access, gets ahead because they re-empower local magistrates from the Oduniyyad Caliphate with whom they had trading contacts before the Caliphate collapsed.
 * Burgs more open and accepting of foreign cultures and hierarchies as a way to curry favor

Middle/Dominance Period Trends

 * 1635-1785
 * As the generation of ex-Oduniyyad Caliphate magistrates age out/die Burgs take more direct control of politics, land management, and resource extraction
 * ships, /s
 * Slavery becomes the primary financial function of the colonies
 * Massive influx of Levantine Protestants sees rabid expansion of the initial coastal colonies to accommodate promises of land grants