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====Prehistory and Antiquity====

The area of modern Huoxia was first inhabited by humans approximately two million years ago, though similarly to modern Daxia and Canpei, a complete archaeological record is difficult to establish due to a long history of settled cultures in the region and overlapping sets of fragmentary remains or later human activity in many cases destroying archaeological sites. The earliest concrete records of history in the area originate from Zuo, a state on the southern coast of the Tanhai peninsula in Daxia which existed between the 11th and 4th Centuries BCE. The Zuo were a people bordering the Xie Dynasty in Daxia and the [[Daxia#Era of Chaos Period (685 BCE-475 CE)|Chaos-era]] state of Jin, and served as a usually amenable trading partner and a barrier to the Yuegi, a confederation of pirates and warlike peoples on the eastern coast of the peninsula and the Metzettan Islands. However, the area would not be dominated by the Zuo, but the Tanhese, a neighboring state which in 331 BC began aggressively expanding into Yuegi and Zuo territory. The Tanhese, through a combination of religious fervor and early biological warfare, decimated and later deported much of the Zuo people inland. Following the formation of the Tanhai Empire (internally referred to as the Empire of All-Under-the-Sun), significant trade and cultural exchange began with the nomadic peoples of central Alshar and the state of Cao in southern Daxia. Huoxia, the Tanhese name for the Tanhai Peninsula, originated during this period, literally translating as 'Great Flame' and more appropriately as the Lands of Noon in reference to Tanhai's location between [[Metzetta]] and [[Audonia#Daria|Daria]]. Tanhese armies, though never approaching the numbers seen in the South during the Daxian Chaos Period, attacked Upper Jin repeatedly and with fewer than fifty years of peace total between 229 BC to 552 AD. After Jin was reduced to a Caoan satellite, Tanhai turned to campaigns to fully unify the northern end of the peninsula and convert the states and tribes of the neighboring regions to the Tanhese Solar Faith, following which a period of internal heresy wars and intermittent conflicts with the reestablished State of Zuolihi in the west commenced. Notably, in the 7th Century AD, the [[Degei Confederation|Ayanga Khanate]] invaded contemporary Zuolihi and former Zuo, capturing the southwestern end of the Peninsula before being reduced to a client of the Shang Dynasty. Tanhai eventually recaptured the region in the 1180s from the Zhong Dynasty, which was preoccupied by warring with the [[United Cities]], and enslaved the Degei tribes descended from the Ayanga.[[File:DiezAlbumsArmedRiders II.jpg|left|thumb|Painting depicting the expulsion of the Hurch from the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate|Myanga Khanate]]]]

==== Huric Conquest ====

The Huoxian people originated from nomadic peoples living in the central [[Audonia#Dolong|Dolong]] region of Audonia collectively known as the Hurch. These peoples were related to other nomadic groups from western Dolong, as well as the Paozi and later Suizung peoples of Canpei. Huric historical significance began with the creation of the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate]] in 1206, of which the Hurch were a tributary people, providing soldiery for the Khan's early conquests. This state of affairs ended with the conversion of Myanga XII to Islam in 1318 and pressure being placed upon the Khanates tributaries to convert or pay {{Wp|Jizya|Jizyah}}, which the Hurch refused for reasons which are not recorded in detail but likely primarily revolved around Islam's banning of the practice of cremation. Following this refusal, Khanate troops attacked and drove the Hurch across the Hanbu River into northern Zuolihi.

==== Kingdom of Huoxia ====

The largest ethnic groups in the country, the Menzhou and Tiauska, both claim descent from the Hurch tribes which invaded the Tanhai region in the 14th Century; the Menzhou are interrelated with the Tanhese, whereas the Tiauska are primarily descended from [[Daxian people|Daxian]] colonists and captives. Smaller groups of Tanhese, Hurch, Metzettan, and Daxian peoples exist within Huoxia, but primarily live in the northern and western fringes of the country, with the Hurch being the majority population surrounding the western border. Though Huric is the national language and the largest ethnic groups in the country are related to the Hurch, Huoxia's government has for decades pursued a policy of discrimination and occasional outright violence against the Hurch and Tanhese. This policy began in 1982 after an attempted coup against the government failed, and military action against the Hurch was escalated following the 2004-2006 Jangmu War. Discrimination against Hurch and Tanhese people includes a lack of political representation, a ban on speaking Tanhese in government buildings, laws prohibiting Hurch from owning businesses unless they marry a Tiauska or Menzhou spouse, stop-and-question loyalty exams, and unnecessary and excessive use of eminent domain laws without compensation against targeted communities.[[File:Tumen, Yanbian, Jilin, China - panoramio (1).jpg|left|thumb|Intensive urbanization since the 1990s has lead to a concentration of the population in efforts to improve utilities access.]]

The politics of Huoxia are largely dominated by the Six Families (Great Families, or Hawa), an informal alliance of the largest Menzhou and Tiauska tribal cliques predominant in business and the bureaucratic systems of the country. One of these Families, the Tsaka, is effectively a dynastic family leading the 'Reds' Party, while the opposing 'Yellows' are composed of a collection of oligarchs who regardless typically work with the Reds due to business and social intermixing.

 

Huoxia's government was a well-coordinated and functioning republic from its breaking with Daxia in 1875 until the 1950s, after which the government saw a rapid increase in corruption and a series of amendments to its constitution which concentrated power heavily into the Head of State. While technically still a republic, it is highly thalassocratic and dynastic in nature, with the last two presidents having been father and son. Family politics in the country are the primary cause of the country's long living memory of civil conflicts, including the 1978-92 Yuhuru Rebellion, 1998-99 Huoxian Civil War, and 2004-2006 Jangmu Rebellion. Currently, the major government faction consists of the Tsaka, Doron, and Mahalr Hawas, while the Ciangiya Hawa leads the opposition party along with the Jangmu and Tankai Hawas. Of these, the Jangmu and Tankai are the weakest, with the Jangmu being harshly penalized and experiencing inner power struggles following the 2004-2006 war, and the Tankai supplanting the once-powerful Basun Hawa after 1999.