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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Prehistory=== | ===Prehistory=== | ||
[[File:Dugout_Canoe_Excavated_at_Kuahuqiao_Site_of_Hangzhou_02_2014-07.JPG|thumb|8000 yr old dug out canoe]] | |||
File:Dugout_Canoe_Excavated_at_Kuahuqiao_Site_of_Hangzhou_02_2014-07.JPG|8000 yr old dug out canoe | |||
Archeological evidence suggests that the [[Shauku Archipelago]] was settled around 800,000 years ago by hunter-gatherer peoples who made use of stone and clamshell tools. These people had a mostly plant-based diet with monkey and fish flesh entering their repertoire around 50,000 years ago. Agriculture is first recorded around 15,000 years ago, but it was light due to the thick jungle vegetation. Domesticated dogs and pigs were also evidenced in this period as well. In the 4th century BCE, with the introduction of rudimentary sail technology, to the paddled dugout canoes used by the islanders, the outer islands of the [[Shauku archipelago]] became settled. There was light Oyashimane settlement since roughly 200 BC. | Archeological evidence suggests that the [[Shauku Archipelago]] was settled around 800,000 years ago by hunter-gatherer peoples who made use of stone and clamshell tools. These people had a mostly plant-based diet with monkey and fish flesh entering their repertoire around 50,000 years ago. Agriculture is first recorded around 15,000 years ago, but it was light due to the thick jungle vegetation. Domesticated dogs and pigs were also evidenced in this period as well. In the 4th century BCE, with the introduction of rudimentary sail technology, to the paddled dugout canoes used by the islanders, the outer islands of the [[Shauku archipelago]] became settled. There was light Oyashimane settlement since roughly 200 BC. | ||
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{{Further|Far East Colony}} | {{Further|Far East Colony}} | ||
The Far East Colony was established by the [[Ularien Trading Company]] in 1638 to put pressure on the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate]]. The original colonial effort was a series of military outposts in the lands of the various factions along the border of the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate]] from where they made incursions. The Iles Evangeline were part of the colony's 'Outer colonies', the furthest populated islands from the mainland. They were sparsely populated for most of the duration of the Far East Colony, Burgoignesc settlers mainly dedicating to fishing, small scale farming or trading with the natives goods brought from elsewhere | The Far East Colony was established by the [[Ularien Trading Company]] in 1638 to put pressure on the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate]]. The original colonial effort was a series of military outposts in the lands of the various factions along the border of the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate]] from where they made incursions. The Iles Evangeline were part of the colony's 'Outer colonies', the furthest populated islands from the mainland. They were sparsely populated for most of the duration of the Far East Colony, Burgoignesc settlers mainly dedicating to fishing, small scale farming or trading with the natives goods brought from elsewhere in the metropole. Rule of minor Oyashimane samurai was progressively replaced by Burgoignesc minor barons setting up shop on advantageous geographic features such as hills or the mouths of rivers. The displaced samurai often turned to brigandage as a way to survive and to exact vengeance on the outsiders for displacing them, forcing the Burgoignesc to repel them and protect the natives with which they traded. In this manner the colonists slowly gained in acceptance and cemented their own positions of authority in the Outer colonies. | ||
In 1817, facing financial difficulties at home and a series of peasant rebellions that decimated the profitability of the spice trade in the colonies, the Duchy of Marialanus sold the Far East Colony back to [[Oyashima]]. Most of the local Burgoignesc barons chose to cut their losses and relocate to other colonies or back to the metropole. There was some residual Burgoignesc influence left in the form of children of mixed marriages, several Burgoignesc placenames, foods and sailing techniques; all of which would be found to have survived albeit slightly changed when the islands where handed by [[Daxia]] back to [[Burgundie]] several centuries later. | |||
===Varshan conquest and rule=== | ===Varshan conquest and rule=== | ||
{{Further|Shauku Archipelago#Varshan conquest of the Shauku Archipelago}} | {{Further|Shauku Archipelago#Varshan conquest of the Shauku Archipelago}} | ||
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===Contemporary period=== | ===Contemporary period=== | ||
====Contemporary Varshani rule==== | ====Contemporary Varshani rule==== | ||
[[Varshan]]'s continued misrule of the Shauku altepetl continued into the 19th century. The volte-face away from seaward expansion towards [[Audonia]] left the islands as a dependency of lessening importance as time went by. The Zurgs, always fond of moving the masses of their people around to suit their immediate needs, relocated a great part of the Varshani population back to eastern Varshan to populate the slopes of the Mountains of Terror. The withdrawal of the typically haughty and arrogant Varshanis was met with joy by the locals. Uncharacteristically, the governors of Shauku allowed the locals to significantly better their diminished station by taking on the jobs the Varshani used to do on the archipelago and even to serve in the much reduced administration. This period is seen as the one relative bright spot of the entire era of Varshan rule, where the daily oppression experienced by the people was lessened. Real development of road infrastructure and productive enterprises were undertaken under the supervision of native administrators; wheat and soybean plantations especially were created to provide for the mass employment of the island's rural population and to produce a necessity in high demand in the mainland. | [[Varshan]]'s continued misrule of the Shauku altepetl continued into the 19th century. The volte-face away from seaward expansion towards [[Audonia]] left the islands as a dependency of lessening importance as time went by. The Zurgs, always fond of moving the masses of their people around to suit their immediate needs, relocated a great part of the Varshani population back to eastern Varshan to populate the slopes of the Mountains of Terror. The withdrawal of the typically haughty and arrogant Varshanis was met with joy by the locals. Uncharacteristically, the governors of Shauku allowed the locals to significantly better their diminished station by taking on the jobs the Varshani used to do on the archipelago and even to serve in the much reduced administration. This period is seen as the one relative bright spot of the entire era of Varshan rule, where the daily oppression experienced by the people was lessened. Real development of road infrastructure and productive enterprises were undertaken under the supervision of native administrators; wheat and soybean plantations especially were created to provide for the mass employment of the island's rural population and to produce a necessity in high demand in the mainland. | ||