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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. | ||
===Far East Colony=== | ===Far East Colony=== | ||
[[File:Far East Colony Max Extent map.png|250px|right]] | [[File:Far East Colony Max Extent map.png|250px|right]] | ||
{{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 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}} | ||
Following the abandonment of the [[Far East Colony]] in [[1817]] by the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company]] the native Oyashi daimyos and ambitious Matsutori mainlanders formed various factions and started fighting to control the territory. One such faction was the [[Oyashima#Republic_of_Matsumori|Republic of Matsutori]], a short-lived [[Occidental]]-inspired republic beset by domestic political divisions and ethnic tensions, and foreign territorial encroachments and diplomatic pressure. | Following the abandonment of the [[Far East Colony]] in [[1817]] by the [[Burgoignesc Kandahar-Kandara Trading Company|Marialanii Ularien Trading Company]] the native Oyashi daimyos and ambitious Matsutori mainlanders formed various factions and started fighting to control the territory. One such faction was the [[Oyashima#Republic_of_Matsumori|Republic of Matsutori]], a short-lived [[Occidental]]-inspired republic beset by domestic political divisions and ethnic tensions, and foreign territorial encroachments and diplomatic pressure. | ||
During the 1850s, under the | During the 1850s, under the command the Zurg Tezomoc, [[Varshan]] initiated a multiyear-long naval expedition to the [[Shauku Archipelago]], thoroughly defeating the [[Oyashima#Republic_of_Matsumori|Matsutorine]] forces in the region and rendering [[Oyashima#Republic_of_Matsumori|Matsutorine]] control over the islands unfeasible. With the conquest of the [[Shauku Archipelago|archipelago]], Varshan had a foothold in the Far East of [[Audonia]] and would occupy the islands for the next 170 years. Under the direction of Tezomoc and successive Zurgs of pious disposition, the archipelago was intended to become a bastion from where to spread [[Arzalism]] and its sacrificial practices westwards. [[Varshan]] shipped thousands of its own people from the mainland to numerically overwhelm the local peoples and secure the islands. In addition to the harsh Arzalist practices of human sacrifice, the local population soon saw themselves relegated to the lowest rungs of Varshani society, seen as infidels kept around only to do manual labor. The governors of the new Shauku altepetl set to whipping the population into shape building new ship construction facilities that were meant to churn out an armada with which to assail the daimyos of [[Oyashima]]. | ||
The late 1800's saw a marked increase in naval confrontations and low level conflict between Varshan Shauku and the statelets of Oyashima, this conflict is known as the [[War of the Tides]]. What [[Varshan]]'s sailors lacked in skill made up in sheer numbers and their fleets were able to overwhelm their enemies at several critical junctions of the war. The war ended in a stalemate after Varshan's main fleet was engulfed in a sea storm off the northern coast of Oyashima and destroyed, of note being this was the furthest west that Varshan's ships had ever sailed. The ruinous expense of naval buildup forced later Zurgs to step back from Tezomoc's policy of bold adventurism in the western seas, preferring instead to focus on the near abroad of continental [[Crona]]. During this period the Zurgs commissioned the construction of several magnificent temple-cities on Shauku, both as a testament to the superiority of Varshan's civilization and to house the Varshani upper class that was transported to rule the islands. These examples of monumental construction are still appreciated in the modern day as tourist hot spots and archeological troves of knowledge. | |||
===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. | |||
While [[Varshan]] mostly forgo its naval power projection on this area, it nevertheless garrisoned Shauku with sufficient forces to subjugate the islanders should they think of revolt or civil disobedience. While the garrison mostly kept to itself, several scandalous cases of rapes of local women, looting of homes and attempts to impose [[Arzalism]] on isolated villages by force created a gap of trust between the people and the soldiers ostensibly there for their 'protection'. This distrust and even outright hatred would prove a critical weakness of the Varshan defense years later during the Deluge. Locals collaborated extensively with the [[Daxia]]ns and [[Alstin]]ians invading the islands, providing critical intelligence that greatly aided in their victory/ | |||
====Daxo-Alstinian invasion of the Shauku Archipelago==== | ====Daxo-Alstinian invasion of the Shauku Archipelago==== | ||
{{Further|Final War of the Deluge}} | {{Further|Final War of the Deluge}} | ||