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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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===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. | ||