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===Warring periods and Caphiric domination===

~~''Did your country ever have~~ a period of ~~significant decline~~ or ~~internal struggle?''~~

The emergence of three major cultures in Vallos was largely met with a long period of skirmishes between multiple polities throughout the first half of the first millennium. The Polynesians largely stayed in the southern areas of mainland Vallos while the Taineans and the Latins were much more likely to fight against each other as various disputes would arise. This was especially noticeable in Latinic polities where Tainean labourers would often dispute various agreements made with their overlords, and in the southernmost parts of the subcontinent as Tainean and Latinic polities were often at odds with the seemingly rapidly-expanding Polynesian entities. As skirmishes would flare up, so too did overtures in foreign outreach as many Vallosi polities sought alliances with powerful nations on mainland Sarpedon. The most notable being the [[Caphiria#First Imperium|First Caphiric Imperium]] when, starting in 600, diplomats were sent to the various entities throughout Vallos in hopes of securing the loyalty of any polity through promises of alliances in exchange for tributes to the Imperator. This series of affairs would continue for about a century until the Imperium, already making lots of money through these tributes, began to launch a series of interventions to establish an imperial hegemony over Vallos that was to be carved into eleven vassal states.

This group of eleven Vallosi vassal states is known as the Undecimvirate and was largely group based on geography instead of cultures. Due to the distance between the Undecimvirate and Caphiria, however, the vassal states were mort akin to highly autonomous kingdoms for the most part so long as they kept paying their tribute to the Imperator. Punishment for defaulting on a tribute was severe as the Imperium would send an invasion force to depose the offending vassal monarch and replace him with a hopefully more compliant king. As none of the eleven vassal states wanted to be on the receiving end of an imperial invasion, all them at one point or another during the hegemonic period would conduct raids against their neighbours in hopes of extracting just enough for their tribute to Caphiria. This practice would greatly expand once tributes became a flat rate. Of course, this would effectively guarantee that at least one vassal state was going to be invaded by the Imperium. Despite the raids, the four centuries of Caphiric hegemony was largely noted for its relative stability compared to the preceding and succeeding warring states periods, with Christianity being introduced into Vallos for the first time, with almost all of the Undecimvirate, save for the Polynesian vassal states, adopting Christianity as the state religion.

The Undecimvirate would only collapse once the [[Caphiria#Second Imperium|Second Imperium]] collapsed and there was no longer a major power to keep Vallos in line. The immediate effects began with the collapse of many of the former vassal kingdoms into smaller local polities under regional factions with nearly half of the eleven vassal dynasties extinguishing violently while the remaining dynasties would find themselves ruling over far smaller realms than what their ancestors had ruled over during the Undecimvirate.

===Colonial era===

''Was your country subject to imperialism later in its life, or was it an imperial power?''

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 ===Warring periods and Caphiric domination===
-''Did your country ever have a period of significant decline or internal struggle?''
+The emergence of three major cultures in Vallos was largely met with a long period of skirmishes between multiple polities throughout the first half of the first millennium. The Polynesians largely stayed in the southern areas of mainland Vallos while the Taineans and the Latins were much more likely to fight against each other as various disputes would arise. This was especially noticeable in Latinic polities where Tainean labourers would often dispute various agreements made with their overlords, and in the southernmost parts of the subcontinent as Tainean and Latinic polities were often at odds with the seemingly rapidly-expanding Polynesian entities. As skirmishes would flare up, so too did overtures in foreign outreach as many Vallosi polities sought alliances with powerful nations on mainland Sarpedon. The most notable being the [[Caphiria#First Imperium|First Caphiric Imperium]] when, starting in 600, diplomats were sent to the various entities throughout Vallos in hopes of securing the loyalty of any polity through promises of alliances in exchange for tributes to the Imperator. This series of affairs would continue for about a century until the Imperium, already making lots of money through these tributes, began to launch a series of interventions to establish an imperial hegemony over Vallos that was to be carved into eleven vassal states.
+This group of eleven Vallosi vassal states is known as the Undecimvirate and was largely group based on geography instead of cultures. Due to the distance between the Undecimvirate and Caphiria, however, the vassal states were mort akin to highly autonomous kingdoms for the most part so long as they kept paying their tribute to the Imperator. Punishment for defaulting on a tribute was severe as the Imperium would send an invasion force to depose the offending vassal monarch and replace him with a hopefully more compliant king. As none of the eleven vassal states wanted to be on the receiving end of an imperial invasion, all them at one point or another during the hegemonic period would conduct raids against their neighbours in hopes of extracting just enough for their tribute to Caphiria. This practice would greatly expand once tributes became a flat rate. Of course, this would effectively guarantee that at least one vassal state was going to be invaded by the Imperium. Despite the raids, the four centuries of Caphiric hegemony was largely noted for its relative stability compared to the preceding and succeeding warring states periods, with Christianity being introduced into Vallos for the first time, with almost all of the Undecimvirate, save for the Polynesian vassal states, adopting Christianity as the state religion.
+The Undecimvirate would only collapse once the [[Caphiria#Second Imperium|Second Imperium]] collapsed and there was no longer a major power to keep Vallos in line. The immediate effects began with the collapse of many of the former vassal kingdoms into smaller local polities under regional factions with nearly half of the eleven vassal dynasties extinguishing violently while the remaining dynasties would find themselves ruling over far smaller realms than what their ancestors had ruled over during the Undecimvirate.
 ===Colonial era===
 ''Was your country subject to imperialism later in its life, or was it an imperial power?''

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