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===Rotten Century=== | ===Rotten Century=== | ||
The religious unrest and resulting social tumult that came about towards the end of the 1200s inaugurated the "Rotten Century", a period encompassing most of the 1300s that inaugurated significant social, economic, and military decline in the North Songun. | The religious unrest and resulting social tumult that came about towards the end of the 1200s inaugurated the "Rotten Century", a period encompassing most of the 1300s that inaugurated significant social, economic, and military decline in the North Songun. | ||
The Rotten Century is devoid of many good primary source documents. One of the more important sources for this period is [[Paul Aster]], who visited [[Maktalin]] as part of his [[Aster's expedition|expedition to Crona]] towards the end of the 1300s. Though the civilization was devastated by nearly a century of conflict, Aster spoke of the significant wealth and impressive infrastructure achieved by the Maktalini. Aster's recountings are also a critical source document for historians, as he is one of the few outsiders to visit the civilization and write about it during the period it existed; his observations include many different cultural practices and everyday occurrences not recorded by North Songun histories due to how obvious they would have appeared to North Songun audiences. | |||
===Huntocracy and End=== | ===Huntocracy and End=== | ||