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==History== | ==History== | ||
The lands comprising modern Varshan were once inhabited by a variety of different Cronite peoples belonging to several different linguistic families. These peoples, most of which have been lost to history, were all tribally-organised until the early Cronite Bronze Age, when city-states began to develop in the region's fertile river valleys. The area now known as ''Umzàg'' or Central Varshan, emerged as the most heavily urbanized part of | The lands comprising modern Varshan were once inhabited by a variety of different Cronite peoples belonging to several different linguistic families. These peoples, most of which have been lost to history, were all tribally-organised until the early Cronite Bronze Age, when city-states began to develop in the region's fertile river valleys. The area now known as ''Umzàg'' or Central Varshan, emerged as the most heavily urbanized part of north central Crona, possibly as a result of its fertile volcanic soils and geographic circumscription by high mountain ranges. | ||
The history of Varshan is divided into a number of dynastic periods, punctuated by intervening periods of civil war and political decay. | |||
===Predynastic period=== | |||
The history of Varshan proper beings with the arrival of the Varshani (''Waršaŋ''), a migratory tribe of uncertain geographic origin speaking a {{wp|language isolate}} who subsisted primarily by raiding settled societies and hunting. Attracted by the wealthy city-states of Umzàg, the Varshani migrated into the foothills of the Mountains of Terror, from which they launched periodic raids against their neighbours. Initially, the Varshani raided only to capture food, women, and basic materials, and to spill blood in order to honour their gods. However, over time they also took to pillaging valuables, such as precious metals and stones and fine clothes and handicrafts, originally as trophies, but later as luxury goods for their own enjoyment. In order to provide higher standards of living for themselves, the Varshani began capturing slaves for labour rather than exclusively sexual use, and exacting tribute and ransom from communities within striking distance of the foothills rather than raiding them, obtaining wealth that allowed them to engage in trade with the prosperous central city-states. This began a process of acculturation through which the Varshani transitioned away from their traditional migratory raiding lifestyle and adopted many material, religious, and socio-political practices from the settled peoples of the region. This process reached its culmination under the Varshani chief Biji, who after sacking the city of Hoklo, chose to take up residence there instead of returning to his camp in the foothills. Biji renamed the city 'Anzo', and established it as the first Varshani state. | The history of Varshan proper beings with the arrival of the Varshani (''Waršaŋ''), a migratory tribe of uncertain geographic origin speaking a {{wp|language isolate}} who subsisted primarily by raiding settled societies and hunting. Attracted by the wealthy city-states of Umzàg, the Varshani migrated into the foothills of the Mountains of Terror, from which they launched periodic raids against their neighbours. Initially, the Varshani raided only to capture food, women, and basic materials, and to spill blood in order to honour their gods. However, over time they also took to pillaging valuables, such as precious metals and stones and fine clothes and handicrafts, originally as trophies, but later as luxury goods for their own enjoyment. In order to provide higher standards of living for themselves, the Varshani began capturing slaves for labour rather than exclusively sexual use, and exacting tribute and ransom from communities within striking distance of the foothills rather than raiding them, obtaining wealth that allowed them to engage in trade with the prosperous central city-states. This began a process of acculturation through which the Varshani transitioned away from their traditional migratory raiding lifestyle and adopted many material, religious, and socio-political practices from the settled peoples of the region. This process reached its culmination under the Varshani chief Biji, who after sacking the city of Hoklo, chose to take up residence there instead of returning to his camp in the foothills. Biji renamed the city 'Anzo', and established it as the first Varshani state. | ||
===XXX dynasty=== | |||
===XYZ dynasty=== | |||
===AAA dynasty=== | |||
===XYZ dynasty restored=== | |||
===Great interdynastic period=== | |||
Many Occidental historians question the historicity of many of the events of the great interdynastic period or its existence at all. A minority view believes that many of the events attributed to this period were actually domestic turmoil that occurred as part of a dynasty erased by a form of {{wp|damnatio memoriae}}; the number of calamities attributed to this period by legend would suggest such a regime would be viewed as a clear failure, and this degree of failure would have undermined the legitimacy of the Varshani ruling elite in the eyes of the lower castes. "Dynastic erasure theory" remains a hotly contested concept among Varshanologists. | |||
===BBB dynasty=== | |||
===Medieval interdynastic period=== | ===Medieval interdynastic period=== | ||
===Chazxin dynasty=== | ===Chazxin dynasty=== | ||
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====Conquest of the North==== | ====Conquest of the North==== | ||
Under the Chazxin dynasty, Varshan conquered several disparate relatives of the [[Quetzenkel|Quetzen people]] and established what would become known as the Brudxaan Province, approximately [[New Veltorina]]. This conquest gave Varshan access to the [[Nysdra Sea]] for the first time. This conquest, completed by [[1525]], enabled Varshan to begin projecting influence across the Nysdra Sea. In the 1600s, the [[Venua%27tino#Quetzen_hegemony|Quetzen thalassocracy]] which had exhibited political and economic control over [[Venua'tino]] for centuries collapsed suddenly as the coastal cities were conquered by the unifying state. The sudden anarchy allowed a relatively token Varshani force to land in Venuatino in [[1652]] and establish a tenative system of political and military control over the region known as the | Under the Chazxin dynasty, Varshan conquered several disparate relatives of the [[Quetzenkel|Quetzen people]] and established what would become known as the Brudxaan Province, approximately [[New Veltorina]]. This conquest gave Varshan access to the [[Nysdra Sea]] for the first time. This conquest, completed by [[1525]], enabled Varshan to begin projecting influence across the Nysdra Sea. In the 1600s, the [[Venua%27tino#Quetzen_hegemony|Quetzen thalassocracy]] which had exhibited political and economic control over [[Venua'tino]] for centuries collapsed suddenly as the coastal cities were conquered by the unifying state. The sudden anarchy allowed a relatively token Varshani force to land in Venuatino in [[1652]] and establish a tenative system of political and military control over the region known as the | ||
===CCC dynasty=== | |||
===DDD dynasty=== | |||
===Yun-harle dynasty=== | ===Yun-harle dynasty=== | ||
====Dynastic collapse==== | ====Dynastic collapse==== | ||
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With the loss of Brudxaan Province, the centuries old [[Venua%27tino#Polar_Captaincy|Polar Captaincy]] collapsed due to the lack of Varshani access to the Sea of Nysdra. Under threat from [[Corumm]]ese presence in [[Cao]], Varshan was forced to withdraw its military forces from the Polar Captaincy in [[1964]]. | With the loss of Brudxaan Province, the centuries old [[Venua%27tino#Polar_Captaincy|Polar Captaincy]] collapsed due to the lack of Varshani access to the Sea of Nysdra. Under threat from [[Corumm]]ese presence in [[Cao]], Varshan was forced to withdraw its military forces from the Polar Captaincy in [[1964]]. | ||
===Modern interdynastic period=== | ===Modern interdynastic period=== | ||
The modern interdynastic period, sometimes referred to as the "postdynastic period", began with the final fall of the Yun-harle dynasty in [[1970]]. | |||
====Modernization efforts==== | ====Modernization efforts==== | ||
The loss of territory and prestige in the 1960s deeply wounded the Varshani psyche. Once the dynastic civil war had concluded, Varshan in the 1980s and 1990s began to heavily turn to modernization and Occidentalization of its armed forces. | The loss of territory and prestige in the 1960s deeply wounded the Varshani psyche. Once the dynastic civil war had concluded, Varshan in the 1980s and 1990s began to heavily turn to modernization and Occidentalization of its armed forces. | ||