Atrassica: Difference between revisions

Although it is unclear who from Hesperic Ixnay was the first to discover Atrassica, it began appearing on maps in the 1580s AD. Kiravian merchants, seasonal fishermen, and missionaries visited the island from 1594 onward, and the island was formally claimed for the newly-reorganised Kiravian Federacy in {{H:title|1622 AD|20802}} by the Atrassica Act. For the first half-century following the annexation, Kiravian settlement was largely confined to the coasts, and merchants, fishermen, and missionaries continued to account for the bulk of the colonists, as more Kiravians were drawn to the inland areas of [[Great Kirav]] opened for settlement by the Continental War and the Lesser Crona colonies of [[Rovaīon]], [[Porfíria]], and [[Avenica]]. At this stage, relations between the settler society and the indigenous were generally peaceful. From the {{H:title|1640s AD|20820s}} through the {{H:title|1710s AD|20890s}}, colonial officials negotiated a series of agreements with various indigenous leaders to establish formal Kiravian suzerainty over the Massapíkva and Minnéola, although it is now believed that the two parties had vastly different interpretations of what they had agreed to. Coscivian Orthodox and [[Insular Apostolic]] missionaries succeeded in evangelising parts of the native population, and some native communities near the coasts gradually assimilated into Coscivian civilisation, but for the most part the two societies remained independent of one another until the {{H:title|1750s AD|20930s}}, when a larger generation of Atrassica-born Coscivians and a new wave of immigrants from Great Kirav pushed the Kiravian pale of settlement deeper into the hinterland. Competition for land and resources between the settlers and indigenous resulted in the Massapíkva War ({{H:title|1755-1756 AD|20935-201936}}), which ended in the final subjection of the Massapíkva to direct Kiravian rule and precipitated the submission of the Minnéola to the same the following year.