Burgoignesc colonial empire: Difference between revisions

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Throughout the Age of Discovery and the Age of Sail the coastal Duchies of Marialanus, Martilles, and Bourgondi, of the Kingdom of Dericania, developed colonial empires of various sizes through trading companies. This was precipitated by the Expulsion of the Protestants from southern Levantia following their loss in the Great Confessional War. Many of those protestants were processed off-continent through Burgundie who turned them into a massive global exploration and colonizing force, known as Pharisedoms.

There were also some Catholic coloniae (e.g. Veraise and Islevenin) but it was not as common.

Sociology

The genesis of Burgoignesc colonial culture was to seek out the kingdoms of the Biblical Magi and to unite "all the lands whose kings adored Christ". As such, at least at its genisis, what has been retrospectively termed a Mission civilisatrice, was the search for co-equal kingdoms with which to join forces in service of Christ. The thesis that Balthazar, Melchior, and Gaspar came from Christian kingdoms was flawed from the start and meant that the Papally ordained/funded explorations of the coastal Derians never found what they were looking for. It did however, lead to a self-righteous bent of Imperialism and settler colonization that spanned Audonia and Alshar in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. Exploration and colonization in northern Audonia was justified under the banner of searching for the kingdom of Balthazar, the same for southern Audonia in search of Melchior, and same again in Alshar in search of the kingdom of Gaspar. This yearning for oriental connection remains to this day but has been informed by many other factors beyond this initial concept.

This is also retrospectively used to describe Burgundie's general lack of interest in the colonization of Crona.

Tenents of Burgoignesc Colonial Rule

Early/Establishment Period Trends

1598-1635
Emporia, minor ports and forts
Kiravia has made first contact in lots of places so Burg is vying for local access, gets ahead because they re-empower local magistrates from the Oduniyyad Caliphate with whom they had trading contacts before the Caliphate collapsed.
Burgs more open and accepting of foreign cultures and hierarchies as a way to curry favor
The colonies are still reliant on the metropole for sustainability
Examples:

Self Sufficiency Period Trends

1635-1693
As the generation of ex-Oduniyyad Caliphate magistrates age out/die Burgs take more direct control of politics, land management, and resource extraction but its still very decentralized, mostly up to the patroons
Patroonships, Latifundia/Plantations, Colonia (Roman)
Slavery becomes the primary financial function of the colonies
Massive influx of Levantine Protestants sees rabid expansion of the initial coastal colonies to accommodate promises of land grants
Colonial militias are the primary defense for the colonies against other native peoples on the frontiers
Examples:

Dominance Period Trends

1693-1785
Trading companies take more direct control and organize colonial administrations, later presidencies that are much more efficient
Due to the influx of Protestants and slavery some colonies become majority Bergendii
Colonial militias take a back seat to large majority native regiments under the direct control of the trade companies who take on entire nations of peoples and drastically expand the colonies
Examples:

Late Period/Colonial Loss Trends

1785-1848
Trade companies get rich and corrupt more focused on prestige then efficient colonial administration
Colonies are unmanageably large and corrupt administrators refuse to break them up into more manageable and efficient sizes
High taxes and tarriffs on occidental settlers make colonial administration unpopular with its core
Native military units mutinying as traditions and customs are crossed by uncaring and out of touch colonial military leaders
Great Rebellion of Slavery Bay spreads across many core colonies and starts a mass exodus of settlers that exacerbates all of the afformenttioned issues and creates an unprecedented refugee crisis
Poor leadership both in the colonies and the Metropole leads to the defeat of most all of the mainland settler colonies leaving only some scattered islands
Examples:

Great Rebellion of Slavery Bay

Colonies

Martillien colonies

Name	Continental location	Administration dates	Trading Company	Modern status	Notes/Highlights
Eloillette	Audonia	1611-1795	MNLC	Pursat
Chaukhira colony	Audonia	tbd	MNLC	Burgundie
Peshabiwar colony	Audonia	1592-1807	MNLC	Tapakdore	sugarcane, pineapples, millet, cotton, and tea
Argaea colony	Australis	tbd	MNLC	Burgundie
Veraise colony	Crona	1593 - 1812	MNLC	Alstin
Nauta Normand colony	Kiro-Borealis	tbd	MNLC	Burgundie
Wintergen colony	Levantia	1823-1869	MNLC	Burgundie	1836 Act of Economic Union, claiming that Wintergen was forevermore an integral part of Burgundie. 1869 Kiravia and Burgundie stop fighting about it without settling the island's legal status. Wintergen is recognized as a state of Burgundie.

Marialanien colonies

Name	Continental location	Administration dates	Trading Company	Modern status	Notes/Highlights
Ayermer colony	Alshar	1616-1936	MUTC	Daxia / Rusana	Lost in the Battle of Ayermer (1936)
Cote d'Or	Alshar	1600-1795	MUTC	Kandara	1600, the BWPTC captured the castle at Bisoor from the Kiravians, and the port of Kandoor in 1603. In 1604 Burgundie commissioned Kandoor Castle, which was completed in three years. Protectorate of the Kingdom of Kandoora established 1611-1684, until dissolved into Slavers Coast colony Slavers Coast colony 1684-1795 Colony of Santasi 1646-1721 after which it was joined to Kandoora colony Lost in the Great Rebellion of Slavery Bay 1767-1795
Yuganagawa Protectorate	Audonia	1635-1747	MUTC	Oyashima	copper, lacquer, lacquerware, tea, rice, coffee, pepper, coal, zinc, tin, and slaves
Far East Colony	Audonia	1638-1817	MUTC	Oyashima, Sotsial , and Iles Evangeline
Barbary Straits colony	Audonia	1577-1876	MUTC	northern half of Battganuur, and Alcairet
Torlen colony	Levantia	???? - 1875	MUTC	Burgundie	formed as colony of the Duchy of Marialanus Formalized into a state in 1875 following the First Fratricide and the Unification of Burgundie.

Bourgondii colonies

Name	Continental location	Administration dates	Trading Company	Modern status	Notes/Highlights
Colony of Santasi	Audonia	1646-1721	BRTC	Kandara	1646-1721 after which it was joined to Kandoora colony Lost in the Great Rebellion of Slavery Bay 1767-1795
Pukhgundi colony	Audonia	1635-1811	BRTC	Tapakdore and Pukhgundi
Istroya Oriental colony	Audonia	1577-1842	BRTC	southern half of Battganuur and Bulkh
Kandahari-Pukhtun colony	Audonia	1615-1831	BRTC	Umardwal, Yanuban, and Alcairet
Sud Moll colony	Australis	1702-1876	BRTC	Burgundie	Farmandie (1712-1745 and 1789-1824)
St. Nicholas Colony	Crona	1654 - 1876	BRTC	Alstin
Medimeria colony	Levantia	1578-2014	Middle Seas Refuge Company	Urcea, Rectory of Medimeria	Transferred to Urcea as the Rectory of Medimeria in 2014 as part of a mutual strategic interest realignment.
Equitorial Ostiecia colony	Sarpedon	1599-present	BRTC	Burgundie
Eileada	Sarpedon	1913-1968	BRTC	Faneria

Other colonies

Name	Continental location	Administration dates	Trading Company	Modern status	Notes/Highlights
Aumiers colony	Sarpedon	1315-1573	tbd	Cartadania	Settled in 1315 Joined the Vilauristre Conference in 1540 Ceded to Maresia Regio in 1573
Vonein	Levantia	1940-1942	BNLTC	Vithinja	Occupied and administered as a militarized colony during the Second Great War and turned a forward operating base against Faneria.