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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Ancient History=== | ===Ancient History=== | ||
The geological foundations of the Melian Islands likely formed part of the complex of land bridges and shallow crossings from mainland [[Sarpedon]] that made it possible for humans to settle in [[Audonia]] around 25,000 BC due to short-lived climatic conditions that reduced the size and depth of what is known today as the [[Sea of Istroya]], though the land area of the islands that remains above sea level today would have been high mountains at the time and almost certainly bypassed by these prehistoric voyageurs. | |||
Population growth enabled by the proliferation of agriculture spurred the developmend of the first major urbanised civilisations along the eastern coast of Sarpedon around 3000 BC. The Melians found themselves squarely in the middle of a maritime network of commercial and cultural exchange between the proto-Istroyan city-states and Audonian civilisation, benefitting enormously from the bidirectional diffusion of good, technologies, and people between the two continents. | |||
===Early Christianity=== | ===Early Christianity=== | ||
===Mediæval Era and Crusades=== | ===Mediæval Era and Crusades=== | ||