13,595
edits
Seneca Islands: Difference between revisions
m
→History
mNo edit summary |
m (→History) |
||
| Line 111: | Line 111: | ||
The two main islands are largely similar to one another in climate and are both characterized by hilly and mountanous topography. West Seneca is approximately twice the size of East Seneca. West Seneca has the larger population, but East Seneca is more densely populated both due to the natural size difference but also due to less wartime devastation. Accordingly, East Seneca is significantly more urbanized whereas West Seneca has a greater agricultural sector, but West Seneca also features more major ports and shipbuilding facilities. Zakan Rot, on the northeastern tip of West Seneca, was the largest city on the islands prior to its [[Atomic bombing of Zakan Rot|atomic bombing]]. Enuzha'Thaan, on the southeastern tip of West Seneca, is now the largest city and serves as the center of political life on the islands. | The two main islands are largely similar to one another in climate and are both characterized by hilly and mountanous topography. West Seneca is approximately twice the size of East Seneca. West Seneca has the larger population, but East Seneca is more densely populated both due to the natural size difference but also due to less wartime devastation. Accordingly, East Seneca is significantly more urbanized whereas West Seneca has a greater agricultural sector, but West Seneca also features more major ports and shipbuilding facilities. Zakan Rot, on the northeastern tip of West Seneca, was the largest city on the islands prior to its [[Atomic bombing of Zakan Rot|atomic bombing]]. Enuzha'Thaan, on the southeastern tip of West Seneca, is now the largest city and serves as the center of political life on the islands. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
The history of the Seneca Islands is long, dating back to the earliest human settlement of northwestern [[Crona]]. Like other parts of [[Varshan]], the Senecas have a significant [[Varshani historiography|issue with sources]]; records and narratives relating to the period in which the Senecas were part of Varshan are opaque, sometimes intentionally so. Unlike other parts of Varshan, however, the Senecas had a several hundred year period in which they were ruled by arrivals from [[Audonia]] who kept relatively strong records which survive today. The rest of the Senecas' history has to be parsed from contradictory and confusing Varshani records which account for dark time as well as what archaeological evidence suggest. The museum of Senecan history, which included a large number of non-digitzed records and artifacts, was almost completely destroyed in the [[Atomic bombing of Zakan Rot|atomic bombing]] of the 2020s, requiring contemporary historians to examine secondary sources which often include journal entries vaguely describing now lost materials. | |||
===Prehistory=== | ===Prehistory=== | ||
The popular origin story of the people of the Seneca Islands is recounted in the so-called "''Saga of the Senecas''" (first translated in Occidental languages in 2004). In this story, purported to have occurred ten thousand years ago, a group of fishermen and their wives departed for a "great hunt" of a massive {{wp|whale}}, with the fishermen in the lead group of boats and the women (sometimes translated as families) in the second group of boats. The massive whale outsmarted the fishermen, though, and in a storm the whale destroyed the sails of both groups of boats, stranding the fleets off the coast. The story then states that [[M'acunism|Makuahine]] took pity on the group of sailors and their families and erected islands around the groups of both boats, with the fishermen's boats becoming West Seneca and the family boats becoming East Seneca. | The popular origin story of the people of the Seneca Islands is recounted in the so-called "''Saga of the Senecas''" (first translated in Occidental languages in 2004). In this story, purported to have occurred ten thousand years ago, a group of fishermen and their wives departed for a "great hunt" of a massive {{wp|whale}}, with the fishermen in the lead group of boats and the women (sometimes translated as families) in the second group of boats. The massive whale outsmarted the fishermen, though, and in a storm the whale destroyed the sails of both groups of boats, stranding the fleets off the coast. The story then states that [[M'acunism|Makuahine]] took pity on the group of sailors and their families and erected islands around the groups of both boats, with the fishermen's boats becoming West Seneca and the family boats becoming East Seneca. | ||