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The death of Emperor-King Lucás brought to an end what many historians considered the "Urcean Golden Age", a period of dominance in the Holy Levantine Empire combined with territorial growth that left Levantia a nearly uni-polar continent. In the 226 years since the election of [[Emperor Leo III of the Holy Levantine Empire]] in 1572, de Welutas had sat on the Imperial Throne for 121 years, more than half of the time. Urcea had grown by nearly half through its acquisitions of [[Carolina]], [[Gassavelia]], and elsewhere. The Golden Age marked a renewed alignment of the interests of Urcea and the Empire as a whole; with its closure, Urcea would come to adopt an openly antagonistic attitude towards the institutions of the Empire, an attitude it would maintain for nearly a century and a half. Without the economic, diplomatic, and military support of the Urcean Crown during this crucial period, the Holy Levantine Empire entered a slow, but terminal, decline. | The death of Emperor-King Lucás brought to an end what many historians considered the "Urcean Golden Age", a period of dominance in the Holy Levantine Empire combined with territorial growth that left Levantia a nearly uni-polar continent. In the 226 years since the election of [[Emperor Leo III of the Holy Levantine Empire]] in 1572, de Welutas had sat on the Imperial Throne for 121 years, more than half of the time. Urcea had grown by nearly half through its acquisitions of [[Carolina]], [[Gassavelia]], and elsewhere. The Golden Age marked a renewed alignment of the interests of Urcea and the Empire as a whole; with its closure, Urcea would come to adopt an openly antagonistic attitude towards the institutions of the Empire, an attitude it would maintain for nearly a century and a half. Without the economic, diplomatic, and military support of the Urcean Crown during this crucial period, the Holy Levantine Empire entered a slow, but terminal, decline. | ||
== | ==Imperial period social developments== | ||
[[File:Cromford 1771 mill.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Early steam mills, such as this one, became an increasingly common sight in Urcea during the late 1700s]] | [[File:Cromford 1771 mill.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Early steam mills, such as this one, became an increasingly common sight in Urcea during the late 1700s]] | ||
Besides the major geopolitical and legal developments that occurred between the [[Great Confessional War]] and [[Second Caroline War]], many changes had occurred to Urcean society. In the period 1730-1765, devices such as the flying shuttle, spinning frame, and the spinning jenny were invented in the Imperial heartland. With increasing mechanization bleeding into other sectors and a greater ability to refine cast iron, the early stage of the Industrial Revolution had begun in Levantia. King-Emperor Leo (to 1768), and his son Brian (reigned 1768-1781), largely allowed the economy to progress without intervention. | Besides the major geopolitical and legal developments that occurred between the [[Great Confessional War]] and [[Second Caroline War]], many changes had occurred to Urcean society and throughout Levantia during this period that left both largely unrecognizable after two centuries. | ||
===Early industrialization=== | |||
In the period 1730-1765, devices such as the flying shuttle, spinning frame, and the spinning jenny were invented in the Imperial heartland. With increasing mechanization bleeding into other sectors and a greater ability to refine cast iron, the early stage of the Industrial Revolution had begun in Levantia. King-Emperor Leo (to 1768), and his son Brian (reigned 1768-1781), largely allowed the economy to progress without intervention. | |||
===Lasting impacts on social class reforms=== | |||
===Artistic developments=== | |||
[[Category: Urcea]] | [[Category: Urcea]] | ||
[[Category: History of Urcea]] | [[Category: History of Urcea]] | ||
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