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{{Further|Bourgondii-Loa Wars}} | {{Further|Bourgondii-Loa Wars}} | ||
The Bourgondii-Loa Wars were a series of conflicts and trade wars between the [[Burgoignesc_South_Levantine_Trading_Company#Bourgondii-Loa_Wars|Bourgondii Royal Trading Company's]] colony of [[Equatorial Ostiecia]] and the [[Loa Empire]] from ~1700-[[1875]]. It is considering part of the wider [[Kiro-Burgoignesc Wars]] because the [[Loa Empire]] was a client state of [[Kiravia]] at the time and the [[Burgoignesc_South_Levantine_Trading_Company|Bourgondii Royal Trading Company]] was using the Loa to aggravate [[Kiravia]]. Unlike many other colonial ventures, the [[Burgoignesc_South_Levantine_Trading_Company|Bourgondii Royal Trading Company]] did not seek to settle in the territory of the [[Takatta Loa|Loa Empire]] but merely to control its international exports outside of the tribute required of [[Kiravia]], to [[Levantia]] and [[Sarpedon]]. Semi-permanent [[Bergendii]] establishments only included {{wpl|Factory (trading post)|factories}}, trade posts, and customs houses, but there were no settlement expansions beyond these. | The Bourgondii-Loa Wars were a series of conflicts and trade wars between the [[Burgoignesc_South_Levantine_Trading_Company#Bourgondii-Loa_Wars|Bourgondii Royal Trading Company's]] colony of [[Equatorial Ostiecia]] and the [[Loa Empire]] from ~1700-[[1875]]. It is considering part of the wider [[Kiro-Burgoignesc Wars]] because the [[Loa Empire]] was a client state of [[Kiravia]] at the time and the [[Burgoignesc_South_Levantine_Trading_Company|Bourgondii Royal Trading Company]] was using the Loa to aggravate [[Kiravia]]. Unlike many other colonial ventures, the [[Burgoignesc_South_Levantine_Trading_Company|Bourgondii Royal Trading Company]] did not seek to settle in the territory of the [[Takatta Loa|Loa Empire]] but merely to control its international exports outside of the tribute required of [[Kiravia]], to [[Levantia]] and [[Sarpedon]]. Semi-permanent [[Bergendii]] establishments only included {{wpl|Factory (trading post)|factories}}, trade posts, and customs houses, but there were no settlement expansions beyond these. | ||
=== Industrial Revolution === | |||
1826-1864 A rapid period of urbanization and industrialization followed the independence of Burgundie, which brought many new resources cheaply into the grasp of the common Burgundians. This economic choice and freedom was a spark that soon turned into a roaring inferno. The desire for these new goods led to the rebuilding of the Burgundian merchant fleet. Great Prince Pau II, patched relations with the Fanerian and they bankrolled many of the upgrades to the shipyards and markets. The Fanerian encouraged loans for companies that favored industrialized processes over craft production. This saw larger chantiers eclipsing smaller ateliers and forever changing the economy in Burgundie. Whereas before the Burgundian economy was a rats nest of related by independent workshops and guilds run by master craftsmen all coming together project by project, the Fanerian investment forced a movement to massive companies with "in-house" processes and a large unskilled mechanized workforce. With this massive, immediate need for cheap labor the Isle of Burgundie turned to "the provinces". | |||
Many in the northern Levantine provinces of Marialanus, Argenbagne, and Burdeboch immigrated to the Isle of Burgundie in search of work. The population of Burgundie had doubled with the acquisition of new lands, but the majority of the population was, or soon moved to cities on the Isle of Burgundie itself. Almost immediately a social divide emerged. The people from the Isle of Burgundie saw themselves as superior to those native to "the provinces". Riots broke out against ''les æleigens'' (Eng. the aliens) in the 1840s which saw widespread support at first, but as business owners began to see the rate of absenteeism rise in the new working class, the government interceded on the owners behalf and stationed the Elite Gendarmes of the Royal Guard in immigrant neighborhoods to protect them. Since then the royal government has enjoyed a fairly positive relatioship with the working class. An uneasy symbiosis was established that was marked by a divide between the resource-poor but cash-rich urban Burgundians the resource-rich but cash-poor rural peoples of mainland Levantia. | |||
It was a time of infectious optimism and patriotic pride. With a sense of stability returned, the trade routes started spreading further than they had ever spread before. Shipping technology allowed travel to all of the continents, and in 1826 the first global circumnavigation by a Burgundian was completed. Having focused primarily on local trade, the expansion of global trade took some adjustment. Larger ships with deeper drafts lead to innovations in harbor dredging but took a toll on the dwindling cedar forests across the island. | |||
===The People's Spring of 1848=== | ===The People's Spring of 1848=== | ||
The People's Spring of 1848 rocked the nascent establishment to its core. The socialist, anti-monarchist rebellions seeking independent republics of Burgundie, Ultmar and Flordeterra. The wedding of Great Prince Pau II in January of 1848 was so opulent and extravagant that it starved and impoverished many of the poor across Burgundie. Grain stores were expropriated, taxes were raised even further, and many workers were pressed into service to throng the parade route. Unlike his martial and resourceful father Pau I, Pau II was raised to be gentil and refined by his mother Maria-Isabel de Martilles. He was spoiled and reactionary, often choosing to micromanage his problems, regardless of his ability to do so knowledgeably. He was set to become an absolute ruler and the pomp and circumstance that he demanded for his wedding demonstrated that fact. | The People's Spring of 1848 rocked the nascent establishment to its core. The socialist, anti-monarchist rebellions seeking independent republics of Burgundie, Ultmar and Flordeterra. The wedding of Great Prince Pau II in January of 1848 was so opulent and extravagant that it starved and impoverished many of the poor across Burgundie. Grain stores were expropriated, taxes were raised even further, and many workers were pressed into service to throng the parade route. Unlike his martial and resourceful father Pau I, Pau II was raised to be gentil and refined by his mother Maria-Isabel de Martilles. He was spoiled and reactionary, often choosing to micromanage his problems, regardless of his ability to do so knowledgeably. He was set to become an absolute ruler and the pomp and circumstance that he demanded for his wedding demonstrated that fact. | ||