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Some entrepreneurial tradesmen had ventured up the [[Archangel River]] beginning in the 1680s, reaching {{wp|Lake Matapedia|Lake Wikipédia}}. The first formally sanctioned mission of upriver exploration beyond modern-day Krivôrok was the [[Macféden Expedition]] in 1688, which would chart the lake shores and courses of several rivers in what is now the Northeast Territory and Tioga and establish commercial contact with the [[Netansett#Global_trade_and_colonization|Netanic League]]. The commercial significance of Cusinaut to the Occident had previously been limited to its utility as a waystation ''en route'' to Alshar and back, but the discovery of a reasonably advanced economy in the subcontinent's interior aroused new mercantile interest. Occidental trading parties would begin to call upon Netanic depôts with increasing frequency, providing an impetus for the ever-closer encroachment of Occidental outposts. These developments greatly concerned the isolationist leadership of the Netanic League, though strategic considerations would push them toward a conciliatory posture with the opening of [[Lichai]] to foreign merchants. This would trigger a wholesale reörganisation of Netanic social, economic, and political institutions from around 1700 through 1720 to support an export-based economy based heavily on {{wp|cash crops}} such as {{wp|tobacco}} and {{wp|indigo}}. The Saint Michael Waterway (the Lake Wikipédia and Archangel River together) would become a critical conduit for this trade, fuelling the growth of a new corridor of Occidental settlement along the waterway and driving Kiravian efforts to shore up its control of its right bank and {{wp|river delta}} militarily. | Some entrepreneurial tradesmen had ventured up the [[Archangel River]] beginning in the 1680s, reaching {{wp|Lake Matapedia|Lake Wikipédia}}. The first formally sanctioned mission of upriver exploration beyond modern-day Krivôrok was the [[Macféden Expedition]] in 1688, which would chart the lake shores and courses of several rivers in what is now the Northeast Territory and Tioga and establish commercial contact with the [[Netansett#Global_trade_and_colonization|Netanic League]]. The commercial significance of Cusinaut to the Occident had previously been limited to its utility as a waystation ''en route'' to Alshar and back, but the discovery of a reasonably advanced economy in the subcontinent's interior aroused new mercantile interest. Occidental trading parties would begin to call upon Netanic depôts with increasing frequency, providing an impetus for the ever-closer encroachment of Occidental outposts. These developments greatly concerned the isolationist leadership of the Netanic League, though strategic considerations would push them toward a conciliatory posture with the opening of [[Lichai]] to foreign merchants. This would trigger a wholesale reörganisation of Netanic social, economic, and political institutions from around 1700 through 1720 to support an export-based economy based heavily on {{wp|cash crops}} such as {{wp|tobacco}} and {{wp|indigo}}. The Saint Michael Waterway (the Lake Wikipédia and Archangel River together) would become a critical conduit for this trade, fuelling the growth of a new corridor of Occidental settlement along the waterway and driving Kiravian efforts to shore up its control of its right bank and {{wp|river delta}} militarily. | ||
By this time, Porfíria had grown administratively unwieldy, due to its rapid expansion and ethnic differences among the settler population in different sections of the colony. The island of Rovaion, by now long-settled and home to the largest colonial city, Érskinsar, was calved off as a separate colony in 1705, and in 1707 the steadily growing but relatively unprofitable settlements along the southern coast were also separated, becoming the colony of [[Avenirskara]]. However, the whole of Kiravian Cusinaut would continue to be referred to as Porfíria even after the Porfíria Colony proper was reduced by this and subsequent revisions of colonial boundaries. | By this time, Porfíria had grown administratively unwieldy, due to its rapid expansion and ethnic differences among the settler population in different sections of the colony. The island of Rovaion, by now long-settled and home to the largest colonial city, Érskinsar, was calved off as a separate colony in 1705, and in 1707 the steadily growing but relatively unprofitable farming and fishing settlements along the southern coast were also separated, becoming the colony of [[Avenirskara]]. However, the whole of Kiravian Cusinaut would continue to be referred to as Porfíria even after the Porfíria Colony proper was reduced by this and subsequent revisions of colonial boundaries. | ||
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