Difference between revisions of "History of Toopoxia"

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The History of Toopoxia is split into two sections, both the creation of the ancient Volitaian civilisation and in the plight of the Lunians who both later became the modern Toopoxican civilisation

Pre-Dynasty Volitaia

Archeological evidence records a civilisation of highly advanced farmers being replaced by a hunter gatherer civilisation at around 10000 BC, the evidence reveals an early form of the sickle and other stone tools, in this time the Volitaian Desert was a rich farming land, however, possibly due to overgrazing, this farming land slowly became desiccated and formed what was called the Volitaian Desert in around 2500 BC, naturally the farming civilisation moved to the Volitaia River to continue farming in what was now a far more arable land.

Scholars have continously changed the views on Ancient Volitaia several times depending on the archeological evidence, many agree that the Nomadic time ended at around 6000 BC when evidence shows that people were constructing large permanant buildings and beggining to herd cattle, before the Desert had formed, the south western corner of Volitaia had become a booming center of civilisation, which as mentioned before slowly dissolved and fled to the Volitaia river.

Those who did not flee to the safety of the Nile migrated hoping to find fertile lands in other areas of the region, these settlers founded many of the modern neighbours of Toopoxia and assisted in the creation of many thousands of other civilisations.

Early Dynasty Volitaia

No-one can agree on a specific date of when the Volitaian dynasty came to power, most agree that it happened at around 3100 BC, at around the same time the Volitaian River villages merged into one power ruled in the city of Naibe, interesting to note that this city was originally called Volitaia, the name Volitaia also originated at this time, it is known that this name originates from the King known as Ak-Voli, Volitaia means "Peoples [belonging to] Voli"

The Volitaian state made an expansion which is well known due to its coinciding with the invention of writing, the borders expanded up to the Regi Luni Mountains in the East, Lake Luni in the South, Volitaian Sea in the East and what is now modern Hydac in the North.

Third Dynasty

Due to its unique position in the world Volitaia became a highly defendable state, after several defensive wars with neighbouring nations, which all failed, the nation turned its attention towards peace and trading, in this time of cultural expansion the civilisation built many temples and monuments which have become popular tourist attractions to this date.

Along with the cultural advances this time brought about political strength, the King was now able to call upon any slave thanks to the bringing about of a cencus which gives archeologists from today the ability to tell us that the population of Volitaia at around 1000 BC was about 26,000,000.

Rebellion and the Fourth Dynasty

This extreme population explosion mixed with the sudden drought of the Volitaia river led to a rebellion which resulted in the closing of the Third Dynasty and the seperation of the Volitaian provinces into seperate kingdoms each vying for power, many of these Kings refered to themselves as being the Fourth Dynasty each one believing that it would be their families which would unify Volitaia.

Due to a long period of intermarriage between dynastical families the situation ended up with the Lower and Upper Volitaian Kings each wishing to destroy the other.

King Ak-Nupai eventually unified the nation via a long military campaign which continued beyond the borders of Volitaia and through to many other nations including overseas colonies, The Capitol was moved from Naibe to Volitaia and a huge royal construction system took place, Ak-Nupai is often regarded as the best of the Fourth Dynasty Kings.

Hykosian Period

A Semitic tribe established in modern Hydac (possibly where the name derives from) began a military campaign to push back the Volitaian borders, they managed to sieze many of the Volitaian overseas colonies and broke through the tough borders of the nation using a new technology, the "War Chariot", The Fourth Dynasty ended with a Hykosian King ruling Volitaia.

The Hykosian Empire began to crumble due to corruption and unrest, many of the Volitaian provinces never returned to Volitaia and the area known as Volitaia fell into unrest, many of the improvements made in the third and fourth dynasties were destroyed, several attempts to again re-unify Volitaia failed without attempt and for hundreds of years the area remained in unrest.

Early Toopoxican Volitaia

The first governor of Volitaia, Lexin Greblosk brought Northern Volitaia under control by means of a highly successful tactic whereby he would ally different warring factions off against eachother, partway through the conquest however he was recalled by his sponsor, long time rival King Egleski of Smorrg, in complete defiance he continued the conflict with no assistence from the King.

When one of Lexins ranking commanders betrayed him at the battle of Al Miny he suspected that it was due to King Egleski, this sent Lexin into a rage and he issued a call for Egliski to be deposed, this further fractured the already tense relationship between the concerned Slavic Kings and the continuously notorious Lexin, in response an emmisary was sent to bring Lexin and his invasion force back to Smorrg without question.

Lexin defied orders once more and continued to move his forces southwards and enstated himself as King of these lands which he named Toopoxia in recognition for his ethnic background, unwilling to face a war with a popular and dangerous man the Slavic nations backed off, refusing to acknowledge Lexin or his new kingdom

The second King of Volitaia, Gaius Groblosk, made an unsuccessful campaign to invade Southern Volitaia, which would not be unified until King Lexin II, and Old Hykosia, after the failure of these campaigns Gaius began an internal campaign to rid the nation of natives and bring about his own cultural background.

In using often cruel systems of forced labour the population of true Volitaians was decimated, the resulting population loss severely weakened the ability of the natives to resist this quiet genocide.

(more to come)