History Timeline

Below is an overall timeline of history, containing links to individual pages.

=Timeline=

Prehistory

 * Humans crawled out of the ocean
 * Wandered Gegnt as nomads
 * Nomadic tribes wandered further north into the Zury region
 * Some evidence they crossed the Ahnennian mountains and the Menegal mountains

~Y-5000 to ~Y-3000

 * Developed agriculture on the banks of modern day Arnow, then known as Shtot.
 * Shtot established Imperium Law, the basis of most legal systems today.
 * Shtot rose to power during the Shtot Imperium.
 * Menaal founded in ~Y-3800.
 * Dom Kurz founded in ~Y-3700.
 * Hoykh founded in ~Y-3500.
 * Ludzian religion founded by the Prophet Nusia Ludzska at Mt. Ludzska.
 * Shtot declined while other regions developed distinct cultures in the Great Divergence.

~Y-3000 to Y-2000

 * Menaal engaged in battle with several 'barbarian' clans in the First Menegal Wars.
 * Hoykh becomes central to the Hoykh Empire, a multicultural empire focused on internal trade.
 * Amand von Kaiser orders the first Ahnennian in preparation of taxing his new empire, the Amand Imperial Reign.
 * Menaal builds the Menegal Wall, the longest wall in the world
 * The Hoykh Empire discovers coffee in the Coastal Gegnt region
 * The Amand Imperial Reign fractures during the Warring Kingdoms

~Y-2000 to Y-1400

 * Menaal becomes central part of the Menaalese Kingdoms, period of relative peace ensues
 * Hoykh Empire fractures into three smaller states: Ershter Kingdom, Tsveyt Kingdom, and the Drit Kingdom.
 * Gegnt region struggles with a terrible drought
 * Prosanism founded by the Martyr Prost
 * Hendler Ponem lines the Zury-Gegnt trade route with elaborate trade halls, creating the first merchant empire
 * Ahennia unified under Karstan von Kaiser at the Battle of Dom Hoch, the Karstan Imperial Reign

Y-1400 to Y-800

 * Karstan forces crossed the Ahnennian mountains in the Berg War
 * High Priest Yeger creates civil unrest in the failed Prosanism Uprising
 * Prosanites spread to Zury and Menegal, fleeing extremists and the crackdown
 * Menaalese Kingdoms begin the Second Menegal Wars

Y-800 to Y-200

 * Prosanites in Zury and Menegal branch out into Orthodox Prosanism
 * Klar Umriss rises as a culture in Ahennian Highlands
 * Gegnt unified under the Grand Vire Mentsh in the Seige of Ponem
 * Regional Rytsars engage in the Honorable Wars
 * Karstan Imperial Reign collapses with the death of Emil von Kaiser
 * Population reaches approx. 800 million, spread out in varying densities

Y-200 to Y0

 * Rystars disappear as the Z-plague outbreak begins
 * The Great Tragedy of Ahnennia
 * Gegnt falls at the Breach of Arnow
 * Menaalese Kingdoms Collapse
 * Monastery of Mt. Ludzska survives onslaught, provides the Modern City Model and Modern Calendar

Y0 to Y100

 * Gunpowder comes into use.
 * Industrial revolution in full bloom.
 * Z-bug identified and isolated in laboratories
 * Radio communication allows the Reconnection
 * Evaron founded

Y100 to Y125

 * The Dom Ritter - Dom Verrater conflict marks the first outbreak of war
 * The Fall of Dom Ritter occured, creating the first modern Z-hazard
 * 1st Conclave of Doms held in Dom Lied in Y132, which created the:
 * Trade and Border Agreement
 * 1st Liedian Treaty
 * Zuruck Imperial Reign began in Ahnennia with the aggressive capture of several cities

Y125 to Y150

 * 1st Menaalese Conclave, which created the Menaalese Consortium
 * Oxenshire Treaty formed to resist Zuruck Imperial annexation
 * War of the Empires breaks out
 * Arnow destroyed in first nuclear attack
 * Zuruck-Menaalese peace treaty signed
 * Trans-Gegnt Rail connects the isolated cities of the Gegnt Region

Y150 to Y175

 * Zuruck Imperial Reign unifies most of the Ahnennian Lowlands
 * Zuruck Imperial Reign collapses into:
 * Verrater Imperial Reign
 * Schwert Imperial Reign
 * Kinzhal Consortium
 * Successful decoding of the human genome
 * First cybernetic limb attached by Dr. Antoni Iwanski
 * Invention of the Internet
 * Gegnt unifies into the United Cities of Gegnt
 * 1st Council of Evaron, which created the:
 * Universal Passport System
 * Universal Standards System
 * Universal Research System

Y175 to Y200

 * First spacecraft + satellite
 * Internet moves from being experimental to mass consumption
 * Evaron leaves the Menaalese Consortium

Y200 to Y225 (present)

 * Evaron rises as an economic safe haven
 * Second War of the Empires begins