History of Pyrrhia

(Work in Progress)
Pyrrhia, the World of Fire, has a rich and deep history. First, Pyrrhia was dominated by scavengers (homo sapiens) for several thousand years. They built complex civilizations, and prospered until a cataclysmic event known to dragons as the Scorching. The Scorching was when dragons (draconis bestiis) took Pyrrhia from the scavengers and became the dominant species. The dragons ruled Pyrrhia for millennia before they too were ousted from their position as the rulers of Pyrrhia.
=== Key ===
BS: Before Scorching.
AS: After Scorching.
c. : circa (around this time).
== Timeline ==
=== Era of the Scavengers ===
==== Prehistory: c. 300,000 BS - c. 7000 BS ====
c. 300,000 BS: Modern homo sapiens (scavengers) evolve on Adusterra (early wild Pyrrhia).
c. 150,000 BS: Modern draconis bestiis (dragons) evolve on Adusterra.
c. 100,000 BS: Scavengers control fire and spread out all over the continent, scavengers officially become dominant species of Adusterra.
c. 7500 BS: Scavengers develop agriculture.
c. 7000 BS: Scavengers develop first civilization. Prehistory ends.
==== Primitive Age: c. 7000 BS - c. 5800 BS ====
c. 7000 BS: Small farming villages combine to form great cities.
c. 6800 BS: Adusterra is divided into scavenger city-states.
c. 6600 BS: First battle is fought between two city-states.
c. 6500 BS - 6000 BS: Adusterra is in a state of constant war. An estimated 20% of all scavengers are killed.
c. 6000 BS: City-states make peace.
c. 5800 BS: Writing is developed. Adusterra is renamed Pyrrhia. Primitive Age ends.
==== Age of Advancement: c. 5800 BS - c. 4500 BS ====
c. 5600 BS: City-states begin to join together to form kingdoms.
c. 5300 BS: Pyrrhia is dominated by seven major kingdoms, as well as dozens of smaller ones.
c. 5000 BS: The arts flourish, and culture develops significantly.
c. 4800 BS: First signs of developed polytheism.
c. 4700 BS: Powerful kingdom of Manasia begins to conquer neighbors. Manasia becomes an empire.
c. 4600 BS: Empire of Manasia controls half of the continent. Remaining kingdoms form an alliance and wage war on the empire.
c. 4500 BS: Remaining kingdoms are defeated. Manasian Empire covers the continent. Age of Advancement ends.
==== Imperial Age: c. 4500 BS - c. 4200 BS ====
c. 4500 BS: Emperor Nolano I reigns. All resistance is crushed.
c. 4400 BS: Plague ravages scavenger civilization. 10% of population is killed.
c. 4300 BS: Stability of the empire begins to crumble. Rebellions are more and more frequent. 
c. 4200 BS: Severe heat waves strike Pyrrhia from the southwest. Empire collapses under pressure. Imperial Age ends.
==== Age of Fire: c. 4200 BS - c. 3500 BS ====
c. 4200 BS: Pyrrhia temperatures rise dramatically.
c. 4100 BS: Southwestern Pyrrhia becomes uninhabitable, modern-day Kingdom of Sand turns into a scorching desert.
c. 4000 BS: Scavengers are forced underground.
c. 3600 BS: Sea levels rise. Land bridge between Pyrrhia and Pantala sinks beneath the waves.
c. 3500 BS: Pyrrhia cools down. Pyrrhian surface becomes habitable once more. Age of Fire ends.
==== Reconstruction Era: c. 3500 BS - c. 3000 BS ====
c. 3500 BS: Scavengers begin to rebuild civilization after the Age of Fire.
c. 3200 BS: Dragons begin to form into different types.
c. 3000 BS: Life of the Sophus, a great philosopher who preached nonviolence. Atheist religion of Sophism is founded. Reconstruction Era ends.
==== Golden Age: c. 3000 BS - c. 2000 BS ====
c. 3000 BS: Sophism becomes the most popular religion on Pyrrhia.
c. 2800 BS: The arts flourish, population booms.
c. 2500 BS: Scavengers invent the horse-drawn chariot and the metal plow. Giant castles are built all over Pyrrhia. First scavenger animi appear on Pyrrhia.
c. 2200 BS: Pyrrhian Alliance is formed.
c. 2100 BS: Dragons begin to develop language.
c. 2000 BS: Sophus is forsaken as a heretic. Sophism is all but forgotten. Pyrrhia is once again torn by war. Golden Age ends.
==== Age of Chaos: c. 2000 BS - c. 1500 BS ====
c. 2000 BS: Great War overtakes Pyrrhia. About 10% of all scavengers are killed in the war.
c. 1900 BS: Pyrrhian Alliance is dissolved.
c. 1800 BS: Dragon hunts begin.
c. 1700 BS: Great War ends. Pyrrhian kingdoms form uneasy alliance.
c. 1600 BS: Blood Plague sweeps through Pyrrhia. Half of all scavengers die.
c. 1500 BS: Animus king Manaton the Great uses animus magic to rid Pyrrhia of the plague. Age of Chaos ends.
==== The Recovery: c. 1500 BS - c. 750 BS ====
c. 1500 BS: Manaton the Great peacefully combines all of Pyrrhia into one great Unity.
c. 1400 BS: Great fortress-city of Apicem built.
c. 1300 BS: Construction of Apicem completed. City is defended by animus magic.
c. 1100 BS: Dragons begin to raid scavenger towns and cities.
c. 900 BS: Different scavenger factions separate. Stability of the Unity weakens.
c. 750 BS: Unity collapses. War breaks out. The Recovery ends.
==== The Fall: c. 750 BS - 0 BS ====
c. 750 BS: 9 major scavenger factions at war.
c. 700 BS: Dragons of the same type begin to form loose tribes.
c. 600 BS: Warlord queen Persa the Cruel ascends to the throne of the strongest faction.
588 BS: All other factions either obliterated or absorbed by Persa the Cruel. Persa declares herself Emperess.
563 BS: Persa dies and her Empire collapses.
c. 500 BS: Dragon attacks at their peak.
c. 450 BS: Great Dragon Battle - last human-scavenger conflict before the Scorching. Over one hundred dragons massacred.
c. 400 BS: Apicem is besieged. War breaks out.
c. 375 BS: Siege of Apicem broken.
c. 350 BS: Apicem begins to conquer other lands.
c. 300 BS: Apicem is the most powerful kingdom in Pyrrhia.
c. 200 BS: Apicem is at war with the rest of Pyrrhia.
c. 100 BS: War at its peak.
0 BS: The Scorching - Dragons attack all scavenger kingdoms. Era of the Scavengers ends.
=== Era of the Dragons ===
==== The Scorching: 0 AS - 11 AS ====
0 AS: Dragons besiege all of Pyrrhia.
1 AS: Modern-day Ice Kingdom and northern Sky Kingdom fall to the dragons.
2 AS: Modern-day Kingdom of Sand and Kingdom of the Sea fall to the dragons. 50% of all scavengers have been killed.
3 AS: Scavengers regain land in modern-day Sky Kingdom. Early BeetleWings and LeafWings flee to Pantala
4 AS: Modern-day southern Sky Kingdom falls. 75% of scavengers have been killed.
5 AS: Modern-day Mud Kingdom is captured by the dragons. Scavengers only remain in Rainforest and Apicem. 85% of scavengers have been killed.
10 AS: Rainforest scavengers launch counter-offensive. Modern-day Mud Kingdom and southern Sky Kingdom are retaken.
11 AS: Scavenger rebellion crushed. Only 1% of pre-Scorching scavenger population remains. Dragons are officially the dominant species of Pyrrhia.
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