Amazonas

The Amazonas was a former amalgamation of tribes in Worlda of Nations. They controlled the majority of South America with holdings in Oceania and Australia. They expanded outwards fast due to their army portability but collapsed due to internal conflict leaving the Kingdom of Hawaii to be the inheritors of the nation's power. The Amazonas lasted from 103AD to 107AD, becoming one of the shortest-lived nations. Much about the nation itself is still unknown. 
== The History of the Amazonas ==
It is mostly unknown how the Amazonas came to be. It has been theorized that the nation has links with the Nicolides, although the idea of them colonizing South America in a major way is generally regarded as a fringe theory, with little to no support. It is generally accepted that the state formed after an ambitious tribal leader in the Amazon began to rapidly expand outwards, uniting most of the Amazon.
The first record of their existence was in 104 AD, when a Libyan group of pioneers happened upon an Amazonian scouting party. While the Libyans were mostly curious and surprised, the first thing their counterparts did was viciously attack them. The explorers barely managed to escape, and many later died from their wounds.
This was the case for nearly every Amazonian-foreigner interaction, and as such almost no information was gleaned from the nation, besides the name of its leader and capital, and some other minor details. The nation also mysteriously managed to sail from Peru to the coasts of Cape York, confusing many to this day. The sudden collapse three years later only complicated matters further, and with the refusal of the leadership of the hermit kingdom of Hawai'i to shed light on the situation, as well as the unfruitful forays into the corpse city of Dorado, it is likely that the civilized world will never know how this lightning empire was conceived.
Many scholars from Byzantium, Libya and the former Scottish empire have made their own theories, and the most agreed-upon is that a powerful tribe in the depths of the Amazon with dreams of grandeur amassed enough land and men to conquer all of its neighbors, and eventually decided to finally break the boundaries of the Amazon in a conquest of an unprecedented scale. Some of the more obscure theorists, however, have proposed quite the zany conspiracies, ranging from the entire nation being an elaborate hoax concocted by the superpowers to mask their true activities in the continent, to the empire being a foreign Earth invasion by a group of aliens, to the empire's founder actually being the infamous Sultan of the Nicolides, which is why they managed to expand so fast. Nevertheless, they are all theories, and cannot be proved. There are also several scattered mentions of someone known as Arakata, although their position in the government of the Amazonas is completely unknown. Many say he was either the son of Naguera, or a trusted advisor who was close to Naguera. With a notable lack of any major writings from within the state, many of these things will stay unconfirmed. 
Category:Former Nations