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