Itagana Empire

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###### Location

The Empire of Itagana is a peninsula of Ailou, in the southern part. It borders to the south with an unknown country. It is wet to the north by the Krotai Sea, to the east by the Gulaghi Sea, and to the west by the Kaluepa Sea.

###### Landscape

The territory is mainly flat to the east. A mountain range in the west divides the country from north to south. The Krakari Mountains to the north are characterized by rich woodland fauna and flora. The central mountains are exploited by the country for the mineral resources of diamonds, iron, and cobalt. The southern ranges, on the other hand, are used for grazing cattle.

###### Climate

The climate of Itagana is **tropical**, with three distinct seasons:

- a hot season from March to mid-May;

- a rainy season due to the **southwest monsoon**, which generally runs from mid-May to October;- a dry and relatively cool season from November to February, when the **north-east monsoon**, coming from the Ailouan continent, prevails. However, the relatively cool season is felt in the north and in inland areas, while on the coasts and in the south it's hot even in winter.

When cold air masses arrive from Korlan, in northern cities such as Latuvua , in December and January the night temperature can drop to around 5 °C (41 °F) and in some cases even below. However, by February the daytime temperature begins to rise, and often reaches 33/34 °C (91/93 °F), and then between March and May it rises up to 35/37 °C (95/99 °F), with peaks above 40 °C (104 °F). Here are the average temperatures of Latuvua.

The monsoon rains in Latuvua go to mid-May to mid October. Annual precipitation in the inland plain is between 1,000 and 1,500 millimeters (40 and 60 inches), with a similar pattern: scarce and rare rains from mid-November to April and heavy rains during the monsoon period, with a peak in the last part (August and September). Here is the average precipitation in Latuvua.

In the capital, **Tokavu**, the climate is hot all year round. Between mid-November and January, the weather is good, usually with clear skies. Highs are around 30/32 °C (86/90 °F) and lows around 20/22 °C (68/72 °F), so it's hot, even though it's winter. In February, temperatures start to rise; the weather remains sunny, although occasionally a few short thunderstorms can develop. The best time in Tokavu is from December to mid-February, since it is the least hot and outside of the rainy season.

## History

###### Paleolithic Period

It is not known when humans first settled on the Itagan peninsula. It was long believed that there was no Paleolithic occupation in Itagana, but thousands of sites have been unearthed throughout the country, yielding a wide variety of Paleolithic tools. These include both core tools, made by chipping away the surface of a stone, and flake tools, made by working with a stone flake broken off from a larger piece of stone. There is little doubt that the people who used these implements moved to Itagan from the Ailou continent. At one stage, land connections via what are now the Korlan and Takari straits made immigration from the Janipur peninsula possible, while another connection, via what are now the Haetu and Batugu straits, allowed people to go in from northeastern Ailou.

The Paleolithic Period in Itagana is variously dated from 30,000 to 10,000 years ago, although the argument has been made for a Lower Paleolithic culture prior to 35,000. Nothing certain is known of the culture of the period, though it seems likely that people lived by hunting and gathering, used fire, and made their homes either in pit-type dwellings or in caves. No bone or horn artifacts of the kind associated with this period in other areas of the world have yet been found in Itagana. Since there was no knowledge whatsoever of pottery, the period is referred to as the Pre-Koakoa era.

###### Pre-Koakoa era

The Pre-Koakoa era was followed by two better-recorded cultures, the Itigon and the Vohuuk. The former takes its name from a type of pottery found throughout the peninsula; its discoverer, the 19th-century Toakvuan zoologist Kuristunu Ederureli, called the pottery *Itigon* (“cord marks”) to describe the patterns pressed into the clay. A convincing theory dates the period during which Itigon pottery was used from about 10,500 until about the 3rd century. Of the features common to Neolithic cultures throughout the world—progress from chipped tools to polished tools, the manufacture of pottery, the beginnings of agriculture and pasturage, the development of weaving, and the erection of monuments using massive stones—the first two are prominent features of the Itigon period, but the remaining three did not appear until the succeeding Vohuuk period. Pottery, for example, first appeared in northern Miluga about 10,500, in an era that is called the Incipient Itigon period. While continental influence is suspected, the fact that Miluga pottery remains predate any Korlanic findings strongly suggests that the impetus to develop pottery was local. Itigon is thus best described as a Mesolithic culture, while Vohuuk is fully Neolithic.

The manufacture of pottery, however, was highly developed, and the work of Itigon peoples has a diversity and complexity of form and an exuberance of artistic decoration. It is customary to regard changes in pottery types as a basis for subdividing the age into six periods: Incipient (*c.* 10,500–8000 ), Initial (*c.* 8000–5000 ), Early (*c.* 5000–2500 ), Middle (*c.* 2500–1500 ), Late (*c.* 1500–1000 ), and Final (*c.* 1000–300 ). Since Itigon culture spread over the entire peninsula, it also developed regional differences, and this combination of both chronological and regional variations gives the evolution of Itigonpottery a high degree of complexity.