On the banks of the Chek and Hava rivers, as well as the Joshin river, agriculture emerges alongside some of the first cities on the continent, including Mesku, Daravi, Hakan, and Eri.
(OLD) History of Eridus
No longer canon. Consult the History of Arduria chronicle
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8000 BF
Agricultural revolutions in Armara
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7100 BF
First cities founded in Metvis
FoundingOn the banks of the Chek and Hava Rivers, the cities of Daravi, Meshwe, and Hakan are founded, with Mesku, Sharni, Lahdash, and Eri founded in the following 2,000 years.
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5400 BF
First writing in Metvis
Technological achievementThe ancient Malatku civilization begins using pictograms around this time, which will eventually simplify into the alphabets and abugidas found throughout western Armara.
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5100 BF
Start of the Armaran Bronze Age
Technological achievement -
4724 BF
6 /13
Unification of the Asharian tribes (beginning of Ao Dynasty)
Political eventThe different tribal states within the Joshin and Baaju river valleys are united into one kingdom by the semi-legendary Ao Do-jin
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4396 BF
4289 BF
Period of the Warring Princes in Asharia
Military actionA succession crisis after the death of Asharian Chisei Ao Kinjye pits rival Asharian princes into conflict, effectively splitting the country in four.
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1325 BF
Founding of the temple city of Jaram
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550 BF
Start of the Armaran Iron Age
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0 BF
1 /1
Founding of Korsus
FoundingKorsus was founded at this time on the banks of the Gisghari River in northwestern Armara. It would spawn an empire spanning the western half of the continent, as well as the Markazi Islands, its culture strongly influencing this part of the world for millennia to come.
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57 AC
6 /2
Korsan conquest of Jaram
Military action -
101 AC
Korsan conquest of Ramos
Military actionWith the conquest of the coastal city of Ramos, Korsus gains its first direct access to the sea
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732 AC
Establishment of the Watabowi Empire
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1322 AC
Founding of Qanaar
FoundingFounded as Kunaru within the Korsan Empire, a city is founded within the Markazi Empire as a trading post to consolidate Korsus' control over the Golden Road, later becoming the capital and largest city of the Markazi Empire
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2105 AC
2170 AC
First Industrial Revolution
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2115 AC
Korsan Empire reaches its territorial height
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2489 AC
10
First Eridan landing on Mirad
Discovery, ExplorationThe Korsan Hanor Expedition lands its first crew on the surface of Mirad, landing not far from where New Korsus would be founded. The crew spends five days on the moon's surface, establishing a base camp and taking count of the local flora and fauna.
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2492 AC
3
New Korsus founded
FoundingAlso known as Korsumeya, a colony is founded on Mirad by the Korsan Empire that would eventually grow into the capital city of the Empire's Miradian territories, and later the Republic of Hanoras
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2800 AC
2900 AC
The Fall
Disaster / DestructionOver a roughly 100-year long period, the civilizations of Mishru, Eridus, and Tsavi fought a bloody war that resulted in the destruction of interplanetary civilization, pushing all three species back hundreds if not thousands of years technologically, and destroying the interplanetary empires
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2811 AC
2867 AC
System's War
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2851 AC
6 /11
Kapora Impact
Disaster / DestructionAn asteroid strikes near the Issan city of Kapora. The asteroid deposits soot into the atmosphere resulting in lower temperatures for the following 10 years, causing a collapse in global agriculture and vast geopolitical changes around the world.
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3002 AC
5
Hanoran independence
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3002 AC
11 /5
Last off-world colony abandoned
DisbandmentWith increasing pressures on the governments of Eridus following The Fall, Eridus' empires are forced to slowly disband their colonies on other worlds, either granting them independence or ferrying the colonists back to Eridus. The last of these such colonies-- known as Koloa, located on Mirad-- is abandoned by the Korsan Empire, in the hopes it would be sufficient enough to eventually rejoin the Empire.
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3289 AC
3297 AC
The Blind Scourge kills 25 million in Armara
Plague / EpidemicA viral plague bursts out from Eburin after a series of wars, quickly spreading throughout the whole of Armara and killing 20 million people, with some areas losing up to half their population, arguably extending the Dark Ages in Armara.
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3379 AC
12 /5
End of the Korsan Empire
DisbandmentWith provinces tearing away from the Korsan Empire, the empire eventually found itself limited to a small kingdom on the Gisghari River by the 34th century. In 3379 this small kingdom was conquered by the Kingdom of Issu.
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3423 AC
Founding of the Markazi Empire
Political eventAfter the fall of the Korsan Empire, the former Petranesian territories were left largely unclaimed, with Qanaar left as a city-state. In 3423, with world trade slowly starting to remerge, the rulers of Qanaar established the state-run venture Kefiya, later consolidating their holdings into the Markazi Empire.
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4056 AC
Breakup of the Issu Empire
Political eventTriggered by a major dispute over who would succeed Emperor Misas IV in 4029, the Crisis of the 41st Century spread throughout the Issu Empire as different houses sought the throne for themselves. Eventually these houses, along with various nationalist groups, began to fight for their independence, breaking away one-by-one until all the was left was a kingdom around the traditional Korsan heartlands. Being the uncontested rulers of all that remained, House Chonem established their own Kingdom of the Chonems, claiming themselves to be the successors of the Korsan Empire.
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4300 AC
End of the Dark Ages, start of the Rebirth Period
Era beginning/endAfter the Kortola Impact 1,500 years prior, much of the world fell into a dark age, with many empires falling and rising from the ashes. Eventually this dark age ended with the reestablishment of global trade and exploration. This period also started the Ideological Revolution not comparatively long after
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4320 AC
4400 AC
Armaran Industrial Revolution
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4340 AC
Extinction of the Mirunites
ExtinctionAfter an encounter with Armaran explorers brings a deadly disease to the distant island of Miruna, the native Mirunites (Homo miruna) go extinct within fifty years, as the disease renders survivors sterile.
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4484 AC
2 /14
The Spitting Incident
Diplomatic actionVashi Kurulas, a Metvian envoy sent to negotiate a trade deal between Metvis and the Watabowi Empire, spits in the face of Watabowi Metiki Tobiriyamako, sparking massive diplomatic tensions on both sides
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4520 AC
4572 AC
Ideological Revolution
RevolutionThe Ideological Revolution was a period in which philosophers across Armara, like Kitam Ratu and Hesvi Kulnam, published works calling into question the merits of old institutions like absolute monarchy and slavery, slowly causing massive reform across Armara, leading to monarchs either being overthrown or quashing dissent whevever possible. The era is said to have begun with the reestablishment of contact with Mirad and Mishru, and ended with the Kokora Revolt and subsequent fall of the Watabowi Empire.
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4575 AC
Watabowi Empire fractures
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4597 AC
4611 AC
First Global War
Military action