History of West Parshita

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The History of West Parshita generally encompasses the histories of Jeehoop, Kunjut, Baghazan, and x. West Parshita is not a uniform term and each of its countries has a different national history, with some countries like Baghazan and Kunjut being alternatively grouped with the regions of Parshita or Vaniua, but scholars maintain that the region is characterised by a distinct pattern of historical development. This is evident in the interrelationship among West Parshitan countries, which not only involve the sum total of historical patterns but also a specific set of patterns that has affected all or most of West Parshita in successive layers.

Ancient West Parshita

Ancient Northern Jeehoop and Baghazan

• Proto-Cathani at northern foothills of mountains (in lowlands?) - also shows features shared with Rartakan + Northwestern and Northeastern show unusual traits so possibly originated further north?

- Southern spread of Proto-Cathani along river valleys in grassland (hopefully) area of central Jeehoop and associated with agricultural, mound-building culture(s) - see Mississippian culture

Naqui River Civilisation

• Ancient culture along the Naqui River (see Harappan civilisation) - language unknown but suggested to be (Para-)Rartakan or ancestral to Cathani - first major civilisation in the north

Nomads on the Kalkali Plain

• Rartakans, East Vaniuans, and horse culture

Migrations into the Zwazwam Gulf

• Zwazwam Gulf language areas: Northern Gulf (Proto-Rartakan, Proto-Wethelian, Proto- Voontic?), Eastern Gulf (Qeldar, Proto-East-Zwazwam-Gulf), Southern Gulf (Proto-Khambvan, Pre-Khambvan Hareyezan substrates?)
• Western Rartakans branch off and expand down to and along Zwazwam Gulf - see Semitic expansions from HoA > Southern Arabia

- Show early evidence of major cultural centres and city states fed by fishing, trade networks around gulf, and farming in river valleys (speculative cos depends on geodoot) - Pick up clicks from Qeldar and East Zwazwam Gulf langs

Early Southern Jeehoop

• South Jeehoop sprachbund of Proto-Olukalic, Proto-Jö-Ku, Doktakur (?), sth else?
• Ancient culture along southwest coast/mountains (see Chavin culture) - language unknown but suggested to be Olukalic (or ancestral to Olukalic) - first archaeological evidence of complex agriculture and civilisation in the south (aqueducts, large-scale farming, cities etc.)
• Early Cathani kingdoms/civilisations in the east? - possibly influenced by Kame peoples/kingdoms/whatever existed - this Mesoamerican sorta deal

Classical and Early Mediaeval History

• Northern sprachbund between Northwestern and Northeastern Cathani, Tamazic (Rartakan), maybe other ‘Eastern Rartakan’ groups?, Ughmar-Kunorvian?

- Uvulars, labiovelars, labiouvulars, /ɬ/, rounding harmony, height harmony, agglutination, M/F grammatical gender, simple vowel systems (/i e a u/ + length + epenthetic [ɨ]?) Loss of retroflexes?

First Cathan Empire

• Classical Cathan stuff - development of Idreism, language, cultural expansion - more akin to Mesoamerican cultural diffusion via dominant Cathan culture than a contiguous ethnicity, likely a cultural blanket that covered a variety of East Cathani and possibly western Kame ethnicities

- First Cathan Empire (aka Old Cathan Empire) - emerged late in the history of the classical cathans but may not have been a true empire so much as a confederation of city state kingdoms and regions under their cultural influence - see Axum, Delian League and First Babylonian Empire

Spread of Idreism

• Olukalic and isolate kingdoms and cultures along southern coast - see Moche and Chimu (also Nuragic because they have cool things)

- Gizan, Olukal (Oluk people)

• Paroan presence in the south? - possibly involved in aforementioned coastal kingdoms - see Champa and Dahomey
• Raids by/wars with an/several indigenous southeastern kingdom(s) or confederation of kingdoms, probably Olukalic, Kame and/or an unknown people similar to them - see Yue and Xiongnu

- Semikh state

• Central Rartakans, Kodrentics, and Askkumics (Rartakan) expand south into northern/central Jeehoop, establishing kingdoms as they go - keep them nomadic I think for that confederacy stuff later

- Contact with Kalkalic peoples in the west likely linked to cultural exchange - pottery, metalwork, chariots etc - Initially follow traditional religions but slowly convert to Idreism + offshoots - old deities become minor deities/household gods/sages - sth Rartakan becomes major language of Idreism in the north like Tamil for southern India?? (Old Irathi?)

Late Mediaeval History

• Ashkay-Rartakan (Eirathic, Kodrentic, Chattic? Askkumic?) Confederacy

- Shared clan system through syncretism of Ashkay clans and Rartakan tribes (Nakh-style Teips?) - exogamy would encourage intermarriage with Ashkay - Probably Southern Rartakans (most likely Eirathics, particularly the Irathi) and maybe Kodrentics? - Irathi never had a kingdom of their own but were split into a distinct region by the Second Cathan Empire who used ethnic/language boundaries as a convenient way to divide up conquered peoples - so baghazan/north joop got split along those lines, even though natively the people there were probably multilingual and considered themselves different ethnicities under one nation

Amaian Migrations

1100s/1200s Amaians expand along Zwazwam coast and into Baghazan, northwest Jeehoop, and Kunjut

• Ughmar Khaganate in north and east?

Qabaasi Marine Empire and Trade in the Zwazwam

see Republic of Venice - Trade with Kothlenics, Thytians, Amaians etc - Trade talk developed from this and other languages of the gulf - survives in modern day in dialectal speak of fishermen but rare and restricted to words/phrases in place of a whole language as modernisation of the industry + conflict in eastern Vaniu has resulted in its decline - Occupation of Hareyez saw minor decline in Khambvan languages

Great Horde

raids in the north + major Koman presence in Thytia area - Spread of Koman religion and architecture through northern Jeehoop - Qabaasi territory lost to raids - forced back to Potu (where protected by walls) and immediately surrounding territory

• Expansion of Jai peoples (East Cathani) - see Tai languages and Khmer Empire
• Some sort of anarchist revolutionary leading peasants against a king - Zaheer/Darth Traya/Wat Tyler sort of fuckery (no freedom under oppressive leadership/when fates determined by social structure)

- Manages to take hold of a city, ultimately fails but remembered as folk hero

Early Modern History

• Central Jeehoop (from West-East) dominated by emerging Jai Kingdoms, eventually unified as Cathan Empire

Emergence of caste system in Jai society

• (Second) Cathan Empire in 1700s-early 1800s (mid 1800s?)
• Balak Empire takes control of western Jeehoop as the Crown Dependency of Kunjut (Pre-Jeehoop Independence? Concurrent?)

Terminian Colonialism

Raj moment

20th Century

Cathan Civil War

aka the Irathi War of Independence

• In the late 1800s/early 1900s when the Cathans are struggling to hold onto territory, Irathi organise into an ethnocentric republic and engage in a civil war for independence that, although they lose, given their extensive area of influence, could have been enough to warrant more freedoms and explain their modern position of power within Jeehoop's political system it would also mean modern independence movements and maybe some guerrilla groups that utilise terrorist tactics

- probably also promote a degree of xenophobia within modern Irathi culture, in pretty stark contrast to their origins in a multiethnic society, and especially disdain for cathani peoples and other southerners

Postwar

Kunjut War of Independence

- Jeehoop tries to retake Kunjut, guerilla war ensues, Jeehoop loses, Kunjut stays independent but ongoing border disputes and governmental hostility