World History

Helevos has eight thousand years of recorded history, with archeology, artefacts and myth stretching back much further. There are two dominant views of human history: the theological view that the whole world and humanity were created some thousands of years ago in one instant of creation; the second, that all humanity descends from a race of fallen demigods called the Godmen, who came to earth sixteen millennia ago.

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The Godmen were the mythical inhabitants of a landmass contiguous with the modern Natorn Archipelago, said to be the ancestors of all the Thalsic peoples of the northern Civilised World. In the Emerald Epoch they created the first great civilisation, referred to as the Realm of the Godmen. The Godmen are said to be mytho-historic, memories of an ancestor race shrouded by millennia of HartheraAnrelAnrelherherAnrelAnrel theory remains popular partly because it was espoused by the great eastern civilisation of Miyarris, whose literature is still highly respected. It also provides a ready explanation for there being two separate families of life in the world, the Green Kingdom including humans, domestic plants and red-blooded animals, and everything else, the Virid Kingdom.

History has been dramatically affected by the world's climate cycle, which causes sea level to rise and fall through fluctuations in global average temperature, separated by epochs of sometimes violent climate change. These changes have almost always resulted in the collapse of organised societies, so that history consists of many steps forward and steps back. Because of the rise in sea levels over time, little survives from the earliest times other than myths, a handful of artefacts, and rare archeological sites that have not been lost beneath the seas.

These changes were predicted by the obsolete calendar, the Hirerk Moonscale, first devised in ancient Miyarrisplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigMiyarris

Miyarris [mee-YA-riss], (also Miarris, from Mayápo Mayarous) was a hugely influential ancient civilisation located which flourished during the Celadon Epoch, from 4000-3000 BME. It is considered the first great civilisation in history since the the mythic Godmen.

Ancient Miyarris

BMElanguagelanguagelanguageAnásthiasEloyounlanguagelanguagelanguage. This calendar specified a millennia-long cycle of change, counted years from the start of a new climatic era. However, the need to restart the count of years at each epoch caused great confusion for later historians. Therefore in modern times the Modern Epoch calendar has been universally adopted, based on the Moonscale but counting years forward and backward from the start of the present era.

The historic epochs were first named by the EnSanni historian, Zinnober, in his History of All published in 601 BMEplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBME (Before Modern Epoch)

Used to date years Before the Modern Epoch.. Despite universal adoption of the MEplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigModern Epoch (ME)

The Modern Calendar is a dating system acknowledged throughout the Civilised World. It numbers years from the Modern Epoch, abbreviated ME and BME (Before Modern Epoch). It is also called the Modern Era.

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This is in a series of articles about calendars and dating systems.OrorrHartheraHMOrorrHartheraOrorrOrorrHMHartheraHMHartheraOrorr calendar, Zinnober's epochs are still a popular method for naming and grouping periods of history. He chose names loosely based on archeological artefacts associated with each period; the “Jade Epoch”, for example, being associated with jadeite tools and jewellery fashioned by the people of the middle Wiyel valley, which were traded widely and hence make sites from the period easily identifiable.

The fluctuation of epochs in human history has led to a new theory of natural history: that humans and greenplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGreen

The Green Kingdom of flora and fauna includes humans, mammals, birds, whales, greenfish, and most green plants and crops cultivated by humankind. life evolved in warm, low-lying land close to the sea, while virid life developed in the cooler highlands. Rising sea levels destroyed these ancient coastal lands, forcing humans and their domestic plants and livestock inland. This Green Sea Theory has caused great excitement amongst modern scholars, and is gaining in popularity around the world.

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Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life. Age (<15,000 BME) is the prehistoric period before the first human civilisations, when the world was dominated by virid life. Religion and folkloreplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigFolklore

Folklore

This is in a series of articles about oral traditions, tales, folk practices, and folklore.

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The Emerald Epoch is the oldest era recorded human history, circa 16,000-11,000 BME. In mythohistory it is synonymous with the Age of the Godmen., but many modern secular scholars propose that early humans, or proto-humans, were found in this period, but were as yet little more than tool-using animals living in coastal green forests which have since disappeared.

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The Emerald Epoch (c.15,000-11,100 BME) was the time of the first human civilisations, who spread green plants around the world through agriculture and horticulture. According to history the first civilisation was founded in the region of what is now the Anrel Isles. The epoch is named for the few surviving fragments from this period, caches containing thin wafers and shards of a green crystal material. It is also called the “First Epoch” or the “Age of the Godmen”. This long era concluded with centuries of intense climate change and a slowly rising sea levels, in which societies were in flux and waves of migration spread outward around the world.

(c.11,100-6200 BME) From the start of the Jade Epoch, rising sea levels had driven civilisations far into the interior of Anásthiasplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAnásthias

Anásthias [a-NAS-thee-ass / ænæsθiːæs], or [an-ass-THEE-as] is an equatorial island continent, heart of the Civilised World. The north straddles the equator and is hot and humid, while most of the equatorial centre is an upland plateau with fertile river valleys, and stretches of arid plains and desert in the shadow of the mountains. The south is temperate but more wild, separated from the civilisations of the north by the almost impassable Harthera, with peoples colonising the entire north coast of Anásthias and following river channels into the interior. The greatest civilisation of the period was Traithe in northeastern Anásthias, so it is sometimes called the High Iskean Age. The period was named after the discovery of jadeite in the Wiyel Valley, a prized stone which was traded widely, used for tools, jewellery and many decorate items.

(c.6200-3000 BME) The Celadon Epochplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigCeladon Epoch

Name for the period of history c.6200-3000 BME, also called the Age of Miyarris, after the foremost civilisation of that era. is named after a particular kind of fine pottery first perfected in the region of Emanuné, the style thereafter spread far and wide throughout Anásthias. It is better known as the Age of Miyarris, after the great civilisation which flowered on the east coast of modern Otekahré. In folklore Miyarris was claimed to be the first great technological civilisation since the Godmen, and its legacy of arts, literature and philosophy still influences the modern world.

(3000-1 BME) Zinnober named his own era the Beryl Epoch, as a somewhat facetious nod to the hemispherical jewelled buttons which decorated the uniforms of middle-ranking Ensanni church hierarchs of the period. It is often referred to as the Imperial Age, since the Empire of Dor-en-Sann was the greatest cultural and political power of the period.

The Modern Epoch (from 1 ME) began with the Little Ice Age, a short snap of turbulent climatic change. The turmoil of this period led to the collapse of all the great powers of the time, and the foundation of the modern states of Ororrplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigOrorr

Ororr [o-ROARR, ɒ̝rɔ'ɾ], also called the Holy Motherland of Ororr, is a theocratic nation in Anásthias, one of the world's great powers. It the largest nation in the world, perhaps the largest empire in history, occupying the entire northwest of the continent between the mountains and the sea. Ororrlanguagelanguagelanguage and Hartheraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHarthera

The Hartheran Union, commonly named Harthera, is an imperialist maritime nation state dominating the northeast of Anásthias. It is one of the two great powers of the modern epoch, arguably the most technologically and militarily powerful nation in the world, only matched by the vast size and wealth of its neighbour, viridOrorrMEOrorrOrorrOrorrOrorr in its aftermath. The brief glacial period lasted seven centuries ending around 700 ME, which according to the old Hirerk Moonscale should have begun another cycle. However, Ororr and Harthera both agreed to continue using 1 ME as a common reference.

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What little is known of human history begins in the middle of the Primary Glacial, the longest and most stable period, when sea levels were at their lowest. This was the time of the God-Men of ancient mythology.

The Second Epoch was a dark age, during which humans fell into barbarism and spread out across the world.

The high point of the Third Epoch was the establishment of Miyarrous, an advanced civilisation in the safe crescent of land to the east of modern Anásthias. Miyarrous strove to build a enlightened society based on logic and learning, rediscovering the lost knowledge of ancient terms.

Miyarrous was destroyed during the Fourth Epoch. Following it's destruction, refugees spread westwards across Anásthias creating new societies, blending with the established “barbarians” to create synthesis of cultures that has been the modern world.*/