History of Severyane
Severyane is a country in Marzanna whose history under this name dates back to the Early History of Marzanna, when the proto-Vostic language developed a written alphabet. Written history begins with a recounting of the Oral History of the Severyan people and their cousins, on parchment radiometrically dated 1200 BCE.
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Pre-History
The Proto-Vostic Tribes originated in an area to the East of the Bigass Mountains, and began a mass migration in parallel with the Proto-Ukrekian Tribes some time around the year 7300 BCE. Both groups reached the modern Marzannian area around the year 7200 BCE after a period of suspended migration. Around 5100 BCE the Proto-Vostic tribes began to become more organized, and clearly distinct cultural lines began to appear. The first Severyans split off from their Proto-Vostic cousins around 4600 BCE and began to switch from a strictly hunting society, to a hunter-gatherer society and shortly after developed a system of belief based on the way of the hunter, the spirits of the animals, and their own spirits. Not much is known about the period of time between 4600 and 2100 BCE, except for the fact that all peoples in the Marzanna area seemed to prosper, and become acclimated to their relatively new home. The 1200 BCE Parchment mentions the beginning of a Severyanian-Kubanizan Rivalry which began for an as of yet unknown reason.
Early History
Pastoralization
Some time around the year 2000 BCE an ethnic group identified as the Tseberans began the long shift from a hunter/gatherer society to that of a herding, pastoral one. They established a loose system of "borders" between each other by staking claims to grazing and herding land that had begun to be worked by family groups. This leads to small conflicts, not only between their fellow Tseberans but, against the neighboring Ukrekian Tribess.
Formation of the Seberii Tribal Confederation
After a long, and seemingly calm reprieve from the violence, a young Seberan Chief came to power in the Southern reaches of what is in present Western Severyane. The Chief was by some accounts called Burya. He was Chief of the largest Seberan tribe at the time, and he decided to utilize his power to unite the Seberan people under a single banner. After a several year long campaign against his fellow tribes, he managed to force all of them to submit to his rule. He formed the Seberii Tribal Confederation, and brought about an era of relative prosperity for the Seberan people.
Thirty years later the son of Burya, Bushevat, led the Seberan people in a conflict against the Haasevat tribes in what is in present Balochia. He takes the name Bushevat Buryasyn (Burya's Son) and conquers the Haasevat tribes after twelve years of military campaigning against the fractured tribes in the North, bringing them into the Seberii Tribal Confederation. He places local Haasevat leaders in charge of organizing the Haasevataan people. Under the administration of the local chiefs, by the year [insert year] the Haasevat become a well oiled province in what was becoming an increasingly centralized Seberii government.
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