History of Saukania

The history of Saukania comprises the history of the territory of the modern confederation of Saukania as well as that of the Saukanian people and the areas they inhabited and ruled throughout the span of their history. The borders of Saukania and the area inhabited by Saukanian peoples have fluctuated over the course of their history, resulting in a rather elastic inclusion of places and times.

Saukanian civilization is among the oldest in the world, with a continuous history and identity stretching back into the 3rd millennium BC. Home first to Pre-Saukanian Neolithic and metallurgical cultures, a Bronze Age invasion by semi-nomadic pastoralists from the north introduced the Saukanian languge and material culture into the region. A culturally aligned network of independent city-states centred on the Laxad river and its tributaries and the foothills of the Ghuran Mountains, giving rise to leagues and political associations lasting throughout the rest of the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age of antiquity. A sophisticated and advanced material culture developed with Saukanian control of overland Thrismari trade, enriching a number of well situated cities over their rivals. This fiercely guarded political independence lasted well into the Medieval age and beyond, with the desert climate and harsh environment punishing many attempted invaders as severely as the natives themselves.

In the early modern and modern periods, foreign pressure forced the never-before-seen unification of all independent Saukanian political entities, giving rise to the modern Confederation.

The history of Saukania can be divided into the following periods:

• Prehistoric Saukania, from c. 3.3 million years ago (the onset of the Palaeolithic) to c. 1750 BC, with the rise of the Bronze Age Lukenean culture. The intervening years saw the first arrival of hominids in Saukania; the first anatomically modern humans; the first permanently inhabited farming communities beginning c. 9200 BC; the development of the Pre-Saukanian metallurgical civilizations from the 6th millennium BC; the invasion by Proto-Saukanian migratory bands and populations commencing c. 3300 BC; successive waves of Saukanian invaders over the next millennium causing the extinction of indigenous languages and replacing the genetic and material signatures of the region; the development of distinctive Saukanian archaeological cultures (Arakan and Kelan); and eventually the rise of the Lukenean civilization in the early 2nd millennium BC.
• Bronze Age Saukania
• Ancient Saukania
  • Early Ancient Saukania
  • Middle Ancient Saukania
  • Late Ancient Saukania
• Medieval Saukania
  • Early Medieval
  • Middle Medieval
  • Late Medieval
• Early Modern Saukania
• Modern Saukania
• Contemporary Saukania