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===Preclassic period (c. 2000 BS - 100 AD)=== | ===Preclassic period (c. 2000 BS - 100 AD)=== | ||
-basically period of civilisation, creating language, codifying religion, etc. | |||
===Classic period (c. 100 AD - 800 AD)=== | ===Classic period (c. 100 AD - 800 AD)=== | ||
-golden age, | -golden age, expansion of urban centres (relatively small, but with sophisticated links between numerous ones forming proto-states)<br> | ||
-'colonisation' of coastal areas of the Arucian | -'colonisation' of coastal areas of the Arucian. Colonies and 'mother cities' tend to remain highly linked, rely upon each other | ||
===Postclassic period (c. 800 AD - 1526 AD)=== | ===Postclassic period (c. 800 AD - 1526 AD)=== | ||
-Various causes given for decline, but none fully accepted<br> | |||
-Some colonies begin to fail without support, while others are forced to sever dependence<br> | |||
===Post-Assiman period (1526 AD - 1900 AD)=== | ===Post-Assiman period (1526 AD - 1900 AD)=== | ||
-Contact with Gaullicans iffy, but a few city-states are coerced into accepting Gaullican sovereignty<br> | |||
-Disease decimates urban centres, with some being abandoned and soon used by Gaullican settlers<br> | |||
-Some urban centres survive, eventually merge with new Gaullican cities (Aneville + Ngatana -> Gaton)<br> | |||
-Complex relations with other natives. They are viewed by the other natives as too Gaullican, and by the Gaullicans as too native. | |||
===Modern day=== | ===Modern day=== | ||
==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||
-Big split between coastal and interior Marai culturally | |||
===Politics=== | ===Politics=== | ||
===Religion=== | ===Religion=== | ||
-largely Sotirian. Interior Marai tend to be more evangelical, syncretistic, and adhere to traditional rituals and the traditional religion. | |||
==Demographics== | ==Demographics== | ||
Revision as of 22:31, 12 March 2020
G̃u | |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
 Satucin | 5,129,320 |
| Languages | |
| Marai languages, Gaullican | |
| Religion | |
| Sotirianity and Marai religion | |
The Marai peoples are an ethnolinguistic group of indigenous peoples of the Asterias. They mainly inhabit Satucin, but populations are also found in x.
History
Preclassic period (c. 2000 BS - 100 AD)
-basically period of civilisation, creating language, codifying religion, etc.
Classic period (c. 100 AD - 800 AD)
-golden age, expansion of urban centres (relatively small, but with sophisticated links between numerous ones forming proto-states)
-'colonisation' of coastal areas of the Arucian. Colonies and 'mother cities' tend to remain highly linked, rely upon each other
Postclassic period (c. 800 AD - 1526 AD)
-Various causes given for decline, but none fully accepted
-Some colonies begin to fail without support, while others are forced to sever dependence
Post-Assiman period (1526 AD - 1900 AD)
-Contact with Gaullicans iffy, but a few city-states are coerced into accepting Gaullican sovereignty
-Disease decimates urban centres, with some being abandoned and soon used by Gaullican settlers
-Some urban centres survive, eventually merge with new Gaullican cities (Aneville + Ngatana -> Gaton)
-Complex relations with other natives. They are viewed by the other natives as too Gaullican, and by the Gaullicans as too native.
Modern day
Culture
-Big split between coastal and interior Marai culturally
Politics
Religion
-largely Sotirian. Interior Marai tend to be more evangelical, syncretistic, and adhere to traditional rituals and the traditional religion.