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Uluujol (literally "the Ancient/Great Road") is a massive nation located on the continent of Ochran, in the region of [[Ajax]]. The country has historically sat aside major east-west overland trade routes, and now contains the longest segment of the [[Trans-Ochran Railroad]]. As such, the nation plays a major role in international trade between nations of Ochran, Scipia, and Belisaria.


The country was historically split into two or three realms prior to the [[Bayarid Empire]]. After the fall of that empire, two successor states in [[Xiwangguo|Xi]] and the [[Oshkhanate]] were joined through a dynastic union.
'''Uluujoldunjeri''' (from {{wp|Kyrgyz|Ozhchuyan}}, literally "Land of the Great Road"), commonly referred to as simply '''Uluujol''' (''uː-luː-ʒɒl''), sometimes {{wp|Anglicization|rendered}} as '''Yuzol''' or called the '''Great Road Khaganate''' or '''Jade Road Khaganate''', was a land empire located in central [[Ajax|Ochran]]. Situated along major east-west overland trade routes between Belisaria & the Periclean Basin and Eastern Ochran, the realm was a primary political hegemon in Central Ochran, and a successor realm of the [[Bayarid Empire]]. In the present, the lands occupied by the Khaganate include the nations of [[Untsangasar]], [[Shimlar-Pashmir]], and [other nations].  


== History ==
Unlike its Bayarid predecessor, Uluujol was created through a mix of conquest and dynastic unifications, with the final and most major one being the marital union of the [[Chuyan Khanate]] in the west and the state of [[Lo]] in the east, in which the two eventual heirs of the Khanates, Niri of Ozhe and Shui of Lo wedded. The couple ruled the combined realm together, and when they passed on both thrones were united in the person of their son, [[Ozkan I of Uluujol|Ozkan]]. Ozkan's descendents would rule the realm for the next three hundred years, until the [[War of the Banners]] would effectively destroy the [[House of Ozkan|Ozkanid]] powerbase and would leave the state a shell of its former self, finally destroyed for good by the burgeoning [[Zilung Chen|Zilung Empire]], the resurgent [[Untsangasar|White Horde]], [[Qavarjeri|a nascent Qavar Khanate]], and independence movements in [[Shimlar-Pashmir]].
{{main|History of Uluujol}}


===Pre-Unification History===
The Khaganate was central to Ochranic history and politics during the approximately three hundred years of its existance, due  to  its central position and influence over the overland trade to eastern Ochran.


====Kardistan and Hwarezm====
==History==


Evidence has been found of permanent human habitation of the Karda Basin dating back to approximately 9,200 BCE. By the middle of the Third Millennium BCE, a robust set of city states and petty kingdoms had formed along the shores and plains immediately surrounding the Sea of Karda. Starting around 1300 BCE, the Kingdom of Karda unified most of the northeastern shore of the Sea, and over the next two centuries, unified most of the Karda seaboard and expanded into the Chu River Valley, holding most of the valley until the 800's BCE when they were pushed out by expansion by the [[Xiwangguo|Xi]]'s [[Nimaha dynasty]]. The [[Kardish Empire]] fell back to the Basin until the 3rd century BCE when the Basin was conquered by the [[Hwarezmid Empire]], based out of the Chu Valley. Although Hwarezmid rulers were eventually driven out of their home territory, their rule persisted in the Basin until the 10th century CE, when the entirety of modern Uluujol was conquered by the [[Barayid Empire]].
===Founding===
The Jade Road Khaganate was largely the result of the conquests and consolidation of various post-Bayarid realms under the aegis of the central [[Blue Horde (Ajax)|Blue Horde]]. Its primary opposition were the other post-Bayarid states, including the western [[Qavarjeri#History#Red Horde|Red Horde]], the northern [[White Khanate|White Horde]], the [[Lo|Lo State]], and, importantly, the [[Nanjut people|Nanjut Federation]]. While many of these others fell to conquest, the last of these would join the Blue Horde in a dynastic union, with the prince Niri wedding the Nanjut princess Shui in 1395 to seal the Treaty of Eternal Friendship. Niri, the heir to [[Ozgur II Khan]], and Shui, sole surviving child of [[Mutengge IV Khan|Mutengge IV of Nanjutia]], effectively merged the two dynasties, with their new combined realm ultimately to be ruled by their eldest son, [[Ozkan I of Uluujol|Ozkan I Khagan]]


Following the collapse of the Bayarids in the early 13th century CE, a briefly-independent Kardistan was conquered by the burgeoning [[Oshkhanate]], which consolidated its control over the Basin and its tributaries over the next century.  
===Early Empire===
Efforts to centralize the governance of the Khaganate and improve trade routes were energetically pursued by Ozkan and his immediate successors, because money.


====Chu River Valley====
==Territorial Extent==


The earliest Neolithic settlements found in the Chu River Valley date back to circa 9,100 BCE. A system of city states and petty kingdoms had been established in the valley by 2nd Millennium BCE. By the middle of the millennium, the city-states were being conquered and incorporated into the burgeoning [[Kardish Empire]]. Kardish authorities were driven out of the Valley in the 9th century BCE, replaced by new conquerors from the west, led by the Nimaha dynasty of Xi. When the Nimaha dynasty collapsed and Xi was conquered by the [[Zhou|Zhou Empire]], it left a power vacuum in the valley, which briefly led to a period of strife. However, by the middle of the 6th century BCE, the Kingdom of Hwarezm was on the rise, and soon it was conquering large swaths of the Valley, and then into the Basin, forming the Hwarezmid Empire. The Hwarezmids enjoyed a long period of prosperity and power between 350 BCE and 450 CE when they were driven from their homeland, reduced to a rump state in Kardistan. In their place, the Turkic-speaking Buminid Khanate took control of the Chu River Valley, holding it until they and Kardistan were conquered by the Bayarids in the 10th century CE.


Following the collapse of the Bayarids in the 13th century, a new Khanate, centered on the trade hub city of [[Osh|Osh (Uluujol)]] rapidly emerged and built out an empire in the Valley and the Basin, carved from the bleeding flank of the collapsing Bayarids. The Oshkhanate proved to have a fortuitous combination of skilled leadership and the afterglow of a period of high trade on the Jade Road, but they still found themselves beset on their western borders by would-be-invaders as the 14th century drew to a close.
==Politics==
Uluujol was an absolute monarchy, in which the Khagan was elected upon the death of the previous Khagan from among the eligible members of the [[House of Ozkan|imperial house]] by their kin. The members of the imperial house, along with high officials, and representatives of a number of other prominent houses, both Chuyan and elevated from among the Khaganate's subject peoples, formed the Imperial Shuukh (Imperial Court), in which all power was vested as an extension of the Khagan's will. High officials were often drawn from the Shuukh, either from among prominent courtiers or from the Ozkanid clan itself.  


====Western Zhou====  
===Selection of the Khagan===
At the death or abdication of a Khagan, the new Khagan would be elected by the Imperial Clan from among the previous Khagan's descendants. To be eligible, a would-be-monarch needed to be a legitimate (or legitimized) child of the Khagan, or an immediate blood relative (generally a sibling or the legitimate child thereof). A Khagan with adequate foresight could designate their heir, making it extremely difficult to stop their ascent to the throne.


Neolithic settlements in Western Zhou began to appear in the middle of the 10th Millennium BCE, and a river valley culture centered on the Hai River bloomed. In the 12th century BCE, the area was conquered by Mankut-speaking nomads, led by the Nimaha clan, who centralized power in what became known as "the Western State", or [[Xiwangguo|Xi]] by its {{wp|Jin_Chinese|Xi}}-speaking majority. The state would remain stable and prosperous, expanding west into the Chu River Valley until it was conquered by its eastern neighbors in [[Zhou]]. The [[Xiwangguo|Xi]] would not regain independence until the 8th century CE, when it would finally break away from a weakening Sinhai under the Yu dynasty. The newfound independence would not last, and, like the rest of Central Ochran, Xiwangguo found itself subjugated by the Bayarids in the 10th century.
The succession was voted on by all members of the dynasty with three degrees of separation or less from the previous monarch: this generally meant that, functionally, any of the Khagan's surviving wives (above a certain rank), their parents and any surviving direct ancestors, their great-aunts and great-uncles, their aunts and uncles, first-cousins (aunt's and uncles' children), their siblings, their nieces and nephews, great-nieces and nephews, and the Khagan's own children, grandchildren and, potentially, great-grandchildren, including those by concubines.


When the Bayarids collapsed, a resurgent Taizhou under a Sinicized Bayarid dynasty attempted to maintain their control over Xi, but a protracted civil war would allow the Mankut-speaking Ikderi dynasty to break away and reform Xi as an independent state. Although they had won their independence, the Ikderi rulers found themselves having to constantly battle the Celestial Zhou simply to survive.
In most cases, the previous Khagan designated their desired successor. In those instances, the designated successor generally ascended the throne; the House of Ozkan's internal laws held that a three-quarters supermajority in opposition within the Imperial clan could stop this from happening, but in practice, this never occurred at any Kurultai of Succession. In cases where no successor was named, each of the Khagan's legitimate children (children by his Khatun, and any imperial consorts) were considered by the clan for the throne in order of seniority. While women could (and in a few cases, did) become Khagan, the order of consideration required that each of a consort's male children by the Khagan be considered in order of seniority before any of their female children by the Khagan.


===Unification - The Birth of the Khaganate===
During the early years of the Jade Road Khaganate this process often proceeded relatively smoothly; even in cases where an obviously-unsuitable heir was bypassed, either the deceased predecessor ruler had the foresight to designate a preferred heir, or support solidified quickly around a more viable alternative. However, as the Khaganate grew richer, bloated, and less-stable, and the House of Ozkan increasingly factionalized, Kurultais became much less certain affairs and it became increasingly-common for the death of a Khagan to trigger a spate of murders among possible claimants to the throne as the succession became muddled. These problems eventually culminated at the death of [[Ozkan VI of Uluujol|Ozkan VI Khagan]], who left no legitimate children, and whose cousins and siblings each found themselves used as proxies by factions in the Shuukh, triggering the [[War of the Banners]] and ultimately beginning the terminal decline of the Khaganate.


All the realms of modern Uluujol had been long connected by waves of conquest and the robust commerce traveling through the network of tributaries of the Chu and the Karda Sea, a major link of what became known as the [[Jade Road]]. Following the collapse of the Bayarids, successor states in the Oshkhanate and Xiwangguo found themselves battling for their very survival on their western and eastern borders respectively, and realizing the opportunity for great wealth that lay in the trade route they both sat astride.
== Legacy ==


In 1395, a meeting between Ozgur II Khagan of the Oshkhanate and Mutengge IV Chanyu in the city of Isfana bore fruit; a treaty of eternal friendship and alliance was signed, sealed by the marriage of Ozgur's son, Niri, to Mutengge's daughter Shui. As Shui was Mutengge's only issue, when the Chanyu died in 1416, Shui succeeded him. Their eldest son, Ozkan, became the first person to rule both Xiwangguo and the Oshkhanate simultaneously.
The Jade Road Khaganate ultimately proved to be an incubator for a great number of successor states that would go on to shape Ochranic history. But even beyond the immediate political impacts, Uluujol's nature as a continent-spanning trade-based empire allowed the transmission of culture, language, commerce and art along a secure east-west route. The realm's nature (and that of its ruling elite) as an ethno-linguistic melting pot transmitted advances in the sciences and arts in both directions along its route, helped to foster the pan-Chuyan identity, while also setting patterns of governance and lifestyle for its successor states. Influenced by its western Azagartian subjects, Uluujol's standardization of familial surnames is still felt in [[Untsangasar]], which orders names differently from most of its immediate neighbors. It would help spread the Chuyan alphabet, still in use in many parts of the former Khaganate, most-notably Untsangasar.  


===Ozkanid Dynasty (1432 - 1703 CE)===
[Please add cultural and/or political knock-on effects your nation has that are attributable to being formerly part of Uluujol I guess]


At his ascension in 1432, Ozkan (styled Ozkan I) was declared the "Khagan of the Great Road", referring to his realm which contained the entirety of the Central Ochran Jade Road. Ozkan and his immediate successors worked to administer both realms, initially from separate capitals in [[Samarqand]] and [[Xi'an]], but increasingly from the central capital in [[Osh]].


Among the measures taken to unite the two realms into a coherent whole and to facilitate trade throughout the entirety of the Jade Road included the universal adoption of {{wp|Chinese_characters|Shuzi}} for writing the standard central language of {{wp|Kyrgyz_language|Kyrguz}}, as well as Xi. To cement the loyalty of regional magnates, Ozkan, who, in addition to his wife had several concubines, married the daughters of his concubines to regional magnates, often accompanying an elevation to the post of governor. Ozkan also introduced what would become, with some minor modifications, the modern provincial system of Uluujol.
Ozkan's long life helped to cement the idea of a united Khaganate on a more permanent basis: born in 1399 and ascending at age 33 in 1432, Ozkan's reign would last until his death in 1491 at the age of 92 after ruling for nearly 60 years.
===Early Yu Dynasty (1703 - 1837 CE)===
===Green Flag Revolt (1837 - 1841 CE)===
{{main|Green Flag Revolt}}
===The Great Connecting (1841 - 1915 CE)===
===Shiraz Revolts (1915 - 1932 CE)===
Peasant revolt, picking up the most strength in the country's western provinces and, to some extent, in the Chu River Valley.
Four revolts, interrupted by ceasefires; the first is a coordinated rising (1915 - 1918), the second a re-eruption of the eastern and central revolts (1920 - 1924), the third a resurgence of the Xi revolt, co-opted by separatist factions (1921 - 1926), and the fourth, a breaking of the ceasefire by scattered forces remaining in the east and Chu River Valley (1927 - 1934).
The final ceasefire in 1932 saw the laying down of arms by remaining rebels in Hwarezm, Kardistan, and Chu, with the remaining rebels throwing themselves on the mercy of the Khagan. For their pleas, they were executed en-masse; an estimated 8,000 rebels were executed between April 2nd and April 14th of 1932.
===The People's Reforms (1918 - 1934 CE)===
===Modern Era (1957 - present)===
== Geography ==
{{main|Geography of Uluujol}}
Uluujol is divided into five broad geographic regions. North of the Sea of Karda in the west lies the region of Kardistan, a high, semi-arid plain which slopes toward the sea. South of the Sea lays the reason of Hwarezm, the relative low ground between parts south, the Qianxia Plateau to the Southeast, and the Chu River Valley to the northeast.
The center of the country is occupied by the Chu River Valley, a network of rivers which empty into the aforementioned [[Great Chu River]], which in turn runs west into the Sea of Karda. To its north, the River Valley gives way to the Central Ochran Steppe. The Qianxia Plateau to the south gives way to a mountain range which divides the Chu River Valley from the Hai River Valley and Western Zhou, also known as Xi.
== Politics ==
{{main|Politics of Uluujol}}
Uluujol is a unitary absolute monarchy. The government is led by the Khagan.
Within the system, aside from a few rules which govern how the Khagan is selected and a handful of precedents that are only violated at their own peril, the Khagan's will reigns supreme. However, in light of the size and diversity of the realm, in practice much of the day-to-day administration is carried out by authorities appointed by the Khagan.
The Khaganate is divided into 33 provinces, each officially ruled by a ''khan'' or ''shah'' and functionally administered by a governor, who heads up a governing board. The governors are appointed directly by the Khagan, who in turn appoint their respective governing boards, although it is customary for governors to follow (or at least account for) the recommendations of local representatives in the selection of their immediate subordinates.
Although theoretically a governor can be appointed from any other post or position, the majority of governors are appointed either from the Shuukh (often a member of the dynasty or an Ekinji Bala), or are promoted from a governing board in their respective province at the recommendation of their predecessor.
The Imperial Shuukh (or Court) consists of the Khagan, all living members of the Imperial clan, any living Ekinji Bala, former governors, and any of the 33 provincial ''Shah''s or ''Kahn''s and their clans.
===Ekinji Bala===
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The [[Ekinji Bala]] are children of the Khagan born to anyone other than their spouse. In almost all cases, members of the Ekinji Bala (literally "secondary children") are born to one of the Khagan's concubines. They exist in a legal gray area: they are not full members of the Imperial dynasty, despite bearing the Khagan's clan name. As such, they cannot inherit the throne under normal circumstances.
Ekinji Bala are generally well-educated and raised as part of the Imperial clan, groomed either to be married off to pursue dynastic alliances, or for placement as high-ranking officials. In the event of either a failure to produce a legitimate heir who survives to adulthood, or in the event of an Ekinji Bala distinguishing themselves to a significant extent, a Khagan can elevate them into the Imperial Clan. When this occurs, they are considered on equal footing to a child produced by the Khagan with their spouse, although for line of succession purposes they are considered to be younger than any of the children fathered by the Khagan with their actual spouse.
Because Ekinji Bala are often fast-tracked to high-ranking positions in government and civil service, there have been several noteworthy members of the class in the Khaganate's history. Noteworthy current members include Governor [[Baraz Yu]] of Osh Province, Governor [[Darya Fahadi]] of Samarqand Province, Minister of Health [[Azar Yu]], actress [[Su Yu]], and Xi'an Mayor [[Aysen Yu]].
== Military ==
{{main|The Unified Armed Forces of Uluujol}}
== Foreign Relations ==
{{main|Foreign Relations of Uluujol}}
== Economy ==
{{main|Economy of Uluujol}}
== Demographics ==
{{main|Demographics of Uluujol}}
Uluujol contains numerous ethnic groups, generally categorized by their ethnolinguistic ties. They are divided into Iranian-speakers (who live primarily in the western half of the realm), Turkic-speakers (who mostly live in the central and western areas), Tibetan-speakers (who live in the southeast of the country), Sinitic speakers (who live mostly in the country's far-east) and Evenki-speakers, who live primarily in the country's northeast.
The most widespread of these groups are the Turkic-speaking groups, who can be found in moderately-high numbers throughout Uluujol, and whose language serves as the common language for the entire country.
In terms of the overall population, the groups account for the following percentages over the entire country:
* Turkic-speakers - 30%
* Sinitic-speakers - 26%
* Iranian-speakers - 21%
* Evenki-speakers - 11%
* Tibetic-speakers - 10%
* Other groups - 2%
== Culture ==
{{main|Culture of Uluujol}}
=== Transportation ===
{{main|Transportation in Uluujol}}
{{main|Trans-Ochran Rail Consortium}}
=== Religion ===
{{main|Religion in Uluujol}}
As a crossroads linking east and west, and an area that has played host to numerous cultures and empires, the Khaganate is home to a wide variety of religious creeds and congregations. As such, Uluujol does not have a single majority religion; the most widespread religion within the Khaganate is the faith of [[Sadhana]], which is followed by approximately 34% of the population. It is followed by [[Zensunnism (Ajax)|Zensunnism]]. The government of the Khaganate is secular, although the ruling [[Yu dynasty (Uluujol)|Yu dynasty]] are adherents of Sadhana. The country's Zoroastrian population is disproportionately-concentrated in the west around Kardistan and Hwarezm. Zensunnism is well-represented throughout the country, with slightly higher concentrations in the west, with Sadhana being well-represented throughout the country, but becoming a larger share of the population in the Khaganate's eastern regions.
Small Muslim, Christian, and Jewish minorities are found in the country, mostly concentrated in the western regions.
Religious breakdown of Uluujol:
* [[Sadhana]] - 32.1%
* [[Zensunnism (Ajax)|Zensunnism]] - 23.6%
* [[Yeshusadhana]] - 10.3%
* {{wp|Zoroastrianism}} - 9.8%
* [[Mazdasadhana]] - 9.2%
* {{wp|Tengrism}} - 5.7%
* {{wp|Judaism}} - 5.1%
* {{wp|Islam}} - 1.2%
* {{wp|Christianity}} - 1%
* Other Assorted Religions - 2%
=== Sports ===
{{main|Sport in Uluujol}}


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Latest revision as of 21:10, 5 July 2023

Land of the Great Road

Uluujoldunjeri
1432–1739
Banner of the Khaganate of the Great Road
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The Jade Road Khaganate at maximum extent, c. 1550 CE
The Jade Road Khaganate at maximum extent, c. 1550 CE
StatusDefunct
CapitalOzhe
GovernmentAbsolute Elective Monarchy
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Marriage of Niri of Ozhe & Shui of Lo
1395
• Coronation of Ozkan I
1432
• Fall of Ozhe
1739
Preceded by
Blue Khanate
White Khanate
Nanjut Federation

Uluujoldunjeri (from Ozhchuyan, literally "Land of the Great Road"), commonly referred to as simply Uluujol (uː-luː-ʒɒl), sometimes rendered as Yuzol or called the Great Road Khaganate or Jade Road Khaganate, was a land empire located in central Ochran. Situated along major east-west overland trade routes between Belisaria & the Periclean Basin and Eastern Ochran, the realm was a primary political hegemon in Central Ochran, and a successor realm of the Bayarid Empire. In the present, the lands occupied by the Khaganate include the nations of Untsangasar, Shimlar-Pashmir, and [other nations].

Unlike its Bayarid predecessor, Uluujol was created through a mix of conquest and dynastic unifications, with the final and most major one being the marital union of the Chuyan Khanate in the west and the state of Lo in the east, in which the two eventual heirs of the Khanates, Niri of Ozhe and Shui of Lo wedded. The couple ruled the combined realm together, and when they passed on both thrones were united in the person of their son, Ozkan. Ozkan's descendents would rule the realm for the next three hundred years, until the War of the Banners would effectively destroy the Ozkanid powerbase and would leave the state a shell of its former self, finally destroyed for good by the burgeoning Zilung Empire, the resurgent White Horde, a nascent Qavar Khanate, and independence movements in Shimlar-Pashmir.

The Khaganate was central to Ochranic history and politics during the approximately three hundred years of its existance, due to its central position and influence over the overland trade to eastern Ochran.

History

Founding

The Jade Road Khaganate was largely the result of the conquests and consolidation of various post-Bayarid realms under the aegis of the central Blue Horde. Its primary opposition were the other post-Bayarid states, including the western Red Horde, the northern White Horde, the Lo State, and, importantly, the Nanjut Federation. While many of these others fell to conquest, the last of these would join the Blue Horde in a dynastic union, with the prince Niri wedding the Nanjut princess Shui in 1395 to seal the Treaty of Eternal Friendship. Niri, the heir to Ozgur II Khan, and Shui, sole surviving child of Mutengge IV of Nanjutia, effectively merged the two dynasties, with their new combined realm ultimately to be ruled by their eldest son, Ozkan I Khagan

Early Empire

Efforts to centralize the governance of the Khaganate and improve trade routes were energetically pursued by Ozkan and his immediate successors, because money.

Territorial Extent

Politics

Uluujol was an absolute monarchy, in which the Khagan was elected upon the death of the previous Khagan from among the eligible members of the imperial house by their kin. The members of the imperial house, along with high officials, and representatives of a number of other prominent houses, both Chuyan and elevated from among the Khaganate's subject peoples, formed the Imperial Shuukh (Imperial Court), in which all power was vested as an extension of the Khagan's will. High officials were often drawn from the Shuukh, either from among prominent courtiers or from the Ozkanid clan itself.

Selection of the Khagan

At the death or abdication of a Khagan, the new Khagan would be elected by the Imperial Clan from among the previous Khagan's descendants. To be eligible, a would-be-monarch needed to be a legitimate (or legitimized) child of the Khagan, or an immediate blood relative (generally a sibling or the legitimate child thereof). A Khagan with adequate foresight could designate their heir, making it extremely difficult to stop their ascent to the throne.

The succession was voted on by all members of the dynasty with three degrees of separation or less from the previous monarch: this generally meant that, functionally, any of the Khagan's surviving wives (above a certain rank), their parents and any surviving direct ancestors, their great-aunts and great-uncles, their aunts and uncles, first-cousins (aunt's and uncles' children), their siblings, their nieces and nephews, great-nieces and nephews, and the Khagan's own children, grandchildren and, potentially, great-grandchildren, including those by concubines.

In most cases, the previous Khagan designated their desired successor. In those instances, the designated successor generally ascended the throne; the House of Ozkan's internal laws held that a three-quarters supermajority in opposition within the Imperial clan could stop this from happening, but in practice, this never occurred at any Kurultai of Succession. In cases where no successor was named, each of the Khagan's legitimate children (children by his Khatun, and any imperial consorts) were considered by the clan for the throne in order of seniority. While women could (and in a few cases, did) become Khagan, the order of consideration required that each of a consort's male children by the Khagan be considered in order of seniority before any of their female children by the Khagan.

During the early years of the Jade Road Khaganate this process often proceeded relatively smoothly; even in cases where an obviously-unsuitable heir was bypassed, either the deceased predecessor ruler had the foresight to designate a preferred heir, or support solidified quickly around a more viable alternative. However, as the Khaganate grew richer, bloated, and less-stable, and the House of Ozkan increasingly factionalized, Kurultais became much less certain affairs and it became increasingly-common for the death of a Khagan to trigger a spate of murders among possible claimants to the throne as the succession became muddled. These problems eventually culminated at the death of Ozkan VI Khagan, who left no legitimate children, and whose cousins and siblings each found themselves used as proxies by factions in the Shuukh, triggering the War of the Banners and ultimately beginning the terminal decline of the Khaganate.

Legacy

The Jade Road Khaganate ultimately proved to be an incubator for a great number of successor states that would go on to shape Ochranic history. But even beyond the immediate political impacts, Uluujol's nature as a continent-spanning trade-based empire allowed the transmission of culture, language, commerce and art along a secure east-west route. The realm's nature (and that of its ruling elite) as an ethno-linguistic melting pot transmitted advances in the sciences and arts in both directions along its route, helped to foster the pan-Chuyan identity, while also setting patterns of governance and lifestyle for its successor states. Influenced by its western Azagartian subjects, Uluujol's standardization of familial surnames is still felt in Untsangasar, which orders names differently from most of its immediate neighbors. It would help spread the Chuyan alphabet, still in use in many parts of the former Khaganate, most-notably Untsangasar.

[Please add cultural and/or political knock-on effects your nation has that are attributable to being formerly part of Uluujol I guess]

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