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Medasteria (Gaullican: Medastérie; Luzelese: Medastéria; Vespasian: Medasteria; Ruttish: Medasterija; Blostlandic: Medästeria; Asteriaans: Medasterië; Soravian: Медастерія) is a geographical region consisting of the regions of the Asterian continents along the coast of the Arucian Sea and the islands within the Arucian, most commonly invoked as a historical region consisting of the civilizations which existed in the area before the discovery of the Asterias and the arrival of Euclean explorers and settlers in the late 15th and 16th centuries. Today, Medasteria occupies portions of Eldmark, Ardesia, Vinalia, Gapolania, Adamantina, Satucin, Aucuria, and Nuvania, as well as the entirety of Sainte-Chloé, Carucere, Imagua and the Assimas, Bonaventure, and Île d'Émeraude.

Medasteria is home to two of the world's true cradles of civilization, where sedentary civilized society emerged independently: pre-Assimian Aucuria, and Tonatihcan in modern-day Ardesia and Vinalia. Key advancements include the domestication of Maize, including the use of the Three sisters, Potato, Tomato, Cacao, Chili pepper, Tobacco, Alpaca, Llama, Guinea Pig. Innovations include Tonatihcan calendars, pyramids, Quipu, the Zero, Metallurgy, among others. Items of Zapoyan origin have been discovered in modern Aucuria, while Cutinsuan items have been identified in modern Île d'Émeraude

[pre-contact history in broad strokes; plants and animals domesticated, cultural features, innovations, etc - probably worth playing up the extent of trans-arucian trade and influence to demonstrate that this is one cohesive unit]

[then eucleans arrive and it all goes to sh!t]

[legacy today; the possibility that it's still sometimes used to talk about the connections between the modern asterian nations in the territory?]

Etymology and definition

Medasteria literally means "in the middle of the Asterias", from the combination of the Solarian medius ("middle") and the word "Asteria", derived from the name of Rahelian explorer Assim Asteris. [when and how is the term coined?]

[what defines medasteria as a singular cohesive unit?]

Civilisations

Tonatihcan

Main article: Tonatihcan

!Taino

Try to keep it general here, anything more specific to each island to be done in separate pages, or

Marai

Will have a more general name e.g. Tonatihcan to include non-Marai groups, and group both Highland and Coastal Marai