The Test of Time (OOC/Alt-Hist/Open)

[Photana]

IC
The Test of Time

The year is 10,000 5000 BCE, and the world has been changed forever. One intelligent species, Homo sapiens sapiens - modern man, has spread out and dominated the globe, assimilating and annihilating his rivals. Man's spread, however, may be short lived. The world still remains in the depths of an Ice Age, much of the land is buried under miles of ice, and the land that remains unbarren is filled with deadly predators and dangerous prey. In this dangerous world, the seeds of something bigger than isolated tribalism are being planted. The dangers of this world force humans to co-operate, speak to each other, learn from each other. The dangers of this world force humans to move frequently, to use whatever they can to survive. This dangerous world kills many, and this high mortality rate has brought about ceremonies to honor the dead and prepare them for the next life.

But this dangerous world is changing. Slowly but surely, this world is changing. The snows come a bit later, the summer stays for longer and melts more of the ice and snow. As the world changes, so does humanity. This slow warming will not just provide more ways of gathering food, or expand hunting lands, the slow warming of the globe will start a revolution - Agriculture - that will allow humanity to settle, grow from village to town to city all the while expanding their minds as well. The slow warming of the globe will allow humanity to progress beyond simple tribes and start testing their ideas, but the true test - the Test of Time - has already begun, and though many groups will fail this test and be forgotten, some lucky few will pass this test, and lead humanity not only across this globe, but across the stars.

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Technology/Progression

In the pursuit of creating some real alternate history outside of the cultures and borders, as longs as your civilization develops a technology realistically and uses it realistically, feel free to progress in any way you want. You don't have to stick to the progression that happened in our timeline. You could develop iron working before discovering bronze, or never discover iron at all. Steam could be weaponized. As long at it's physically possible, consider it available for you to make a reality.

Also, feel free to develop any sort of society you want, from anarchist to authoritarian, as long as it's not sudden and you realize the limits of your government/lack of one.

So, in general the one real rule of this RP is Be Realistic!


The Map
Time Interval: 150 Years per IRL day
Current Date: 3000 BCE.

Application

This is subject to change as the RP progresses. Be sure to update this as well!

No Real Life Nations or Cultures

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[b][u]Application[/u][/b]
[b]People's name:[/b]
[b]Population:[/b] (Keep realistic!)
[b]Leader's name:[/b]
[b]A brief description of your people's culture and language:[/b]
[b]National Symbol:[/b]
[b]Briefly Describe, in a paragraph, your nation's religion:[/b]
[b]Location:[/b]
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[Alleniana]

-teg-

[Paketo]

-tag-

[The Emerald Dragon]

Tag.

[Abrahammia]

Tag.

[Abrahammia]

How much land can I own? Can I own a piece of land the size of China?

[Alleniana]

Application
People's name: Calids
Population: ~1000
Leader's name: Yellowtooth (Akala'i)
A brief description of your people's culture and language: Formerly among the northernmost farmers of the world, hunting, gathering and ploughing along the Vistula, the Younger Dryas slowly made things harder and harder to bear, crops failing and the hunter-gatherers of the Baltic encroaching. After many a year of famine and population decline, one particularly charismatic fellow by the name of Yellowtooth, for his yellowed front teeth, raised the hue and cry, bringing many of those from the villages in the area to emigrate. They debated whether to go north or south, at last the hostility of those to the north making the decision for them. While for a period, they attempted to hunt and gather in the area, abandoning their agricultural ways, the slow end of the Younger Dryas uprooted them, land and resources becoming scarce. It was only a few years after they ventured into the wild that they left their homelands altogether, trekking southwards in a mass movement unlike many others in the world for greener pastures.
National Symbol: Many have adopted the drawing of a tooth with a geometric pattern across it to represent themselves, their leader's aspirations having defined them in a way impossible in many more egalitarian tribes that have never been ruled within a village, but also different from religiously centred villages.
Briefly Describe, in a paragraph, your nation's religion: Though a primitive form of ancestor worship was practised in the settlements of their origin, it has since progressed ever towards animism and a more fluid state; a curious mix of hunt-gatherer superstitions about the ever changing land through which they roamed, and the hierarchical shamanism of their homeland. It is currently in flux, wobbling about, tied together only by their wandering.
Location: Southern Silesia
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[The Emerald Dragon]

Application

People's name: The Taigami

Population: 450

Leader's name: Izekil

A brief description of your people's culture and language: The Taigami are easily the smallest group of people on the Ryukyu Islands, bordering many hostile tribes and groups. Originally coming from Korea in 11,000 BC, the Taigami have been here for generations, and have bought over several advantageous cultural practises which help them deal with the lack of weaponry. A large part of their culture puts emphasis on strengthening the body, thus, it is very warlike and geared towards that. They've also bought over several variants of martial arts, such as an ancient form of Judo and Karate, which they've coined 'Kra-getch' and is one of the reasons they've managed to hold their ground on the Islands.

National Symbol: The Palm

Briefly Describe, in a paragraph, your nation's religion: The Taigami believe in a plethora of Gods, like Kaza who is the God of Fire for example. All of these are ruled at two temples, one at the very Northern Island and one in the very Southern. A ceremony on at the Northern Temple to welcome the season of Spring occurs and another at the end of the year on the Southern Temple's grounds to mark the end of that year. A common belief is that the gods granted the Taigami their martial prowess, and they have contests to honour them.

Location: The Ryukyu Islands (because why not?)

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[Alcase]

How much land can I own? Can I own a piece of land the size of China?

Lol dude it's 10,000 B.C.E.

[Photana]

How much land can I own? Can I own a piece of land the size of China?

Nope. Three provinces on the map at most.

Application
People's name: Kalids
Population: ~1000
Leader's name: Yellowtooth (Akala'i)
A brief description of your people's culture and language: Formerly among the northernmost farmers of the world, hunting, gathering and ploughing along the Vistula, the Younger Dryas slowly made things harder and harder to bear, crops failing and the hunter-gatherers of the Baltic encroaching. After many a year of famine and population decline, one particularly charismatic fellow by the name of Yellowtooth, for his yellowed front teeth, raised the hue and cry, bringing many of those from the villages in the area to emigrate. They debated whether to go north or south, at last the hostility of those to the north making the decision for them. While for a period, they attempted to hunt and gather in the area, abandoning their agricultural ways, the slow end of the Younger Dryas uprooted them, land and resources becoming scarce. It was only a few years after they ventured into the wild that they left their homelands altogether, trekking southwards in a mass movement unlike many others in the world for greener pastures.
National Symbol: Many have adopted the drawing of a tooth with a geometric pattern across it to represent themselves, their leader's aspirations having defined them in a way impossible in many more egalitarian tribes that have never been ruled within a village, but also different from religiously centred villages.
Briefly Describe, in a paragraph, your nation's religion: Though a primitive form of ancestor worship was practised in the settlements of their origin, it has since progressed ever towards animism and a more fluid state; a curious mix of hunt-gatherer superstitions about the ever changing land through which they roamed, and the hierarchical shamanism of their homeland. It is currently in flux, wobbling about, tied together only by their wandering.
Location: Southern Silesia
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Accepted.

[Raktio]

Feel like trying this if I have time between everything else.

[Alleniana]

This should be interesting; I was just reading a book about the rise of the west last night, and quite a lot of it was talking about the development of the earliest societies in the Hilly Flanks, and then how agriculture developed independently elsewhere and spread.

[Photana]

This should be interesting; I was just reading a book about the rise of the west last night, and quite a lot of it was talking about the development of the earliest societies in the Hilly Flanks, and then how agriculture developed independently elsewhere and spread.

I mean, the west doesn't have to be a thing here. it probably will, but hopefully we get some fun societies and inventions instead of what happened in the past, which was basically just re-skinning the nations of Europe and giving China a new name.

[Reatra]

OH MAI GAWD ITS BACK

[Alleniana]

This should be interesting; I was just reading a book about the rise of the west last night, and quite a lot of it was talking about the development of the earliest societies in the Hilly Flanks, and then how agriculture developed independently elsewhere and spread.

I mean, the west doesn't have to be a thing here. it probably will, but hopefully we get some fun societies and inventions instead of what happened in the past, which was basically just re-skinning the nations of Europe and giving China a new name.

I agree culture could and would be a lot different, but it was biology that determined where the "cores" of civilisation started; it was just where plants and animals that could be domesticated appeared, rather than anything else. It'd make the most sense for civilisation to appear, at least, in roughly the same places where it did IRL (eastern Sahara, fertile crescent, eastern China, New Guinea, Mexico, Peru) due to the distribution of plants and animals that would require a ridiculous POD to change, and then we could progress onwards from there.

[Reatra]

Application
People's name:
Population:
Leader's name:
A brief description of your people's culture and language:
National Symbol:
Briefly Describe, in a paragraph, your nation's religion:
Location: http://i.imgur.com/kkoKknB.png
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[Photana]

I mean, the west doesn't have to be a thing here. it probably will, but hopefully we get some fun societies and inventions instead of what happened in the past, which was basically just re-skinning the nations of Europe and giving China a new name.

I agree culture could and would be a lot different, but it was biology that determined where the "cores" of civilisation started; it was just where plants and animals that could be domesticated appeared, rather than anything else. It'd make the most sense for civilisation to appear, at least, in roughly the same places where it did IRL (eastern Sahara, fertile crescent, eastern China, New Guinea, Mexico, Peru) due to the distribution of plants and animals that would require a ridiculous POD to change, and then we could progress onwards from there.

Well, there is a reason I chose 10,000 BCE as our start date. Hopefully we can get a good amount of Mammoth hunting before they die out. Also, if we have more than 1-2 players in the Americas, I'll see if I can't get the North American horse and camel to survive.

Just for the fun times that those animals lead to.

[Reatra]

I agree culture could and would be a lot different, but it was biology that determined where the "cores" of civilisation started; it was just where plants and animals that could be domesticated appeared, rather than anything else. It'd make the most sense for civilisation to appear, at least, in roughly the same places where it did IRL (eastern Sahara, fertile crescent, eastern China, New Guinea, Mexico, Peru) due to the distribution of plants and animals that would require a ridiculous POD to change, and then we could progress onwards from there.

Well, there is a reason I chose 10,000 BCE as our start date. Hopefully we can get a good amount of Mammoth hunting before they die out. Also, if we have more than 1-2 players in the Americas, I'll see if I can't get the North American horse and camel to survive.

Just for the fun times that those animals lead to.

Huehuehuehuehue Just do it regardless.

I wanna challenge when I colonize.

[Alleniana]

I agree culture could and would be a lot different, but it was biology that determined where the "cores" of civilisation started; it was just where plants and animals that could be domesticated appeared, rather than anything else. It'd make the most sense for civilisation to appear, at least, in roughly the same places where it did IRL (eastern Sahara, fertile crescent, eastern China, New Guinea, Mexico, Peru) due to the distribution of plants and animals that would require a ridiculous POD to change, and then we could progress onwards from there.

Well, there is a reason I chose 10,000 BCE as our start date. Hopefully we can get a good amount of Mammoth hunting before they die out. Also, if we have more than 1-2 players in the Americas, I'll see if I can't get the North American horse and camel to survive.

Just for the fun times that those animals lead to.

Horses appear to have already died out; if they didn't die out before the Younger Dryas, they would definitely have during it. Same for the camel. You could try to change it, but it'd require a hell of a butterfly.

[Reatra]

In fact, if the New Worlds does have megafauna then I might switch.

[Photana]

Well, there is a reason I chose 10,000 BCE as our start date. Hopefully we can get a good amount of Mammoth hunting before they die out. Also, if we have more than 1-2 players in the Americas, I'll see if I can't get the North American horse and camel to survive.

Just for the fun times that those animals lead to.

Horses appear to have already died out; if they didn't die out before the Younger Dryas, they would definitely have during it. Same for the camel. You could try to change it, but it'd require a hell of a butterfly.

Damn.

Looks like North America will be getting the short stick this time.

[Alleniana]

In fact, if the New Worlds does have megafauna then I might switch.

humanes eunt domus

[Reatra]

What you could do is have a tiny population of horses live in one of the not colonized parts (by humans) of America. The same happened in Eurasia about this time, which is why horses didn't become common until a few thousand years later. Same for Camels, and mastodons (not mammoths, they were doomed Becuase of their "living in the semi-arctic" lifestyle)

[Alleniana]

What you could do is have a tiny population of horses live in one of the not colonized parts (by humans) of America. The same happened in Eurasia about this time, which is why horses didn't become common until a few thousand years later. Same for Camels, and mastodons (not mammoths, they were doomed Becuase of their "living in the semi-arctic" lifestyle)

What region could do that though? Humans, generally, have a far greater natural habitat than grazing animals like them.

[Photana]

What you could do is have a tiny population of horses live in one of the not colonized parts (by humans) of America. The same happened in Eurasia about this time, which is why horses didn't become common until a few thousand years later. Same for Camels, and mastodons (not mammoths, they were doomed Becuase of their "living in the semi-arctic" lifestyle)

Hmm. That may work.