History of Zahava

Paleolithic
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Neolithic
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Bronze Age
Bronze artifacts have been found at the Acastian culture site between 3100 and 2700 BCE. The Bronze Age is also represented at the Lower Mageiaus culture 2200–1600 BCE site in south central Zahava. Kempolis located in what is now part of the Tumultum segmentum is believed to be the site of a major ancient city, belonging to the Kempka civilization,between 2000 and 1200 BCE and may have been home to as many as 30,000 people in 1600 BCE. The site of Kempolis was first discovered in 1919 and then re-discovered in 1966.

Evidence of commerce has been found at several sites, namely the Kaelon and Lytanus sites, found in the Mesis and Raetium segmentums respectively. Both sites have Kempkan jewlery, and there is evidence of correspondence between these civilizations. Additionally there are many surviving examples of Kaelon pottery which shows depictions of ships of ocean going designs, and depictions of people wearing Lytanian, Kempkan, and other Zahavan bronze age cultures fashion styles in clothing, hair styles, and styles of makeup or other body art.

Ferrous metallurgy begins to appear in the late 6th century in the lower masali valley. A bronze axe with a blade of meteoric iron excavated near the city of Honeia in the subsolanus segmentum has been dated to the 14th century BCE.

Masonry, sculpting, and other construction advancements are also noted due to the remains of palaces, palatial villas, houses, temples, shrines, monuments and fortifications. Many of these remains show evidence of structural decoration with architectural features, such as columns, friezes and various moldings; mural decoration, such as fresco-paintings, colored reliefs and mosaic inlay. roof tiles were also occasionally employed. Additionally structures were often decorated with depictions of household furniture such as vessels of all sorts, from giant store jugs down to tiny pots; culinary tools, weapons, and other implements and ; thrones, seats, tables, etc are also commonly shown in surviving murals.

Republic Era (497 CE - 804 CE)
The republic era of Zahava would see a gradual decentralization in government, until essentially each segmentum was its own state, held together in a loose confederation with each state having its own senate and other legislative bodies or assemblies. The republic era would technically end in 700 CE when segmentum military commanders, who typically presided over the segmentums as elected officials called Tetrarchs would abolish or weaken the segmentum assemblies instead centralizing power around themselves some of which would form hereditary lines of succession and effectively re-establishing the city state eras of old. The key difference between the Tetrarch era and the previous city state era is that now all of the states within modern day zahava shared one culture, language, and had similar laws, social norms, religion and other shared cultural aspects.

The tetrarch rule would come to end when the tetrarch Zimisces I managed to campaign successfully against the other semgmentums unifying them all under his rule. Zimices would then declare himself emperor and begin the Zimisces dynasty as the first dynasty of the second Zahavan empire.