History of Zahava

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Paleolithic
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Neolithic
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Zokhian Civilization
A proto avalonian civilization, the Zokhia inhabited the isles of Cretacia, Deimos and Idumea along with several other smaller islands in a small archipelago off the coast of eastern Avalonia. The Zokhian peoples were a seafaring people and, with limited land available on their islands devoted much of their time to raiding coastal settlements and trading pillaged goods with a number of other early Avalonian coastal civilizations. These interactions allowed the integration of Zokhian culture to other civilizations and led to the establishment of several small, trading post colonies, which were not occupied year round. Of particular significance is the Zokhian pantheon, as the likeness found on many Zokhian artifacts bear striking resemblances to numerous modern day Zahavan deities. In roughly 1400 BCE, the Zokhian civilization began to fully transition from primarily seafaring raiders to having larger more established and permanent settlements focused on agriculture and other industries. Many of these early settlements were ruled by a chieftain who would swear their allegiance to a more powerful leader who served in theory as leader of all the Zokhian settlements, in practice however the independent chieftains retained a great deal of autonomy, and infighting among the settlements was not entirely unusual, additionally not all Zokhians were keen to forgo their raiding seafaring way of life and a number of tribes continued to act independently.

As the Zokhian territories expanded it brought them increasingly into interactions with other civilizations often resulting in conflict.

Akivian Civilization
By contrast to the Zokhians who were island seafaring people and raisers, the Akivians came from the upper Masali valley, and and were a collection of city states, or kingdoms unified by the Akivian language. The Akivian civilization was centered around the city of Arrathi, which served as the administrative center for the Akivian empire.

The Akivians were among the earliest peoples to use a form of writing, and much of what would eventually become Zahavan texts still bears a striking resemblance to Akivian scripts. The Akivian peoples were mostly farmers, and tradesman the wealth generated from trade allowed the Akivians to field one of the first professional armies, allowing the empire to expand eventually controlling all of both the upper masali and murmur valleys.

In 2154 BCE the Akivian empire collapsed, due to economic decline, famine as the empire had begun to place greater emphasis on luxury goods instead of agricultural products for trade, and a series of civil wars and rebellions. The Akivian king Koines held onto a rump state until 2112 BCE when the last of the Akivian territories were overran by a number of invasions, particularly those from the newly emerged Crathari empire which absorbed the majority of Akivian lands following the defeat of Koines' forces.