History of Deamonopolis

It remains unclear when exactly the first people arrived at what would later become Deamonopolis, but University of Hammurabi archaeologists estimate the first contact was around 10,000 BC around the time of the last ice age. Their living patterns remain somewhat unclear but there is a fair amount of evidence these people lived in local settlements as hunter gatherers. This pattern of living remained virtually unchanged for about 2,000 years when basic agriculture was developed in what is now known as the Shastinbani Valley, a fertile stretch of land of about 200 miles on the southern coast of Deamonopolis, along the Embia river. From here on history becomes vague but it appears a very advanced civilization lived there for a considerable amount of time but suddenly disappeared. There is very little information on the exact history of the main areas of interest to researchers due to government policy pertaining to national historic sites. This civilization, called the 'Embia', thrived around 7,000 BC according to archaeologists but vanished without any trace nor have they left any written records - they may have been lost to history. Vast pyramids and monuments, presumably for religious purposes, palaces and brick buildings remain in the area which show an extraordinary amount of organisational skill as well as thorough knowledge of architecture and mathematics and what appears to have been civil society. Islamic seafarers who explored the Shastinbani river delta around the year 1,200 AD noted that:

Since the downfall of the Embia Civilization human activity lingered in the southern coastal region for the next millennia and expanded across the vast body of land and several city states were founded around 1,000 BC, notably Hammurabi, Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, Byblos and Tripoli. These thriving urban areas controlled the countryside and wars between them was frequent, to a point war became a rite of passage into manhood. Religion of these city states revolved around what is now called the 'Old Gods', a polytheistic religion which left a lasting impression on the future Islamic state of Deamonopolis. Mythology and rituals were adapted into Islamic tradition by the time the first Islamic missionaries arrived around 750 AD. Islam spread very slowly and only around 1,600 AD did the most populous southern region of Deamonopolis fully convert to Islam. Shamanism and paganism remain in the Kush Mountains as well as the northern boreal forests to this day.

Colonialism &t Modernisation

The Archaic Period ended when the first Western seafarers arrived on Deamonopolis shores. Although Islamic travellers and merchants established contact long before, historians consider the arrival of Western technology such as gunpowder and the printing press to be a turning point in Deamonopolis history. The country, which was ruled by city states and khanates, began to undergo a lasting transformation. Christianity was introduced to the country and several trading posts were set up in the south, mainly around the Embia river delta. Deamonopolis was never fully colonialised like contemporary regions in Greater Dienstad, but rather the countryside was controlled by merchants and mercenaries. Several Islamic khanates joined the colonialists and became allies against hostile cities or khanates; these were conquered with the help of western technology and by the turn of the 17th century the two thousand year old independence of the major cities ended and all were united under a single Emirate. This Emirate was little more than a puppet government but modernisation started in earnest under the Emirate. Around 1820 all names were westernized, the Arab alphabet was converted to Latin (official documents remain written using the Arab alphabet) and a new decimalized monterary system was introduced alongside the metric system in 1824. This period also marked the first serious attempts to map and navigate the entire continent of Deamonopolis; for the first time in history the Kush Mountain Range was seen by outside eyes, the first Western (notably Stevid and Macabean) explorers saw the vastness of the northern boreal forests and around 1850 the first oil companies began searching for oil across the country. Many of these attempts failed; the harshness of the terrain and climate were too hostile for settlers and many colonies were abandoned shortly thereafter.