Prehistory
Introduction
Entry #1, 100,000-6,000 BPD (Before Present Day), Global
The Past 100,000 Years, Roughly
Although Human Settlement is nonexistent by this point in the Anahuacs and still confined to the origin continent of Yectal [1] (Africa), it is necessary to understand the underlying mechanisms behind the situation in the Anahuacs [2] by the time of human arrival. Thus, this first section will describe the first 100,000 years in rough detail in order to give a good worldview of the future of the two continents.We start in the Late Pleistocene, approximately 130,000 years ago, with the peak of the Eemian Interglacial Period succeeding the Riss Glaciation. By this time in the Anahuacs things were relatively stagnant without humanity, so let’s take a slightly greater focus on the Osoan [3] World, with the continents of Yectal, Paqtal [4] (Asia), and Tsawacka [5] (Europe). By 120,000 years ago in Yectal jewelry was being used by Homo Neanderthalensis in Tsawacka and the first bone inscriptions were made denoting a possible proto-language.
The Abbassia Pluvial of the Morikono [6] Desert then occurred, a roughly 20,000 year period during which the Morikono was wet and fertile, in other terms known as the Green Morikono Period. By a hundred millennia ago, the first structures in the world, sandstone blocks organized in a semicircle, were built around the Ytero [7] River in northeast Yectal. 80,000 years ago is where it really gets going, however. This is the current estimated date for the out-of-Yectal hypothesis, where humanity would spread over much of the three continents before finally moving into the Anahuacs.
By 75,000 the Notla [8] supervolcano in Paqtal erupts, causing a dispersal of humanity. By 80,000 BPD (Before Present Day) it is also likely that a small genetic pool of a human species known as homo denisova made it to the Anahuacs before the arrival of homo sapiens, and made a small presence in the northern regions, not spreading further than the Sinaaq Landbridge due to extensive glaciation. This genetic pool is usually identified as the origin of various traits of the modern distribution of peoples across the Anahuacs, and was most likely assimilated into the population as they crossed that same landbridge some 65,000 years later. By 40,000 BPD the technological level of Yecpaqcka (Eurasia-Africa) had remained mainly the same however many important events occurred nonetheless. In Arrawatlaqa [9] (Australia) native Arrawatlaqans arrived and dominated the continent while others spread into the regions dominated by the Neanderthals and interbred them into Homo sapiens, driving them to extinction. By 31,000 BPD we come to the last Glacial Maximum, and most of prehistory is now behind us. This is where the story truly starts.
The Arrival and Dispersal of Humanity
Humanity by this point was spread across most of Yecpaqcka and was about to make its largest spring yet. From 31,000 BPD to 24,000 BPD technologies such as fiber making are used worldwide and humanity spreads to many more remote corners of the world, such as the isolated and large islands around the world, and technological development was centered around the Pacific by this time, with the Sinnetian culture appearing in the fertile plains of Kina, at the verge of expansion into the Anahuacs.By 24,000 BPD, after crossing the Sinaaq Land Bridge over thousands of years and successfully making it to the Anahuacs, over a short period of about 12,000 years homo sapiens made it to the Southern Cone of Munduruku [10] (South America). During this time, quite a bit happened, including the extinction of many megafauna in the Anahuacs.
Extinction of the Megafauna and Advancement
Kaade
Kaade underwent several successive extinctions of Megafauna due to the early-hunter gatherer nature of the Paleolithic Kaadeans, and as they spread across the continent they wreaked havoc. Here in Figure One you can see a comparison of many species affected by the Megafauna Extinction from all around the world. Various species during this period came closer or became extinct, like Glyptodons, Eremotherium, Tetratornis, and Smilodons. Overhunting was a major cause in megafauna extinction as hunter-gatherer societies were proliferating such as the Aluna within the Mishadipukti River Valley.Figure One [11][12]
(Accidental Misspelling of Osoan under Kimigaak)
Munduruku
In Munduruku a large extinction had occurred when the isthmus connecting the continent with Kaade formed, however humans presented a new threat. With the arrival of humans, almost all Mundurukan animals larger than 1000 kilograms went extinct. These include toxodonts and machrauchenids, along with a variety of other non-extinct animals present in the continent of Kaade. However, some did survive, large species of capybara prospered throughout the continent as they were large rodents and were soon domesticated by humans shortly after their arrival. This domestication brings us into the next section.At the Border of Civilization: Advanced Holocene Society in the Anahuacs
Starting from around 8,000 BPD, we get into the modern age, and what is now called the Holocene. Starting from this point we see a large-scale fast rise in sea levels called Meltwater Pulse 1C, and then a steady continuum of sea levels well into the Neolithic and beyond. This Pulse is due to the 8.2 kiloyear event and collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. From this point onwards we can see a rapid development of technology within the Anahuacs as proto-writing begins to come into play in the regions of Miso [13], the Yuru River Valley [14] and central Atoltec regions. [15] By 6000 BPD we can see the first societies emerging within the central Atoltec regions and Shitimasha Delta [16], and thus ends this section of history.Footnotes
[1] Yectal = Africa[2] Anahuacs = North and South America. From Nahuatl "anahuac"
[3] Osoan World = A term coined by colonists from Eastern Kaade During the Colonial Period.
[4] Paqtal = Asia
[5] Tsawacka = Word adopted from the Algonquin languages to represent the continent east of Kaade.
[6] Morikono = Portmanteau of a native African word and a Muiscan word.
[7] Ytero River = Corruption of native African word for the river from the surrounding region.
[8] Notla Volcano = Toba supervolcano.
[9] Arrawatlaqa = Name adopted from traveling Pana sailors and aboriginal influences.
[10] Munduruku = South America; From the Munduruku people who played a key role in the evolution of South America ITTL.
[11] Amur Bear = From native African name for the Atlas Mountains.
[12] Kimigaak = From Inupiat word for ridge, as aurochs are ridden.
[13] Miso = Region surrounding the Mishadipukti River Valley.
[14] Yuru River Valley: From Guarani word for mouth, Parana River.
[15] Atoltec Region: From Nahuatl “toltec” with prefix a-.
[16] Shitimasha Delta: From the Chitimacha people of the Mississippi River Valley.
