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<h3>-350 — The explosion of the Easterners</h3>
Many a time have the Xurnese and Caďinorians suffered the scourge of barbarian invasions, but the first such assault on their lands was their own. In the fourth century the <b>Easterners</b> invaded both plains at once, disrupting the civilizations they found there, and instigating chains of movement which would take centuries to finish.
<p>In the south, the <b>Inbamumakei</b> tribe conquered Yenine (-325). The invaders, who called themselves the <b><a href="Javascript:parent.updir('meshaism.htm#Social');">Ezičimi</a></b> (‘the Powerful’), were careful to retain the administrative, economic, and priestly machinery of the Wede:i state, merely replacing the top men with their own; the Inbamumakei empire is thus a small overlay of Eastern barbarians dominating a mass of Wede:i. Beyond the Ezičimi grasp, for now, were the delta (too big; it had as many inhabitants as the remainder of the Xengi valley) and Saiśi (too far).
<p>The invaders of Eretald were the <b>Central</b> and the <b>Cuzeian</b> peoples; the latter were clearly dominant and provided the formal leadership. The Cuzeians had already come to worship one god, <b>Iáinos</b>, following the visit of Lerīmanio to the iliu in the -400s.
<p>The <i><a href="Javascript:parent.updir('ciroma9.htm');">Count of Years</a></i> recounts that the newly conquered regions were supposed to be ruled by four sovereign clans (<i>sodīlli</i>), but that one, that of <b>Inibē</b>, set themselves up as kings of <b>Metayu</b> (proclaimed in -375; the name is taken from <i>Meťaiu</i>). Inibē is described as setting himself above Iáinos; we have only the accounts of his enemies, but the main complaint is that he did not prevent taking unconverted Meťaiun wives and did not accept direction from the Knowers, the priests of Iáinos. The remaining clans pressed northward and then on to the Eärdur (which they called the <i>Isrēica</i>):
<ul><li>The clan of Lēivio founded the kingdom of <b>Cayenas</b> (-360); forty years later Lēivio’s son Līxiruitas conquered <b>Tevarē</b>, which had been founded by Meťaiun fleeing the Cuzeian invasion
<li>That of Voricêlias founded <b>Sūās</b> (-355)
<li>That of Calēsias founded <b>Eleisa</b> (-350)
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This account should be taken with a grain of salt, as it was written centuries later with a view to legitimatizing the claims of Eleisa to rule all the Cuzeians.
<p>However, it undoubtedly reflects the more mixed nature of Metayu, where a Cuzeian elite not only ruled Meťaiun peasants but an increasing number of Caďinorians. In the early years even the Eärdur kingdoms had only a minority of pure Cuzeians; but unlike the Ezičimi, the Cuzeians had no great consciousness of race; Meťaiun who learned Cuzeian and (even more importantly) worshipped Iáinos could be completely assimilated.
<p>This is also the time in which the <a href="Javascript:parent.al('Cuzeian_epics');">Cuzeian epics</a> are set: a time of many kings, frequent war, and bronze weapons, into which the chivalry and orthodoxy of two centuries hence were retrofitted.
<h4>Non-Easterners</h4>
<p>The <b>Munkhâshi</b> are also expanding, at the expense of the free Eynleyni of the Shkónoro; this is the path of least resistance, the Qaraus being fiercer fighters and the Easterners now being armed with bronze.
<p>They also have the upper hand in their war with the <b>elcari</b> in the Telinsava: the northern <i>khak </i>are now occupied by <b>múrtani</b>. It’s not clear if these were brought in from the west, or represent a corruption of the elcari living there.
<p>Some <b>Mgunikpe</b> tribes have adapted to the tundra of eastern Luduyn.
<h4>Land use</h4>
By this point patterns of <b>land use</b> have stabilized: nomadism in the central steppe as well as the strip of land just north of the Elkarin mountains; herding and hunting in the Rau savanna; hunting and gathering in Luduyn, Qaraumia, and southern Mnau, and agriculture elsewhere.
<p>This division will persist for the next three millennia; the shading and stippling therefore add little information and will be replaced with solid colors in the rest of the atlas.
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