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<h3>-600 — The height of the Monkhayu</h3>
<a href="Javascript:parent.al('Metallurgy');">Copper working</a> began around -1000 among the Wede:i, and spread to both the Easterners and the Monkhayu. By -650 the Wede:i had learned to alloy the metal with tin, forming the much stronger <b>bronze</b>. The Easterners’ adoption of this technique, not long after this time, would prove to be momentous, as they are already overcrowded, and looking to Eretald for <i>lebensraum</i>.
<p>The <b>Monkhayu</b> are enjoying the height of their civilization. They were the first people to exploit the sea, and their great kingdoms all faced the sea: <b>Davur</b>, <b>Ažimbea</b>, <b>Newor</b>. (These are the reconstructed names, except for Ažimbea, which was later a Caďinorian province and thus has a traditional name. In Monkhayu it was <i>Agibna</i>, the name of the sea-goddess— who herself was adopted by the Caďinorians as <i>Ažirei</i>.) Davur was also mighty inland; it dwarfed the river kingdom of <b>Okiami</b>, which was in turn larger than Meťaiu, which was still extent.
<p>The Monkhayic kingdoms were leagues of barons, who chose one of their own as king— a strong one in times of war, otherwise a weakling. Their internal and external politics seem to have been extremely divisive (a trait which would soon stand them in ill stead). The king of Davur, Gutein, has achieved his present extended borders largely by gifts and promises of autonomy. The insubstantiality of the loyalties thus purchased was unremarked amid the <i>éclat</i> of his court (located near the modern Erruk).
<p><b><a href="Javascript:parent.al('Yenine');">Yenine</a></b>, which conquered Saiśi in -650 and Na:nyanok in -625 (in that unlikely order), was by contrast a well-organized state. Its capital, Bi:dau on the Xengi delta, was man’s first large city, bloated by bureaucrats, engineers, and priests. The conqueror of Saiśi was the <i>paźiwa</i> Begoŋitera; that of Na:nyanok was his son Nanuŋitera, who is also known for the first promulgation of the first legal code (-610), called the Canons of Respect. The respect it was desired to inculcate was for property, for the <i>paźiwa</i>, for the gods, and for parents; the penalty for disrespect was death. There was one mitigation of this severity: on one day a year all laws were reversed: blasphemy, disorder, and insubordination could be fully indulged.
<p>The scripts used in the three Wede:i kingdoms had diverged, and Nanuŋitera directed scholars to produce a unified script for use by all. The result was the Old Syllabary, actually a mixed system, consisting of 655 syllabic signs and 440 logographs representing particular words.
<p>In the -700s <b>Munkhâsh</b> expanded into Tyellakh, the mountainous region to its southwest; this led to a war with the <b>elcari</b> of Khak Beliddên in the Telinsava. Though the elcars’ technology was superior, their numbers were fewer, and their defenses fell to underpopulation as much as to attack.
<p>The <b>nomadic</b> lifestyle has diffused from the Kagöt to the Easterners and Lenani, and is now spreading among the Qaraus.
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