|
Server : Apache/2.4.62 System : FreeBSD fbsdweb2.web.rcn.net 14.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE releng/14.1-n267679-10e31f0946d8 GENERIC amd64 User : www ( 80) PHP Version : 8.3.8 Disable Function : NONE Directory : /domains/markrose/atlas/ |
Upload File : |
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>1150</TITLE>
<style>
h2
{color:#9C8900;}
h3
{color:#9C8900;}
h4
{color:#9C8900;}
</style>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
<h3>1150 — Munkhâsh expelled from Eretald</h3>
If in the struggle against Munkhâsh <b>Caďinas</b> had once seemed to hold back, or to point its armies in the wrong direction, it could be accused of evasion no longer. The battle of <b>Siloas Falls</b> (near the Serea Canyons), which ended the Munkhâshi hold on the Plain, was a definitive victory of none but Caďinorian arms (1150).
<p>The Caďinorian king, <b><a href="Javascript:parent.al('Keadau');">Keadau</a></b>, named himself Emperor (<i>atrabion</i>) in celebration. And indeed the victory was something to celebrate. It was a war of gods and demons; and the gods had emerged victorious. Approximately 25 million Monkhayu and 12 million Caďinorians, many of them children, were sacrificed in the 710-year Occupation. Those who were not killed lived as slaves— uncounted millions of lives living under a dictatorship of demons. Even the Cuzeians, whose ancient faith was still persecuted, rejoiced in the defeat of Munkhâsh.
<p>The Caďinorians were busy on other fronts as well. The empress Nouvaďora occupied <b>Cayenas</b> (1079) as punishment for the wrong side’s victory in a civil war. (The Caďinorian-supported candidate was restored to his throne, but only as a vassal.) The Caďinorians had long looked with a suspicious eye at the <b>last Cuzeian state</b>, Lānavo, blaming it for restiveness in the “Eärdur province.” Keadau’s father Zolcruvos took the opportunity to annex it in 1110.
<p><b>Awoilas</b> meanwhile had liberated the lower Shkónoro, and a good swath of southwestern Sarnáe was now in Monkhayu hands. In the east, the Qaraus invaded the province of <b>Tyellakh</b> in the Munkhâshi heartland, leaving the bewildered Eynleyni free for the first time in two milennia.
<p><b>Axunai</b> is at its height, having absorbed all the former Jeori domains, most of the Mnau peninsula, and even some Skourene territory. This last was acquired as part of a program to eliminate the Skourene traders, whose unruly independence was a continual affront to the orderly Axunemi eye. If we need something from Skouras, went the reasoning, wouldn’t it be better to simply take the country over, so it would be ours already?
<p>Ruling these difficult people was not easy, but the real trouble was logistics. The sea route was long, and countered by the Skourenes’ superior naval ability. The land route looked good on paper, especially now that Čeiy belonged to Axunai; the emperor Jouvuneir used it to break through to the Namal (1134). But Čeiy was still only lightly settled; armies had to be marched all the way from Weinex, and once in the Namal it was still a dispiritingly long march to the richer cities. It was an unprofitable proposition and eventually quietly dropped.
<p>The <b>Skourenes</b> themselves kept themselves busy organizing one league or confederacy after another; as each had high external tariffs and an aggressive common army, no city could long remain prosperous or free on its own. Inevitably one league would would aspire to unite the entire Skourene sphere, at which point the others would all join together to destroy it. The latest failure was the Engidorid League (1106-21).
<p>The <b>Tžuro</b> have freed themselves from the Lenani; the struggle has given them a new level of intercommunication and collective action, though not yet unity.
</BODY></HTML>