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9,900 years ago (7900 BCE): The approximate death of the Kalliope Woman, one of the last living members of the Lost Civilization. She died on the asteroid 22 Kalliope, and may have been a member of an effort to gather resources from various Solar System sites, including the Asteroid Belt, the Moon, and Mars, in order to maintain their Civilization. Unfortunately, the Civilization never became proficient at repairing or reconstructing the Sivata technology, and these off-world efforts were largely unsuccessful.	What's New May 30, 2007 Reformatted and integrated this page into the rest of the site. September 8, 2006: Added items from the Tsubar'ey write up, as well as updated my email at the bottom of the page. August 17, 2006: I've established this page, and begun adding its data. Then I finished it in an overtime play. Nice.
9,500 years ago (7500 BCE): The last bastion of the Lost Civilization, and the spot where both the Sivata and the ArcBuilders lived, a region that will be known as Khambat, is destroyed by a massive earthquake. The region, already turned to swampland by the rising oceanic levels, sinks further into the new gulf. Surrounding settlements, established to escape the rising waters, are utterly obliterated by the massive tsunamis that follow. For all intents and purposes, the Lost civilization is gone, and will be completely forgotten.
6000 BCE: The earliest signs of agriculture and building construction in the Nile Valley as the ancient Egyptian civilization begins to arise. This civilization will flourish for millennia, and will impact society well into the modern world.
5000 BCE: The earliest rise of the Satori Communion in the Xi Scorpii System. This organization, quasi-religious in nature, operates on the assumption that the Human form is capable of achieving true enlightenment through meditation and science, and that a "oneness" with the natural world can be reached through such understanding. The Communion is well known for easily bringing in converts.
4000 BCE The Ten World Union is established within the Xi Scorpii System. Centered on the planet of Amasha, it is the first successor to the ancient Cordillera Ascendancy to reach a technological level that can establish and maintain a multi-world polity within their star system. The Union gained this technological prowess through close ties with the Satori Communion. The Aagüla discover that the Tsubar'ey are not gods. Even though the Tsubar'ey have never claimed to be, and often discouraged such misconceptions, they nevertheless find themselves on the receiving end of a misguided war by their wards, against themselves, in the purported cause of independence. Called the Local War, it will rage from extreme violence on the part of the Aagüla and their allies, the Satlek, to extreme diplomacy by the Tsubar'ey and their primary allies, the Oswagii. The conflict stretches across many different star systems, and is often fought in a terrorist-style by the Aagüla.
3300 BCE: The Bronze Age begins in the Near East, largely within the civilizations of Sumer and Egypt, as well as the Indus Valley of South Asia. This marks a significant step forward for Human technology.
2300 BCE: The Local War comes to an end when the Tsubar'ey have had enough of useless diplomacy, and overwhelm the Aagüla with their superior technology. In the end, the Tsubar'ey leave open diplomatic channels with the Aagüla, as well as the Satlek. But it is the Aagüla that are forced to retreat back to their own world, where they will undergo education and observation by the Tsubar'ey, who hope to quell any further possible misunderstandings. The Satlek retreat as well, while the Oswagii voluntarily forgo any form of further stellar expansion. The Local Neighborhood is thus rendered empty of any interstellar travel, save for the Tsubar'ey themselves.
2250 BCE: The Aagüla are allowed to re-establish their interstellar colonies. They expand slowly, fully colonizing and developing a world before moving on to the next, carefully selected star system.
1500 BCE: The Ten World Union of the Xi Scorpii System is over taken by the hard-lined regime of the Amasha Unity. Despite its definite fascism, this polity manages to remain stable for several thousand years due to extremely competent management, and the absolute subjugation of the population. With the Unity's founding, the Satori Communion vanishes. However, it remains a source of legendary tales, and acts of freedom from suppression, precious few in the history of the Unity, are almost always attributed to the Communion.
800 BCE: The approximate rise of the Greek city-states. This pattern of self-governing communities is largely dictated by the local geography, in which every island, valley, and plain is cut off from one another by mountain ranges. While the various cultures had been developing for centuries before (with some of the semi-mythological Homeric events having occurred as long ago as 120 BCE), it is this new period which is most often thought of when Ancient Greece is spoken of. As with Ancient Egypt, much of the Western World thousands of years later owes much of its philosophy and policies to those ideals first brought about by the Ancient Greeks.
509 BCE: The founding of the Roman Republic. While Rome itself, as a city, had been founded centuries earlier, it had long been ruled by a series of Kings. The Republic would persist for centuries more, until a series of civil wars finally ended with the establishment of the first Roman Emperor.
1350 CE: The approximate date for the beginning of the Renaissance, a period that saw the revival of science, art, and literacy in Europe. The term itself, however, was not used until the 1500's. The Renaissance was largely powered by the technique of printing books, and the resultant and massive dissemination of knowledge. While this time may not have been a true or distinct historical age, it was definitely a major turning point in the course of Human history.
1780 CE: The approximate beginning of the Industrial Revolution. With it came an explosion in technological advancement, as well as population explosions, economic prosperity, and the beginnings of a truly mechanized society. This period of Human history continued on into the following centuries, and really could be considered to have been underway for as long as most of the 20th Century.
1852 CE: The British astronomer J. R. Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope. It is a body that will be largely ignored for much of astronomical history, but which will end up providing one of the most prominent pieces of evidence for the existence of the ancient Lost Civilization - the body of the Kalliope Woman.
1945 CE July 16: The first test detonation of a nuclear device is performed in the United States at the Trinity Site. With a yield of approximately 20 kilotons, this test initiates the world into its technological maturity, and brings civilization into its most vulnerable period of self-extinction. It also initiates an era in which greater energy becomes available to the populace, and greater productivity by a society as a whole becomes possible.