The Naal: Their History and Culture
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The ancestors of the Naal arrived in the Agake Peninsula around approximately the year 5,000 P.B.O (pabaḱabo' "before the revelation") along with the other speakers of the Proto-Agakic language, crossing over the Hui River and settling among the hills and valleys of the area. The area including and southeast of Agake was inhabited by population known to archaeologists as the Kvednic Culture, named after the relic population in the north of Agake in ancient times, the Kwedna, who maintained a kingdom of their own before conquest by the Naal, and whose language is demonstrably unrelated to Kenasic.
The Bronze Age
Agakic speakers began the crossing over the Hui River, bringing their own rudimentary knowledge of bronzeworking with them into the peninsula. The Hui Culture begins to spread between 5,000 PBO until 3,500 PBO, when it had all but displaced the previous Upper Kvednic Culture, which had separated from what was once the Lower Kvednic Culture. It was around this time that the Hui Culture began to fracture into three distinct subcultures. The Axle Grave Culture in the south around the Hui River, the Mountain Grave culture in the Southwest, and the Pit Grave culture in the East. All three are named after their burial practices, with the Axle Grave being identified by their distinctive practice of burying their dead leaders in chariots, the Mountain Grave by their practice of disposing of dead bodies in caves and mountain crevaces, and the Pit Grave by their practice of mass burials.
Around 3000 BPO, the area of overlap between the old Axle Grave and Mountain Grave cultures had developed its own distinct culture, being called the Catacomb Culture. The Catacomb culture would be the forebearers of what would become the Naal people.
Agakean Iron Age
By 2500 BPO we can begin to talk about distinctive Agakic cultures, in particular the Ćataga who lived around the area of the Ća He' (Red River), the Kwitaga who lived around the Kwi He' (Hui River), the Giidaaga of the mountains, and the Kwendala of the far north (the Kwendala not being Kenasic people by origin but the last remnants of the Kvedic culture). Around 1500 BPO, urbanization begins to set in around the coasts and rivers of Agake, leading to the formation of city states. Trade coming down river from Mopul found two particularly attractive cities to facilitate trade further eastward, those being the Ćataga city of Naal and the Kwitaga city of Tzai Hu. Tzai Hu proved to recieve more overall profit from the venture, with Naal often being at the mercy of its northern neighbor, Exuut, for recieving a tariff to pass through its controlled section of the Red River. The Red River also proved more difficult to navigate, requiring a journey a good distance north into the Red Mountain, before meeting with the tributary of the White River, which allowed further navigation either northward or toward the east through the Stony River.
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