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This document highlights the early diplomatic relations between the Federation of the Howlton Republics and the Republic of Barkand.
Relations between Howlton and Barkand began over 20 thousand years ago, during the age where feral animals began to evolve into humanoids. These early proto-Howt and proto-Barks spoke similar proto-slavic languages, and were mutually intelligible. However, as these humanoids began to develop their own culture, they split off as separate, two distinct identities. Because of their nomadic life, there were several points in history of small scale conflicts, friendly relations, and physical separation. However, this is not considered to be the first human-human conflict as these were considered to be pre-human or proto-human era. The only reason we know this is through extensive mapping and carbon dating technologies.
Around 8000 BCE, the first proper, modern humans emerged, with the divinities taking notice at the rapid development of ancient technology. Through this, the early humans were treated as puppets, as divinities sought to use them not just for amusement, but as slaves working to achieve eventual interstellar domination.
After some time, the early humans rebelled against the divinities, causing the now partially settled Howt tribe (a large part were still nomadic and were exploring the west) and the Bark tribe to unite as a single entity to fight against the divinities, forming the eventual first state, Bark-Howt.
Bark-Howt did not expand much territorially, as they focused on a compact, defensively dense fortress. In Bark-Howt, leaders from both tribes emerged, taking over the early nation. Eventually, the Howt tribe, already larger than the Barks, began to fuel much more of the military defences, leading to Howt leaders taking the role of primary defenders. During the Elemental war, the Warrior of the South, whose tomb was recently discovered in an ancient tomb in an unseen underground room deep below the city of Zagreb, and whose real name is also discovered to be Magnya Ullisca, sacrificed his life to wipe out the divinities, which solidified the Howt peoples’ military dominance within Bark-Howt. However, as time went on, the region where the Bark tribe were situated flourished with the discovery of natural gas as a fuel source. The quick use of natural gas as compared to traditional sources such as wood for fuel, sped up the development of Bark technology, and soon enough, Bark Tribe was entering their golden age, far ahead of Howt tribe. By around 100CE, Bark tribe dominated the Howts in politics and economy, and was becoming on par with the military might of the Howts.
Things slowly became tense as Howts sought to retrieve equal power against the Barks, but they did not have enough resources to do so. They soon reached a conclusion: to remove themselves from the union and form their own government where their people could rule them. However, the Bark tribe didn’t let them, as they viewed that the Howts should be integrated within the greater Bark region, effectively annexed or absorbed into the nation. A violent rebellion ensued, with the first human-human war occurring on June 3rd, 123CE. The battle was closely fought, with the Howts managing to barely scrape in a victory with sheer manpower. In 127, the declaration of the Fluffian Shogunate, ruled by the Shogun of the Howts, was put into place. Now known as the Fluffian Horde with its leader as the König (king), the Howts began exploring for more resources to feed into its backwards nation. However, the Barks, still pissed off with the Howts, launched an invasion in 153 to retake the nation. The Howts suffered badly, and their military was unable to handle the brand new military of the Barks, losing their capital of Zagressa (Modern day Zagreb).
Devastated by the loss and having a newfound hatred for their northern counterpart, the Howts began searching far and wide for a great new area for a capital city. The legendary explorer of Kyi, found a major riverbed down to the southwest, and quickly established a small town. Eventually, the small town flourished, eventually, with the combined discovery of crude oil, became the largest city within the Horde, and so the city of Kyiv, named after Kyi, was declared the new capital, which pissed off the now-Duchy of Barkand. Quiet tensions held in place, with Barkand and Fluffian Horde making contacts with the first Carneasian Republic, which remained neutral. As Fluffian Horde annexed the densely militarized Germany (a state created by the distant descendants of the nomadic Howts who explored the western areas during the Divinity era and the Gers Carneasians), Barkand retaliated with an armed conflict against the Fluffian Horde. To their surprise, the troops of the annexed Germany were present against the Barks, working together with the fully reformed Howts. Barkand lost, losing what was previously Howt Tribe territory, including Zagreb. This war was known as the Bark-Howt conflict of 357.
With the most recent war, Fluffian Horde established itself as a major rival to the Barks again.
The two nations would achieve relative peace with one another for the next millennium. This millennium, starting from around 350-400 to around 1450, is known as the Thousand Year Peace Treaty. Contrary to its name, there were no official peace treaties, but the developed countries on the Southland Continent turned to focus more on internal development rather than external.
However, international tension sparked again with a violent collapse of the Carneasian Republic, which at this point, behaved as a confederacy of three peoples, Gers, Burians, and Pokremians. The Pokremian-led neutral Carneasian Republic was violently taken over by the Burians after an economic ruin from the Fires of 1473, which was caused by the famous Pokremian arsonist, Yoshivir Solavelo. He was part of the Carneasian congress, and advocated for Pokremian control of the government. He staged a false flag incident, burning down the central Carneasian Bank, citing the Burians as the culprit.
The new, Burian-led government shut down the whole country, stopping all diplomatic ties with neighbouring countries, and hurting Murkatinnya. Murkatinnya demanded the Pokremian government be restored, and invaded the country when it did not. Barkand seized the opportunity to strike, resparking tensions with Fluffian Horde who saw it as an expansionist country. To their surprise, the long peace with Barkand did not make them lower their guard. They were ready with troops in case of an invasion, which did occur in the same year. Fluffian Horde fought hard for 30 years but conceded to the Barks, ending their war. This was the First Arc War, ending the war with the Treaty of Rejkavik in 1510. Fluffian Horde would cede some of its territory to Barkand.
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