History of Zhenia

The history of Zhenia covers the historical relations between the world what is modern-day Zhenia and adjoining entities, characterized by broad interactions with both continental and maritime powers both close and distant.

The origins of Zhenia as a distinct entity after prehistory can be tracked down to well before the advent of the Zhen dynasty, when the primordial Liang dynasty existed in the Taimir River basin, although evidence hinting to the existence of Neolithic civilizations have also been observed near the Weisu and Chang rivers. As the first state in Zhenian history, the Liang dynasty presided over the northern parts of the Taimir River basin, a region often regarded as a, as clarified by numerous historical texts dating back to the Zhen dynasty. The demise of the Liang dynasty around 1000 BC was met with the Era of Great Divide, characterized by the rise of several feudal warlord states across the mainland and the Danguk Peninsula, although only eight of such entities survived by 600 BC. Amid the flourishing of early Zhenian culture, philosophy and language, the Era of Great Divide saw entities across modern-day Zhenia compete for domination of the Taimir Basin and mainland Zhenia.

In 322 BCE, the Kingdom of Zhen, originating from the northern parts of the Danguk Peninsula, conquered and unified much of mainland Zhenia and established the Zhen dynasty. led by Shen Lien, led a series of conquests throughout mainland Zhenia, as well as southeastern Tarsis, to end the Era of Great Divide and unify all of Zhenia for the first time in its history. As the first entity to have fully unified much of modern-day Zhenia, the Zhen dynasty, as well as successive dynasties in both the mainland and the Danguk Peninsula, developed systems to efficiently exert centralized power over its domain, a trend that continued for several centuries. The Zhen dynasty grew into one of the largest empires of the ancient world alongside the Elyrian Empire in Aurora, being a leading political and cultural center until its decline in the 6th century; it, however, left lasting influences in Zhenian language, literature, culture and philosophy still felt to this day.

Throughout much of the following the demise of the Zhen dynasty, most of mainland Zhenia saw an era of division and continuous conflict among smaller states that came to replace the Zhen, during an era known as the Hundred States Era, while invasions by northern nomadic tribes caused further political unrest; in contrast, the Danguk Peninsula generally saw a period of alternating but unified dynasties, although it continuously interacted with various states along the Gulf of Danguk and the mainland. While most of mainland Zhenia remained largely feudal until the Zhenian enlightenment in the 18th century, numerous kingdoms and city-states along the Gulf and in the Danguk Peninsula began to prosper with maritime and overland trade, their economic activity laid the fundamentals of modern. Under such grounds, Shindanese explorers and smaller states along the Gulf led several maritime expeditions beyond Zhenia and across the Hanmaric Ocean, ushering in an era of colonization and settlement in Hanmaric islands and Veharia and opening the and expansion. Entities around the Gulf of Danguk reached their zenith of prosperity in the 16th and 17th centuries, although further political unrest and invasion from the north resulted in a period of brief decline.

By the early 18th century, an era of enlightenment and the resurgence of numerous schools of and anthropocentric philosophies brought about the rise of Zhenian nationalism and a period of political upheaval. This resulted in the formation of the Zhu dynasty in the mainland, a decentralized, unified entity spanning most of mainland Zhenia, while it spurred the in Shindan amid changes in economic circumstances both in the peninsula and its Veharian possessions. Shindan, having industrialized earlier and more rapidly than the mainland, led a series of wars against the mainland under the leadership of Emperor Seongjo, fully unifying Zhenia for the first time since the demise of the Zhen dynasty and thus establishing the Empire of Zhenia; many survivors of mainland states retreated south to modern-day Yinguo. Zhenia's surge into a world power in the 19th century resulted in the advent of the Shinzhen Movement, sparking conflicts against Auroran colonial powers in Tarsis and the Hanmaric Ocean. The empire transitioned into a republic in 1909 following the December Revolution, being one of the first republics in the modern sense of the word in the region. While its victory in the First Great War confirmed its status as a global military power, Zhenian involvement in the Second Great War ended in its military defeat and economic devastation in 1948. While the nation was ruled by a military dictatorship from 1955 to 1979 as a result of the Coup of 1955, it was democratized as a result of the November Revolution in 1979. During the later half of the 20th century, Zhenia enjoyed a period of economic resurgence and prosperity after the war, rising to become a highly to this day.