Age of Hominids: The Four Races

The writings of the Ebu religion provide great insight into the history of Homo Floresiensis. The Ebu religion is the result of tens of thousands of years of religious beliefs. It is based on the belief that there is a set of gods known as the Gogo who try to tame the mortal realm, or Ebu. The gods are foolish, though, and in trying to eradicate the "vermin" that are mortals they inadvertently give away the secrets of their power.

There was once a great thunder storm that would smite the land with flame, and the people of Ebu fled until there was nowhere left to flee. Yet one great hero was not afraid of this fire, and he strode into it and rescued a few precious coals; thus he discovered fire and a way of cooking food. His people were no longer beasts, and the Gogo did not like this, so they sent a great avalanche of rock down a hill onto him one day. When the dust had cleared the hero was still alive, and of the shards of rock around him he found the first hand-axe, so that he and his people could make tools to help them in their lives.

Many of the Ebu stories go like this, with each new hero that steals Gogo magic symbolizing a new generation of technological development. The above story shows that the discovery of fire and development of the first stone tools happened rather close together. Through such accurate accounts of oral history there has been much information gathered on many different aspects of the history of Homo Floresiensis.
 
No one knows why the Denisovans chose to cross Beringia, the area was cold when they were there, but 35,000 years ago they did. Some scientists have theorized that they were pushed out by a previously unknown subspecies of Gigantopithecus. Gigantopithecus Ultrix bones were found in an area ranging from southwestern Siberia to northern Manchuria. So named because of their vengeful attitudes, they would often have territorial battles with each other. Believed to be the ancestors of Gigantopithecus Domesticum, they averaged 4 meters in height with little difference between males and females. The reason that they are believed to have driven the Denisovans across Beringia is that there are many cave paintings of Denisovans hunting young Ultrix; this information combined with knowledge of the Ultrix's vengeful attitude is believed to have caused a species-wide hate of Denisovans. A small population of Denisovans did survive in Taiwan for thousands of years, however, though it is believed that they were enslaved by the Xainon empire and absorbed into the population of Homo Libertus.
 
Homo Sapiens Sapiens was a species with the potential to rule the world. With the adaptive ability of the Denisovans and an initial population challenging that of the Neanderthals, it's a miracle that they didn't envelop all other hominids. When they spread through Africa they were very successful, but those who migrated to the Middle East were absorbed into the thriving population of plains neanderthals. Due to their nomadic lifestyle of running to the next best hunting grounds, however, caused them to be among the last peoples to develop agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle. Around 20,000 years ago while Denisovans were settling the Americas, Neanderthals were beginning to develop agriculture, and Floresiensis was spreading across Wallacea in the first known boats in the world, H. Sapiens had done nothing but begin to settle down in the dwindling African forests.
 
I kinda want giant sloths and armidillos for america. but most of the ice age megafauna that survives will be in neanderthal territory, or at least in an area that will be a territory of the neanderthal-run Xainon Empire.
 
I also want to know, unless this has already been touched upon, how do Neanderthals and Humans interact. Whilst we don't necessarily know to what extent the Neanderthals language was, it would take hundreds of years for both species to formulate a two way language so they could communicate.
 
It is approximately 15,000 years in the past. The descendants of Sun Follower call themselves the apostles of Eln, their personification of the sun. For thousands of years they have slowly been developing something that will change the world, agriculture. But, being Neanderthals, their diets caused them to domesticate not grains, but fruits and vegetables. They at first domesticated Queen Anne's Lace to supplement their meat based diet, but Armenian cucumbers soon followed. At this point there are even varieties of Black Mulberry and Sharon Fruit trees being cultivated on ancestrial lands. The invention of agriculture has brought them prosperity, and they have influence upon other tribes. This invention won't be exclusive to them for long, though, it will soon spread to the Nile valley and Mesopotamia. There, civilization will rise.
 
When I've written enough material I'll start a timeline in the timeline forum, this will eventually become the comments and discussion thread for it. Until then, though, I really need a lot of constructive criticism on what I have and suggestions for future updates.
 
Neanderthals were not the only species to develop agriculture, just the first. In Africa, humans had been cultivating teff and sorghum for years. They were beginning to domesticate yams. If you have noticed, humans had a crop package made up of high-carb foods, while neanderthals had just fruits and vegetables. This held the neanderthals back in terms of animal husbandry as they had no crops to feed livestock; they were limited to traditional pastures and had nothing to supplement their aurochs, which they had been able to tame, but unable to domesticate. This all changed when sorghum was first traded from Nile-based humans to Judean neanderthals. There is a story on the earlier mentioned bone tablets.

The cloven-hoof had at first stayed and married into the solid-foot, until there were just solid-foot. Yet their bretheren returned when most of their legacy was forgotten. They held bushels of the grass known as sorghum, and traded it for mulberry wine. They taught how to make bread and beer with their crops, but a solid-foot cannot handle much starch without becoming sick. One man simply fed his to the cattle, but it seemed to improve their health. From then on, the solid-foot grew the grasses of the cloven-hoof not to eat themselves, but to feed their livestock.
 
The Denisovans required a similar diet to that of the humans, as they both relied on endurance. Thus is the reason that the first crop they domesticated was a cereal. In the Carolina region there was a domestic crop known as Maygrass, this was the first domestic cereal of the Americas, but was followed by other cereals and psuedocereals, all of which will be listed:Little Barley, Wild Rice, Amaranth, Knotweed, Quinoa, and Sunflower. There has been some speculation that, had it had the right mutation, teosinte might have been domesticated; teosinte, however, simply lacks the starch content to be a domestic cereal.
 
yes, solid foot=neanderthals.
I'm also thinking of having floresiensis called monkey foot or monkey people, and denisovans as Ox leg or ox toe.

EDIT: floresiensis and libertus will be called Ebu, after their religion. Denisovans will either be referred to by the narrator as Denisovans or in a historical quote as New World peoples or something creative.
 
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Homo Floresiensis was able to thrive as a hunter/gatherer population, but just lacked many factors necessary for agriculture. One was the fact that the only type of agriculture they could thrive with was the farming of fruit trees, and that's not exactly baby steps. Another reason that they didn't develop agriculture was that they simply lacked the mental capacity; before the Xainon atrocities Homo Floresiensis was rather weak and dumb. They really had the mental capacity and strength of just a large child. The main accomplishments of Homo Floresiensis were the settlement of the entirety of Southeast Asia. For some reason, while most Floresiensis technology was very primitive, they had rather advanced boating technology for their time.
 
The Birth Of Xainon

In the area of Mesopotamia there were many successful groups of Neanderthal farmers who eventually started the first civilizations. Prominent family groups grew into farming villages, prominent villages grew into merchant towns, and eventually there was a set of warring city states. The city/states did not conquer each other, but merely had battles over land disputes, or at least until the rise of Xai. Xai was a rather successful city that got its name from its royal house; it did not stand out in any way until one rather narcissistic ruler murdered his peaceful father and started a ruthless military campaign against a great enemy, the city of Ephrit. The practical insanity of this ruler succeeded, and this victory gave him visions of a great empire which he would name after himself. As the Mesopotamian peoples put the family name first, thus rose Non, empirer of Xai-Non.
 
How far back are we? How did the language develop? If there is trade between solid-foot and cloven-foot, they must have found some way to communicate...

About Denisovans and Flo, I'd go along with the foot names...
 
How far back are we? How did the language develop? If there is trade between solid-foot and cloven-foot, they must have found some way to communicate...

About Denisovans and Flo, I'd go along with the foot names...

1. Around 10,000 years.
2. The Caananites have a language with cloven and solid roots, based on spanglish-style combination, but the Mesopotamians don't even know about the cloven.
3. The Caananites and Egyptians trade, but deeper in Africa and Asia they are oblivious of each other, with the exception of eastern Africa and the Arabian peninsula.
 
Civilization soon rose in Egypt and Caanan, Egyptian city states formed on the Lower Nile, and traded with barbarian hunters on the Upper Nile. The hunters of Egypt formed one city, though, the city of Roa'Ul, this name came from the dual gods of Upper Egypt; Roa was the hawk of day, and Ul was the owl of night. Roa'Ul rose to power through trade, marriage, and treaty, causing a unified Egypt. The complicated system of royal houses, however, made civil war inevitable, and many of the ties between cities were severed. Somehow a republic was formed from this chaos, and the answer was provided in stone pictographs engraved on the palace of Roa'Ul

One tribe of hunters was rumored to be made of the fastest runners in the world, and when the king of Roa'Ul heard this, an idea formed in his mind. He sent for this tribe and gave them a solemn duty, to spread ideas and knowledge through the warring states of Egypt, with the hope to one day create peace. Eventually many of the states decided to form a union, but they did not want it to be ruled by any one king. They decided that there would be a council of lords, each ruling a city, who would vote on the king of Egypt. The chief of the messenger tribe was chosen to be the first king, and he had a single goal, to spread knowledge and gain it. He christened his kingdom Kuzai'Ro, the rising sun.
 
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