Geloan History: Ancient Age (1AC to 88AC)

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Migrations from Mevo Gelo

1 AC: Human populations the Levant region are taken from Earth and released on Gelo, in an already built city, presumably by the Captors. These human populations are each put on a different neighbourhood of the city - which are separated by stone walls. A total of around 1,941 people were taken, divided as 647 (1/3) men and 1,294 (2/3) women - this ratio 1/3-2/3 was kept for all five different ethnic group that was taken: Hebrew (Israelites), Philistine, Moabite, Canaanites (Phoenicians) and Ishmaelites (which were mixed among other people). Large crops and fruits were already ready for reaping in enormous fields around the city. Many of them were confuse for what has happened, and many had recollection of seeing from a window the ground getting far until the world appeared as round, before returning to sleep. By the end of the first year, clashes between Israelites and Canaanites over assimilation led the Israelites to be the first to abandon the city, and a little after that, the Philistines attempt to force their control over the Moabites and the Canaanites and they also leave - however, not before they leaving a permanent influence on their religion at some level. After the end of the reserves, the Philistines saw no way other than also leave the city searching for more fertile lands.

19 AC: World population is bigger than 7,200 people. The agriculture is being firmly established, some people being better than others. This situation leads to several attacks of one people over the other trying to retrieve supplies, and in part also due to the mutual hatred these people already had one for each other.

29 AC: The world population is now 18,100 people. Around this year begins the populational boom, caused mainly by a change in the rain seasons, improving the crops production and food for the cattle. The Canaanites, as they went north, had to wait for almost four years to feel this difference in the rain seasons and to benefit from the changes.

50 AC (100 Earth years): World's population is now reaching 186,600 people. There are now twenty-two cities, two countries (Yisrael and Ekronas), and the Moabite and Canaanite city-states, and an unregistered number of villages. Many countries have now large fields for agriculture and cattle.

59 AC: World's population reaches now 628,000 people. All of the world's current religions have now been fully established. The populational boom begins to deaccelerate, due to the diminishing crops and fields for animals to feed, showing the first signs that a famine may be on the way - the Israelites and the Moabites begin to store the production surplus, a precaution measure that other countries didn't have. The Canaanites are the biggest ethnic group on the planet, and the Moabites are the ones with the most densely populated cities.

62 AC: The famine finally ends, leaving a death toll of 4,000 people. The population reaches again the mark of 250,000 people. The First Temple is being built, after the completion of the Commentaries. The new calendar is being established, and it will be a fixed, calculated calendar, instead of a lunar, sight-based as it was back on Earth (since the moon here isn't the same). More cities are founded, and many more villages. However, the army is left without proper management.

77 AC: The population now marks 900,000 people, and 80 cities are now fully established, with at least 2,000 inhabitants. There are still many villages. The Moabites invented the powder for religious use and, seeing the potential for military use, the Israelites learn how to do it, and develop the first hand explosives, a ball of ceramics filled with compressed powder and small stones to make it ignite when breaking - this was kept a secret from most people, to avoid being copied by the Ekroneans and Moabites. Also, the current Judge decides to improve technologically the Israelite army, by relieving from taxes whoever comes with a good idea or invention to help the army (and also to keep it secret even from other Israelites except the army). The number of soldiers reach 40,000.

78 AC: A new famine happens, but the Israelites are mostly unaffected, since most of its agricultural fields are now near the rivers in the Transition Zone. Several attacks made by the Ekroneans, Moabites and Canaanites occur, but most of them fail to cause any considerable damage to Israelite crops and farms. The Canaanites attempt several attacks on the western shore by arriving in boats, but most of them are ineffective. A few ships are sunk and set in fire by the new bombs used by the Israelites. Several Israelite cities ask for Dagon priests to erect a temple in Ramat Golan, in exchange of supplies.

Before the war with Israel

79 AC: The famine ends. The cult of Dagon rapidly gains adepts among the Israelites, now reaching as much as 40% of Israelite's population. The nation comes to a civil unrest and clashes, and is going to a civil war due to religious conflicts. The last Judge, Meir ben Shalum, form the tribe of Judah, adheres to the cult of Dagon, and the Priests in Bet-Shemes says he's no longer fit to be Israel's leader. The Judge Meir is killed in a clash with Israelite Priests by a woman who entered the fight and threw a stone at his head. These priests warn the people that G-d would bring the exile for what has been happening. The Israelite population now reaches 1.1 million people.

80 AC: After gathering an army of 120,000 soldiers, an alliance formed by the Ekroneans, the newly-formed Moabite Kingdom and Canaanites attack the cities of Israel. The Israelite population halts the internal fighting and try to prevent the invasion. The Ekroneans make the first move, by attacking the city of Mevo Gelo, the original city on Gelo; on the next day, the Moabites invade in two fronts, through the southwest and the southeast points; the Canaanites attack first from the ground on the northern front, but by the middle of the year, with most of Israelite troops on the border, they launch an attack from the sea, capturing many important Israelite cities and towns. By the end of the year, the Israelites are cornered at the western area around the cities of Ayalon, Bet Hayam, Shimshon and the closest towns and villages.

After the war with Israel

81 AC: After a year of war, the Israelites are all defeated, and the death toll is of 68,500 Israelites killed in battle or destruction of cities. Most of the population is taken captive by the prevailing nations as slaves, but some of the poorest people are left behind to its own fate. In order to prevent the Israelites from ever wishing to recover its national and religious identity and aspire to independence, the Ekroneans burned every Torah scroll they could find, until not a single one was left behind. Other books, such as the Commentaries, were considered of less importance by the Ekroneans and weren't burned, as they never thought the Israelite religion could recover even partially from these books. The city of Bet-Shemes and the First Temple were destroyed in the 9th day of the 11th regular month (Yisrelite calendar). The Moabites use Israelite lactating children as human sacrifices in their capital, Hasrot-Moab, for their god Kemosh; their mothers and fathers are forced to watch tied to the altar where they were burnt.

87 AC: By the end of the year, an asteroid roughly 1km wide fell nearly 600km from the western continental shore. On western side of the continent, the waves reached 50m high and reached inland as far as 68km, leading to more unaccounted Israelite casualties. The wave went around the world and hit the coastal Ekronas' city of Ashdod as 20m high with full force, killing all its inhabitants - the majority of Israelites who followed the cult of Dagon lived in the city. Also, the Ekronas' city of Bet Dagan is hit with full force, even though it is 38km inland, and many more Israelites were killed.

After the First Ekronean-Moabite war

88 AC (200 Earth years): By the beginning of the year, a Moabite-Ekronean war broke out, leading to even more Israelite casualties, as both sides were using them as slaves for building walls and as distraction. By the end of the same year the Moabites lose the war, and their capital city is fully burned down with its entire population trapped inside, and the king and all his sons are burned in the altar of Kemosh. During the war, an underground Israelite militia with guerrilla tactics began acting, by attacking both the Ekroneans and the Moabites, sometimes these attacks were very effective - this was meant to weaken their armies and help a possible future uprising of the Israelites and their return to their land. The Israelite population now is down to 595,000 people, nearly half of its maximum, but still holding the position as the biggest ethnical group on Gelo.

List of ethnical groups of Gelo by the end of the Ancient Age, by size:

        1. Israelites: around 595,000 people, ~16% of world's population;
        2. Philistines: around 465,000 people, ~33% of world's population;
        3. Canaanites: around 430,000 people, ~26.5% of world's population;
        4. Moabites: around 420,000 people, ~20% of world's population;
        5. Ishmaelites: around 10,000 people, ~4.5% of world's population.

World population is at about 1.9 million people.

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