Sunshine, Lollipop and... [950BCE Techs]

##850BCE!^(edit)

The Depelli War had been brutal and a huge blow to the Ongin’s power, but it also saw many developments introduced to Onginia via the Hashas. One of such improvements was Iron-smelting which allowed the northerners to equip more troops and use metal where leather or wood would have been used before. In turn, this would bring the introduction of iron stirrups to Ongin riders whom not failing to notice the increase in stability that leather stirrups had brought to horse riding realised that using a solid surface would be even better. Another change in regard to horses was the invention of iron horse-armour, which quickly supplanted the old boiled leather protection riders had been using up until that point.

But metal working wasn’t the only thing the Ongin learnt from the Hashas during the war. As Nucibedu’s siege engineers worked with Zamaher’s they copied and reproduced the design of the southerner’s manaqelum [Chinese proto-traction trebuchet is the tech’s name?] and they also took proper care of keeping up with their allies’ engineers and study trigonometry.

Also, the Depelli War saw many Hashas troops come to Onginia, and with them came an entourage of traders, smiths, whores and, as it couldn’t be otherwise, apothecaries who sold medicines and drugs to whoever needed them. Some Ongin decided to pick up the job themselves and it wasn’t long before apothecaries could be found almost everywhere in Onginia. Another change took place in the Onginite gentry’s diet, as they added the Hashas’s Ciburasu (Khorasan Wheat) to their crops.

The change from the Duri to the Mancera (or whoever is ruling after this mess is over) also saw further improvements in Ongin architecture, as they learnt how to build half-sphere domes from Tao architects.

As the war came to an end and during the following years an increasing number of Ongin started to move to Noon. This meant an increase in sailing and, eventually, they adopted the pulleyed sails used on Tao vessels.

The last change that took place during that era was mure cultural than technological. The Ongin had always held the moon in high regard, as it was the moon that controlled the tides and that kept the Laci and the Gamalaci [World and Otherworld. Note that this word predates Leism, and so the word Lei is used for “Universe” and encompases everything that exists, including both Laci and Gamalaci] apart. In recent times, though, and perhaps influenced by the Hashas views on fire and the sun [which ironically had some influence from an old Ongin myths and rituals themselves], the great star began to gain prominence in the culture and started to be associated with the passing of the seasons and what that meant for life. One of the new Nnilawi, whose name has been lost to history, decided that, while the moon was still to be held in the highest regard and days started at sunset, the sun also deserved its place in the calendar, and so the Ongin invented the first lunisolar calendar.

Original: Iron stirrups, Iron horse-armour, Lunisolar calendar.
Steals: Iron smelting, Manaqelum/Chinese proto-trebuchet, Trigonometry, Apothecaries, Khorasan wheat, Half-sphere domes, Pulleyed sails.

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