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(this is based on a 2 player game I'm having with PaddytheScot. I'm writing it like a history but I hope it doesn't get too dry)
The Korean people first appeared near the shore of Lake Han about 4000 BCE where they fished, hunted, and gathered roots and fruit. With the discovery that seeds can be planted near a home and food harvested in the fall, the Korean people had a problem. Agriculture led to population explosions and a large population meant competition for land. The ten main tribes of the Korean people decided to scatter instead of fight and with settlements turning into towns, the Han Empire was born.
The first records of the Korean people date back to 2270 BCE. The Koreans did not have a proper writing system at the time but a complex system of pictographs which they later discarded in favour of an alphabet called Hangul. By the time of the first pictographs they had come into contact with the Dutch to their south and the Iroquois far to their north though exchanges were very limited.
Koreans probably first started writing as an aid in the ancient barbarian wars. It was sometime in the 3rd millenium BCE that barbarian warriors and horsemen swept down from the south and emerged from previously peaceful villages to attack Korea¡¯s people. Fear of the barbarians and worries about the superior military of the Dutch to the south prompted Korea¡¯s rulers to build better defences. At the same time, the rulers decided that expanding the empire into the wild lands would be a good way to push out the barbarians and to strengthen the nation against the possibly greater threat of the civilised nations around it.
The year 2230 saw many attack by the barbarians in the northern frontiers. Horsemen twice attacked a unit of exploring warriors but were repulsed both times. The experience from these battles forged the warriors into an elite fighting force. The Korean rulers continued to send other warrior explorers into the wilderness in the hopes of finding riches and other civilised nations with whom to trade.
The Korean people first appeared near the shore of Lake Han about 4000 BCE where they fished, hunted, and gathered roots and fruit. With the discovery that seeds can be planted near a home and food harvested in the fall, the Korean people had a problem. Agriculture led to population explosions and a large population meant competition for land. The ten main tribes of the Korean people decided to scatter instead of fight and with settlements turning into towns, the Han Empire was born.
The first records of the Korean people date back to 2270 BCE. The Koreans did not have a proper writing system at the time but a complex system of pictographs which they later discarded in favour of an alphabet called Hangul. By the time of the first pictographs they had come into contact with the Dutch to their south and the Iroquois far to their north though exchanges were very limited.
Koreans probably first started writing as an aid in the ancient barbarian wars. It was sometime in the 3rd millenium BCE that barbarian warriors and horsemen swept down from the south and emerged from previously peaceful villages to attack Korea¡¯s people. Fear of the barbarians and worries about the superior military of the Dutch to the south prompted Korea¡¯s rulers to build better defences. At the same time, the rulers decided that expanding the empire into the wild lands would be a good way to push out the barbarians and to strengthen the nation against the possibly greater threat of the civilised nations around it.
The year 2230 saw many attack by the barbarians in the northern frontiers. Horsemen twice attacked a unit of exploring warriors but were repulsed both times. The experience from these battles forged the warriors into an elite fighting force. The Korean rulers continued to send other warrior explorers into the wilderness in the hopes of finding riches and other civilised nations with whom to trade.
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