Alum

Alum was one of the early cites in the Gerphides River Valley, lasting from 6 900 BP until 5000 BP, at it's height during the Ahksan period it housed some 35,000 people. Alum was founded a century after the downfall of Ukan-Mira Today the ruins of this city are a few kilomoters away from Turolotoa.

Growth
Around the turn of the 6th milleium B.P, Aryans migrated into the whole region of the Gerphidies and Pantokipides Rivers disturbing many of the standing inhabitants, however within a century the new-comers settled down and mingled with the natives. Out of the runis of many old villages, Alum was formed on a pinnacle point close to the Merhaisn Gulf. (OTL Persian Gulf). The city began to prosper because of irrigation and trade with the east. In 6,700 B.P the monarchy of the Sumer Dynasty was formed with the crowning of King Sumer.

Some of the most intact records tell of a large temple in the center of the city dedicated to Polytheism.

The temple was most likely the largest human made structure at the time.

In 5.300 B.P the last king of Alum was killed outside the city gates by the rising Ahkasan Empire. This last event was due to being ill-prepared on Alum side against the Ahkansan suprise attack.

Ahkasan Period
Alum was incorporated into the Ahkasan Empire in 5 300 BP. Alum declined in significance and wealth due to Ahkasan occupation and trade regulations designed to flow wealth into the coffers of the "god of Ahkasan". The first Bakuriod also destroyed the temples of the city enforcing strict cult worship, the Ja-Urankia's Saga records the burning of thousands who resisted the worship Bakuriod. Being part of the Empire, Alum adopted the Akansan Calander, evident in the modern day ruins.

Besides what remains of ancient texts we know little of what happened after the first conquest and before the fall of Ahkasan Empire. Historians debate on how the Ahkasan Period came to an end, one of the most accepted theories written by Leniodor Turshoas points to a little know manusript, Chronicle of the Gerphides,

''"After Hundreads of years of subujgations at the hands of Baukuriod, the people of Alum were still free in thier hearts, quietly rejecting their occupiers, at last when word came of a mortal Bakiriod decapiated afront of his people, the men, women and even the children took to-arms throwing out the false-god's shattered and stunned servents." ''

Archelogical findings discovered that three years after the revolt, (5,000) B.P that Alum was suddenly and mysteriously destroyed. It was soon promply abandoned by the survivors, historians believe they would settle on modern day Turolota

Society and Culture
From what little we do know of Alum (Chronicle of the Gerphides) it seems to have been a commerical based free-flowing community that was a melting pot for the entire region, this diminshed of course with the dawn of the Akhasan Period.