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Paths of Civilization II: Paths of Industrialization

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Cossak Breakdancing and Scottish Rap Battles
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    • Oh! Right, one of the funniest interactions is pretty rare, but the Qeshyks are known for their elaborate and acrobatic dances, which since interaction with the Ymaryn scholars and their practice of unarmed combat for when someone attempts to resort to the Argument from the Stick, has also incorporated unarmed combat practice routines. For many others dance is done with the legs and maybe also the arms, but there is pretty much no part of the body that is not expected to touch the ground at some point in their most intense dances. While some of these dances follow very strict sequences, others are more improvised, and some are basically intentionally acrobatic sparring sessions. On occasion Sketch sailors have been known to encounter Qeshyks on garrison duty in a port where the Sketch make dock, and the combination of Sketch improv poetry fighting with Qeshyk dance fighting has been reported by all who have witnessed it as being 'spectacular'.
     
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    • Academia Nut said:
    Oh! Right, one of the funniest interactions is pretty rare, but the Qeshyks are known for their elaborate and acrobatic dances, which since interaction with the Ymaryn scholars and their practice of unarmed combat for when someone attempts to resort to the Argument from the Stick, has also incorporated unarmed combat practice routines. For many others dance is done with the legs and maybe also the arms, but there is pretty much no part of the body that is not expected to touch the ground at some point in their most intense dances. While some of these dances follow very strict sequences, others are more improvised, and some are basically intentionally acrobatic sparring sessions. On occasion Sketch sailors have been known to encounter Qeshyks on garrison duty in a port where the Sketch make dock, and the combination of Sketch improv poetry fighting with Qeshyk dance fighting has been reported by all who have witnessed it as being 'spectacular'.
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    So hip-hop mixed with capoeira? In the 19th century? Bet that is a sight to see.
     
    Ymaryn Oedipus Tyrannos
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    • Sivantic said:
    ...did we not used to do this? Since Yshuyn the Mad?
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    It has since evolved into long form written poetry insults. Outsiders don't experience it and don't get it.

    EDIT: One of the national treasures is a certain play that most see of as a tragedy about the confluence of fate and circumstances, but the nobility understands as a five hour long set up for a "Your momma" joke.
     
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    • Academia Nut said:
    1. From a purely technical construct, the Haddyth became the king of the Ymaryn as well as his own position, and then the institutions merged, but really by that time he was educated by the Ymaryn as had most of his lineage, and the administration and bureaucracy was already Ymaryn-ified, so it was essentially a takeover from within.

    2. Haddyth/Patriarch is the Tsar.
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    What happened to the position of King of the Ymaryn? Did the last incumbent abdicate to the Haddyth?
     
    random_npc said:
    are our lands still covered in managed forests?
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    tenchifew said:
    I am actually really interested in this as well.

    What survived from our advanced farming knowledge, medical knowledge, inoculations etc. and forestry?

    Greater Sacred Forest is gone, but how much remains?
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    Yes it's still around:
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    Fairly well. It remains a managed forest, but since getting access to the Gylruv northern forests many of the forests have been switched over to more parkland or orchards rather than intensive use for fuel or building material. There is still some incidental fuel production from fire load management, and there is always need for more local building materials for personal projects, but most of the infrastructural wood is sourced from the northern boreal forests.
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    One of the national treasures is a certain play that most see of as a tragedy about the confluence of fate and circumstances, but the nobility understands as a five hour long set up for a "Your momma" joke.
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    I hereby declare that our culture has reached it's peek and should be noted as "highest in the universe" instead of "serviceable" from now on.
     
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    On the Ymaryn Calendar and the EY system
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    • Oh yes, a bit of information for you all.

    The Ymaryn use the Era Ymaryn calendar for tracking dates. A solar calendar, it is very accurate, and has the end of calendar year occur shortly after the vernal equinox, with leap days included as intercalendary days at the end of the year. However, it also has an issue in that it was devised significantly after its 0 year, as for political reasons the full scale adoption of the Khemetri calendar was seen as being an issue. Instead, the scholars in charge of setting the 0 year chose what they saw of as the founding of their kingdom as being the point to start the calendar. Unfortunately, there was a lot of dodgy scholarship and backroom politics in choosing this year, so not only did the Ymaryn kingdom definitely exist for centuries before Year 0, but the Year 0 didn't even fall on the coronation of a particularly important king. By the time this was actually reviewed and worked out, centuries had passed and the scholars had no interest in changing around all of their dates. Due to cultural influences many nations use the EY calendar without even knowing what the EY stands for, while many others know how to roughly convert between their year count and the Ymaryn year count and are thus comfortable in discussion about the year.

    Author's Note: It is entirely coincidental that EY can also stand for Equivalent Year.
     
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    • Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't all modern calendars derived from the old Babylonian one, which used base 60 math to calculate everything? Who uses/used base 60 math here?
     
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