History
The antiquity that encompasses much can be seen in the land itself. This remains a constancy, despite that newer structural developments have on occasion obscured apparent earlier fact.
Many buildings incorporate older elements in their structure, walls and other minute constructs included. Older ornamentation such as statues and stonework may be repurposed for superficial purposes. Infrastructure however varies from locality to locality, stylisation often dependent on historical or cultural elements.
Many longer-extant residents are able to recall earlier events to a relative degree, although the past is more obscure the further time extends.
It can be said that at a historical groundwork, myths that existed on either side of reality describe events that might have actually occurred. This is evidenced by graves on occasion discovered.
The terrain is not exclusively divided between 'Ereba' (Europe), 'Alkebulan' (Africa), 'Meluha' (India), 'Assuwa' (Asia), 'Zhōngguó' (China), 'Abiayala' (North America), 'Mayab' (Southern Mexico), 'Anáhuac' (Northern Mexico), and 'Caral' (South America).
'Ereba' translates to 'the land the sun goes under' in Phoenician.
'Alkebulan' translates to 'mother of mankind' in multiple ancient languages.
'Meluhha' translates to 'high abode' in Sumerian.
'Assuwa' translates to 'place of healing', or 'place of rising (of the sun or reason)' in Hittite.
'Zhōngguó' translates to 'central state' in Putonghua.
'Abiayala' or 'Abya Yala' translates to 'continent of life' in the Guna language.
'Mayab' translates to 'flat land' in Yucatecan.
'Anáhuac' translates to 'close to water' in Nahuatl.
'Caral' translates to 'fibre' or 'reed' in Proto-Quechuan.
The chronology evidently falls between the 1600s and 1800s.
In the time before the chronological present, there was a degree of belief that other areas existed beyond the respective continents that make up Aliud. This was bolstered by various factors endemic and foreign to the world in its entirety.
As inhabitants of respective regions spread to make contact with that of others', the collective sense that there were 'four corners of the world', or different regions that made up the globe was established as fact. There existed dissension as to what the centre was for an evident duration. Regardless, advancements and melding of cultures annulled debate over what was the exact 'axis mundi' or 'world axis'.
For a long duration, a heliocentric view of the world has existed, rather than a geocentric view. This reasoning for this is various.
Colonisation never quite happened. Trade however was established, which led to cosmopolitan connections and a surplus in wealth.
Power accrued. This was enough that contention became initiated between locations. Disputes mostly concerned power struggles and impediments which resulted from differences in philosophical maxims.
Avarice, in its different forms, eventually became a louder voice in those matters, albeit not completely. Conflicts accrued, not all for the same reasoning.
Alike to historic events on Earth, contention has had relevance throughout known records.
The last war, currently known as 'the siege of the valleys' and 'siege of the ramparts' or 'vallīs obsidiōnēs' commonly, for one of the last undertakings during the conflict, was partly an internal matter of hostility. This dispute resulted in a multitude of deaths and an unequal distribution of wealth and power between dominions.
The imbalance remains prevalent. A number of larger terrains were noted to have overtaken smaller regions. Often, territory was incorporated or destabilised in a manner that still has indirect influence on the individual populace.
Multiple decrees were formalised following the last significant conflict, a decision which is known as 'the abdication of nobility' or 'nōbilitātēs abdicātiōnis' in historical terms. Many of the regions which were overtaken were given relative autonomy, but not to the extent that had previously existed.
Altercations between regions have since ceased over the past century. Peace remains tenuous.