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==== Culture in Ancient Aldaar ====
The development of a shared Aldaari identity, combined with the harsh realities of desert life, led to the creation and proliferation of the [[Three Tenets]], or ''Allamtii al-Anabat'', "The Way of the Desert." The Three Tenets were a system of guidelines for the Aldaari people and to this day operate as a moral code for desert life, forming a sort of survivors' etiquette. They would provide the basis for many cultural and historical developments and have heavily influenced the lives of almost all Aldaari people. The Three Tenets are as follows:
# Always treat other people with mercy and compassion in their hours of need.
# Keep forgiveness in your heart for all people, and reject all forms of hate.
# Remember that everything changes, and everything is connected; every action has a reaction, every consequence a cause.
Of these, the third tenet is likely the most well known and closely correlated with modern Aldaari culture. The idea that everything changes is viewed as crucial to understanding life and the world around you, and as a result Aldaari groups have always been quick adapters of new technological, social, economic, and political ideas. All three tenets appear to have been designed with practicality in mind - sandstorms, intense heat, food scarcity, and many other environmental pressures meant that life in the wastes wasn't easy, and the tenets appear to have tried to reduce interpersonal tensions and build community, knowing that the people were stronger together and that nobody in the desert needed any additional challenges to face.
===== Technological Advancements =====
[[File:FishTrapsALD.jpg|left|thumb|Black and white photo of a [[Sayaduun Governorate|Sayaduuni]] fisherman catching farmed fish]]
Aldaari history after the invention of writing has been described as a "post-neolithic golden era," and local advances in technology were no exception. Perhaps the most critical advancements were those that related to food production, as for many millennia food had been extremely scarce on the desert, requiring most tribes to utilize a migratory hunter-gatherer structure. However, the spread of ideas that came with the rise of writing allowed many developments in this field, notably the rise in [[W:aquaculture|aquaculture]]. The Aldaaris were some of the first people to do this, farming fish by constructing complex series of dams and channels and using woven traps to capture bred fish for consumption and trade. These developments encouraged the rise of Aldaar's first settled tribes, many of whom embraced a sedentary life on the northwest coast of the continent founding Aldaar's first permanent settlements, some of which remain to this day. Around the 5th century BCE, records indicate many more tools were developed that further benefited the culture of fishing that had sprung up, including fishing rods, cotton nets, and small fishing boats, which further contributed to the building of a food surplus.
Around the same time, tribes near the [[Nafaq Oasis]] began to develop irrigation systems and planting practices for the many types of flora native to the area, including cotton, apples, plums, peaches, pomegranates, dates, corn, squash, tomatoes, sorghum, herbs, tea, and coffee, among many others. Of theses, the most crucial were cotton, dates, corn, and tea, with each growing easily and being extremely versatile. In addition, agave began being harvested and processed to make [[W:tequila|Teqiilyatlaan]], or as it's more commonly known, Tequila. The development of alcohol was important, as it kept water safe during long cross-desert journeys and overall made water much safer to drink. The Nafaq Oasis, and others like it, proved to be a perfect environment for growing many crops and herbs.
== Geography ==
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