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===Expansion===
After the Merger of the Crowns, Ni-Rao began an era of expansionism, as it grew larger by taking control of neighboring areas. The surrounding areas were populated largely by other feline populations that had migrated from the interior jungles in roughly the same manner the Ni and Rao people had. Ni-Rao was the wealthiest of the feline polities living along the eastern coast of the Gulf of Northwestern Gondwana, and as it expanded, its wealth and military strength increased as well. By the 1st Century CE, Ni-Rao occupied most of the coastal lowlands of the eastern gulf coast region north of the
A series of military defeats from eastern tribes in the 6th Century CE largely ended Ni-Rao's expansion to the east. Also around this time, the era of pyramid building began to decline, as the economy had since weakened and labor was needed in agriculture rather than in the service of the Emperors to build tombs. Ni-Rao's borders would remain largely fixed for some four hundred years. This era of stagnation is known as the First Dark Age of Ni-Rao, although in contrast to the name the general populace was not largely suffering, and there were significant improvements made to agriculture, roads, and defensive fortifications on the frontier. Expansion began to pick up again in 900 CE, focused primarily on expanding into the north, across the mountains of the Danvreas Range.
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