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==History==

 

[[File:Rodoka Native Flag.png|left|thumb|300px|This flag, flown by the High Chiefs of Rodoka from 1540 to 1634, is today used as a flag representing the Native Rodokan community.]]

There were some 400,000 Rodokans living on the island, many of them in the city of the same name located on the southern coast of the island, when explorers from [[Acronis]] arrived in the year 1620. First contact is recorded as having been markedly friendly. By that time, the Rodokan people had established a government of some twenty loosely-confederated tribes whose chiefs acknowledged an elected High Chief as their leader. Acronians agreed to settle in open land and traded with the Rodokans. Both cultures shared a great spiritual and economic significance for the ocean, which was an early point of bonding for the two groups. While [[Akronism|Akronists]] could not eat the meat of land animals, both could share in seafood, and both hunted whales and used whale oil products. As Rodoka has a drier climate than mainland Acronis, with a distinct dry season, the exchange of different crops and agricultural products was an early bonding point between the cultures. Acronian rum, distilled from sugarcane, became very popular among the Rodokans, as they did not produce any distilled liquor. The Rodokans gave the Acronians the name "''ruumkandja''," meaning "''rum-bearers''." The first and largest Acronian settlement was Lantaž, meaning "paradise," that was settled on the coast approximately 1 Acronian monai (1.053 km) to the east of the Rodokan's largest settlement, also named Rodoka.