Cosmopolitan Age

The Cosmopolian Age on planet Teppala was a period of time characterized by poor living standards for human beings and a return to a subsitence based way o f life, and increased itneraction with animals.

Background

In the centuries leading up to the Cosmpolitan Age, miliotary and policial power had been cnetrealiwed in the empire of Anzan, which controlled more than half of the human-habitable land in the world, and nearly all of its majopr cities. When Anzan was torn apart by civil war around 4200 AD, there was no foreign power waiting on the sidelines to take over its role in world affairs. Instead, humans simply no longer had a major military power.

With the collapse of Anzan, human vicilization and cooperatin fdewll apart. The mountain tribes such as Gala, Ihhai, Litila, and others, reverted to t ribal rule instead of cooperating with the lowland powers around them. This meant that the tropics was now cut off from the northern civilization in what had been Repilia.

The period immiediately preceding the collapse had seen the center of power shift markedly northward. From the tropics to the NW corner of the continent, as the climate warmed. The c;oimate was still warming, but it was now moslty during winter instead of summer. THis meant that the climate was also becoming more havbitable fo other animals, including rpedators of humans.