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This massive change of environment led to the development of the Proto-Paelians. Only half as big as their predecessor they could easily sweep through the archipelagos where their food hid. But still they lacked food sources. Very slowly some Proto-Paelians developed lungs additionally to their gills. These had better chances to survive and eventually this new species, the earlies Paelians, replaced the Proto-Paelians. | This massive change of environment led to the development of the Proto-Paelians. Only half as big as their predecessor they could easily sweep through the archipelagos where their food hid. But still they lacked food sources. Very slowly some Proto-Paelians developed lungs additionally to their gills. These had better chances to survive and eventually this new species, the earlies Paelians, replaced the Proto-Paelians. | ||
Slowly the new species developed at the coasts of the small and bigger islands of Paelia. They started as swimming nomads migrating from one island to another. After some thousand years passed some of the Paelian peoples started to settle. Especially those swarms with a taste for vegetables next to fish and meat settled down. Living in holes, caves or nests build by themselves they began growing agricultural plants while smaller parts of the swarm continued to hunt on land and under water. | |||
Those early settlements started to differentiate professions. Of course hunters would still help at harvest but nontheless there were soon some professional farmers who took care of the seeding and oversaw the harvest. Other Paelians experimented with different techniques how to serve their new foods best. When most swarms decided that they'd need to share their hunted fish, meat, grain and other plants, they created the town centers where they would gather all their goods and from where everyone could take whatever one would need. | |||
Not long after these first settlements were established they started to produce tools and other goods. The nomadic swarms arranged trade between the different swarms that had settled down. This way technical progress sooner or later spread among all Paelians. Although most swarms expanded their in most cases natural dwellings the population of the swarms overcame the living space. While some of the offspring joined nomadic swarms or founded their own swarms, people argued that they need to find ways to expand their settlements. First huts were constructed and next to rivers and streams first villages developed. | |||
Not long after the first settlements grew to villages and small towns, swarms living close to each others fused. When the natural waterways weren't big enough to cover the needs of the Paelians they started building canals. On the newly created islands they build more huts and first houses. In the long run, basements and upper floors were developed to provide even more living space for the Paelians. Space was badly needed indeed because the farmers and hunters provided more and more food for the community by constantly new reinventing their methods. | |||
The beginning of urban societies neccessitated more specialized professions. Who would build the houses if not construction workers. Who would keep the waterways and pipes clean if not plumbers. Who would produce the metal goods they needed if not smiths. The more professions developed, the less one central town center could provide enough space to store all the goods produced. In larger towns mutliple centers were created only to store goods of one kind. Metalware, furs, leather and draperies, wood products and food were the earliest seperate stores. When the cities became even bigger instead of centers people started to build smaller stores with a more specialized range of products and many of the former town centers became marketplaces. The people still kept up the concept of freely giving and taking any goods. | |||
It was a long road from those early artisanry to Paelian industrialization. It was a road they constantly sought, though. Of course it was hard for the creators of the earliest manufactories to find workers. They had to convince them to do the work they asked them to do. Only when the Paelians saw the advantages of those factories they started to believe in the neccessity of such institutions. In order not to exploit their workers, 1 and 2 hour shifts became quite usual for factories. Factory workers would work in other professions as well where they could manually work on one product from the beginning to the end. This way it was ensured people would not fatigue because they only work at one production step. | |||
==Public institutions== | ==Public institutions== | ||