Second Age of Pulasia

The Second Age of Pulasia was the period on Pulasia from 305 to 597 AB, most notable for the ascendancy of the Turtle Tyranny to the position as undisputed hegemon it held during the Third Age of Pulasia.

First Age of Intrigues
The period from 212 AB to 401 AB is known as the First Age of Intrigues. In this period, many technological advances were made, including the scientific discoveries that began the Industrial Revolution of Pulasia in the Third Age. Two wars occurred during this period: the First Small War and the Second Small War.

The Key War
By 398 AB, tensions were rising between the four factions with the highest Dominance: the Perissodactyl Place, the Rodent-Rabbit Republic, the Afrotherian Anarchy and the Turtle Tyranny. The former two took on the latter two in a war. The theoretical reason was an accusation by the Republic of the Anarchy of trade protectionism; this was so silly (because the Anarchy did not have nearly enough powers to execute protectionism) that everyone took this as a sign of wanting war. The Anarchy evaded the accusations by claiming they had killed the senator responsible for the protectionism (although execution had been outlawed in the Anarchy in 253 AB) and the crisis went nowhere until three years later, in 401 AB, when the Republic attacked, now without nominal pretenses. The Place allied with the Republic, while the Tyranny supported the Anarchy. The war lasted for a while, until in 418 AB the Anarchy adopted a policy of destroying farms; this so injured their opponents' economies that in 420 AB, the Republic sunk below the Amphibian Alliance in Dominance and exited the war. The Place refused to surrender, and was significantly damaged by the continuing blows of the Alliance and the Tyranny by 425 AB. By that date, all three Societies were using scorched-earth tactics. In 425 AB, peace negotiations began, but the death of a major Tyranny politician (now accepted to be due to unrelated causes) sabotaged the proceedings. Despite this, the pace of the war was decidedly sluggish by the final peace of 429 AB.

Before Dawn
The period from 429 to 559 AB has no common name. It was a mostly peaceful period, although the Third Small War took place during it. Fortifications were especially enchanced during this period, to ensure wars would not be as damaging as the Key Wars. In fact, the result was the opposite: wars were encouraged due to them being safer for Dominance.

The Hegemony War
Main article: Hegemony War