Before Writing

- The █ estimated that the first Taadži ancestors were born 4.2 million years ago, in the region now known as the Inner Sea. A global cold period lowered ocean levels, leaving the Inner Sea as a savannah and marshy plain.

- Proto-Taadži moved to their western homeland by traveling between the sea islands and along the southern coastlines, fishing and gathering food from the sea and shore. They crossed the high mountains around 2.5 million years ago.

- The climate became warmer, and sea levels rose. The coastline near the high mountains became more treacherous, and the lowlands to their east dried into a great desert. No further Proto-Taadži made the journey to the west. Rain still fell on the western side of the mountains, providing enough water for rainforests and savannah in the south.

- Ancestors of the █ began to move west. Proto-Taadži populations outside of the western homeland died or interbred with the █. The desert and mountains protected the Proto-Taadži populations in the west.

-The █ estimated that early Taadži built the first first megalithic structures 15,000 years ago. Many were arranged as lines of stones following the path of the Sun and Moon. Eastern cultures created structures that faced the mountains.