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History
The dividing line between Tumetıę and Omari lands came to be the fall line that divided the Vítin river plain. The Tumetıę took the plateau generally referred to as the Piedmont) that lied upriver from the fall line, while the Omari settled on the coastal plain of Wohata.
These two people lived very close to each other, but their cultures were nevertheless very different. This was in part because of food; since the weather in Piedmont was more changeable and less rainy, the crops grown on the Wohata plain weren't suited to the conditions over there. Rice, the staple food of the entire southeast could not be grown in the dry, well-drained soil found there. However, the Piedmont was rich in its own food crops, timber and other materials that were not common on the coast, and
Trade between the plains was bustling, and merchants from the entire Great Bay area traveled up the river to trade with the locals who sold their own goods to them. Cities soon sprang up along the fall line, which was the furthest inland that the merchants' boats could travel. The most influential of those cities was the Tandžék capital of Nožames, and we know that it was a city of some 35 thousand people by the time of NAME's travels in the late 14th century. It was a multicultural nexus where the Tandžék coexisted with a large Omari descendant minority and many other peoples.
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