Wellspring of Nations

Revolution

Throughout the late 1100s and 1200s CE, a growing mercantile middle class in the continent of Umbrak, as well as some parts of Jideran and Teshoya, was fueled by colonial extraction. This growing political class began to come into conflict with the aristocracy that previously held most of the power. Anti-monarchist sentiments, liberalism, and ideas of the civil commons began to spread, influenced by experiments in self-governance through a series of short-lived uprisings. This period resulted in the formation of a number of republican states, the spread of capitalism as an economic structure, and the withering away of the power of absolute monarchies.