Pre-Ægyians

A predecessor to the modern day Ægyian culture, the Pre-Ægyians were a pastoral group which initially primarily inhabited the deserts to the south of the Ægyian river systems, which at that time were much more steppe-like. They were a hunter-gatherer people group who seemed to have benefited from the extensive nextwork of oases and rainfall at the time. It it likely that they did not settle the Ægyian river systems due to the lack of technology to protected against flooding, but that they may have lived by the river for at least some of the year. This explains why, as desertification began during the recession of the Ice Age, they may have fled to the floodplains, which, though dangerous during some months, would have provided more food sources than the rapidly (in geologic time) drying steppe. Some would have also settled oases, which may have led to an early relation to the Iajephic - Alyubians who moved into the deserts when desertification was reversed for a short time. By this point, the Pre-Ægyians had already developed into Ægyians, but there may have been some remnant of older culture in such desert oases.