- spread of new religion - pleasuredomes?
- widespread social change due to new religion
- loss of capital moves nation center elsewhere
- descriptive, inarticulate names of past: "fire sticks", "dragon lizards"
- population shift after war leaves homeland barren
- influential book (non religious) - Gsa?
- coastal military expansion
- long siege
- change in clan fealty
- monumental construction (mindat?)
- use of ancient words/systems/structures
- plague- changes agriculture (side effects) or belief system
- ousted leader starts city elsewhere
- clans rewarded for great accomplishment (victorious soldiers?)
- natural disaster believed to be divine wrath
- monarch destroys history books and writings