Polynesia
The term Polynesia is used to describe five things: a civilisation, a geographical area, a economic and a political union. The Polynesian Union is a close military, political and economic alliance of the five countries that together form "Polynesia": Asian Pacific Islands, The Oan Isles, Konoa and East Polynesia. The history of this area spans millions of years divided between pre-human habitation (when the Procynes were the dominant sentient species) and human habitation (beginning roughly 12,000 years ago). The political, cultural and social dynamics of Polynesia are characterised primarily by the relations between their sole dominant sentient species: the Procynes and Humans.
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Etymology
The name "Polynesia" has an enigmatic history so much so that no clear point of origin can be ascertained. The first mention of a word resembling that of Polynesia is on the Maoric Tablet, a stone stele on which the cuneiform inscriptions speak of fight in "Polanosa". Clear usage of this term is made 2,000 years later when a Codexian explorer, James Sobruquet describes a place called "Polynesia" in 1170 A.D. The term came into popular and scholarly use some time thereafter.
History
Conceptualisation as a Civilisation
Scholars, foremost among them 15th century Oan scholar Ianotukaleua, makes a clear distinction between the culture, social systems and hierarchy, technology, measures and calendars, religions and traditions of what today makes up Polynesia with the other major civilisations he encountered on his voyages to Yasteria and Aurora. The study of the delineation of different civilisations has increased tremendously over the past two centuries as globalisation increases and people of different cultures meet. Konoan scholar, Reayikatakile Lasawalua, studied Auroran civilisations, making a clear distinction between the Western Auroran civilisation (whose core country was the Morstaybishlian Empire) and Eastern Auroran civilisation (whose core country was the Kostuvastan). The monicker "West" was applied on all nations that bore the linguistic, racial, cultural, technological, political and economic similarities to the Morstaybishlian Empire while the term East was a rudimentary term for others among them Polynesia. The study of civilisation came to a definitive head when Islander anthropologist Komakado Yamasoto distinguished Polynesia from all others. In fact as globalisation increased, and the ideals of the Emberites after and during the The Auroran Imperial War proliferated, the Oan government undertook a vicious policy of "Polynesianisation" to resist the influence of the Aurorans in their empire and sphere of influence.
The following subsections will discuss various attributes of the notion a Polynesian civilisation.
