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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Origin and rise=== | ===Origin and rise=== | ||
[[File:Enc22 AncestorCity.png|thumb|250px|An Ancestor city.]] | [[File:Enc22 AncestorCity.png|thumb|250px|An Ancestor city.]][[File:HM-CharumHakkor.png|thumb|300px|left|A city on Charum Hakkor, the capital of the Human-San'Shyuum empire.]] | ||
Having presumably evolved and achieved civilization on [[Earth]], originally known as "Erda" or "Erde-Tyrene",<ref name="prim237">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 237-238''</ref> humanity first became a spacefaring civilization at some point prior to [[1,100,000 BCE]]. These early humans settled on numerous worlds along the galactic margin; these regions would be targeted by the [[Flood]]'s initial assault over a million years later.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 67-68''</ref> Early in their history, long before encountering the [[Forerunner]]s, humanity underwent a series of technological dark ages, which left their populations scattered across many worlds and resulted in the loss of most of their records, including the knowledge of Earth being their potential original homeworld. It was not until much later when scientists led by [[Yprin Yprikushma]] traced humanity's potential origin to Earth.{{Ref/Reuse|prim237}} Around [[150,000 BCE]] humanity moved their civilization outward along the [[Orion Arm]], possibly to flee Forerunner control.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 20''</ref> They first settled in and built up population centers in two star systems dozens of lightyears away from Sol before stringing outposts together across nearly thirty thousand lightyears toward the galactic margin of the galaxy.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 42''</ref> | Having presumably evolved and achieved civilization on [[Earth]], originally known as "Erda" or "Erde-Tyrene",<ref name="prim237">'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 237-238''</ref> humanity first became a spacefaring civilization at some point prior to [[1,100,000 BCE]]. These early humans settled on numerous worlds along the galactic margin; these regions would be targeted by the [[Flood]]'s initial assault over a million years later.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 67-68''</ref> Early in their history, long before encountering the [[Forerunner]]s, humanity underwent a series of technological dark ages, which left their populations scattered across many worlds and resulted in the loss of most of their records, including the knowledge of Earth being their potential original homeworld. It was not until much later when scientists led by [[Yprin Yprikushma]] traced humanity's potential origin to Earth.{{Ref/Reuse|prim237}} Around [[150,000 BCE]] humanity moved their civilization outward along the [[Orion Arm]], possibly to flee Forerunner control.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 20''</ref> They first settled in and built up population centers in two star systems dozens of lightyears away from Sol before stringing outposts together across nearly thirty thousand lightyears toward the galactic margin of the galaxy.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''page 42''</ref> | ||