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====Apprenticeships====
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===Modern education===
The following applies broadly to Talma as well as societies founded by Talman settlers, such as [[Verse:Tricin/Fyxoom|Fyxoom]].
The following applies broadly to Talma as well as societies founded by Talman settlers, such as [[Verse:Tricin/Fyxoom|Fyxoom]].
====Primary and secondary education====
====Primary and secondary education====
Teaching basic literacy, arithmetic and finance, and inculcation of liberal values (which is a part of how Ngronaism is interpreted today), are considered the most important function of public education.
[...]
 
Since education in higher levels is much more fragmented and stratified, primary school curriculum is standardized and efforts are made to cultivate a sense of empathy towards people of other backgrounds in primary school. (A child may test out of the literacy and math requirements.) [[Verse:Tricin/Ngronaism|The civic religion]] is taught with lessons about history, literature, and philosophy.
 
Secondary school is less determined. There are topics such as sex education and more Ngronaism lessons which are mandatory (in time for adolescence), but secondary schools are otherwise free to develop their own curricula.
 
Some public secondary schools offer more specialized curricula in the sciences, arts or the humanities, geared towards students who wish to enter universities (see below). For illustration, this is a typical modern Etalocian science school math curriculum:
 
*Geometry, equations and functions
*Calculus (one-variable and multivariable)
*Ordinary differential equations
*Probability and statistics; combinatorics
*Linear algebra.


Lastly, traditional-style private boarding schools still exist.
Lastly, traditional-style private boarding schools still exist.
====Higher education====
Humanities in science degrees, Naquian style


==Art==
==Art==
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==Notable figures==
==Notable figures==
TODO: more non-music, non-STEM heroes
TODO: more non-music, non-STEM heroes

Revision as of 11:45, 22 February 2019

The countries of the Bitaleta (Talma, Etalocin, and Bjeheond) area
The similarity of the name to the Terran composer Louise Talma is coincidental.

Talma (Skellan: Talma /tʰãmə/, from Windermere Tălma /təlˈma/, from tăle ăma 'mother land'; Hlou: Tä-Ma; Sowaár: Táwama) is a cultural region of the conplanet Tricin. It is actually the northwestern portion of a landmass called Eta-Talma (Windermere: Eta-Tălma), the southern part of which is Etalocin. Bjeheond is located to the south of Talma.

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History

Pre-Calamities

"Warring States" period

Windermere Empire

Grouidite Revolution and aftermath

A major war broke out about 80 years after the publication of Grouid's manifesto.

Post-Revolution

Geography and climate

Talma is located 30°N - 65°N and has a temperate climate. A natural barrier separates it from Etalocin.

Isolated areas:

  • Bhadhagha Island
  • Nūrē
  • The Tumacas
  • Qaaroshter
  • Skella (to an extent)

Economy

Languages

Modern Talman languages

These are some modern Talman languages:

Of these, Anvirese and Windermere are the most spoken languages. Many modern Talmans, especially Talmic speakers, speak Skellan as a second language. Swuntsim is spoken by some people in the minority Swuntsim ethnicity.

Cuisine

Society

Talma boasts a robust tradition of intellectual activity in the sciences, philosophy, and music. However, Talman society historically was a highly stratified meritocracy, which historically caused considerable friction between social classes.

Historically the social cost of nonconformity was quite severe. Crimes were punished harshly. Legally, the most common punishments were exile, imprisonment and forced labor but often the criminals were tortured, castrated, or executed, in addition to public shaming.

Impact of birth control

Hmlai (Skellan) is a contraceptive plant native to Talma that's easy to farm, thus providing premodern Talmans with cheap birth control. (We'll call it silphium in English.)

Some possible consequences of Talman silphium:

  • Polygamy was legally recognized in Talman cultures, though many people are monogamous.
  • Premodern Talman culture doesn't have a traditionalist sexual morality (neither does modern Talman culture).
  • Equal rights for women has always been an ideal, if not reality, in Talman culture in recorded history. (This is not because of some innate moral superiority of Talmans but largely due to external factors.)
  • Women are less likely to die young in childbirth and thus more likely to participate in public society.

Pre-modern vulgar culture

The plebs were largely semi-literate but otherwise uneducated and were forced to do menial labor and/or live in unsanitary places. Non-elite military-age men were often drafted into wars.

The common people had plays, and later novels, as forms of entertainment.

Modern

The rise of the merchant class and the free-market economy marks the beginning of Etalocian modernity.

Contemporary social issues include:

  • how much welfare?
  • size of standing army?
  • death penalty
  • national parks etc.
  • basic income and its effects
  • automation
  • effective altruism
  • gender stuff
  • etc.

The election system used is usually approval voting. Some countries use ranked-choice voting.

Agile legislation is considered a design ideal to strive for in Etalocian democracies.

There is no legal concept of marriage in modern Etalocian societies; marriage is essentially a "religious" concept to be negotiated by individuals.

Education

Traditional education

Elite education

Elite boys were first educated in either a "boarding school" which taught a curriculum of rhetoric, poetry, classical language, math, fine arts, and science, or a military academy. By age 15 they were expected to enter into university study (or military service) in order to specialize into one or more roles in elite society. To enter specialization one was required to pass the entrance exam administered by a university. If one could not enter specialist training he was effectively banished from elite society. Those who passed the "boarding school" curriculum but failed to specialize usually worked as "managers", low-level officials or schoolteachers. One or more requirements could be waived for a child of exceptional ability in one area.

Elite girls also had access to a full boarding school education (though not to a military education), enough for them to be independent. Unlike males, however, they were not expected to undergo male specialization. Women who wished to become schoolteachers or musicians received appropriate additional training. Some women, mostly courtesans-in-training or those who aspired to marry the most powerful aristocrats, underwent education meant for male specialists.

Apprenticeships

Modern education

The following applies broadly to Talma as well as societies founded by Talman settlers, such as Fyxoom.

Primary and secondary education

[...]

Lastly, traditional-style private boarding schools still exist.

Higher education

Humanities in science degrees, Naquian style

Art

Literature

Theater

The aristocracy consumed early forms of Talman theater. However, theater as a public art form enjoyed a boom starting in the post-Grouidite Revolution period, with Etsoj Jopah's and Lesch Mltzhyphe's writings.

Typically the most attractive actors and actresses were selected for protagonist roles. [?]

Music

Main article: Verse:Tricin/Talma/Music

Architecture

Buildings

looks like something a music-geometry synaesthete would dream up

  • gently curved, sloping roofs like in traditional Japanese architecture?
  • tessellations like in Islamic architecture? (and isomorphic keyboards)
  • space and relationships are emphasized (just as relationships between notes are important)
  • multiple layers, with varying ratios used - overkill?

Material-wise, polished wood is the main material in many buildings; expensive buildings such as palaces use more stone, mortar, and ebony.

Gardens

Fashion

Vegetarian fashion

Mostly consists of cotton

how insulate with no leather

  • wool
  • down feathers
    • heavy seabird nesting sites that provide down, fertilizer, later gunpowder ingredients
  • ymnahd oil
  • basically a lot of "hacks"

Other visual art

Technology

Modern Trician technology is more advanced than ours.

Cuisine

Vegetarian cuisine has been backed by various ethical philosophies that prohibit either killing or inflicting suffering on animals. Some form of vegetarianism is common among Etalocians; however, vegetarians are less common among lower classes.

Using umami ingredients such as seaweeds and mushrooms, and herbs and spices is common to make up for the lack of meat.

Religion and civic religion

Note that religion is largely a translation convention. Folk religion, or people making up religions, is common.

Mainstream

Main article: Verse:Tricin/Talma/Religion and philosophy

Swuntsim

Main article: Verse:Tricin/Swuntsimism

Notable figures

TODO: more non-music, non-STEM heroes

TODO: more Amphirese, Yekhanese, Qazhrians, Phormatians, Chthryxians, ...

  • Yăchahf rith-Ătsa - Windermere physician who verified germ theory of disease
  • pseudo-[???] - group of ancient Tergetian mathematicians, authors of the Brøøhad Manuscript which is the first text to mention negative numbers, complex numbers and algebra
  • [???] - Tergetian astronomer, developed the heliocentric model of planetary motion
  • Jissarāφom = Windermere geometer, described Euclidean geometry in 2- and 3-dimensional Euclidean space; his work appears in Thensarian translation
  • Snoeδiret Aecsarbē - Thensarian mathematician, who first approximated π to 96 base-12 places (~ 104 decimal places)
  • Toφaomerom - ancient Clofabic orator

A series of natural disasters strikes Talma and sets off the "Warring States Period".

  • Tsăhongtămdi - composer, physicist and mathematician who wrote Elements of Harmony, which has the first known mention of harmonic series; the just ratios generated by a given set of primes
  • Rith-Mărotł - Windermere statesman, philosopher, and political theorist
  • Hădech fa-Angcem - Windermere naturalist who deduced the theory of biological evolution from Nurian wildlife which was similar but different than wildlife of continental Talma.
    • This sets off a theological crisis.
  • Fosean fat-Tsarir - Windermere chemist, physicist
  • Ăchmu far-Rothap - Windermere geometer, physicist and engineer
  • Răngeay Bănof - Windermere physicist and mathematician who invented calculus

[The Revolution]

  • Emisom Grouid - Amphirese poet
  • Sngü Pde - Windermere physicist
  • Tăbich Vaseng - Windermere mathematician who worked on complex analysis, discovered Riemann zeta function
  • (Amphirese poets and writers)
  • Stuthil Alcphe - Amphirese writer
  • Astęras Sawmeter - Amphirese inventor
  • Jakkiūrą Uffanasseh - Nurian economist
  • Axtxo Byjah - Sfətsiv-Fyxoomian writer
  • Ilsá Josive - Skellan geometer
  • Sduþel Bolltind - Skellan linguist, discovered Roshterian
  • Tzintve Vitzyza - Sfətsiv-Amphirese linguist, discovered Sowaár
  • Alg Geom - Anbirese algebraic geometer
  • Rewhd Gneevon - writer
  • Çela Jaivon - Skellan fantasy writer and conlanger, Tricin's Tolkien figure