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| - The Aquitanii Imperium handled foreign policy in stark contrast to its modern successor. Engagements with the world, both in economy and war was standard and is what helped the old imperium evolve to what it came to be in its height; the same would later contribute to its fall at the hands of extreme foreigners. The latter, specialists say, may have contributed to the relative isolated demeanor Aquitanians adopted after the expulsion of the Sevintrians. Following the liberation from Sevintria after a strong show of Aquitanian union between the Five Kingdoms, Aquitania reverted to its pre-Aquitanii status. The five sovereign kingdoms constantly bickered and went to war with each other. Relations in other areas were warm, trade was vital between some Kingdoms and the same spoken language proved identity easily to recognise as opposed to their attitude against the southern barbarians. Prussia was relatively peaceful from 402 to 1000 but had a strong position within the country regardless. It became the most wealthy Kingdom in Aquitania after it prospered with the income of naval trade. An Alliance with Wulffbein in 987 ensured that Vladien, still revanchist over the loss of East Prussia and Weissland during the early opening years of independence, did not invade. And that a Wulffbeinian war with Arlathan would not be interrupted by Prussia. The Treaty of Gottingetz in 1178 between the 5 Kingdoms was the first step towards the Imperial Proclamation in 1507; it promised mutual cooperation in the defence of Aquitanian Territories in the event of invasion, the treaty explicitly stated that a repeat of the Sevintrian Endeavour could not be allowed to happen ever again. Both the Yutschenians and the Mirellians, considered inferior; were constantly shunned by the Aquitanian states in war. Yutscheck Imperialism constantly encroached Sieländ and the Mirellians had interests in the strategic Aquitanian Peninsula of Asterhein; so the Aquitanian States considered the aforementioned countries as traditional enemies of Pan-Aquitanianism. Years of friendly diplomatic relations, including the foundation of the Nordlanderbund in 1323, culminated in the Imperial Union of 1500, signed in Savoy, then the largest urban conglomeration in the Aquitanian states. It proclaimed Richard Wolfkehr the Great as Kaiser or "Emperor", descendant of Tridius Wolfkehr the Great, grand liberator of the Aquitanians, idolised and considered a heroe in every Kingdom. With this, the 5th Kingdom: Arlathan, was dissolved and turned into the Grand Duchy of Arlathan as a pre-condition to the creation of the Empire. The First Aquitanian Empire was the most isolationist period in Aquitanian History until colonisation abroad in the late 18th century. In the initial years after unification, the Empire went to wars that tested its existence several times; Mirellia, the encoraching colonising Calzadors and Portuguese were all defeated between 1500 and 1650 by the mighty and superior armies of early Aquitania. The imperial foreign policy gradually shifted from Palmian and Continental between 1500 to 1770 to world policies from 1770 to 2250 and then again switched back to Palmian affairs from 2250 to the 2460's a few years before the break out of the First Schism. 2800's onwards; the Second Empire, Prussian Hegemony, the Kingdom and the Third Empire were all influenced by membership in the Union Federation, which propelled foreign policy and affairs to a world level not seen since the First Empire. The Aquitanian Empire enjoys friendly relations with most Federal Members and with several off-world sovereign states and independent entities within White Giant itself.
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