Editing Paraboca (section)

====1700-1800 Conquests====
Throughout the late 1700's and early 1800's, the military dictatorships of Paraboca thrived to conquer territory to reach their imperial boundaries to the [[Olympic Ocean]]. In 1788, the captured [[Vilanja]] after a month-long siege, ultimately annexing much of the eastern regions of Chanchajilla into their empire. Thirty years later in 1819 in another bout for resource-fueled expansion, a more aggresive push westward brought the Parabocan armies to [[Ivora]]. With the northern stretch of the Chanchajillan provinces held, and much of the southern [[Lake Greening]] shoreline under their control. Throughout the next twenty years, Parabocan armies began to seize area around the lake and eventually into [[Caxcana First Nations|indigenous Zamastanian]] lands in current day [[Redeemer’s Land]], where the fledgling tribes were either conquered or retreated north towards the newly established nation of [[Zamastan]]. [[President of Zamastan|President]] [[Tomias Hapson]] established projects to house and protect fleeing indigenous refugees, one of the first refugee-crisis management projects in history.

In 1832, Paraboca invaded [[Rio Palito]], seizing their southern shoreline and effectively capturing their access to the Olympic Ocean. In 1840, they moved northward and captured territory that bordered Zamastan's newly established frontier. President Hapson met with Parabocan leader [[Osi Jo Oberk]] when the latter traveled to [[Tofino]], and aggressively talked him down from any more aggression northward, to which the Parabocans agreed. Instead of expanding north, the Parabocans moved southwest, capturing swaths of land up to just shy of the southern border with [[United New England]]'s peninsula. 

In 1850, Zamastan defeated [[Shen]] in the [[Louise Mountains War]]. [[Avi Taures]], concerned about his nation's ability to wage war, began amassing troops on the southern border. He declared truthfully, according to historians, that he would not fight Paraboca unless they attacked, and that the troops were simply there for defensive purposes after being faced with the Shen invasion three years prior. Taures died in 1868, handing the presidency over to [[William Castovia]]. Castovia was more confident than his predecessor, and pulled thousands of troops from the southern border in a show of good faith towards the Parabocans, who had not betrayed their agreement in nearly thirty years. Also in 1868, [[Manuelo Cardoza]] became President of Paraboca, and began secretly planning for an invasion of southern Zamastan. In 1870, Cardoza also pulled his troops away from the northern border so as to appear peaceful against their neighbor. 

[[File:Parabocan empire 1872.png|thumb|The Parabocan Empire in 1870. The red is their territorial extent, the blue is Zamastan at the time, and the green is Paraboca's modern day borders]]