Cattigara Fusan

Cattigara, officially ‘the united kingdoms of Fusan.’ Country in west South America. It is the 2^nd largest country in South America, and undeniably the richest. It has a total area of 1,500,000 sq miles (3,840,000 Sq kilometers). Cuzco is Cattigara’s capital and political center, while Chan Chan is its major commercial center.

Cattigara is the most technologically advanced nation in South America, thanks in part through its major economic partners Japan, China and the United States.

Cattigara’s population includes four divisions of people. The Fusca, Yinca, and Chimú, made up of several ethnic groups.

The first evidence of Cattigara outside China can be found in Arab books in Alexandria Egypt around the time of the Yuan/Mongol dynasty in China. Later it was the Greeks who coined the name ‘Cattigara’ The anchorage of the Chinese, which was said to have been in the easternmost part of the world. Arab lore say that the Chinese had visited there a few times during the Yuan, where they found a herb that prolonged life and wool thin as silk, yet warmer than fur. (Exaggerations of course, of coca and alpaca wool)

Cattigara, or Fusang guo as the Chinese called it, was in fact, two places located on the west coasts of North and South America. The earliest recordings of contact with Fusang guo date back to the Han Dynasty, when Chinese and Afghan monks made contact with the Maya of Central America. Contact between them disintegrated when the Han collapsed.

During the years of the Yuan , a few vessels from the Mongol’s captured Chinese fleets had discovered and began trading with the people in what is now present day San Fransisco.

Kublai Khan, who established the Mongol Yunan dynasty, heard about the riches of Fusang. This was one of the reasons he sent an armada of Mongol & Korean troops in attempts to invade Japan./ His purpose was to gain territory outside China in which to launch his expeditions to Fusang. We know how that turned out, and trade did not resume with Fusang until the early Ming dynasty.

Northern Fusang, located in what is now San Fransisco, was not an all-too important settlement for the Chinese. Only scattered tribes of North American Indians inhabited the area. They were benevolent to one another and the Chinese would trade with them in order to restack on supplies before or after going into Southern Fusang.

Southern Fusang, now Cattigara, was ruled by a powerful desert empire known as Chimór. The Chimú, people of Chimór were lowland desert dwellers, and excellent shipwrights and fishermen. Their capital was Chan Chan, a city on the costal desert plains, supported by a few rivers that flowed from the Andes mountains. Chan Chan then, like today, was a thriving center of trade. Goods flowed from the rainforests across the mountains, to the Aymara nations in the southern highlands. The Chinese first arrived in Chan Chan around the late 1300’s during the time of exploration and trade that began with the new Ming Emperor Zhu Di. The Chinese traded porcelain and other Chinese products for the Chimór coca leaves and alpaca wool, along with gold and silver.

Chimór was already in control of much of the desert coast, and sought to expand it’s powers to the nearby northern highlands. Chimú and other peoples in that region were at constant war with one another. One of these tribes of people who lived within the mountains in Cuzco valley, were decedents from of the Aymara Indians. The people of Cuzco were able to keep their land safe from outsiders for nearly 9 generations.

Unfortunately, around 1410, a raid by either the Chimú or the Chanca resulted in the capture of a 19 year old Cuzco prince, Yupanqui. What his captors had in store for him could only be guessed. Perhaps he was to be a sacrifice to the Chimú gods. Whatever the reason, they took alive to Chan Chan, a thousand miles away.

By chance, the Chinese fleet was anchored just outside the city. The Chimú had just completed their trading and were loading up coca leaves onto one of the huge treasure ships. Somehow Yupanqui escaped and hid himself among the bags of leaves. He was discovered by Chinese merchants long after they set sail.

The Chinese merchants on board took pity on him, and allowed him to stay onboard the treasure ship when the fleet docked in Northern Fusang, Hawaii, and Indonesia to re-supply and trade. Yupanqui proved to be an able sailor despite having been raised in the mountains. He was also intelligent, and was able to speak Chinese within a few months. They arrived in Nanjing China around 1412. To impress the Chinese court, the merchant-friends of Yupanqui adorned him in fine Fusang cloth and gold and declared him a Price from far away Fusang guo sent to live in China.

He was well received in court, and Emperor Zhu Di allowed him to live with the royal princes. During his years in China, Yupanqui was given the education of the princes, from the Confucius classics, to the art of war. He proved himself an excellent scholar and rider.

China at that time was also a vast trading center, with ambassadors from all over Indonesia and the Indian Ocean coming to pay tribute to the Emperor of China, regarded then as the Son of Heaven. Around 1414, Yupanqui married the daughter of a wealthy Japanese Daimyo. He spent a few months in Japan, where he was impressed by the fighting prowess of the Samurai.

Around 1420, news reached Yupanqui that the Chimór empire had cut off trade with China due to wars with its neighbors. This hurt trade, and China was thinking about using force to re-open trade with Chimór. Yupanqui took this opportunity to return to Fusang and attempt to overrun the Chimór empire. He persuaded Emperor Zhu Di, and Chinese Admiral Zhou Man to launch a large expedition to Fusang to topple the Chimór. He promised them Chan Chan if they would assist him. In 1421, shortly after Peking was made the new capital, and foreign ambassadors were returning to their lands, Zhou Man and Yupanqui sailed to Fusang with their large fleet of Chinese, Korean and Japanese soldiers, and hundreds of horses. Zhou Man however, had to return to China after dropping the soldiers in Fusang, but promised to return with a larger attack force.

Yupanqui knew that they would were not strong enough to conquer all of Chimór. Before he attacked the Chimú, Yupanqui decided to return to Cuzco to unite the mountain people. When he got there, he found that Cuzco was at war with the neighboring Chanca. His father and brother, the king and heir, had fled, leaving Cuzco defenseless. Yupanqui and his troops, mounted on horses and wielding swords and gunpowder bombs, easily expelled the Chanca from Cuzco.

The people of Cuzco, seeing their lost prince with the power he wielded, immediately placed him on the throne. By 1425, Yupanqui had successfully united most of the highland and mountain peoples of the Andes. Yet even then the Chimú proved hard to conquer. Political turmoil in China delayed Zhou Man, and he was not able to procure a sizable fleet and arrive in Fusang until 1431.

When Zhou Man arrived, he joined with the forces of Yupanqui’s son Taka (who was known in Fusang guo as Topa) and traveled down the Chimór coast, attacking Chimú settlements and drawing Chimú recourses to the north.

Topa and his armies waited until Chan Chan was vulnerable, and seized it. Topa attacking with his cavalry and Zhou Man with his sailors.

Once Chan Chan was captured, the rest of the Chimór empire fell easily. The noble elite of Chan Chan were taken to Cuzco, while Yupanqui allowed the Chinese merchants to settle within Chan Chan. Yupanqui took the title of Pachacuti Inca, “Earthshaking Emperor” and with the help of his son Taka, Zhou Man and countless other advisors, he built the Empire of Fusan.