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{{Infobox:Country|EnglishName=Kzmr Confederation|DependencyType=|Capital=[[Srn]]|Demonym=[[Kkzmrs|Kzmrs]]|Language=[[Kzmr language|Kzmr]]<br/>[[Baphian language|Baphian]]|Species=[[kaneedkind#Xeric Kaneeds|Xeric Kaneed]]|UnrecLanguage=[[Jkawi language|Jkawi]]|GovernmentType=[[w:Devolution|Devolved]] [[w:Confederation|confederation]] of [[Clan (Kzmr)|clans]]|Area=5.8 million km²|Population=2.6 million}}

The earliest artifacts whose date can be properly ascertained are those from the [[Mount Rknu]] archaeological site, which includes a variety of objects such as ceramics and jewelry dating to roughly 2300 BCE. This is the [[w:Type site|type site]] for the eponymous [[Mount Rknu culture]], who unlike the modern Kkzmrs, are thought to have led a sedentary life at an extremely small population. Artifacts associated with the Mount Rknu culture are no longer attested after circa 2100 BCE, and some scholars propose that the sudden collapse of this culture resulted from a famine.

The nomadism of the modern Kkzmrs ostensibly began around 2000 BCE, as artifacts such as herder's crooks and tent stakes begin to become attested in this period. These [[proto-Kkzmrs]] eventually separated into the ancestral groups of the three modern morphs of xeric Kaneed, with the sophonts in the far northern tundra adapting as the Beringian Kaneeds and those in the desert and shrublands forming the Blanfordian and Karagan Kaneeds. In Kzmr oral traditions, the common ancestors of each of these groups are known as [[Mntmr]], [[Þsnmr]], and [[Fkshmr]] respectively.

A great wealth of historiography, both internal and external, exists regarding the participation of various Kzmr clans and septs in the [[East Ukilen raids]], particularly the [[Raid of Bongsibon]] circa 100–250 CE. Unlike the longstanding tradition of [[Oryx raid|oryx raiding]], which to this day remains a typically nonviolent variety of theft, the actions of Kzmr razzieurs during this period were quite devastating to the local population, causing roughly half of the Kali casualties in the Raid of Bongsibon. Smaller-scale trans-Baphian razzias continued well into the Nth century. The spoils of these incursions, often goods which were unavailable or difficult in the desert climate, were particularly valuable to the Kkzmrs in this era, and the legacy of this unilateral transfer remains in Kzmr culture to this day. For instance, the ''[[bxvi]]'', a stringed instrument of [[Kzmr folk music]], is derived from the [[Kali viol]], first brought to Kzmr during these raids.

These new inter-clan raids, ranging from minor skirmishes to standard warfare, stimulated the development of a [[w:Tribute|tributary system]] in Kzmr, in which more vulnerable septs or clans paid levies, usually in the form of dairy, livestock, or forageables, to their more militarily adept counterparts in exchange for a guarantee of protection by the [[w:Suzerainty|suzerain]]. In some cases, suzerains could themselves be tributaries of other septs or clans. This system allowed some suzerains to live a sedentary lifestyle off of these levies, prompting the construction of [[w:Manor house|manor houses]] which constitute the earliest permanent examples of [[Kzmr architecture]]. After the decline of the tributary system, the manor house of [[Srn]] and its surrounding villas were repurposed as a phylaciopolis – a city consisting of storehouses, archives, and residences for their workers.

The arts also flourished greatly in this period, with [[Kzmr music notation]] being invented by [[Krgrnsvatrnakrpš]] in 922 CE, originally to transcribe [[Nrþki'rdu]] liturgical music. Eventually, it was extended to the creation of new motets, and soon after to the composition of secular music. Music of the Pax Casambriana was extremely varied and characterized by heavy experimentation, and the era gave rise to some of the most prolific composers in Kzmr history. The visual arts also underwent a revolution of their own, with the burgeoning guild system allowing specialization in textile art and metalwork. Artifacts from this time period include jewelry made from finely woven copper wire as well as oryx leather and felted rabbit fur embroidered by hand, of which the vegetation-inspired ornamentation was the prototype of the [[Kzmr rococo]] movement.