Dai Goju

The Dai Goju were an ethnic group that inhabited the Go Peninsula from roughly 300 B.F.B to 700 B.F.B. The first Dai Goju settlements were founded on Bakoi Yi around 300 B.F.B. From here, they spread southwards and northeards, supplanting the Dai Jogoju and Timsi cultures respectively. The most wide spread and accepted theory states that the Timsi nomadic culture migrated into Man Buyuol and Man Buyuol So in roughly 600 B.F.B. where they intermixed with the Dai Jogoju. Centuries later the two groups had mixed to form a new culture, the Dai Goju. The Dai Goju had absorbed or displaced the entire Timsi Culture by 200 B.F.B. and the Dai Jogoju had largely been reduced to Junya.

The Dai Goju is subdivided into three subgroups. The largest were the Dai Sham who inhabited the northern part of the Go Peninsula, Man So, and most of southern Man Buyuol. They were the most advanced, entering the Chalcolithic Age in roughly 150-50 B.F.B. and the Bronze Age in 0-100 B.F.B. They practiced large scale intensive agriculture and lived in large familial homes. It is estimated there were roughly 600,000 Dai Sham when Borizu fell. The second largest group are the Dai Buyuol. These were nomadic herdsmen who inhabited most of Man Buyuol. They were the main traders between Xianli and An Dai Sham. They numbered anywhere from 50,000 to 300,000 at the time. The third group were the Dai Gosila. The Dai Gosila inhabited Man Kwa on the Go Peninsula. There are roughly 100,000 Dai Gosila.

Dai Goju largely lived in clan based settlements. The largest settlement from the period was Kam'ni'Toso, which later served as the capital of the An Dai Sham. It held at it's height in 200 A.F.B. 25,000 people. Dai Goju culture was proto-chiefdom based until the emmergence of An Dai Sham in the year 0 A.F.B. Even then, power was largely held by village elders and not by the clan chief.

Dai Goju Nations
The Dai Goju formed many polities before being united into the An Dai Sham Confederation.