| rdfs:comment | - The complete origin of the Green Martians is mostly unknown. They first appeared in the waning days of the White Martian races, when the oceans began to recede, and began raiding the Orovar and Lotharian cities, driving these once-great civilizations into increasingly remote regions. When the White races abandoned the cities, the Green hordes took over. Though they appear to have lacked the intelligence to make use of most of the ancient technology left behind, their size, brute strength, and abundance of limbs for many years prevented them from being driven out.
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| abstract | - The complete origin of the Green Martians is mostly unknown. They first appeared in the waning days of the White Martian races, when the oceans began to recede, and began raiding the Orovar and Lotharian cities, driving these once-great civilizations into increasingly remote regions. When the White races abandoned the cities, the Green hordes took over. Though they appear to have lacked the intelligence to make use of most of the ancient technology left behind, their size, brute strength, and abundance of limbs for many years prevented them from being driven out. As time grew on, the Green hordes ran out of enemies and began to fight amongst themselves. They began to split into different hordes based on the kingdoms they occupied - the horde that occupied the ancient city of Thark began to call themselves Tharks, the horde that controlled Warhoon began to call themselves Warhoon, etc. The bitter rivalry between the Tharks and Warhoons led to brutal campaigns of genocide, which had the side-effect of reducing the Green populations to the extent that the emerging Red Martians finally managed to claim some of the major kingdoms like Helium, Dusar, Ptarth, and Amhor.
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