This is a sketch of an article that could be included to explain the early presence of Polandball in CBR History. There are quite a few blanks for names and dates, and the article will need to be revised when we iron out how we are treating early history, but I think this is a fairly good start. Sometime when I have more time available, I will try to make ~5 pieces of art to accompany the descriptions given in the article.

Doubtless you are familiar with polandball; the ubiquitous art style that is simplistic yet effective, and is prevalent in all facets of our media. What you may not know is that polandball has a history as old as civilization, with roots stretching back over six thousand years. For as long as people could talk and draw, polandball has been with them. But where did the phenomenon actually start?

The earliest roots of polandball are found in the pre-pottery Neolithic, several hundred years before the Urban Explosion of 4000 BC. In south central Europe, just north of the Alps, the early Proto-Germanic tribes lives in and around caves in the hills. Early on, Europeans took advantage of the variety of fruit available to them, developing several colorful pigments. Very early on, cave paintings began to appear, depicting people and animals in a simplistic style. As time progressed, the heads began to grow in size relative to the bodies of the people, for unknown reasons. One leading theory is that cave artists expanded the size of the head to allow facial features to be painted in, but if there ever were facial features in the cave paintings, they have since faded.

The final step of this evolution was discovered in a cave several miles west of the site of historical Lodz. The caves contain a great mural, named erroneously as “Lodz Polandball Cave Mural” by its discoverer in [time]. Here, we see a host of people, depicted as nothing but red circles with a black border and small black eyes. A much larger sphere wielding a club is seen at their head, with the hierarchy of scale highlighting him as a potential leader. Though the circles appear to represent people, and the art is very crude, the use of circles rather than the people used in earlier art clearly highlights the evolution of polandball. Very few examples of this proto-polandball cave art have been discovered, and most are separated by a great deal of time. Polandball would not truly begin to emerge until after the Urban Explosion of 4000 BC.

During the Urban Explosion, Proto-Slavic and Proto-Germanic tribes settled down in northeastern Europe. It is currently believed that the tribe responsible for the Lodz Polandball Cave Mural is the same tribe that settled Warsaw during the Urban Explosion. After the discovery of pottery, the people of Warsaw began to depict trade by painting pictures and dots onto clay tablets, with the dots representing numbers in a manner reminiscent of tally marks. Logically, the sphere-style people also migrated to this new form, only now unique symbols were drawn within the circles. Given the discovery of stone seals from the same era, it is believed that these symbols represent houses or clans, to identify who bought and sold which goods. While this style is much more reminiscent of polandball, the style would not truly emerge until after the early Warsaw development of writing.

The people of Warsaw developed writing after word of great and advanced nations to the east was brought to them by travelers. Over time, Warsaw learned of an eloquent and highly evolved language, Australian, that also features a written script. Though Warsaw had its own language, Australian became a phenomenon in learned circles, with many attempting to codify the words they received through hearsay from merchants. It was at this point that polandball truly began to evolve. A scholar in ancient Warsaw by the name of [name here] created a painting on a fired clay tablet dating to [time], depicting a red circle with a black border meeting a red circle with a golden border. Several green shapes, assumed to be coniferous trees, surrounded the event. Inscribed within the red circle was a black bird, the crest of Warsaw at that point. The other circle featured two golden arcs above a golden dot, which appears to be a crude representation of the crest of Moscow. Historians now believe that this represents a historic meeting between a band of Warsaw scouts and a troupe of Slavic warriors. The interesting evolution is that each side of the meeting is represented by a single sphere, as opposed to the host of spheres featured in proto-polandball cave art. Along with the presence of city-state crests, this tablet is currently considered the first true polandball drawing in history. However, the most notable aspect of the tablet is the inscription. Carved from the clay before firing, a crude interpretation of Australian characters spells out the phrase “of greetings”. This grammatical inaccuracy probably arose from the limited exposure Warsaw had to the Australian Language. Many polandball tablets have been recovered from this general period, and though the first was uncovered in Warsaw, tablets quickly began to emerge in Berlin, Moscow, Rome, Paris, and Constantinople.

As Polandball spread, every nation adopted a unique symbol to inscribe in its own ball. Those nations that did not have a crest adopted something integral to their culture of location; for example, Australia adopted a golden kangaroo on a green background, while Yakutia adopted a blue horseman on a brown sphere, an image that is now assumed to represent the first leader of Jokuskai. As the style spread, other nations used the same broken form of Australian, seemingly taking their cues from Warsaw’s tablets. Even when polandball reached the Australian-speaking areas of the world, the form largely remained, forming a unique dialect within Australian only expressed in written form. The art form of polandball would continue to evolve through time, and was often used to depict matters of political or military significance in the world. Sometimes poladball would regress to its cave art roots, depicting many smaller balls, each bearing a nation’s symbol, while others would depict an entire city state or nation as a single ball. The form had become almost fully global by the year 3300 BC, and would continue to be a prominent part of world culture throughout the rest of history and into the modern day.

[edit:] forgot to mention that clay tablets led to the evolution of gib clay in some way. I'll try and revise it sometime.