As I was idly thumbing through an encyclopaedia the other day (Larousse's something or other, I forget exactly), I suddenly thought why can't Civ 4 or an expansion pack have something similar to what happens in Alpha Centauri when if you take or invade someone else's city, you can make off with an Alien Artefact ?
As opposed to just stealing or acquiring knowledge or money say.
Because if you think about it, there are cities around the world boasting sculptures, scientific instruments, whole gateways, obelisks, religious icons, manuscripts and paintings looted from other civilizations and cultures.
And of course it's been going on for thousands of years, but there are notable instances such as the Venetian Republic's wholesale looting of Byzantium, Napoleon decorating his palaces with 'acquired' goodies, Viking raids on monasteries, Zheng He supposedly making off with Buddha's tooth, and the Sassanid Empire abducting the True Cross as a gift for the emperor's Nestorian Christian wife.
Such thefts could result in a loss of culture or religious cohesion or income or combinations of all of these.
Whaddya think ?
Some Byzantine swag in Venice :
As opposed to just stealing or acquiring knowledge or money say.
Because if you think about it, there are cities around the world boasting sculptures, scientific instruments, whole gateways, obelisks, religious icons, manuscripts and paintings looted from other civilizations and cultures.
And of course it's been going on for thousands of years, but there are notable instances such as the Venetian Republic's wholesale looting of Byzantium, Napoleon decorating his palaces with 'acquired' goodies, Viking raids on monasteries, Zheng He supposedly making off with Buddha's tooth, and the Sassanid Empire abducting the True Cross as a gift for the emperor's Nestorian Christian wife.
Such thefts could result in a loss of culture or religious cohesion or income or combinations of all of these.
Whaddya think ?
Some Byzantine swag in Venice :
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