Incans: Space-Filler or not?

[Jay Bee]

oh, just remembered. Quinine anyone? They discovered it. Plus many other alcaloids with medicinal properties.

[Marquis de Sodaq]

IIRC, aspirin is included on that list...

[siredgar]

I am not saying that the Incans did not have a "worthy" (for lack of a better term) civilization. In fact, I believe it was quite an admirable one and as the leading civilization of South America it deserves a spot in the game. However, I also feel that it is one of the mostly highly overrated civilizations in that it only last 200 years, it was annihilated rather quickly and easily, and it did not have any unique inventions or contributions of significance. Sure, the people may had developed an interesting culture and an organized form of government and communication, but it was still relatively primitive in many ways for that time.

[Jay Bee]

Siredgar, without the medicinal knowledge of the Incas, life in the Tropical areas would have been imposible. Quinine is used to treat malaria, something the Incas knew way before the Conquista. That's one you have to grant to them.

[MrWhereItsAt]

For establishing what could be called the first Socialist state on Earth on any large scale, and being so peaceful that locks were unheard of (NO crime or murders etc.), some would say the Incan civilization is the MOST qualified to deserve to be in a game named CIVILIZATION...

[Mr. President]

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
For establishing what could be called the first Socialist state on Earth on any large scale, and being so peaceful that locks were unheard of (NO crime or murders etc.)

You mean like the mythological Golden Age of the Titans?

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
For establishing what could be called the first Socialist state on Earth on any large scale, and being so peaceful that locks were unheard of (NO crime or murders etc.), some would say the Incan civilization is the MOST qualified to deserve to be in a game named CIVILIZATION...

And others would say, this peacefulness is myth

[ranskaldan]

Considering the geographic isolation of South America and the forbidding landscape of the Andes, I'd say that the Andean civilizations are amazing achievements.

Therefore the Inca isn't a space filler.

[Ribannah]

Originally posted by Jay Bee
oh, just remembered. Quinine anyone? They discovered it. Plus many other alcaloids with medicinal properties.

Quinine was not discovered during the Inca dynasty.
That happened many centuries before (same with penicilline and streptomycine), either in Tiahuanaco, or maybe even earlier.
Of course IMHO the Inca dynasty is part of the Tiahuanaco civilization. Then we have a civ worthy of inclusion.

[ranskaldan]

Well then, shouldn't it be called the Tiahuanaco civilization, not the Inca civilization?

[Ribannah]

Indeed it should

[Gangerolf]

-they were superior to other cultures in the region
-the incas are/will be the only south american civ in the game

[ranskaldan]

Originally posted by Ribannah
Indeed it should

Well then, at least the name is super easy to change with the editor.