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  • France- Charlemagne or one of the Louis
    England- Cromwell or Henry VIII
    Egypt- Ramses II
    Zulu- Shouldn't be in the game
    Rome- Octavius Caesar
    Russia- Ivan IV or Peter the Great
    America- Washington or Jefferson
    Persia- Cyrus the great
    Greece- Pericles
    Iroquis- Hiawatha- (only if you limit it to Iroqouis, but I would like the native americans represented by Pontiac)
    Germany- Fredrick the great or Kaiser Whilhelm II

    Aztecs- Is Montezuma the best you can do? He was the ruler when the aztecs were conquered. There has to be a better leader than him!

    Byzantines need to be included somewhere. Sure they regarded themselves as romans (or decendents of the Roman empire) but they were a distinct culture to themselves, and deserve some recognition.
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    • France should definitely be charlemagne

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      • Originally posted by Mad Bomber

        America- Washington or Jefferson

        Greece- Pericles

        Byzantines need to be included somewhere. Sure they regarded themselves as romans (or decendents of the Roman empire) but they were a distinct culture to themselves, and deserve some recognition.
        Well Jefferson surely does not deserve to be up there Lincoln is a much better choice than him or even maybe Adams Sr.!

        As for Greece Alexander is a much better choice. Percicles was only a leader of the Athenians and although a good leader of its time and place never achieved the greatness for Greece that Alexander did.

        Byzantines felt like Romans?!

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        • Pioneer:


          Lincoln is better than Jefferson? Was it not Jefferson who penned the Declaration of Independence which is the basis of our Government, our liberty, our sense of National Unity? Was Jefferson not the thrid president of our nation? Did he not establish the long and widly held view of America as a country that would not interfere in world politics, and that America should set its views on the expansion of the lands to the west? I am not saying that Lincoln was not an important President, he most certainly was, but to dismiss Jefferson without so much as an afterthought is the height of arrogance, and ignorance.

          Alexander was not really Greek, he was Macadonian, Pericles fits Greece much better, although I would accept a Spartan king also.

          Byzantines...read a few books on them and perhaps you could learn some history.
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          * If brute force isn't working you are not using enough.
          * The difference between Genius and stupidity is that Genius has a limit.
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          • Originally posted by Mad Bomber
            Byzantines need to be included somewhere. Sure they regarded themselves as romans (or decendents of the Roman empire) but they were a distinct culture to themselves, and deserve some recognition.
            Damn straight they need to be included. But they never thought of themselves as Romans, really. The inhabitants of the Eastern Empire were largely of Greek descent. After the Western Empire fell, the Roman influence gradually disappeared in the East. The emperors felt they were descendants of the line of Augustus, but by the seventh century, Greek had replaced Latin as the language of the empire. Their architecture and art was more hellenistic than Roman. The people themselves had welcomed the benefits of being in the Roman empire, but they had never considered themselves Roman, even while the empire was unified under Western control, and always retained their own Greek identity.
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            • All in all, I think most of the choices are decent; though some of them could be debated, ad naseum. Most such debates are truly a matter of taste.

              IMHO, a national leader should be one who led a nation into it's 'Golden Age'; as it were. For that reason, I think the following changes are in order:

              France: Charles Magnus. Though one could argue that historically, his kingdom was every bit as Germanic as it was Frankish. Unlike Napoleon, the Empire suffered for his death; whereas Bonaparte led France to both greatness... and disaster. "After me, the deluge."

              Egypt: Snefru. While he doesn't carry the same 'name recognition' as either Ramses or Cleopatra; can anyone question that his pioneering of masonry, leading to the constuction of the Pyramids sparked and marked the golden age of Egypt?

              America: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. While it is certainly easy to argue that Lincoln led the United States through their roughest trial, I think FDR was the one that took to possibilities sparked by Lincoln, his cousin Teddy, and Woodrow Wilson, and truly turned America into the first class world power that it is today. It was under Roosevelt that the US emerged not as one national power among many, but as one of two bipolar superpowers. His projects also led the US out of the Great Depression; and the industrial growth that came with his administration- and the flush of victory from the second World War- led to what many have called the US' golden age- the 1950s.

              China- Qin Shi Huangdi. As the first Qin Emperor, Qin was the driving force behind the building of the Great Wall; and was responsible for standarizing Chinese writing, bureaucracy, scholarship, law, currency, weights and measures. He expanded the Chinese empire, built a capital in Xian, a system of roads, and massive fortifications and palaces. No small group of feats, while the jury is still out on Mao; who's Communist regime is showing more and more signs of conversion to capitalism.

              That's my 2 cents, anyway; and worth every penny you paid for 'e,.
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              • Originally posted by Mad Bomber
                Aztecs- Is Montezuma the best you can do? He was the ruler when the aztecs were conquered. There has to be a better leader than him!
                There were 2 Aztec emperors named Montezuma.
                The first one, the great-grandfather (ruled 1440-1469) of the second one, established the Aztecs' victorious military program and greatly expanded the Aztec empire.
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                • Ribannah:

                  Thanx for the clarification on Monezuma, I am the first to state that my info on the Aztecs is limited. The choice seems a bit better with that info.
                  * A true libertarian is an anarchist in denial.
                  * If brute force isn't working you are not using enough.
                  * The difference between Genius and stupidity is that Genius has a limit.
                  * There are Lies, Damned Lies, and The Republican Party.

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                  • they should have a different leader for each era
                    Hmmm...not a bad idea.

                    I would go with Charlegmagne with france, although you could make the argument that he was German because he was headquartered in Aachen.

                    A leader of many facets; absolutely ruthless and legendary in battle, yet devout in his religion and a patron of the arts. And any leader who can tell the pope to go screw himself is allright in my book.
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                    • I'd change Catherine to Peter the Great because he began the westernization of Russia.

                      Lincoln to Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, or another prominant revolutionary leader.

                      Elizabeth to Charles I or Oliver Cromwell.... or maybe not.
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                      • Cathrine => Peter the Great
                        Lincoln => FDR
                        Mao => Shi Huangdi (first Chin emperor, ended warring states period.)
                        Joan => Napoleon or Charlemagne
                        Xerxes => Cyrus
                        Cleo => Ramesses I

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                        • I for one, would say that I would not buy the game if it featured Hitler as a world leader, that would be too offensive to me. Also, Hitler served Germany her most humiliating defeat ever. If you check sources, Hitlers Ego lost the war. His generals could have won it, but he got in the way, its the same with stalin, but he actualy steped aside and let his generals plan the battles, effectively winning the war for the Soviets.

                          As for me

                          Elizebeth - Churchill(he was a great leader.)
                          Cathrene - Lenin(For uniting Russia under one idealology and begining a new, industrial era for Russia, and delivering it from generations of Beauracracy.)
                          Joan o' Arc - Napolean(cause he kicked butt, twice!)

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                          • Re: Which leaders you'd change

                            Originally posted by Sonic
                            Which leaders do you think aren't worthy to be in game? (please check)
                            I don't think, they aren't worty actually, but I would select between some additions and the originals:

                            France - Napoleon or one of these Louis
                            England - Cromwell
                            Egypt - Cheops
                            Germany- Otto I, Fredrick II, Frederik the Great
                            Greece - Pericles
                            Russia - Peter the Great
                            America - Washington
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                            • Originally posted by panag

                              they should have a different leader for each era
                              Yeah:

                              Americans - ????

                              Vikings
                              Ancient - Harald Blåtand (=Harald Bluetooth-Yes, that's where Ericson got that name! He was a great diplomat, who could get completely different tribes to co-operate. Thats why his name today represents a radio interface that enables a mobile phone to co-operate with a refrigerator)

                              Medeival - Queen Margarete - The only ruler over a united Sweden, Norway and Denmark ever - The Kalmar Union. (Also called the King with no pants) It's true!

                              Industrial - Karl XIV Johan - The French nobleman who became the ruler of a united Sweden and Norway. He betrayed France, became King of Sweden and was one of the victors in the Napoleonic wars. He conquered Norway by beating Napoleon's allies Denmark. His dynasty are still the royal family of Sweden.

                              Modern - Olof Palme. The social democrat who was working for peace in various third world wars, like Vietnam and Iran-Iraq. (But as a right-wing voter I would rater choose Carl Bildt, the Swedish conservative party chairman who became the Peace administrator of Bosnia - always called a war hawk by Swedish socialists but proved to be even more peaceful than Palme when it came to action)

                              OK, there are at least 20 more tribes to be given leaders of all ages - you help me!
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