Civ includes names of various (though by no means all) important civilizations throughout human history. Almost none of these were the indigenous inhabitants of the place where their civilization developed. Leaving the Americans out due to their displacement of Native Americans is like leaving the English out because of their displacement of the Celts. The same argument can be made for almost any other civilization. My conclusion therefore is: keep the Americans as one of the default civs, after all there is no doubt that they are at least now a great and dominant civilization (together with us their European allies
- the Atlantic Civilization [according to Huntington, anyway]).
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