6000 year civs

[Marquis de Sodaq]

Originally posted by Al'Kimiya
Yes, we all know for a fact that Atlantis, Mu and Lemuria ...
There are lots of new age forums for these kind of speculations... hardly on-topic for any civ game.

Edit:
No offence, off course

Indeed, many new agers jump all over this stuff, it seems, because there is some speculation about what it really means. Not knowing the full story leaves open the imagination, after all. However, there is much serious archaeological work on (the supposed) Atlantis and the Nazca lines, if not the others...

Hancock is somebody who toes the line between scientific journalism and sensationalism, which has tarnished his reputation. It's too bad, because he brings forth topics that really are quite interesting. People hear his name associated with it and assume it's hooey, not realizing that he is not the creator of the ideas. O well, that's his own problem. Maybe he can register here and start an OT thread to clear the air.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by jadlakha
Actually I firmly contend that India is a Civilization much older then 6000 years.

hard to tell about continuity though, since early bronze indus valley civ (mohenjo daro and all that) didnt leave any written records IIUC. So its hard to tell how much continuity with later vedic civ.

LOTM

[Ecthy]

The game should start with the Germans only... and so should it end

[jadlakha]

WHY ARE WE EVEN DISCUSSING THIS?????? The Civilization series is about writing history, not replicating it. You write your own history in this game and dont worry about what really happened. So lets just get over this discussion. The game is about FUN and its about WRITING YOUR OWN HISTORY, not creating a REPLICA OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. Heck they should just let you name your Civilization and not even include any named ones. I'd create the greatest civilization of all time, the WeSuck@CivilizationIII civilization.

[JMarks]

The earlier points of divergant civs (France, England, America, etc, etc, etc) are well taken. While we shouldn't recreate these actions and whatnot in Civ3 (except for scenarios of course) there should be a good way to replicate such goings on. Start with a few civs, four or five, and make divergants common. Lets say unrest in the capital or far away cities, or expanding too quickly. This way we get a bit more historical flavor without replicating history to the T. We could have the ancient Americans diverge due to expansion into the English, who build far away empires which revolt and become the Germans who have a civil war with one faction being the Chinese! This sounds better than complaining that Americans didn't exist 6,000 years ago, and should solve the historian's rage. I think it keeps it light hearted, and hope you all agree!

Ioanes, the American-Greek-German who has no ethnic relationship to 1/3 of the afore mentioned cultures but thinks its really cool.