adricv
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Hello,
I'm an avid player of Civ5G&K (once IV and III). One of the things I love the most about this game, besides the gameplay, is the history. Seeing characters come to life on screen is thrilling, let alone being able to declare war on them, or trade or denounce.
I love history and I love reading - there really should be a recommended book list for people wanting to find out more about specific topics, leaders or civilizations. I couldn't find any in the forums so I figured I might as well start it here and add people's contributions as they come in, like a centralised repository of introductory and in-depth reading material about different aspects of the game for people who want to find out more. I'm deeply curious about Polynesia and Kamehameha, for instance, and I'd love a good introductory book without necessarily being a textbook, something accessible.
Let me know what you think!
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American
George Washington
Arabian
Harun al-Rashid
Austrian
Maria Theresa
Aztec
Montezuma
Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar II
Byzantine
Theodora
Carthage
Dido
Celts
Boudicca
Chinese
Wu Zetian
Danish
Harald Bluetooth
Dutch
William I (of Orange)
Egyptian
Ramesses II
English
Elizabeth I
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
French
Napoleon Bonaparte
German
Otto von Bismarck
Greek
Alexander
Hun
Attilla
Incan
Pachacuti
Indian
Gandhi
Iroquois
Hiawatha
Japanese
Oda Nobunaga
Korean
Sejong
Maya
Pacal
Mongolian
Genghis Khan
Ottomans
Suleiman the Magnificent
Persian
Darius
Polynesia
Kamehameha
Roman
Augustus/Caesar
Fiction
Russian
Catherine
Siamese
Ramkhamhaeng
Songhai
Askia
Spanish
Isabella
Sweden
Gustavus Adolphus
City States
Cultured
Brussels
Florence
Kathmandu
Kuala Lumpur
Milan
Monaco
Prague
Warsaw
Yerevan
Maritime
Cape Town
Jakarta
Manila
Mombasa
Quebec City
Ragusa
Rio de Janeiro
Sydney
Venice
Mercantile
Antwerp
Cahokia
Colombo
Genoa
Hong Kong
Marrakech
Singapore
Tyre
Zanzibar
Zurich
Militaristic
Almaty
Belgrade
Budapest
Hanoi
Sidon
Valletta
Religious
Geneva
Jerusalem
La Venta
Lhasa
Vatican City
Wittenberg
General
Ancient World
Medieval Era
Renaissance Era
New World
I'm an avid player of Civ5G&K (once IV and III). One of the things I love the most about this game, besides the gameplay, is the history. Seeing characters come to life on screen is thrilling, let alone being able to declare war on them, or trade or denounce.
I love history and I love reading - there really should be a recommended book list for people wanting to find out more about specific topics, leaders or civilizations. I couldn't find any in the forums so I figured I might as well start it here and add people's contributions as they come in, like a centralised repository of introductory and in-depth reading material about different aspects of the game for people who want to find out more. I'm deeply curious about Polynesia and Kamehameha, for instance, and I'd love a good introductory book without necessarily being a textbook, something accessible.
Let me know what you think!
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American
- Winston Churchill - History of the English Speaking Peoples (EPUB from archive.org)
- David McCullogh - John Adams
- Doris Kearns Goodwin - Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- David M. Potter - The Impending Crisis
- Daniel Walker Howe - What Hath God Wraught
- Paul E. Johnson - The Kingdom of Matthias
- James McPherson - Battlecry of Freedom
George Washington
Arabian
Harun al-Rashid
Austrian
Maria Theresa
Aztec
Montezuma
Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar II
Byzantine
- John Julius Norwich - A Short History of Byzantium
- Lars Brownworth - Lost To The West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Theodora
Carthage
- Robert L. O'Connel - The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the darkest hour of the Roman Republic
- Richard Miles - Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise And Fall Of An Ancient Civilization
- Adrian Goldsworthy - The Fall Of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265 - 146BC
- Theodore Ayrault Dodge - Hannibal: A History of the Art Of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of Pydna, 168BC
Dido
Celts
Boudicca
Chinese
Wu Zetian
Danish
Harald Bluetooth
Dutch
William I (of Orange)
Egyptian
Ramesses II
English
Elizabeth I
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
French
- Jonathan Krause - Early Trench Tactics in the French Army by CivFanatic's very own jjkrause84!
Napoleon Bonaparte
- Robert Asprey - The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
- Robert Asprey - The Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte
- David G. Chandler - The Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte
German
- Peter Watson - The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, The Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century
- Christopher Clark - Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Fall of Prussia (Really didn't know where to put it)
Otto von Bismarck
- Jonathan Steinberg - Bismark: A Life
- Otto Pflanze - Bismark and the Development of Germany Vol. 1: The Period of Unification, 1815-1871
Greek
- John R. Hale - Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy
- Donald Kagan - The Peloponnesian War
Alexander
Hun
Attilla
Incan
Pachacuti
Indian
Gandhi
Iroquois
Hiawatha
Japanese
Oda Nobunaga
Korean
Sejong
Maya
- Dennis Tedlock - Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings
- David Freidel - A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
Pacal
Mongolian
Genghis Khan
Ottomans
Suleiman the Magnificent
Persian
- Michael Axworthy - A History Of Iran: Empire Of The Mind
- Herodotus - History
- Tom Holland - Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West
Darius
Polynesia
Kamehameha
Roman
- Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Virgil - The Aeneid
- Cornelius Tacitus - The Annals of Imperial Rome
- Suetonius - Lives of the Caesars
- Anthony Everitt - The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
- Tom Holland - Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Augustus/Caesar
- Adrian Goldsworthy - Caesar: Life of a Collossus
- Anthony Everitt - Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
Fiction
- Colleen McCullough - The First Man in Rome
- Gore Vidal - Julian, A Novel
- Marguerite Yourcenar - Memoirs of Hadrian
- Robert Graves - I, Claudius
Russian
Catherine
Siamese
Ramkhamhaeng
Songhai
Askia
Spanish
Isabella
Sweden
Gustavus Adolphus
City States
Cultured
Brussels
Florence
Kathmandu
Kuala Lumpur
Milan
Monaco
Prague
Warsaw
Yerevan
Maritime
Cape Town
Jakarta
Manila
Mombasa
Quebec City
Ragusa
Rio de Janeiro
- Sergio Buarque da Holanda - Roots of Brazil
- Gilberto Freyre - The Masters and the Slaves (a bit tough to find this one on Amazon)
Sydney
Venice
Mercantile
Antwerp
Cahokia
Colombo
Genoa
Hong Kong
Marrakech
Singapore
Tyre
Zanzibar
Zurich
Militaristic
Almaty
Belgrade
Budapest
Hanoi
Sidon
Valletta
Religious
Geneva
Jerusalem
La Venta
Lhasa
Vatican City
Wittenberg
General
Ancient World
Medieval Era
Renaissance Era
New World