Things I Learned About The World Through CivV

I find that Civilization V can be quite an educational game

For example, I learned that:
1) It is impossible to cross mountains. (Aspeners won't be happy)
2) Culture is measured in points that increase with things such as opera houses and broadcast towers.
3) These culture points determine the size of borders and often the amount of land a country owns.
4) Military and diplomacy have little effect on how borders change.
5) The world is populated with dozens of city-states that have existed since the Dawn of Man.
6) These city-states have more effect on global diplomatic relations than major powers.
7) The majority of a cities population works outside of the city to gather food and resources.
8) A very small percentage of the population actually works inside the city as researchers, bankers, musicians, etc.
9) Even unemployed people are productive.
10) Liberty and Fascist Laws go hand in hand as they both emphasize rapid expansion.

So there is 10.
What are some of your own?

P.S. This is based on the similar thread in the CivIV General Discussions Thread.

to go with 5 and 6:
11. These city-states can also provide you with troops unique to any other society at random, even if it doesn't currently exist.

lol minor civs/city states are always more important diplomatically, just like in real life. Countries that are not America, France, England, Germany, China,... etc... ARE basically "city states". Like when Nazi Germany invaded city state Poland and they get minor diplo hits with France and England. Then Germany invaded and puppeted France, taking their capital so then Allies power denounced Germany and went to war. Russia and Allies fight in WW2 together. but immediately afterward Soviets were crazy and become a superpower so America see that as a threat and denounced them and they fight wars on city states ground.

Glassmage said:

Countries that are not America, France, England, Germany, China,... etc... ARE basically "city states". Like when Nazi Germany invaded city state Poland and they get minor diplo hits with France and England.

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Yeah the city-state of Poland, my favourite classical Greek city.

ahmed5 said:

Yeah the city-state of Poland, my favourite classical Greek city.

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Link to video.

12. Helicopters can't fly above the ocean. That's impossible.
13. However, helis go faster when they fly above a road.
14. Somehow, Alexander and Genghis Khan are related.
15. A state-of-the-art weapon can be destroyed with a ship from the BC era.

awesome said:

Link to video.

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I was being sarcastic.

ahmed5 said:

I was being sarcastic.

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yeah, obviously.

awesome said:

yeah, obviously.

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then why the 'uh, what?' ?

sarcasm should be clever.

topics evolve, bro.

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Genghis Khan stole Alexander's horse

Montezuma is a very bad bad boy (I would use the slang term with the ending -head, but can't)
Leaders are immortal
There is no Internet.
U.N does aboslutely nothing in the world except decide the winner.

TheKingOfBigOz said:

Genghis Khan stole Alexander's horse

Montezuma is a very bad bad boy (I would use the slang term with the ending -head, but can't)
Leaders are immortal
There is no Internet.
U.N does aboslutely nothing in the world except decide the winner.

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Please number those.

TheKingOfBigOz said:

16. Genghis Khan stole Alexander's horse
17. Montezuma is a very bad bad boy (I would use the slang term with the ending -head, but can't)
18. Leaders are immortal
19. There is no Internet.
20. U.N does aboslutely nothing in the world except decide the winner.

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There. Now they're numbered.

21. A well trained Swordsman can easily defeat industral Infantry.
22. You research things faster if you build libraries.

24. All nations that ever existed, were founded at exactly the same time.
25. The Amazon jungle is one of the best places to build a city, since millions of people will live in just one over there.
26. Small islands are the worst places to build cities, since they'll be permanently crippled. Sorry, Hawai'i.
27. There are no such things as towns, and cities have to be several hundred miles apart, unless a strait is in between them.

28. You don't need to learn other languages, you can understand everyone anyways.

29. Meetings between world leaders are instantaneous.
30. World leaders frequently call to insult each other or proclaim that they are weak
31. People needed to know how to use a Calendar to harvest bananas, spices, and dyes but not wheat.
32. All calendar systems are the same.
33. My history book is wrong when it says that societies were built around farms. Rather, farms were built around cities.
34. It is possible for certain cultures that have no outside contact to develop Mechanized Infantry and have no law system. therefore, they will misuse this technology. (I speak of course of barbs that you find on an island that have Mechanized Infantry.)
35. Rebellions often occur where the rebels have access to military weapons. Therefore, London should have been attacked by Infantry, not street mobs.
36. Rice, coffee, and tobacco were never major resources in the world. However, wheat and cattle were.
37. Stone is just as productive in 2050 A.D. as it was in 4000 B.C.
38. The Koreans and Babylonians were the 2 most advanced cultures in the history of the world.
39. It is impossible to move a capital unless the original is taken by some enemy force. Therefore, the first settlement a culture settles must stay its capital for the rest of history. Iraq's capital was Babylon for all of history.
40. After centuries of art, music and massive cultural contribution to the world. Trains ruined France.
41. Studying Old Faithful advanced society as a whole. The Spanish researched it to twice it's efficiency.
42. Early Germans were magicians seeing as they killed barbarians and brought them back to life as zombie-slaves with 50% accuracy.
43. Mining a hill makes nearby cities more productive regardless of how many natural resources the hill has.

44.) People in New York are upset over the existence of San Francisco
45.) A battle ship and an aircraft carrier cannot be in the same harbor at the same time