Avoiding nasty surprises

[Timsup2nothin]

My neighbors got crushed by barbarians. If I take their cities from the barbarians are they going to want to revolt and bring that neighbor back to life? I might do it anyway since they were better neighbors than the barbarians are, but I'd like to know what I'm getting into.

This is my first game since I got the up to date revision and before that I never actually got this far, since it turns out I was (by all reports) trying to do the impossible by playing Egypt past failing their UHV.

 

[blizzrd]

Most civilizations can respawn if certain conditions are met.

Having barbarian or independent cities in the core area for an extinct civ is one way to trigger a respawn.

An unstable civ (exactly how unstable depends on the difficulty setting) which controls cities in the core area for an extinct civ, is another way to trigger a respawn.

I believe in both cases, there has to be at least two cities in the extinct civ's core for a respawn, but I am not 100% sure of this. If there is only one city present (others were razed for example) then respawn will not occur.

 

[baseballpie]

I think Netherlands and Portugal only need one city to respawn.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

We'll see how it goes. I kept two former Ethiopian cities...and stability is an ongoing problem. If they want to resurrect the Ethiopian Kingdom they can go.