Just my 2 cents on the matter of the increasingly probable inclusion of Venice. Aside from the pretty compelling color sample thing, I think the minimap shows us another evidence that suports the idea that that is indeed Venice. I believed from the begining that Venice as a Civ would have to feature some radical and unique game mechanic in the sense of not being able to found other cities, only conquer them or aquire them in some unseen way. Notice that the city is on the cost and it has massive borders. The other purple city in the same landmass looks to me to have been originally a moroccan city, due to the spacing ang location, while the third purple city on the island above was most likely previously a city-state. Also, its hard to think "Venice" would take so long to expand, imagining it could, to the point it would allow the Inca to settle a city where it did, so close to its borders by the south, on another continent no less, at around the Industrial Era. It's weak evidence, I know, but worth noticing nonetheless.
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