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1) China did not write many books on silk at all. Before the time of paper (China invented paper in around 100AD) book were written on either bamboo or bone. Sun Tzu does not need silks. 2) Great Wall were not meant for protecting the Silk Road. The Silk Road was an afterthought to the...

Hi everyone, I took a leave of absence from Civ3 for awhile to play some other games. Now I want to play Civ again. Is PTW worth the $30 retail to buy it?? The features doesn't seem all that impressive... Did they fix the corruption thing??? Also, can I play Civ3 with just the PTW...

>>No one today is really sure what the Qin wall was like. It was built mostly of pressed mud and had long eroded away. The Chinese did find some of the foundation lines of the original walls though during the past few decades(?). But it was way longer than the Hadrian Wall I think. The Ming...

The Li family were definately warlords in the sense that they were part of the rivalry for power during that time. They were not upholding the old Yang family of the Sui. This series of stories are recounted in the book Romance of the Sui-Tang. As for the Turks, lets just agree that the...

>>No argument with that. But the Vietnamese, as a people with a sense of national identity, didn't really get going until the 10-11th centuries AD, during one of their native dynasties (as I had mentioned). During the Han, Vietnam (N Vietnam, the south was the Hindu Malay kingdom of Champa) was...

Well the Water Margin is a novel, so the novel is romanticized definately, but the themes of loyalty and brotherhood is there. Much like a Robin hood story on a grand scale. The Koei game is pretty close, atleast in terms of character attributes.

Well actually Hua means Chinese and Xia means flourish in a way, it also means the Xia dynasty, the 1st recorded dynasty. It actually literally means summer though. Regarding the peoples, I'm not sure if it's differentiated like that. From what I know, ancient Chinese came from the...

Koei games are generally good to great in terms of historical accuracy. Even non three kingdoms or japanese warring states games. The Napoleon game is pretty good, Gheghis Khan 2 is one of my favorites, Liberty or Death (American Revolution) is ok. Mind you these games are pretty dated...

1. Stalingrad 1942 - Hitler, "Russia is finished". Stalin, "Not one step back". Really the beginning of the end for Germany. The entire 6th army of 300,000 is lost here, being one of the finest and best equipped armies ever. Really as historically important as it gets. 2. Verdun 1916 -...

>>The original Turkish tribes arose in the same geographical area as the Hsiung-nu. They formed a great confederation which threatened the Chinese Tang empire in the 7th or 8th century AD, but were eventually divided and driven west by the Tang emperors (who were half-Turkish themselves). In the...

1. Holy Roman Empire? LAUGHING OUT LOUD. There was no EMPIRE even in Charlemagne's reign. There was a loose feudal system of which Charlemagne was the technical head, but even he only held a percentage of the land, the empire declined thereafter with his sons, Lothar, Louis, Peppin (not sure...

Please... quit your nationalist pride before it destroys any semblence of history. How can you say the modern turks are like the ancient Huns or Hsiung-Nu, as the Chinese called them, that would be saying the modern Egyptians are the ancient Egyptians, which they are not. The Turks caused...

1. They are and have been backwards in terms of society, culture, etc. compared to the rest of Europe. A little better than Ottomans, but still backwards 2. They got their butts kicked by Germany twice in WWI and WWII, and also got their butts kicked by Napoleon. Saved only by having alot of...