Recent content by shogan1979

There is actually a book by Gavin Menzies called "1421 The Year China Discovered the World" Which maked a compelling case for China discovering much more then Australia. Of course since there were people living there perhaps visited is a better word hehe. The author does provide some proof that...

Go Siam!!!!!!

I said Austria not Australia, and dissing the Manchu is fine except they did bring about the end of and empire namely the Ming Dynasty which is more then i can say for lets say the Celts which are ok but not much different from most of Europe so in turn I will also ignore your existence :lol:

Gotta be Siam with Mongkut they were the only SE Asian Country that didnt get colonized mostly due to Mongkut's political skill. Maybe Burma since they did sack Ayyuthaya but they were beaten back within 10 years by Taksin and really didnt threaten Siam again.

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I am really hoping if there is a SE civ that it is Siam or Ayyuthaya or Thai whatever you want to call it over Khmer. I know alot of people are rooting Khmer, but I would prefer Siam in the end it was the Thai Kingdoms that brought and end to the Khmer empire thought it was failing already. they...

I really want to see Siam get in and I think they should be in over the Khmer since the Khmer regions(Cambodia) were pretty much under Siamese control before the Europeans arrived. Also Siam was pretty much the only southeat Asian country to escape european colonization. I posted a rant about...

Hello all This is my first post even though I have been lurking here for quite sometime. I was reading the post about possible civs in the expansion pack and I was a little dissapointed that someone had the Khmer listed about Siam. So I have decided to make a case for Siam to be a Civ in the 1st...