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I think the main reason it's called "england" is because it is actually an English civ. Americans might be confused because the ones who founded the first North American cities, and captured New Amsterdam and renamed it New York was the English, when England was an independent country...

I reckon Jesus was an Alien. An Alien race came down and tried to teach monkey's (us) how to be civilized. Because if he really was the son of god, then he'd do a far better job. What did the world learn about someone being crucified? A religion has spread, wars have been fought, ethnic...

Well there you go, so it all depends on what criteria you follow. I myself think it would be great to actually have a Scottish civilization in the game. England is chosen, and the way England is portrayed in the game is OK with me.

Actually the first settlers of north America were under England, under an English Empire. Southern US colonies like Virginia were under England. The English settled North American colonies 100 years before there was a British Empire. Those that weren't settled first were captured like New...

There isn't anything to reply to because you didn't make a point. maybe this one that you put in bold "pointless arguments about whether it was conquest or peaceful unification because it really doesn't matter." If England forced it's language and politics and culture upon the Scots...

This has got me reading up on some British history :D Before I saw Scotland and England being two seperate countries, and even now the more I read. Act of Union - taken from wikipedia "We were bought and sold for English Gold/Sic a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation" Some of this was used...

I don't think that's cleared anything up. I know a lot of Scots blaming the wrong doings of the British Empire on the English. So who's Empire was it? Englands? The game doesn't represent Britain though anyway, it just represents England. People are mislead into thinking it's Britain...

Exactly there is my answer.... "England is a nation, Scotland was a rivalry to England for many centuries." i.e it's better to keep them seperate. I should also add that Scotland had it's own language (Gaelic), own ethnicity (celtic), own king and queens, very own culture, it's own...

I don't really mind English Empire or British Empire. I don't understand why anyone would find England, to be offensive in the game. England is a nation, Scotland was a rivalry to England for many centuries. England is a nation and civilization in it's own right with unique history and it's...

Funnily, Britannia was given to the area of England, the Romans actually called Scotland Caledonia, and Ireland was called Hibernia. So maybe it might be historically accurate to call the English (British). And London was founded by the Romans.

The British Empire was a English project more so than anything else. The Massachusetts Bay Colony and Indian Company were English settlements, the British Empire started in the 17th century BEFORE the Act of the Union (1707) which merged Scotland with England. New Foundland was the first...

I'm not a newbie here, despite my limited posts. :D This is a great forum to read, i think it probably sums up the mentality of the type of people who buy Civ games.

I've always been like that, well in the past civ games. I don't think I've ever got into the modern era in any of the games. Not past 1950 anyway. Civ2/Civ3 is one of my favourite games of all time. Strangely I bought Civ4 about a year ago I think, only played it a few days and haven't...

I can understand people when they say they enjoyed Civ2 the most. I think what made Civ2 so good was the fact that it was so simple. I definetely played that game a lot more than any others in the series. It was so addictive. But that was then, Civ2 isn't half the game Civ4 is, literally.

I haven't posted/visited here for ages, infact I forgot about Civ3. But after stubbling across this website again it's made me want to play Civ3 again. I think I stopped playing Civ3 when I had problems with my PC. (I had did register under another username but forgot the name/password/email...