mechanism

Maybe it's just because I'm a trained linguist and all-around language nerd, but I've long fantasized about a Civ game that makes Language its own game concept, separate from but likely interacting in key ways with Culture. Maybe the player can watch his Civ's native tongue progress through...

A common trend throughout history seems to be the waxing and waning of centralized power as opposed to more local authority. We can juxtapose modern Greece with the rabble of culturally related but politically independent city-states it was in ancient times, with the Delian League perhaps...