Himalia said:
For the record historically speaking at its peak Spain had the 4th largest Empire it peaked in land area owned in 1790. The Mongels held the 3rd largest and was almost 2 million square miles larger than the Spanish.
But yes i agree Spain should be in.
Well, my records say that the Spanish empire at is peak was during philip the second (1556-1598), not in 1790, where the spanish empire was composed of Spain, the french rosellon, The netherlands, Sicily, Sardinia, Milan, Naples, Oran, Tunisia, Portugal and its afroasiatic empire, all the discoveried america (brazil included) and the Philipines. It was 20 times bigger than the roman empire and the largest of the world ever. With territories in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.
I know that in many places this is not recognized, mainly because they tend to separate Spain from Portugal, but during Philip the second, Portugal (and its empire) was part of Spain. Many of those places are english biased historians, where they try to demonstrate that the British empire was the largest ever, so they don´t take the joint of the Spanish and portuguese empires under Philip the second reign into consideration. But the fact is that Portugal was part of Spain between 1556-1598 and therefore, the spanish empire at its peak was larger than the british one.
Of course, England and Spain should be in, if you want to pick civs based on historical facts. I know that is difficult to leave out european civs from the game, but, if you want to be historically accurate and pick only four european civs, those should be Greece, Rome, England and Spain. Then, if you want to add more, we can study more history and discuss what else to add.
Edit: And I am not anti-english, just look at my sig.
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