Alexandria

[Tee Kay]

Alexander was a Greek (ok, Macedon) king, but he was also an Egyptian Pharoah. Anyway, today Alexandria is in Egypt, so it's an Egyptian city.

It's like saying Boston should've been a British city because it was founded by the British. I don't care much for city lists because it's all pretty messed up anyway. You know the sort of thing: Limerick in Viking city list, Indus in Indian city list...

 

[AThousandYoung]

I think they should have stuck with civilizations that rose before 3000 BC.

 

[Kalimakhus]

Practically for the regular game starting 4000 BC and ending somewhere after 2000 AD, talking about any historical accuracy is nonsense.
Still there have to be some rules and the obvious one is that the game is all about Civilizations and not Countries. If we can realize the difference we can judge something to be consistent or not.
The Egyptian civilization in the game is the one of the pharaohs. Alexandria doesn’t belong to this civilization. Cairo the current capitol of Egypt doesn’t belong to the Egyptian civilization in the same sense and it is not in its list in the game.
The historical inaccuracies in the game are too many to list here even if we take the consistency of the civilization as a rule. Alexander the Great is not Greek, he is Macedonian. The Greeks never accepted Macedonia as part of their pan-Helen culture. Some other example is the Arabian civilization. There is actually no such thing at all. There is an Islamic civilization, and there is an Arabic culture. And if we should imagine an Arabian civilization then what Saladin (A Kurdish) should do with it?

 

[aronnax]

Thebes is a city in both the greek and egyptian city list

I dont know why though

 

[Breunor]

Aronax,

They are different cities. The Egyptian city of Thebes, of course, was one of their most important on the Lower Nile, and their capital in the middle Kingdom and much of the New Kingdom although Memphis was probably the main administrative center. 'Thebes' though is the city's Greek name.

The Greek city of Thebes was in Boetia and Thebes was a powerful city especially in the early fourth century. Indeed, they became the most powerful city in continental Greece for about 20 years, defeating Sparta at the Battle of Leuctra in 377 BC.

Breunor

 

[aronnax]

Aronax,

They are different cities. The Egyptian city of Thebes, of course, was one of their most important on the Lower Nile, and their capital in the middle Kingdom and much of the New Kingdom although Memphis was probably the main administrative center. 'Thebes' though is the city's Greek name.

The Greek city of Thebes was in Boetia and Thebes was a powerful city especially in the early fourth century. Indeed, they became the most powerful city in continental Greece for about 20 years, defeating Sparta at the Battle of Leuctra in 377 BC.

Breunor

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