I agree on that, now is needed some developer of Fireaxis see that and do something.
Haiti has two official languages: French and Haitian Creole. Either way Haitian Creole is heavily inspired by French so it would be fair to call Haiti a Francophone nation no matter what.
I was reading your article, and both said about a period of time that was forbiden use the name of death, after this period they can back to use his name again.Aboriginal Australians are not the only people in the world to have a taboo about depicting or naming the dead. For instance, most cultures in the northern regions of both Old and New World have taboos against naming the dead until the name has been passed on to a descendent. (When watching Brother Bear, I like to play a game called "count how many times the characters violate taboos.") However, the Aboriginal Australians are exceptionally strict about such matters. The Wikipedia article is a good start, as is this one on avoidance practices.
Toussaint L'Ouverture propably was fluent in both language. But I still believe is better option to he speak Creyole in the game, but I don't will be mad if he appears speaking french.
Why do you think only Gunditjmara can be a civ? I never heard before about them, and after a quick research in google I don't found that much, they are just a small tribe. Why do you believe they are better than others? And who should be his leader, Unique Unit and Unique Improvment?
If you want to represent black Americans, rather than including virtual unknowns, small, poor, uninfluential countries like Haiti (which would be like making Andorra a civ), and recent political figures who are still living (like Obama), just have more black Great people...i.e. Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, etc...
I need to disagree on that. Haiti was very influencial in the end of global slavery because it was the first country of the western hemispheri to abolish slavery. Also it was the first black republic of the world.
That doesn't make it influential. It's a small, poor country that has had a minimal impact on world history. There are already black civs - Zulu, Mali/Songhai, Ethiopia. Haiti didn't influence the end of global slavery in any significant way, you will notice, slavery continued in the Western hemisphere for 90 years after the Haitian revolution.
I agree on the first part that Haiti did do something very historic. However calling it the most influential country of the western world is a stretch. By Western world I'm sure you mean just the Western Hemisphere, but I would consider that the U.S., not just because I'm from there.
Again, depends on how you define republic. I'll take a different vector from my last approach earlier today. There is evidence (and, even, in cases, recorded knowledge) that polities existed in Sub-Saharan Africa that had leadership that was neither hereditary nor theocratic, but chosen by other means, such as election by, "councils of elders," "accessions of gathered clans," or, "proof of achievements or accomplishments," and even, "ritual duels," that predate Haitian independence by several centuries. Are they discluded in the broad definition of, "republic," in your reckoning, when Haiti only lives up to the very broadest and most generic usage of the term, at best?
Okay, if not the most influential country of the Western hemisphere, it is the second most influential just after the USA.
I mean republic inspired in the USA model, with leaders called Presidents. Haiti was the first.
The U.S. model is not the origin of the usage of the term, "republic," in history as a form of Government. You can't just arbitrarily decide that's where the definition starts in all of history and cut off all of many past examples, just to make a flawed and contrived point that is, in fact, not accurate.
No, they're not the same thing at all, nor had even remotely close to the same impact on world history, just because they happened at the same time.
Again, no, the Middle Ages are marked as ending in the 16th Century, at the latest, around 200 years or so, earlier.
Why not? A, "republic," as used today, in the broadest and most generic sense of the definition of the term, is an independent polity whose leadership is not hereditary or theocratic, but has some sort of organized method of recognized succession. Haiti, itself, through the vast majority of its history, has only lived up to the definition of the term, "republic," in the broadest and most generic sense.
Haiti is a observer state of the African union, is South Africa observer state of Europe Union?
Why would it when it's part of the African Union? The first summit was held in South Africa.
I thought it was held in Addis Ababa. Or are you sharply distinguishing it from its direct predecessor organization, the OAU?
That was the most recent one and Addis Ababa is the headquarters. The first one was in Durban, South Africa in 2002.
South Africa was a Commonwealth Dominion with veto power over King Edward VIII's marriage to Wallis Simpson...when was Haiti ever so influential?
