Funny start!

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Just got a chance to start playing, thought I'd share this...

First game, standard size continents, decided to play a civ with which I'm comfortable, Arabia. Got a coastal start, started exploring with my warrior, found 2 things in the first 3 turns: Mt. Sinai and Vatican City.

Why is this funny to me?

4000BC (or before) Semitic peoples migrated north from the Arabia Peninsula into the Levant and Mesopotamia, 2300ish (by short account) Semitic people took domination over Mesopotamia under Sargon of Akkad, and long story short, through various conflicts, muses and failings, some subset of those Semitics would eventually become the Hebrews and establish Judaism.

The only couple things that would have made this more perfect would be had I (A) discovered Jerusalem instead of Vatican, but the net result is the same and (B) had it been necessitated I defeat Sumeria (no Sumerian civ, but Babylon would have been funny) to establish my pantheon and thusly religion.

I know it's completely random but it just really struck me as funny. I guess I'll use the star of David my my religion's significator.

 

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Turn 71 (epic speed) founded Judaism. hehehehe

 

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Turn 247, 1020AD, earned "Holier than thou" achievement converting the Aztec Christian holy city to Judaism!

Heresy I say!

This is fun. hehehe.

 

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Earlier in my game I found out that, if you convert a holy city's population to your religion, and there are no other cities that follow the religion of the holy city, that religion cannot spread until the holy city has been reclaimed.
So that was pretty fun. Got to hit Carthage with a nerf bat straight out the gate, and now their religion (Islam) is non-relevant. If only the same could be said for Pacal's Buddhism...
I think the next time I found a religion, it'll be geared towards religious warfare. There can only be one!

 

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Earlier in my game I found out that, if you convert a holy city's population to your religion, and there are no other cities that follow the religion of the holy city, that religion cannot spread until the holy city has been reclaimed.
So that was pretty fun. Got to hit Carthage with a nerf bat straight out the gate, and now their religion (Islam) is non-relevant. If only the same could be said for Pacal's Buddhism...
I think the next time I found a religion, it'll be geared towards religious warfare. There can only be one!

Carthage in my game also has Islam, I also converted them with a great prophet, then I captured Carthage, the Islamic holy city, and used an Inquisitor on it. Tooltip no longer shows Carthage as Islamic holy city.