Greece: The dawn of Europeans

[citis]

Tech elections: The candidates are:

Kleisthenes:

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Kleisthenes inventor of Democracy and the voting process. He founded the first Democracy on earth, the Athenian Democracy. His invesion was adopted by other greek cities and Cathrage.

Policy:
*Literature
*If possible adopt city-states

Ifaistos (Hephaestus):

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God of weapon-making and manufacture. Ifaistos was the blacksmith of Gods.

Policy:
*Discover Metal Casting

Philp II:

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Philip II, king of Macedon unified Greece under his rule. He elected as the military leader of Helenic League agains the Persian empire. After his assination his son Alexander the Great replaced him.

Policy:
*Discover Monarchy
*Adopt Dynasticism if possible

Solon:

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Athenian lawmaker. He was asked by Athenians to create a fair code system to replace the exageratively harsh laws of Drakontas. He was one of the seven sages.

Policy:
*Discover Code of Laws.
*If possible build courts.

Thales from Miletus:

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Thales national philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. He managed to predict an eclipse of the moon. He was one of the seven sages of Greece.

Policy:
*Discover Mathematics
*If possible build the Senae Diolkos (fort)

 

[citis]

Rules: You will vote twice:
You can choose at most one among Pericles and Alexander in the normal elections. You can choose at most two among the candidates of the tech elections. You may choose only one candidate. You may vote noone if you want to.
Please bolden all your votes.

How I will decide the results (not recommended if you are confused ):

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*Normal elections: One winner. It will be like before.
*Tech elections: Two winners. I will count the votes of each tech. Single tech vote gives surplus half vote to the tech. The two most popular techs win. I will use the oracle to discover the most expensive and I will discover the other one normally.
*In case of tie I have the right to use a second vote to decide the result.
*I will announce the final policy in the result pannel.

Note: I will give a lot of time to these double elections.

Voting is now open.

I vote in favour of: Pericles, Kleisthenes, Ifaistos

 

[Manuss]

Really a good idea.
Normal: Pericles you don't want to collapse, do you?
Tech: Philip II and Thales

 

[mrrandomplayer]

Normal Pericles.
Tech: Hephaestus and Philip II

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Alexander the Great
It is time to create an empire!

Philip II and Thales
These are techs required for a strong, happy empire.

 

[SargontheGreat2]

Alexander III and Philip II and Thales

 

[TheSunIsDark]

Alexander, Hephaestus and Solon

 

[baseballpie]

Alexander, Ifaistos, Thales

 

[cudfather]

Pericles, Philip II, Ifaistos

 

[char81]

Alexander, Ifaistos, and
Thales

 

[Moai_Spammer]

subbed

Alexander, Ifaistos, and
Thales

 

[Sanguivorant]

Pericles and Thales from Miletus and Phillip II

 

[Pliped]

Pericles
Kleisthenes

 

[miss_shea]

Alexander Kleisthenes Thales

 

[citis]

The voting is closed.

Results (Normal):
Pericles: 6
Alexander: 7

Results (Tech):
Kleisthenes: 3,5
Ifaistos: 7
Philip II: 6
Solon: 1
Thales: 8

Policy:
*Conquer Ankyra and the rest of Persia if possible.
*Settle cities in eastern historical greek areas (Mesopotamia, Egypt).
*Discover Metal Casting
*Discover Mathematics

 

[citis]

Technical problems fixed. Continuation soon.

 

[citis]

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The construction of the oracle and the temple of Artemis marked the beggining of the classical era, which proved to be the most glorius era in Greek history.

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Trade with Phoenicians and greek inginuity brought the breakthrough of many new techs. History has it that greeks brought Alphabet from phoenicians. However, the wishes of Demetra, goddess of agriculture and animal husbandry had different opinion.

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Meanwhile, Persians found an administrative center in Mesopotamia in an attempt to construct the empire Cyrus dreamt of, the achaemenid empire. The Persian empire streched from Minor Asia to the depths of Persian core, but it was too undevelopped.

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The classical era saw the rise of new regimes in Greece. Some Greek states, like Macedonia and Epirus decided to immitate the Persian and established Kingdoms. Persia helped them in organisational matters, and in exchange greeks gave persian the knowledge of metallurgy. Greeks estimated that Persia was a land empire, so it couldn't use that technology. Moreover, researching this technology further was so expensive, that Persians couldn't do it before Greeks.

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The final result was the establishment of Philip II as king of Macedonia. He became stronger and stronger, trhough conquest and pacts. In the congress of Korinthos greeks decided to appoint him as their leader. One year later he was murdered and his son Alexander was appointed in his position.

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Alexander declared war on Persia and wrote his own chapter of history (the history of Alexandrian wars in the next post).

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While Alexander was fighting a new civilisation spawned in the center of Italy and started colonising their peninsula.

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Meanwhile Miletos gave birth to a great mathematician-engineer: Thales Thales decided to move to Diospolis believing he could express his talent better in this prospering and productive city.

 

[citis]

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The greek army was in Hierusalem. Alexander gave orders to move north to the Persian cities, mainly Ankyra. The Persians tried to distract the greek army in the south with a week unit. Alexander decided to keep one troop near Jerusalem to guard the city.

Siege of Ankyra:

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http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=373113&stc=1&d=1396691834

Ankyra was defended by archer troops. The experienced by previous wars hoplites managed to conquer Ankyra with ease.

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Conquering Ankyra was a massacre. All men of Ankyra died in the conquest and the city was destroyed. Unfortunately the city was too small to survive the pillage. Alexander gave orders to troops to reatreat. Cyrus moved his chariots in the area and troops were too damaged to defend. One troop was transported in Athens with ships, while the other retreated in Sur. Phoenicians had agreed not to open their borders to Persians. Moreover, Phoenicians had a respectable army in Sur, so Persians won't declare war on them. This meant that the greek army could use the Phoenician borders as a secure base.

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Hektor was born in Diospolis. He studied the ancient battles and the siege of Ankyra and proved to be talented in military tactics. Alexander sent him in Jerusalem and stand by. The Persian army was too stong at this point, and Jerusalem's defences were mediocre. So his assistance should help in an emergency situation.

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The troops that stayed in Jerusalem defended Petra, a small village sout of Hierosolema. The Persians were too weak and fleeded.

Battles of Judeah:

Cyrus sent his armies in waves to conquer Judeah. This let the Greeks to defend against each wave one by one.

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Something similar happened in Thermopylae. The passage was too narrow, so they Persian troops attacked one by one. Spartans killed them with ease. Darius II sent three waves against Alexander, too

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Cyrus sent his first wave (3 units, chariots and immortals) against Jerusalem. Alexander spent almost all greek treasury to update a warrior into a spearman. Hoplites were worthless against chariots' attacks, so he should attack first. Moreover a freshly trained hoplite unit came from Athens. All units fought with courage and managed to kill the Persian army. However, after the battle the army was severely damaged. Alexander gave order to Diospolis' guards to move to Hierosolema and help.

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Alexander attacked Tisfun from Phoenicia. He didn't want to capture it, but it made Persians to attack Judeah in a harry. So they didn't concentrate their army as they wanted to.

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The second wave was much stronger, Persians had 2 chariots, 3 vultures and two immortals. Meanwhile, the units that sieged Ankyra healed and were sent back to battle.

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The third and final wave of Persian attack. The whole army was damaged, but it was concentrated around Hierosolema. Some troops managed to heal quickly enough and intercepted the attack.

After the third wave, the Persian army was almost destroyed. Nothing left but guards. Meanwhile the birth of a new engineering movement in Diospolis opened new opportunities. It was a secure moment for Greeks to reconfigure their destiny.

 

[citis]

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The world at the birth of Thales.

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The Judean front.

At this point Pericles, political leader of Athens takes advantage of the situation and tries to get the leadership in Greek world.

Pericles:

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Pericles, elected leader of Athens. He made Athens a great military and commercial power in Greece transforming the delain league into Athenan Hegemony (Empire). Parthenon was one of his orders.

Pericles is connected to the Golden Age of Athens and one of the most influencial leaders in the classical era Greece.

Pericles wants to fulfil his historical destiny. Moreover, he wants to make a peace treaty with Persians. According to him the Persian cities are too undevelopped, so Greece has nothing to gain from the destruction of this civ. Conquering at a later point seems more logical to him.

Policy:
*Use two GPs to start a golden age (spawn a non priest one)
*Build the Parthenon
*Make peace treaty with Persians.

Alexander the Great:

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King of kingdom of Macedon, elected military leader of Greek of the Hellenic League, Pharaoh of Egypt, Lord of Asia and Shahanshah of Persia. Alexander succeeded and replaced his father Philip II. Alexander was unbeatable and managed to conquer the Persian Empire, which included Egypt, and an Indian kingdom. He freed the people of the Persian Empire from the authoritarian Persian rule and founded tens of cities. His legacy remained deep into the memories of the peoples of his empire. Central Asians still memorise him today, and he is known from oral traditions that travel from fathers to sons. He planned to conquer Arabia and even Rome, but he died in a young age.

Alexander wants to extend the Greek world in the East to its full historical borders through settling and conquest. Unstability and economical crises won't hurt his expansionism at all. He wants to continue the war. He will replace the conquered cities, if they become razed, so postponing the war seems useless to him.

Policy:
*Conquer the rest of Persia.
*Settle cities in eastern historical greek areas (Mesopotamia, Persia if it is left with no cities, Egypt)
*Slow down research to upgrade all warriors.

Thales from Miletus:

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Thales national philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. He managed to predict an eclipse of the moon. He was one of the seven sages of Greece.

Thales as an engineer depicted in the game wants to construct a great building that will stand the test of time. He want interfere with politics, the political power will remain the same as before.

Policy:
*Finish a wonder in capital (the wonder that costs the most).
*Maintain the previous policy.

Voting is open (Please bolden your votes):

I vote for Pericles.

 

[TheSunIsDark]

Thales