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Spiffy
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There's always complaints about over and under representation in the civ and leader roster.
So, how do you group things? Several options below.
How do you handle leaders and civs which can represent multiple areas? Multiple civilizations and leaders can accurately be claimed to represent several different geographical areas at once, depending on what point in time you arbitrarily choose. Lafayette? Easily represents (North) America and Europe. Abbasids? Africa (North) and Asia (Middle East). Rome? Europe, Asia, Africa. Spain/Isabella? Europe and (Central/South) America. Yeah, large empires make it even messier.
However you do it, you're probably doing it wrong
All maps from Wikipedia.
Continents?
The default! But how many? 4? 5? 6? 7?
Tectonic Plates?
Or what about tectonic plates? This includes subcontinental divisions. By this method "America" might be considered a single continent with multiple subcontinents (2 or 3, depending on your method).
Statistical Groupings?
You could do anything here, but in this case a United Nations model for statistical analysis.
Linguistic Families?
From what point in time? What linguistic families are present in a certain location depends on who lives there, which changes due to population movements and political boundaries.
Religious Groupings?
Same common issue - what time period do you choose?
Cultural Area?
From what time period? And defined by whom? This picture was arbitrarily picked from Wikipedia and can't be claimed to be objectively correct.
So, how do you group things? Several options below.
How do you handle leaders and civs which can represent multiple areas? Multiple civilizations and leaders can accurately be claimed to represent several different geographical areas at once, depending on what point in time you arbitrarily choose. Lafayette? Easily represents (North) America and Europe. Abbasids? Africa (North) and Asia (Middle East). Rome? Europe, Asia, Africa. Spain/Isabella? Europe and (Central/South) America. Yeah, large empires make it even messier.
However you do it, you're probably doing it wrong

All maps from Wikipedia.
Continents?
The default! But how many? 4? 5? 6? 7?
Tectonic Plates?
Or what about tectonic plates? This includes subcontinental divisions. By this method "America" might be considered a single continent with multiple subcontinents (2 or 3, depending on your method).
Statistical Groupings?
You could do anything here, but in this case a United Nations model for statistical analysis.
Linguistic Families?
From what point in time? What linguistic families are present in a certain location depends on who lives there, which changes due to population movements and political boundaries.
Religious Groupings?
Same common issue - what time period do you choose?
Cultural Area?
From what time period? And defined by whom? This picture was arbitrarily picked from Wikipedia and can't be claimed to be objectively correct.