Modern civilizations bet

It doesn’t have to be default, if Xerxes was Mongols, then Mughal could be an option (as well as Qing for ones we know, and Russia/Ottoman for ones we don’t)…
If Xerxes prefers Mughal… or they set it up so that he randomly chose Mughal on that playthrough.. then Ottomans could be in
From the city names in the stream, we can assume that Xerxes went Persia > Abbasid. So Mughal could be an unlock from both Abbasid and Chola, similar to how Normans come from Rome and Greece.
 
It would make sense that Ashoka's second preference would probably at least be the Southeast Asian civs. I feel like with Xerxes going to the Mughals, it seems less likely that the Ottomans are in the base game. I'm not sure who else Xerxes would default to?
I suspect Abbasids default to Mughals, Mongols to Russia--the real question is whether Chola prefers Siam or Mughals when Abbasids are not present. Chola > Mughals feels like it makes more sense, but I'm starting to have a sneaking suspicion the Mughals are actually intended as Persianate Middle Eastern/Central Asian representation...
 
From the city names in the stream, we can assume that Xerxes went Persia > Abbasid. So Mughal could be an unlock from both Abbasid and Chola, similar to how Normans come from Rome and Greece.
That makes sense…Abbasids could easily go to both Mughal and Ottomans…and Xerxes could prefer Mughals for gameplay or territorial reasons.
 
As a reminder, each civ unlocking two future civs is no longer a given, seeing how Spain unlocked only Mexico in the Exploration stream. Unless we assume that FXS has gotten better at hiding the info with cleaner UI, instead of covering with "HIDDEN".
 
I suspect Abbasids default to Mughals, Mongols to Russia--the real question is whether Chola prefers Siam or Mughals when Abbasids are not present. Chola > Mughals feels like it makes more sense, but I'm starting to have a sneaking suspicion the Mughals are actually intended as Persianate Middle Eastern/Central Asian representation...
It appears Ottomans are going to be a DLC civ again.
 
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