But it serves as a nice reminder of histirical events and IMHO it depicts with accuracy the paranoic enmities between countries...e.g. you are in the Modern Age, the Zulu have been destroyed by the Pesians in 320 BC, you had a military alliance with the Zulu against the Persians but you signed peace treaty at turn 19,...and when you ask RoP from the Persians, they answer:"Are you @#$%? We well never forget what you did to our friends the Zulu"...
Now which player in his right mind would like to change that?