So Mount Sinai is not a mountain

[Ahriman]

Mt Sinai seems to be a desert; I think I was getting Petra bonuses on it.

 

[Sjarrel]

But Rock of Gibraltar is right between Iberia and Morocco

Yeah but when you start randomly and you can see quickly that you're in what would be Scandinavia, for the Europe map, you're ability is practically useless.

 

[Sjarrel]

Mt Sinai seems to be a desert; I think I was getting Petra bonuses on it.

It is, I was able to built Petra once when I put a city right next to Mt Sinai (I was Spain that time, it was ridiculous, had my religion enhanced before any other was founded, think only a few Pantheons were even founded). I didn't have any other desert next to the city.

 

[StukaScream]

Mount sinai is a mountain maybe you can't do your things on mt.sinai or just on natural wonders in Gods and kings.

Well, i built Machu Picchu on top of Uluri the Red Mountain

 

[Arkangelus]

I also had Machu Picchu on top of Mt Sinai, and got the Petra bonus for it. The graphic properly covered it up like a regular mountain and all.

 

[Calouste]

I wonder why Mt. Everest isn't a land mark. There is also an overwhelming advantage in starting in North America on the Earth map due to there being like 3 natural wonders located on the western side of the continent.

Mt. Everest isn't really a landmark, it's just the highest peak in a range of other high peaks. It never held the religious or cultural significance that the mountians that are in Civ5 held. Which make me wonder btw, why is Mt. Olympus not included?

 

[Halcyan2]

Which make me wonder btw, why is Mt. Olympus not included?

It is in the Ancient Wonders Scenario! Along with Cappadocia.

 

[Adjuvant]

But Rock of Gibraltar is right between Iberia and Morocco

But Iberia's north of Armenia! or was...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Iberia-georgia-cellarius.jpg

Why are there two Iberias?

The Ebro River was "Ibēros" in greek. The land "around and south" of it became synonymous with this important river, later called "Hibērus" in latin. It was the "property line" between Rome and Carthage in the Ebro Treaty...

...but the "caucasian one" was the original, a society so old, there are distinctive traces of their pottery trade in the levant and mesopotamia long before the settling of Mycenae.

Not picking on ya. I just like this stuff.

edit: btw that map is the region between the Black and Caspian seas, modernly.