the Voices of Civilization Poll: Codename 'the Conquerors'

[chrissifniotis]

This is the next poll for the Voices of Civilization playlist, representing the Renaissance Era. A big poll with again a great deal of monologues to choose from. 14 options are available, again the top two most favored tracks will be in the playlist;

the Aztec monologue - 'Wandering Nomads from a Lost Home'

the English monologue - 'A Part of the Fabric of the People'

the Incan monologue - 'Earth Shaker'

the Iroquois monologue - 'The Great Law of Peace'

the Ottoman monologue - 'A Small Country in Bithynia'

the Songhai monologue - 'Muskets Against Spearman'

the Spanish monologue - 'The Envy of the World'

the Conquest of the New World monologue - 'The Year is 1492'
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the Fobidden Palace - 'Most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.' - John Lubbock

the Louvre - 'Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Machu Pichu - 'Few romances can ever surpass that of the granite citedel on top of the beetling precipices of Machu Picchu, the crown of Incaland.' - Hiram Bingham

the Porcelain Tower - 'Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that incrediable tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.' - James Russel Lowell

Sistine Chapel - 'I live and love under God's peculiar light.' - Michelangelo Buonarroti

Taj Mahal - 'The Taj Mahaj rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.' - Rabintranath Tagore

 

[Pouakai]

I must have missed the last one, could you provide a link to the medieval one?

 

[apocalypse105]

Did you just forgot france a dominant power in the renaissance?

 

[Ellye]

@The Porcelain Tower

It's "inaccessible", not "incredible".

 

[janboruta]

Did you just forgot france a dominant power in the renaissance?

France belongs to early industrial (Napoleon, real world-wise), and late renaissance (CivV-wise). CivV industrial age starts later than in real world, though, so it's hard to place France only in one specific era.

I voted Ottoman. It describes pretty well an immensely underrated country, which was a true power for the time being.

 

[Ellye]

I voted Ottoman. It describes pretty well an immensely underrated country, which was a true power for the time being.

If I had two votes, or a separate vote for quotes/monologues, I would too.
It's one of my favorites monologues of Civ5, probably in part because I'm a fun of Ottoman history.

 

[chrissifniotis]

To all the queries;

@Pouakai - Will do; Codename: Age of Kings

@apocalypse105 - janboruta is correct, while France was a major power in this era, Napoleon himself rose to power beyond that point. The wonders and leader tracks are divided up into the generally accepted dates of each era. Under this method Napoleon lands in the Industrial era.

@Ellye - Epic fail!!!

 

[black213]

Songhai, obvious reference to "spearman vs tank".

 

[jtb1127]

I think the Taj's is the best and it appears many agree.

 

[apocalypse105]

France belongs to early industrial (Napoleon, real world-wise), and late renaissance (CivV-wise). CivV industrial age starts later than in real world, though, so it's hard to place France only in one specific era.

I voted Ottoman. It describes pretty well an immensely underrated country, which was a true power for the time being.

I am not talking about the leader but the country