TheSpaceCowboy
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A podcast that I was listing to earlier today made mention of a concept called the Translatio Imperii.
I'd never heard of the term before, but it expressed well a sentiment with which I've long been familiar.
More relevantly, it seems to capture the thinking behind the Ages mechanic perfectly.
To quote the Wikipedia entry:
As an American, I can confirm this is core to our understanding of our national identity.
We see ourselves as the ultimate heirs and successors of the Greeks, Romans, and British (and even the Israelites, to a certain extent).
I'm excited that this concept and sentiment will be mechanically expressible in playing each game of Civ VII!
I'd never heard of the term before, but it expressed well a sentiment with which I've long been familiar.
More relevantly, it seems to capture the thinking behind the Ages mechanic perfectly.
To quote the Wikipedia entry:
In this concept the process of decline and fall of an empire is theoretically being replaced by a natural succession from one empire to another. Translatio implies that an empire metahistorically can be transferred from hand to hand and place to place...
As an American, I can confirm this is core to our understanding of our national identity.
We see ourselves as the ultimate heirs and successors of the Greeks, Romans, and British (and even the Israelites, to a certain extent).
I'm excited that this concept and sentiment will be mechanically expressible in playing each game of Civ VII!