Original Faction names

[Ludens]

[annoying mode on] Is not the toga a Roman/Italian garment?

I know that when i first started playing RTW i had no idea what the Seleucid empire was or who made it, and i didn't even think twice about Egypt being pharaoh-ized still. In England, all they ever teach us about history is how Rome was good and the light and civilized an otherwise totally barbaric, savage and cultureless world, and about how awesome ancient Egypt was.

It was pretty much the same when I went to school here. Most of my knowledge about the classical age also comes from EB. Still, I get the impression that historical eduction is improving in this country. The analysis of Rome, and other parts of history, has become more critical. Now if only the government would stop trying to make education more efficient .

[antisocialmunky]

Yeah, education sucks except for that teacher that rented out the computer lab and had his students play civ 3.

We could learn so much more just playing EB.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Briefly skimmed this thread, but like to note a few things:

(*) All internal names can be found in descr_sm_factions.txt
(*) Internal carthage is in fact Pontos, internal pontus is Saka, internal numidia is Ptolemaioi, internal armenia is Sauromatae, internal egypt is Carthage.

[the man with no name]

I am not certain the Greeks of Alexander's own time would approve of your description of him as Greek, to them he was but a barbarian with a sheen of Hellenism as far as I know. You are very right indeed Alexander's conquest spread Greek culture and thinking all the way to India, called Hellenism. Note that perhaps the greatest mathematician ever, Achimedes, lived in Syracouse, Alexandria became the centre of learning of the (Western) world, etc, etc... That is Hellenism, in the Hellenistic world a larger number of people learned the Greek way of thinking and thus the exchange of scientific and philosophical thought got a framework to include more people. Thus gaining more.

Agreed. Alexander the Great was Macedonian and therefore not greek. And alexander became the pharoah of eygpt 2. YOU MUST PLAY MORE EB OR ELSE!!!

[the man with no name]

Like i said in another thread... Read read read! Read everything. Alexander the Great took Greek culture to the ends of the earth. That's why most of the eastern half of the map has Greek culture and Greek generals... They're Greeks that settled there when Alexander the Great (a Greek himself) conquered them!

That's why he's called 'The Great'.