I myself knew very little of the time period myself, and sadly to say... this game has made me interested in classical history. I was usually just into American and British history around and found classical history to be much more badass after I started reading about it. My only problem is I read two books and they kinda contradict each other like in a book of "A history of Rome" by M.Cary and H.H scullard says well after Rome beat Carthage it mentions they worked the fields in contradiction to some other book I read that mentions they used salt to destroy the fields.... Other than the many contradictions or thoughts with authors its pretty interesting. lol