Quote Originally Posted by antisocialmunky View Post
Yes it would be a pretty epic reward to run down the Yangtze naked if you spent 10EB years wandering through all that empty inhospitable terrain. Except then the Qin era military machine would have sucked to have run into...
That's why it would be fun. The Makedons probably thought that the Achaemenid's military machine would have sucked to have run into.

Quote Originally Posted by antisocialmunky View Post
YIt would make more sense to add in the Sahel and a rich Proto-Niger civilization than China.

Although, thinking ahead into the far far future, perhaps the trading zones in E:TW could be utilised for a similar-ish purpose, or for China?
(I know I'm being implausible, but I don't care :D)