Quote Originally Posted by AntiochusIII
Well I assure you it has something to do with difficulty level. That's because I never succeeded in my espionage attack in Very Hard and in one of my normal games Egypt is very funnily abused by their own people. Because Alexandria and Sidon rebelled entirely on its own, forever crippling the mummies despite them taking the cities back for ... 20 years later. And trust me, they exterminated Alexandria. Foolish Ptolemaic corrupted Macedonians. There would be no chance for that in VH though.
It probably has to do with this, and perhaps instead of rebeling, the civilization rioted intstead of rebeling. But i probably has more in accordance to do with the difficulty level.