Quote Originally Posted by Steppe Merc
Nope, never played, that's why I don't quite understand why America would be in, or Egypt.


Well, I think that the Avars had a bigger impact on European customs and warfare than the Huns ever did, and they were more interesting, IMO. Or you could have the Kok (aka Gok, aka Blue) Turks.
Probably, but how many does know about the Avars, or the Kok Turks? Huns are only known because of Attila.

Civilization simply takes the most powerful and important civs throughout history and put them in one and the same game. It's the basic rule and then you have some other rules that make the picking of civ weird sometimes. Then you play them from 4000 BC until 2100 AD (with slower turns at time, 20 years/turn early on and 1 year/turn later on). And discovers fusion power at 1950 if you're fast in tech .
The game is heavily abstracted from history, while still having a history base.