An interesting point. I am (studying to become) a high school history teacher myself. But tell me, what use is it to a high school kid of lets say 'practical level'
(no not dumb they just hate reading) to know that the romans actually divided their armies like that? ('knowledge' provided by CA btw). In fact, what's important about knowing that alexanders troops were armed in that way? To continue why should there be such an emphasis on the ancient period in general. All parts of history are equally important. Given' the time i (we) have in school to teach numerous subjects i fail to see the significance of the info you just provided. The 'hollywoodesque nature' of history is (by myself) employed to enhance the subject. Which basicly means i exaggerate a little. (no i don't purposly distort history, on the contrary). Don't forget that if you're not on eof 'us' history lovers the subject is quite boring and all about dead people. We live in the now come on. If you apply this to CA then i don't find it surprising they employ a less specialized version of history. I agree it shouldn't be wrong though but for a game a little artistic freedom is (imho) not so bad.

grtz kotd

btw:
manga is wicked (and some is even historically accurate)

Well, what you just said is what I was trying to say! Most people don't like history, especially kids. I just came out of High School (In The Netherlands actually ) and half of my friends stopped taking history as soon as they could. One of my friends thinks it's ridiculous that I actually read history books because ,like you said, "It's all about dead people anyways. So who cares?". And yeah, he's not a dumb kid at all. He, like most other people, just really dosn't care about history.

So that means not only that most people wouldn't even notice CA's mistakes, but also what CA was showing is just what everyone else thinks the period looks like. It's what's 'true' for about 90% of it's customers, as far as they know anyways. And had they attempted to bring it to 'our' standards of historical knowledge, they would have lost many customers since the customers just wouldn't understand what CA was giving them. Mainly because they don't really care.

And I meant no insult to History teachers either. They are usually the more open-minded teachers, and my High School history teacher is still my favorite teacher ever.

Cheers,
- Seyd

(And I'm sure there is cool manga. It's just that it gets boring when that's all people read, draw or talk about. They have no interest in anything that dosn't come from Japan, which I find a bit ridiculous.)