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Growing Gif of the known world over about 4,000 years

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  1. Chuck.

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    OK, it does not come completely to the present time, but still worth a look

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    Thanks. This is great. Obviously, it depends on the perspective of the map-drawer. But it's a good thing to see.

    Looking out my window now, it's astounding that where I am wasn't part of the "known world" until 1788. Unless you were Eora, obviously.
     
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    Sorta cool... but... A very myopic white perspective.

    It doesn't explain the 12,000 year old structures in Turkey or the spearpoints found in 14000 year old mammoth shoulder blade bones from New Mexico...
     
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    ^ I was bracing myself for the remark it may be Eurocentric - thank you for pointing it out without throwing a firebomb. :)
     
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    Cool animation, but yes, the perspective's pretty narrow.
     
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    Thanks, Les. That was great.

    So... although my house in Sydney wasn't in the "known world" until 1788, people lived around my current house a good 40,000 years before anyone lived around the house I grew up in in Britain.
     
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    The PC game Civilization can start out this way:
    • Maybe you pick the civilization the Chinese
    • You can see only as far as your 1st city - Beijing.
    • To see more, you have to explore
    • As you see more, you discover more city sites to establish...and neighbors that may go to war with you.
    • You discover technologies (and social advancements) so your things and government can become more sophisticated.
    • You have to set a balance on you money each turn (this part our US elected officials lately have been FAIL)
      • government tax
      • keep the citizens happy
      • R & D
    • Your civilization starts at 4000 BC and games ends around 2200 AD
    • You civilization and competing ones can be warlike, peaceful, or a mix. Can win by conquering the world, or doing something peaceful by being the 1st to reach Alpha Centuri.
    • Faces for civilizations include Lincoln, Gandhi, Caesar, Napoleon...
     
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    It sounds fun. But every game I've played like this was written by capitalists, so the algorithms are all wrong and my dictatorships of the proletariat tend to fail.

    Which is not like real life.
     
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    ^ if it's any consolation, setting the tax rate to zero or even 10% late in the game will disappoint TEA party fans.
     
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    Railway Tycoon was fun. But of course, it was all about making money. Unlike SimEarth, which was great, but I was disappointed that the win scenario was blasting off for other planets.
     
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    Les gets a croissant because Toba!

    Toba Toba Toba.

    What a thing...