In contrast to later games in the Civilization series, this is largely a cosmetic choice, affecting titles, city names, musical heralds, and color.

Freeciv is a single and multiplayer turn-based strategy game for workstations and personal computers inspired by the commercial proprietary Sid Meier's Civilization series.

Historical representations in video games include: Nobunaga's Ambition: Iron Triangle, Shogun: Total War and Total War: Shogun 2, Throne of Darkness and the eponymous Nobunaga's Ambition series, as well as Civilization V and Age of Empires II: The Conquerors.

Historical people and leaders may sometimes appear as characters too, particularly in strategy or empire building games such as in Sid Meier's Civilization series.

It was recreated for the video games Spy Hunter ( 2001 ), King's Quest V, Lego Indiana Jones, Sonic Unleashed and Civilization V and appeared in the novels Left Behind, Appointment with Death, The Eagle in the Sand and The Red Sea Sharks, the nineteenth book in The Adventures of Tintin series.

After the original Star Trek series, Nimoy starred in Mission: Impossible for two seasons, hosted the documentary series In Search of ..., and narrated Civilization IV, as well as making several well-received stage appearances.

Nimoy provided a comprehensive series of voiceovers for the 2005 computer game Civilization IV.

He also compiled, edited and published, How To Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization, a 600 page tome of never published work from Adler ’ s television series, The Great Ideas.

* In the Civilization ( series ) and Rise of Nations, ' The Colossus ' is one of the first wonders available.

Banks has noted that he spent much time playing the Civilization computer game ( appearing to refer to the first version of the game series ) before writing the book and that it was one of the inspirations for the concept of the ' Outside Context Problem ' central to the novel.

The Civilization of the American Indian series, v. 212.

He also edited a three volume series entitled The Jews: Their History ( vol 1 ), Their Religion and Culture ( vol 2 ), Their Role in Civilization ( vol 3 ).

Examples include The Battle for Wesnoth, Poxnora, Silent Storm, Steel Panthers: World at War !, King's Bounty, Great Big War Game, Nintendo Wars, UniWar, uTanks, and Sid Meier's Civilization series.

Some well known turn-based strategy games are Sid Meier's Civilization series, Heroes of Might and Magic series, Panzer General series, and Age of Wonders series.

" Inspired by SimCity and Empire !, Meier created Railroad Tycoon and later the game series for which he is most widely recognized, Civilization, although he designed only the first installment.

The success of this series of computer games have in turn led to a two later board-game adaptations, Sid Meier's Civilization: The Boardgame in 2002 and Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game in 2010.

Neither game has any relation to the Civilization board game discussed here, other than through the computer game series.

While the military aspect of the game is important, it is less so than in the Civilization series, focusing more heavily on aspects of trade and the inter-relationships between peoples and colonies, which make up the New World community.

* The difficulty level in several games in the Civilization ( series ).

Civilization Revolution, a console-only version of their popular Civilization series, was released in 2008.

* In the video game Civilization V: Gods & Kings, there are two Steam achievements: " Nobody expects ..." with the description " As Spain, use an Inquisitor to remove another Religion ", and the more explicit " Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition " whose description is " Beat the game on any difficultly setting as Isabella ".

* In the video game Civilization V, the achievement for completing the game on any difficulty with Alexander the Great is named " The Man Who Would Be King.

As far north as Fairbanks, Alaska, a reviewer wrote that, if the film had been shown to the people of Europe before the war started there would have been no war :"' Civilization ' is worth $ 1. 50 today, tomorrow, or at any time.

In the most complex cases ( e. g. Civilization ) every technology above the starting level has more than one prerequisite and one has to research most of the lower-level technologies in order to research any of the top-level technologies.

For example, in the Civilization series, resource gathering areas are outside the city walls and attackers can drive citizens away from them, destroy any improvements made in these areas ( roads, irrigation, mines ) and ultimately cause the population of the city to decline due to starvation.

The original Civilization, as well as Civilization IV, on the other hand, allows the player to obtain any score on any difficulty level.

* In Civilization IV, the Statue of Liberty may be built by any player who has discovered Democracy, even in non-democratic states.

While the term " impi " has become synonymous with the Zulu nation in international popular culture, it appears in various video games such as Civilization III, Civilization IV: Warlords and Civilization: Revolution, where the Impi is the unique unit for the Zulu faction with Shaka as their leader and also as an appearance as unique unit of the Bantu nation in Rise of Nation ( Zulus are among many tribes who make up the Bantu people ).

This was in connection with Kogălniceanu's advocacy of pragmatic Westernization: " Civilization never does banish the national ideas and habits, but rather improves them for the benefit of the nation in particular and of humanity in general ".

Travel literature often intersects with essay writing, as in V. S. Naipaul's India: A Wounded Civilization, where a trip becomes the occasion for extended observations on a nation and people.

* In Spores Civilization stage, militaristic nations may use two types of nuclear weapon once certain prerequisites have been fulfilled-the Gadget Bomb, which can wipe out all structures of a city and capture it instantly, and the ICBM, which can be used to wipe out every nation on the planet simultaneously, winning the stage.

Freeciv is very configurable, down to the specific rules, so it can be played in Freeciv ( default ) mode, Civilization mode, Civilization II mode, or a custom mode.

Curiously, in the case of Civilization, a player's chosen historical character is the same throughout the course of the game despite the fact that a campaign can last several hundred years before and after the lifetime of the real historical persona.

The first references to handicrafts in the Indian subcontinent can be found from the Moen jo Daro, Sindh Indus Valley Civilization ( 3000 BC-1700 BC ).

... After seeing ' Civilization ' one can truthfully say that had Henry Ford produced a film like this one that Ince directed, and sent it broadcast throughout the civilized world as an argument against war, he would have accomplished more for universal peace than did his famous ' peace expedition.

Examples of this early moshing can be seen in the documentaries Another State of Mind, Urban Struggle, The Decline of Western Civilization, and American Hardcore, as well as footage from the shows of the era.

Like Civilization, Colonization features a map editor so that players can make their own worlds / scenarios in addition to the included map of the Americas or the game's randomly-generated ones.

As in previous instalments of Civilization, there are unique Wonders of the World that can only be built once per game.

Civilization III also added Small Wonders, which can be built once by each civilization.

The Germs can be seen in the 1981 film The Decline of Western Civilization, directed by Penelope Spheeris.

Play the World can also be found on Civilization III: Gold which includes the original Civilization III and Play the World.

In later instalments of the Civilization series the last technology ( called " future tech ") represents an amalgamation of all possible future discoveries and can be researched repeatedly.

Thus, Beowulf can be the national epic of England, yet England is part of Western Civilization and thus also subscribes to the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil as pan-national epics.

In the Civilization series, city walls give defenders a major advantage in low-tech combat, so turtlers keep their forces within the walls unless there is an urgent need to destroy enemy units which can fire over city walls ( generally the late game, higher tech units ) or are threatening to starve the city to death.

Wells foreshadows this eventual outcome in the conversation of the two men in the first part, when the correspondent tells the lieutenant " Civilization has science, you know, it invented and it made the rifles and guns and things you use ", to which the lieutenant responds " Which our nice healthy hunters and stockmen and so on, rowdy-dowdy cowpunchers and nigger-whackers, can use ten times better ".

# A primary god: Nandi as a separate god can be traced back to Indus Valley Civilization, where dairy farming was the most important occupation, thus explaining the appearance of various artifacts, such as the ' Pasupati Seal ,' indicating a deity much like Shiva.

A nuclear attack on or near a city decreases the population of the city rather than annihilating it ( Civilization Revolution has a single ICBM which can destroy cities ).

Instead of Politics ( Civilization 101 ) by John Frederic Kosanke launches a full-fledged attack on every form of politics, showing how only the free market can solve the ills of society.

Manuals can be large, such as the Civilization II manual which runs hundreds of pages, or small, such as the single sheet of double-sided A5 paper included with Half-Life 2.

* In Sid Meier's Civilization IV, the Kashi Vishwanath temple is a religious complex that can be built by a Great Prophet, thus establishing a holy shrine in the Hindu holy city.