{"id":11603,"date":"2009-06-23T15:56:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T13:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2009-06-23T15:56:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T13:56:35","slug":"history-of-the-world-through-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/23\/history-of-the-world-through-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the world through a game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We had a few discussions about Civilization IV<\/a> game today in the office.\u00a0 I wasn’t paying much attention as I am not a big fan of strategy games, especially turn-based strategy games.\u00a0 But at some point I was looking at this technology research tree diagram (click for full-sized version, source<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"Civilization<\/a>
Civilization IV technology tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And I couldn’t help to get impressed on how far the world has come in terms of research.\u00a0 And also how much was actually discovered in the last few decades.<\/p>\n

Yes, I know, not everything on that diagram is a technology, and not everything was actually researched.\u00a0 But, on the other hand, there are many technologies which were researched and worked on, and they aren’t on that tree diagram.<\/p>\n

A diagram like this provides a perspective on how much people knew back in the early days and how much more complex (not necessarily complicated) the modern world is.\u00a0 Of course, when playing such a game against a few opponents, the perspective becomes even more realistic – the more stuff you have researched, the more you can do and more powerful is your nation.<\/p>\n

If only now we could incorporate these games with history classes somehow …<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

We had a few discussions about Civilization IV game today in the office.\u00a0 I wasn’t paying much attention as I am not a big fan of strategy games, especially turn-based strategy games.\u00a0 But at some point I was looking at this technology research tree diagram (click for full-sized version, source). And I couldn’t help to … Continue reading History of the world through a game<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,11,62],"tags":[286,1117],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-games","category-technology","tag-history","tag-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11606,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/24\/game-research-pottery-writing-alphabet\/","url_meta":{"origin":11603,"position":0},"title":"Game research : pottery, writing, alphabet","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I have a few more words to add to the yesterday's post \"History of the world through a game\".\u00a0 Something that bothered me in several games, but something that never annoyed me enough to look up or express - the connection between pottery, writing, and alphabet. 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