wierd capitals?

[Padischli]

why is the capital of germany aachen?the capital is Berlin!the same for russia the capital is st.petersburg but it should be moscow...am i the stupid one or the developers?

[Azunai]

they picked capitals that are appropriate for the leaders. as you can see with greece (pericles - athens, gorgo - sparta). if they add more leaders for existing civs in the future, they'll probably also have a different capital. at least in cases where that makes sense.

a modern german leader like bismarck would probably have berlin as his capital. a soviet leader would have moscow etc.

for barbarossa, aachen is a decent pick. germany didn't really have a capital back then. and it wasn't really called germany, either. aachen is probably the clostest thing to a capital in that time period.

don't know much about russian history, but i think st. petersburg was the capital of the russian czars.

[Lemurian1972]

Originally posted by padischli:

..am i the stupid one

Under-educated is a better word. In a game based on real history, I recommend studying it some before you quibble too much over details in the background info.

[xycotta]

Originally posted by Lemurian1972:

Originally posted by padischli:

..am i the stupid one

Under-educated is a better word. In a game based on real history, I recommend studying it some before you quibble too much over details in the background info.

Not really a matter of education, it is a matter of perspective. Looking at it from the time period of the leader in question not the civilization in general

[Padischli]

Originally posted by Lemurian1972:

Originally posted by padischli:

..am i the stupid one

Under-educated is a better word. In a game based on real history, I recommend studying it some before you quibble too much over details in the background info.

what? we never had any leader of civ 6 in school

[PastrySandwich]

Originally posted by Azunai:

don't know much about russian history, but i think st. petersburg was the capital of the russian czars.

Well it is called St. PETERsburg for a reason. But yes it was the Imperial Russian capital for a while.

[Grzemek]

padischli, you realize that country capitals changed over time? And that Civilization VI starts few thousand years before Christ? And first of all, Civilization VI is not a Contemporary History Simulator?

Don't take someone calling you "under-educated" as a description of your total knowledge. You asked yourself if you are the stupid one or the developers. If that was a rhetorical question, well, don't ask questions you don't want to hear answer to :P You could be halfway through inventing a cure to cancer which is a super brilliant thing and requires a lot of study, research and education, but we are not talking about this. We talking about capitals of countries.

And not knowing that the capitals changed throughout time is a lack of knowledge in the field of history taught in schools. And lack of a piece of knowledge from school feels appropriate to be named with "under-educated" in that specific thing. It's not saying you lack any education in any field. Neither anyone in this thread tried to insult you.

At this point I don't know anymore if I'm feeding a troll or responding to someone who is genuinely offended...

Also if you "never had any leader of civ 6 in school" it can only mean you had no history lessons at all. It is impossible to have history lessons without Trajan, Pericles, Cleopatra, Theodore Roosevelt OR Queen Victoria.

[Bouncer]

Also if you "never had any leader of civ 6 in school" it can only mean you had no history lessons at all. It is impossible to have history lessons without Trajan, Pericles, Cleopatra, Theodore Roosevelt OR Queen Victoria.

Or just a ♥♥♥♥ school. My school sure as hell didn't teach me about any of those people.

[Assault Squirt]

Pericles and Trajan are often skipped over, but most schools certainly teach you about Teddy, Cleopatra, Queen Victoria, Peter Romanov, Qin Shi Huangdi, and Montezuma I/Montezuma II. The rest range from less well-known historical figures, like Trajan, to mythological leaders like Gilgamesh, to "literally who's" (a colloquial term for unimportant, unknown figures), like Catherine de Medici, Harald Hardrada, and King Afonso.

[Cyprus Hillbilly]

Try reading history... it's fun.

[sycoman2]

Honestly, you could learn more about world history by watching a few days worth of random history channel shows then during all 12 years in many american schools.

[Padischli]

Originally posted by DI - The Hunger:

Try reading history... it's fun.

im really interested in history i read alot about the russian revolution catherine the great and the first world war its fun!

[Padischli]

Originally posted by Assault Squirt:

Pericles and Trajan are often skipped over, but most schools certainly teach you about Teddy, Cleopatra, Queen Victoria, Peter Romanov, Qin Shi Huangdi, and Montezuma I/Montezuma II. The rest range from less well-known historical figures, like Trajan, to mythological leaders like Gilgamesh, to "literally who's" (a colloquial term for unimportant, unknown figures), like Catherine de Medici, Harald Hardrada, and King Afonso.

well not in germany i think

[Padischli]

Originally posted by Sabotague:

padischli, you realize that country capitals changed over time? And that Civilization VI starts few thousand years before Christ? And first of all, Civilization VI is not a Contemporary History Simulator?

Don't take someone calling you "under-educated" as a description of your total knowledge. You asked yourself if you are the stupid one or the developers. If that was a rhetorical question, well, don't ask questions you don't want to hear answer to :P You could be halfway through inventing a cure to cancer which is a super brilliant thing and requires a lot of study, research and education, but we are not talking about this. We talking about capitals of countries.

And not knowing that the capitals changed throughout time is a lack of knowledge in the field of history taught in schools. And lack of a piece of knowledge from school feels appropriate to be named with "under-educated" in that specific thing. It's not saying you lack any education in any field. Neither anyone in this thread tried to insult you.

At this point I don't know anymore if I'm feeding a troll or responding to someone who is genuinely offended...

Also if you "never had any leader of civ 6 in school" it can only mean you had no history lessons at all. It is impossible to have history lessons without Trajan, Pericles, Cleopatra, Theodore Roosevelt OR Queen Victoria.

of course i have history lessons!

[Allan the Great]

Aachen was the capital of the HRE in ancient times starting with Charlemagne. Berlin did not become an important city until 1000 years later.

[ambershee]

Aachen is where many of the Emperor's of the Holy Roman Empire were crowned the King of Germany - including Barbarossa. Berlin wasn't even documented as *existing* at this point in history. IMHO it's debateable on whether this civilization should be 'Germany' or 'the Holy Roman Empire' - but I guess they didn't want to cause confusion with Trajan's Rome.

Tsar Peter founded the city of St. Petersburg, so it makes total sense that it would be his capital too.

The one that bothers me is Victoria being leader of the 'English', when it should obviously be the 'British Empire'.