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Better Civ Names

Improves the names of several civs to make them either more accurate or more consistent. Preference has been given to names of specific civilisations, then to regions, over peoples. I think it should work with any combination of DLC and any other mods that don't affect the civs being altered. The changes in place are:

* Aztec > Anahuaca ("Aztec" is a bit of a weird one, not having a consistent meaning and probably not used by the people we call Aztec to describe themselves. Triple Alliance is also a terrible name, so they now have the old Nahuatl name for the Mexico Basin instead. If anyone knows how to get Civ to display an a with an acute, let me know and I'll add it)

* Cree > Neyihaw (this one is a little tricky since different Cree dialects refer to Cree land differently, but this one seems to be the oldest and most widespread. "Cree" derives from English speakers hearing French speakers talk about what non-Cree First Nations on the east coast of Canada called everyone west of them)

* Egypt > Kemet ("Egypt" is derived from the old Greek name for Egypt, a contraction possibly meaning "south of the Aegean". Kemet is what the Ancient Egyptians called the area)

* England > Britain (by the time Victoria was queen, Scotland and England had been under a union for 230 years, with Wales and Ireland involved too. This, combined with the "British Museum" unique and several in-game references to "Britain" rather than "England" seems to make Britain more appropriate. I have kept it to Britain rather than the United Kingdom or any other longer name that includes Ireland properly for a) brevity and b) the fact that Ireland's involvement in the union has always been something of a fraught situation)

* Greece > Hellas ("Greece" comes from what the Romans called Greece. The ancient Greeks called it Hellas. This didn't always include the Peloponnese peninsula on which Sparta was located, but there doesn't seem to be a clean term that does always include that)

* Inca > Tawantisuyu ("Inca" is the name of the ruling class that was misinterpreted by Europeans)

* Indonesia > Nusantara (derived from Greek and Latin names, first used in the 19th century long after the Majapahit empire. I've used Nusantara, the Indonesian word for the archipelago, in case we get a non-Majapahit leader)

* Khmer > Kambuja (I dislike using the name for a people instead of a civilisation where possible. Kambuja, or Kambujadesa, is the name of the Hindu colony that became the Khmer empire as it absorbed its neighbours and gained independence from Java)

* Maori > Aotearoa (this is what the Maori call New Zealand itself and is often used even today)

* Mapuche > Wallmapu (like Khmer, just another people-to-land one. Also made a bunch of minor changes to Lautaro's dialogue to fix clumsy grammar)

* Nubia > Kush ("Nubia" is derived from the people that settled the area after the Meroitic kingdom that Amanitore was part of collapsed. It was Kush before that)

* Ottomans > Memelik i-Mahrusa ("the Well-Protected Domains, referring to the actual Ottoman land rather than the ruling dynasty)

* Phoenicia > Canaan (this one is just the Greeks making stuff up again)

* Sumeria > Sumer (I'm not even sure where Firaxis got this, it's Sumer)



Other changes include:

* Empire of Kongo > Kongolese Empire (I don't know why this was the only one in this format)

* Three Scottish, two Welsh, and one Northern Irish cities added to the British city list (this is proportionate with the modern populations of each compared to England's 33 cities). They are scattered fairly early in the list to ensure variety.

* Dawn of Man text and dialogue have also been updated to reflect the other changes.

I have not touched the civilopedia entries because... well, I'm too lazy for that. If I've gotten anything wrong or missed anything, please let me know.