In the Begining....

I used CIV III

The dawn of a civilization...the start of somthing new...to go forward you need to make choices, these choices affect your future, by opening options, and closing doors, what you have to do is choose the doors you want open and those that you want closed.

The first choice made in the game is people, what kinds of people do you want? do you need? to make your civilization strive. According to Diamond geography is everything, so the decision of where to make the first city taken into serious consideration. Rome, the first city, it was militaristic and commercial, two attributes to make the cilvilization strive. Romans according to history has contributed alot, and managed to have a structured political system, obedience, writing and many various attributes that made the choice to be Roman, and rule the earth under the power of the Cesar.

It seemed to me that food was vital to the life of the citizens of Rome, so the city was built near to a body of water, and irrigation to the city began, this increased the production of food two fold, most civilizations as Diamond showed had some for of irrigation and food collection to sustain the life of the people. It is also important to have money or some sort of wealth in the city so mInes were built, this helped to create roads and and develop the city. Two colonies were built on vineyards, carring wine to the cities. However not expanding and growing in population caused the people to be unhappy in the over crowded city. The crowding of the city and the unhappy citizens, caused civil disorder, the city was set on fire. I did not know why this happened so I tried to set laws, but we hadnt gone through mathematics and law making so I couldnt set laws as yet. I built a road from the city to the colonies which stopped the civil disorder and made the citizens happy. :)

Thats where I ended for now, I am not a a gamer, and i do not play alot of games so the game is not going as fast as other peoples, but I have moved to the bronze age and am on the verge of moving to the Iron age. Geography and what you are given to work with is important to your progession as a civilization which is exactly what Diamond was saying in his book, "Guns, Germs, and Steel"