Hellenization

CIVILIZATION:EXPANSION PROJECT VERSION LOCATED IN ANCIENT GREECE.

This is my personal webpage dedicated to the marvellous game CIVILIZATION from Avalon Hill, more exactly to the CIVILIZATION: EXPANSION PROJECT team version (must see).
My intention is to join two of my favourites hobbies, CIVILIZATION and ancient history, and more exactly the period between Mycenaean and Hellenistic age.
I ‘m working in a new CIVILIZATION board located in ancient Greece. My initial idea is to do a new variant for this great game but starting and locating all the action in ancient Greece after the dark ages.
At this time most of work it’s done, a beta test of the board it’s currently running using cyberboard software, you can follow the progress of the game in the BETATEST SECTION.

See a small screenshot of cyberboard’s version map.

Hellen-map

I have located this game in ancient greek, the chosen civilizations have been the main city states and most important kingdoms from the archaic period to the hellenistic one.
All the artwork for this game has been done thinking in the adaptation of this game to cyberboard software characteristics, I ‘ m not a designer neither a leecher and I have worked hard to try to do my best, I know some tokkens are improvable and i would like to improve them with the pass of time, if you are good working with this kind of tools and you want to provide some help I would be very grateful. Let’s go through the civilizations: (Each civilization has its own page linked to its image.)

  • athensATHENS Athena competed with Poseidon to be the patron deity of Athens. They agreed that each would give the Athenians one gift. Poseidon struck the ground with his trident and a spring sprung up; the water was salty and not very useful, whereas Athena offered them the first domesticated olive tree.
  • spartaSPARTA Lambda was the shield blazon of the Spartan soldier. Though Spartan society was based on duties owed to the state rather than any notion of individual rights, it was the only Greek city-state that provided education for girls similar to that given to boys, and women enjoyed relatively more rights there than anywhere else in Greece./wor
  • CORINTHCORINTH The Corinthian helmet was a type of bronze helmet which in its later styles covered the entire head and neck, with slits for the eyes and mouth. A large curved projection protected the nape of the neck.In classical times Corinth rivalled Athens and Thebes in wealth, based on the isthmian traffic and trade.
  • thebesTHEBES The Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite Greek troop of 150 pairs of pederastic lovers, according to Plutarch (in the Life of Pelopidas) formed by the Theban commander Gorgidas. The pairs consisted of the older heniochoi, charioteers, and the younger paraibatai. Thebans carried their arms into Peloponnesus and permanently crippled the power of Sparta.
  • syracuseSYRACUSE “Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse gathered skilled craftsmen… his purpose was to make weapons in great numbers , the catapult was invented at this time.., the best craftsmen were collected from everywhere into one place. The high wages as well as the numerous prizes offered to the craftsmen who were judged to be the best stimulated their zeal. Dionysius circulated daily among the workers rewarding the most zealous with gifts and invited them to his table.”—-Diodorus of Sicily.
  • macedonMACEDON The Macedonian phalanx is an infantry formation developed by Philip II. Phalanxes remained dominant on battlefields throughout the Hellenistic period. Each phalangite carried as his primary weapon a sarissa, a double-pointed pike over four metres (13feet) length.These were carried in two pieces, slid together before battle, and had to be wielded with two hands.
  • epirusEPIRUS Epirus was ruled from the 6th century by a dynasty, the Molossians, who claimed to be descended from Pyrrhus, son of Achilles. The main importance of Epirus to the Greek cities was that it was the location of the shrine and the oracle of Zeus at Dodona, second in importance only to the oracle at Delphi.
  • persiaPERSIA The Achaemenids were the first line of Persian rulers, founded by Achaemenes around 700 BC. The Achaemenid Persian Empire was the largest and most powerful empire the world had yet seen. More importantly, it was well managed and organized. Darius divided his realm into about twenty satrapies (provinces) supervised by satraps, or governors.
  • ionian IONIAN LEAGUE Twelve major settlements formed the Ionian Confederation: Miletus, Myus and Priene in the south, Ephesus, Colophon, Teos and Lebedos in the center, Erythrai, Clazomenai and Phokaia in the north and the Islands of Samos and Chios. Instigated by Aristagoras in Miletus, the Ionian Revolt broke out, was the begining of the Persian Wars.
  • creteMINOA The glory age for Crete ended with the colapse of Mycenaean civilisation. Numerous cities were sacked and the region entered what historians see as a dark age. In the Classical and Hellenistic period Crete fell into a pattern of combative city-states, harboring pirates. Gortyn, Kydonia (Chania) and Lyttos challenged the primacy of ancient Knossos
  • traceTHRACE The Thracian Hero, also known as the Thracian Horseman, was an abstract figure. The Hero was a central figure in Thracian religion as protector of life and health of the people. The Thracian Hero was always depicted on a horse, usually slaying an object with a spear.

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