Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Real life
I have found that the Civilization IV game has not only taught me how to build an economy but has also taught me the history of how a society is created economically. Heilbroner speaks about the impact of industrial technology and the effect it has on the urbanization of a society. As a society builds in both agriculture strength and number of civiliians the economy will began to expand. Heilbroner talks about the effects that the history of technology has on the expanision of a civilization. Becasue of technology society as a whole no longer has to look just to farming and agriculture in the country side but can build cities that will floruish in other ways. A huge impact on the world was the invention of the internal combustion engine. Invented by Dr. N.A. Otto of Germany this engine turned the table for production worldwide. It gave economies a chance to increase their capabilites in agriculture and force there strengths elsewhere in the community. This engine increased capabilities of increasing mobility to help improve material processing. It wass a way out for nonfarmers and a chance to increase productivity in a new state. The Mangolian empire that i have been building is still in it's ealry stages and focues mainly aroudnt he agricutlural aspect of the community but with time inventions flourish to increase the production of other materials, making it effecient to put time and money into the material.
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Hey Steph, yeah I feel like I'm dealing with the same things in my game of Civ. Technology is a huge role, but with out the agriculture/other foundations it is hard to be able to put as much into technology as you would like. Hope your game goes well...
-Andrew
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