African Civilizations
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Author's Game Description
Find the civilizations of Africa prior to the era of European colonization.
Play the game in a Tournament setting, go to Groups > GameFellas > Tournament
or
http://www.purposegames.com/group/gamefellas/tournament/132
See game comments for more information, and some remarks about the map.
Image by Jeff Israel (ZyMOS) at Wikipedia/Wikimedia
Category: History Games
Created by tickman, 3 Mar, 2009
Tags: africa, african, Civilization, History

13 ratingsPlayed 1,021 times | 2 Fav's
paulfunI 3 weeks ago
Sunny1 3 weeks ago
Very interesting, thanks!
slaaty 1 month ago
This marvelous game is currently featured in the the African Perspectives tournament at Slaaty's Slipstream through the end of October 2009. Register in this open group to have your time on this game count in that tourney.
Alcyone 7 months ago
Nice made:)
tickman 8 months ago
Thanks, Niklas. It is fixed.
Niklas 8 months ago
There is an "a" missing in Carthagenian,
otherwise a very nice, and challenging, game. 5 stars!
tickman 8 months ago
The map is wonderful, but North Africa is very confusing. The empires overlap so broadly that it is almost impossible to point to any of them. Also Pre-Helenistic Egypt isn't shown, and can't be: the situation changed over millenia (not mereley centuries, and is to complex to be represented on a map like this).
So I have tried to show some of this on the map, but it is not as clear as I would like. I think this may call for another game or two from me in the future.
In the meantime, do a site search for "Egypt": there are some games on ancient Egypt already on this site.
tickman 8 months ago
You can see the map here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:African-civilizations-map-pre-colonial.svg
It shows up on several pages in Wikipedia (see the links near the bottom of the file's homepage), including this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Africa
The file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0, Attribution ShareAlike 2.5, Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 and Attribution ShareAlike 1.0 License.
Details (3.0)z;
| Highscores — African Civilizations | Place 1 - 10 | |||
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| Player Name | Score | Time | Date of Play | |
| 1 | Drew06 | 100% | 0:22.2 min. | 4 Jul, 2009 |
| 2 | World of warcraft | 100% | 0:23.7 min. | 2 Jul, 2009 |
| 3 | bifi | 100% | 0:25.1 min. | 2 Jul, 2009 |
| 4 | Arturo | 100% | 0:25.2 min. | 3 Jul, 2009 |
| 5 | kondzio | 100% | 0:25.8 min. | 2 Jul, 2009 |
| 6 | bix21 | 100% | 0:26.0 min. | 30 Jun, 2009 |
| 7 | greatholland | 100% | 0:26.5 min. | 4 Jul, 2009 |
| 8 | juggledan | 100% | 0:27.1 min. | 31 Oct, 2009 |
| 9 | BoboLo | 100% | 0:27.7 min. | 3 Jul, 2009 |
| 10 | Rip | 100% | 0:28.0 min. | 2 Jul, 2009 |
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A great game! But hard!