But how do you convince a casual gamer, who is just looking for distraction, to play a game that is about evolution, city building, conquest, and interstellar travel?
It was true for the Israelites in their partially mythical struggle against the Pharaoh, it was true for the Muslims in their empire-building conquests, and it was true for Christendom in the Crusades against Islam.
(The beauty they created masked brutality, of course — the very grandeur of their public buildings signalled conquest).
In the 20th century motor vehicles and more road building extended the conquest of rough terrain.
The administration, for example, is assuming others will step in to do the government-building and post-conquest reconstruction that America thinks beneath it.
What else but empire-building was the conquest of the Continental US through wars with the native Americans and the Mexicans, or the Spanish-American war through which the US gained territory in the Caribbean and Pacific, some of it still US territory today?
11 P.M. (TBS) GHOSTBUSTERS -- (1984) Bill Murray (below left), Dan Aykroyd (center) and Harold Ramis star as unappreciated parapsychology professors who start their own business ridding New York of various evil spirits.Things go well until an ancient Sumerian god decides to make a Central Park West apartment building his headquarters for world conquest.
The original building, pre-dating the Norman conquest of England, was a large house, which became the property of the Earl of Chester after the conquest.
Because little Palestinian property was registered before Israel's conquest, few can secure building permits.
In northern Africa the Romans followed up their conquest of Carthage by building a road system that spanned the south shore of the Mediterranean.
In AD831 the Saracens took control of Palermo and transformed the original seventh century cathedral into a large mosque called Gami, until the Norman conquest of the city returned the building to Christian worship.
