"Ever since the middle of the 19th century, when the gothic sensibilities started to creep into explorer's accounts – seeing in the shapes of the ice the ruins of civilisation, collapsed buildings, cathedrals, minarets.
Ben Maddison, a historian and Antarctic veteran making his tenth journey south on the Shokalskiy, told me, "In the middle of the 19th century, gothic sensibilities started to creep into explorers' accounts – seeing in the shapes of the ice the ruins of civilisation, collapsed buildings, cathedrals, minarets.
Yemen, intoxicating, impoverished Yemen, laid the foundations for modern civilisation: high-rise buildings, irrigation technology, and roasted coffee beans all emerged from the southern crust of the Arabian peninsula.
Dr Forgan said: "The fact we haven't seen probes of this type makes it difficult to believe that probe building civilisations have existed in the Milky Way in the last few million years".
Afterwards Wilfried Martens, a prominent Christian Democrat in the European Parliament, upset the Turks by saying: "The EU is in the process of building a civilisation in which Turkey has no place".
As with previous versions, the game involves playing as a historical world leader, building a civilisation from its earliest days through to the space race through a mixture of science, diplomacy and war.
"The people of this island will forever owe Fr Reid an immeasurable debt of gratitude for his tireless work towards building a civilisation of love and peace".
Things get weird – buildings collapse, civilisation slowly grinds to a halt.
The city is the building block of civilisation and of almost everything people do; a guidebook to the city is really, therefore, a guidebook to how a large and ever-growing chunk of humanity chooses to live.
