A short historical note on every ruler, battle, and god the game uses — six worlds, hundreds of entries, the whole sweep of classical antiquity.
From the founding kings of the Tiber to the last Western emperor — a thousand years of monarchy, republic, and empire.
Lawgivers, tyrants, philosophers, generals, and Hellenistic kings — from Lycurgus of Sparta to Cleopatra of Egypt.
Shang and Zhou kings, Warring States reformers, Han emperors, Three Kingdoms warlords — and the gods of the Yellow River.
Vedic kings, Magadhan emperors, the Mauryas and Guptas — the scholars, conquerors, and avatars of ancient India.
Pharaohs of the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms, the Kushite black pharaohs, and the Ptolemies — and the gods of the Nile.
Carthaginians, Persians, Hittites, Babylonians, Celts, Huns — the leaders the five great empires fought. Forty-eight figures from outside Rome, Greece, China, India, and Egypt.