HUMANKIND | All Bronze Era Cultures Revealed in Depth (Historical 4X Strategy)

Humankind is the upcoming historical 4x strategy game from Amplitude Studios that has you leading your people from the life of a humble nomadic tribe to they of a famed civilization. A unique opportunity is present in how the game allows players to pull together parts of different cultures through the ages, developing a new culture as mix of it's parts. With this approach, each option at each stage can make a big difference, and so today we're diving into the first step, and the ten options that come with it - let's talk about the Bronze Age cultures and civilizations of Humankind.

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TIMESTAMPS:
01:10 - The Bronze Age
01:54 - Egyptians
03:26 - Harappans
05:07 - Assyrians
07:44 - Phoenicians
09:33 - Nubians
11:35 - Babylonians
14:23 - Hittites
16:31 - Olmecs
18:40 - Mycenaeans
21:07 - Zhou

Figures:
Fig 1.1
Death mask, known as the Mask of Agamemnon
National Archaeological Museum of Athens / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)

Fig 1.2
Excavated ruins of Mohenjo-daro
Saqib Qayyum / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

Fig 1.3
Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal. Receipt of goats,ca. 2040 B.C. Neo-Summerian
Metropolitan Museum of Art / CC0

Fig 2.1
Pyramids Of Egypt
Ricardo Liberato / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)

Fig 3.1
Mohenjo-daro City Planning
“ARCH 0760 S01: Palaces: Built to Impress.” ARCH 0760 S01 Palaces Built to Impress, blogs.brown.edu/arch-0760-s01-2019-spring/2019/03/31/ground-plans-akrotiri-vs-mohenjo-daro/.

Fig 3.2
Plan of the Great Bath, Mohenjo-daro
Harappa, www.harappa.com/slide/wheelers-map-mohenjo-daro-1968.

Fig 3.3
Ancient water well in the upper town of the site of Lothal, India
Bernard Gagnon / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

Fig 3.4
The 'Ten Indus Scripts' discovered near the northern gateway of the Dholavira citadel
Siyajkak / CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

Fig 4.1
The Diversion of an Assyrian King. Oil on canvas.
Frederick Arthur Bridgman

Fig 4.2
Transport of Lebanese cedar.

Fig 5.1
Phoenician traders on the coast of Britain
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton / Public domain

Fig 5.2
Cyrus the Great with General Harpagus
Designed by Maximilien de Haese, Woven by Jac. van der Borght (1771-1775) / Public domain

Fig 5.3
Construction of Xerxes Bridge of boats by Phoenician sailors
A. C. Weatherstone (1888–1929) / Public domain

Fig 6.1
Nubian Meroë Pyramids
Wufei07 / Public domain

Fig 7.1
Hittite Chariot from an Egyptian Relief
Paul Volz: Die biblischen Altertümer (1914), p. 514

Fig 8.1
San Lorenzo
Xeas23 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

Fig 8.2
Olmec Jadeite Pendants
Wikipedia Loves Art participant "artifacts" / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)

Fig 8.3
Olmec Jadeite Spoon
Wikipedia Loves Art participant "artifacts" / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)

Fig 8.4
Olmec Head No. 1 at Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
Mesoamerican / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

Fig 8.5
Olmeca head in Villahermosa
Glysiak / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

Fig 8.6
San Lorenzo Head 6
Maunus / Public Domain

Fig 8.7
Olmec Head (Museo Nacional de Antropología)
No machine-readable author provided. Luidger assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

Fig 8.8
San Lorenzo Monument 3
Maribel Ponce Ixba (frida27ponce) / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)

Fig 8.9
Tepantitla mural, Ballplayer A
Daniel Lobo (Daquella manera) / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)

Fig 9.1
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, English (born Netherlands) - A Reading from Homer
Lawrence Alma-Tadema / Public domain

Fig 9.2
Cyclopean Walls
Berthold Werner / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

Fig 10.1
Western Zhou Gui Vessel
PericlesofAthens / CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

Fig 10.2
Bronze Gui
Editor at Large / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)

Fig 10.3
Shi Qiang Pan
幽灵巴尼 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)


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