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Developed by Brian Reynolds and Big Huge Games, Throne and Patriots, the expansion pack to the critically acclaimed, best-selling real-time strategy (RTS) game Rise of Nations, adds a multitude of new features to Rise of Nations including; six new nations, a wide variety of new single playerDeveloped by Brian Reynolds and Big Huge Games, Throne and Patriots, the expansion pack to the critically acclaimed, best-selling real-time strategy (RTS) game Rise of Nations, adds a multitude of new features to Rise of Nations including; six new nations, a wide variety of new single player campaigns, more than 20 new units, new wonders and an innovative new Government feature. With the new Government feature, any nation, old or new, can choose exactly how to be governed, which has far-reaching effects on how units perform in various situations. All-new single player campaigns will allow gamers to control the course of history during historical events that changed the world. [Microsoft]… Expand
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It’s the added complexity and context garnered from these new campaigns that keeps us coming back for more. Thrones and Patriots is a must-have expansion pack for every single person who owns Rise of Nations.
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From the moment I got Thrones and Patriots, I have been playing it at 5 hours at a clip – so let me reiterate that this is a fine game.
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While the gameplay experience is now more varied and focused, it remains largely unchanged from the original game.
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Sure the expansion could have been used to fix a few minor bugs, but Big Huge Games obviously focused on new features and campaigns, rather than building a «patch you have to pay for. «
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The new campaigns and the new government system actually change (or at least reorient) the gameplay in some interesting ways, allowing gamers to shift the focus of their society and take on meaningful challenges that offer a stronger sense of direction.
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Unlike many expansion packs it offers a solid amount of additional content that enhances the overall game without breaking anything in the process — a rare feat indeed.
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With multiple playable sides in each campaign, and an option to completely randomize the world history campaign, there’s single-player gaming galore in here. [July 2004, p.63]
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Rise of Nations is a fantastic RTS with great features. Government is an addition added in this expansion that adds a nice layer of gameplayRise of Nations is a fantastic RTS with great features. Government is an addition added in this expansion that adds a nice layer of gameplay to an already great game. Many new civilizations are added in the expansion pack on top of the ones already there, each with their own special power. The Conquer the World Campaigns are fun and challenging, and teach you a few things about history too. This is a great game and an essential game for any strategy fan.… Expand
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Awesome game, if you like real time strategy, then play this game, a wonderful experience and delightful to play.
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It is the best strategy game i have eve played it has so many things to offer to bat it is an old game, i would love to see a fresh new ronIt is the best strategy game i have eve played it has so many things to offer to bat it is an old game, i would love to see a fresh new ron game with the same gampley like the original but with the next-gen graphics it was the best game at his time and it still deserve a place in the history of games totally worth playing even now afer a decade from his lunch… Expand
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With civilization 4, it’s the game wicht i have played the most and when now I play at this game, I unterstand why. The editor of map is veryWith civilization 4, it’s the game wicht i have played the most and when now I play at this game, I unterstand why. The editor of map is very good ( this is the best I have ever seen )… Expand
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RON:Thrones and Patriots is one of the best PC games I’ve ever played. The new campaigns are not only fun but you can learn something RON:Thrones and Patriots is one of the best PC games I’ve ever played. The new campaigns are not only fun but you can learn something from it. I’m really glad that they added the Americans as a nation. The government feature is really sweet. All in all, an awesome game.… Expand
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The governments are a great add on, as are the new races, units, and animations. Its really cool how there are special general animations for The governments are a great add on, as are the new races, units, and animations. Its really cool how there are special general animations for each culture, everything from Lakota Monarchs to Persian Comrades.… Expand
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“Man must be put in the center and at the forefront” / Vzglyad
Reflections after a scientific session dedicated to the search for meanings in the face of global challenges
Vladimir Mikheev
12/01/2022
Determining the place and role of Russia in the new multipolar world that is taking shape is impossible without realizing the ideological core on which public consent, not necessarily written on paper, rests.
What will be the essence of the new social contract between the authorities and citizens? What can be used to weld a universal “adhesive solution” capable of holding together such a complex composite, multilingual, multi-religious, multicultural national-state entity as Russia?
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The participants of the session on the topic “The fate of humanism in the face of global challenges” offered their answers to these questions and thoughts aloud, which took place within the framework of the jubilee XV Verona Eurasian Economic Forum in Baku.
The West has no right to privatize tolerance
“Humanism is a belief in the creative, creative power of a person, in his ability to climb in the pursuit of justice, for truth,” Valery Fadeev, presidential adviser and chairman of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society and human rights.
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“Putin said that there are two West. One West is based on Christianity, which has its roots in antiquity. The Other West is based on politicking, on the so-called. new values that lead nowhere.”
In fact, Fadeev continued, two Western freedoms — from antiquity and Christianity — created the great European civilization. Today it is in crisis due to the fact that «the ideals of humanism are betrayed, pushed aside, forgotten.»
But humanism also existed in the East, although it was not called that. When the West, at that time — Europe, was immersed «in the Dark Ages» (Dark Ages), Fadeev recalled, «the energy of civilization was concentrated in the East.» Byzantium and the Islamic Caliphates. It was here that philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and poetry flourished.
“Tolerance, as if a new concept that came from the West, but…,” Fadeev emphasized and cited a historical fact. The first caliph of the Umayyad dynasty, Mu’awiya, made John of Damascus, a Christian theologian, polemist and poet, his chief adviser. “The caliph was, of course, a Muslim, but this did not prevent him from taking a Christian preacher as his adviser. This is what tolerance and humanism are in the broadest sense.” nine0191
Experience of religious tolerance in the city of Constantine
The guru of English historiosophy Arnold Toynbee, who did not complain painfully about the civilizational contribution of the Second Rome, nevertheless admitted: Byzantium «outstripped Western Christianity by seven or eight centuries.» Outstripped by the degree of tolerance. In Byzantium, representatives of ethnic groups from Asia and Eastern Europe were not recorded as «subhuman», but they were given a place in the social elevator.
Fact: Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Great was a Syrian in the 8th century. In the 10th century, the throne was occupied by Roman I Lecapenus, an Armenian by birth. In the 14th century, Philotheus, a Jew by nationality, was elected Patriarch of Constantinople.
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The Greeks, as the titular nation in Byzantium, called themselves «Romans», that is, Romans, but did not try to impose their language as the only possible one for performing religious rites. In contrast to the dictates of the papal throne, which required that the liturgy be performed only in Latin. This explains, most likely, why the French language could not develop naturally as long as Avignon remained the capital of the pontiffs.
The Western Roman Empire fell under the blows of the Vandals in 476, when the barbarian Odoacer overthrew the last emperor, Romulus Augustulus. Byzantium, as a direct consequence of ethnic and confessional tolerance, lasted until 1453. And thus outlived its progenitor by almost 1000 years. nine0191
To accustom to otherness and multivariance
The father of existentialist philosophy Karl Jaspers, whose name was not mentioned in vain at the Baku forum, was thinking about humanism and the need for “conscientiousness”. His teaching was a reaction of alienation to dehumanization in the conditions of the impersonality of man in the mechanized industrial world of machines (almost according to Blok: «steel machines where the integral breathes»).
It is significant that the German thinker focuses on the semantic connection of times and places what he called «axial time» in the interval between 800 and 200 BC. In this era, the knowledge of the world and man takes shape in ancient Greek philosophy, in the Zoroastrian communities in Iran, in the religious teachings of Buddhism and Jainism in India, as well as Confucianism and Taoism in China.
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Although the theory of axial time, according to its author, proclaims the integrity, unity and indivisibility of history, in fact, we are talking about the integrity of the Eurasian civilizational code.
Now, apparently, a new stage in history is beginning, when the mythological neoliberal worldview, imposed for the sake of serving the interests of a minority, will be replaced by a rational, again according to Jaspers, and fair perception of man and the world around him in the interests of most nations and states.
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Karl Jaspers is remembered by his descendants with his maxim: «The deepest contradictions between people are due to their understanding of freedom. » Therefore, the reorganization of the world order that has begun is unlikely to be stable and long-term if it is not possible to accustom nations to tolerance for otherness and multivariance of both state models (including varieties of democracies) and ways of thinking, behavior, and beliefs.
Neo-liberalism nullifies man
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Studies show that 10% of the world’s population receives 52% of the total world income, while 38% of these material and financial holdings fall into the hands of only 1% of the richest citizens. “The main reason for such blatant inequality is neoliberalism,” Italian sociologist Giuseppe Arlacchi said at the forum.
In Italy, between 2004 and 2021, the rate of absolute poverty — that is, when a person’s income is less than five and a half dollars a day — tripled. There are 5,600,000 Italians in this category today. Which means that almost every tenth citizen of Italy is below the poverty line.
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“It is necessary to debunk the myth that the neoliberal economy contributed to the growth of gross domestic product (GDP),” the sociologist said. Statistics refute this myth. In Italy, over the past 40 years, GDP has declined by 2% in absolute terms. Labor productivity also fell by the same percentage. In comparison with 1950-60, the employment rate has decreased by 8%.
Neoliberal economic policies led to the stratification of society. Without a permanent job for three and a half million people, many of them become “marginals”, who lose contact with the rest of society and are deprived of the opportunity to exercise their rights as a citizen.”
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In fact, neoliberalism as a theory and practice nullifies a person.
We should return to the fundamental principles of humanism, Giuseppe Arlacchi is convinced. «Man must be put in the center and at the head of the corner.»
«Lost the right path in the darkness of the valley»
During the discussions in Baku, the views of representatives of Greater Eurasia, Italians and Indians, Azerbaijanis and Germans were conjugated. But hardly any of them would have thought of refuting the ancient Greek philosopher Protagoras, who defined the hierarchy of values in the sublunar world: «Man is the measure of all things.» Except for the sect of witnesses of the electronic concentration camp according to Klaus Schwab, who was not invited to the forum, in which corporations and clans replacing states should become the measure, the supreme judge and the arbiter of destinies.
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“The very idea that within the nation there should be a driving mechanism for development, the will to develop, to self-affirmation, in my opinion, has a basis,” thought the Russian sociologist and culturologist Nikolai Danilevsky. Subsequently, the idea of the «passionarity» of the nation was developed by the Russian thinker Lev Gumilev, the son of two poets of the Silver Age, Nikolai Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova, and the author of the passionary theory of ethnogenesis.
Today, when the «epoch of changes» has come, many nations are looking for their «passionarity», «the driving mechanism of development» within themselves.
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At the end of the session, Valery Fadeev cited Dante’s textbook lines from The Divine Comedy: “Having covered my earthly path to half, / I found myself in a gloomy forest, / Having lost the right path in the darkness of the valley” (translated by Lozinsky). It is worth adding that for Dante, the «dark forest» was an allegory of evil, which led to the decline of the state and public mores.
“I am sure,” concluded Valery Fadeev, “it is not without reason that The Divine Comedy ends optimistically that we will find the “right path.” A reason for optimism may be that «imaginary values» will not become acceptable to the majority of citizens in Western and Eastern societies. Such, for example, as the gender theory, artificially invented and imposed with the secret intent to reduce the population, which is akin to the experiments of Josef Mengele on prisoners of Nazi concentration camps.
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And therefore, an acceptable conclusion for all participants in this session of the Verona forum, which was not formalized in the final resolution, which was not intended, could be the idea that the “right path” should be laid on the basis of generally accepted norms of humanism.