kingdoms

The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the center of all creation.

The cultural diffusion happened much later, with the rise of the maritime kingdoms of Southern India.

For the past decade, these three kingdoms constantly struggled against each other for the most precious resource of all: developer mind-share.

Interesting, I'm very curious about the politics of structures (kingdoms and such) before the revolution/democracy era.

In vanilla, I spent one full night just swimming around the Eastern Kingdoms on my druid.

As an aside, Roads and Kingdoms is a fantastic site.

In one Hadith, the Prophet Peace be upon him mentioned that the Caliphite period after him will be 30 years, then it will turn into kingdoms.

Before this time, political organizations consisted of kingdoms, principalities, city-states, tribes, and various other small groupings of people.

Technology and time removed frontiers, people used to be tribes, then burgs, then kingdoms, nations, USofX.

Democracy is a bad ideal that is much inferior for economic prosperity than one party states/kingdoms like Singapore, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Qatar who have a high degree of economic freedom.

One thing that bothers me is the author remark that the Greeks never had any organised state like structure except for the Macedonian kingdoms..yes they did for like 1000 years.

The British never really addressed this underlying issue either before or after deposing Napoleon, and IMO this led to a century of war in Europe culminating in WW2 -- where the ghosts of the old kingdoms of Europe were finally laid to rest.

One of my favorite "wow, that's random" discoveries in WoW is the Plants vs Zombies minigame by the Dalaran crater in the Eastern Kingdoms.

If you try to dig any deeper than that you end up with various kingdoms incorporating separate parts of what later became Germany and a lot of parts we wouldn't consider German, so at that point the term "Germany" loses its meaning.