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GreedFall

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:22 +0000

GreedFall invites the player to discover a distant, fictional island in which the 17th century European Baroque aesthetic is recreated with great skill, encouraging the player to discover its landscape through exploration and diplomacy. Although there are supernatural elements in its colonialist plot, the historical representation of the period weapons and armour featured in the game, as well as the pursuit of verisimilitude in the architecture of the different cities visited during the game, are particularly noteworthy.
During the numerous conversations in the game, and doing justice to the role-playing genre to which the game belongs, the characters often tend to be overexposed, expressing all kinds of facts about the historical background or the customs of certain personalities.
Other topics such as the political and social consequences of the plagues, the struggle of reason against faith among the citizens and the spirituality of this chronology are also dealt with, and the cultural and political conflicts between the different peoples of the island, each with their own cultural traits and costumes, are treated with particular success.

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Imperial Glory

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:22 +0000

Imperial Glory places the player in the mid-18th century in the lead-up to the French Revolution, providing the tools and historical keys to strengthening an empire during the early stages of the game, and then resolving it by confronting the other colonial powers in a race for expansion in the more than fifty royal enclaves in Europe and Africa. To more accurately recreate the game’s mapping, Pyro Studios has created an actual provincial map for each of the game’s territories, showing characteristic elements such as the palace of Potsdam or the barren fields of Castile.
It is essential to understand and apply real war tactics, in which height on the battlefield, the search for natural and artificial cover and the creation of specific formations against the enemy army distribution must be mastered. In addition to this, the game seeks to represent as truthfully as possible the transition between 18th and 19th century tactics, with cavalry and artillery gaining importance to the detriment of a potentially more numerous but volatile infantry. Finally, one of the most interesting game modes is that of “historical battles”, focused on military history enthusiasts and based on historical documentation to show as realistically as possible such battles as Waterloo or Arapiles.

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Fray Bartolomé de las Casas

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:06 +0000

In the repository Pasajes de la Historia we can find a compilation of all the podcasts of the Pasajes de la Historia section of the programme la Rosa de los Vientos (Onda Cero) narrated by Juan Antonio Cebrián, where you can listen to brief descriptions and discussions on historical topics of different kinds. In this case, he talks about the outstanding role played by the Dominican friar Fray Bartolomé de las Casas as an indoctrinator of the indigenous peoples. Biographical data and key moments in his life are also provided, not without accompanying the narration with historical notes on the conquest of the New World.

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3D video of a slave ship

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:06 +0000

The European colonisers trafficked millions of slaves captured mainly in Africa in order to use them as labour for numerous activities. Thus, thousands and thousands of people were transported to various regions of the planet, as we know well in the case of the American continent. This 3D reconstruction details with great precision each compartment and operation of the 18th century slave ship called L’Aurore. This resource is available in the “Transatlantic Slave Trade Database”, which contains an immense amount of information on the development of slavery from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. It is a project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (United States) and is the result of the efforts of scholars from different institutions, including historians, cartographers, and slave trade specialists and researchers.

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Europa Universalis

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:29 +0000

First videogame in the Europa Universalis series, based on a French board game of the same name. It allows you to take control of a European state between 1492 and 1792, with the mission of increasing its power and wealth through military, diplomatic, commercial, religious and colonial actions. It has a map divided into more than 3,600 provinces.

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Europa Universalis II

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The second video game in the Europa Universalis series. In it, the player controls a state over five centuries, managing its economy, military conquests, diplomatic alliances, scientific development, exploration and colonisation, religious affairs and the instability of its kingdom. It has several historical settings, dedicated to colonialism, the American War of Independence or the Napoleonic Wars. The campaign allows you to choose between Austria, England, France, Poland, Russia, Sweden, the Ottoman Empire and the Spanish Monarchy.

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Europa Universalis III

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The third video game in the Europa Universalis series. Like its predecessors, it allows the player to become the ruler of a state between 1453 and 1820, controlling political, military, diplomatic, economic, social, religious, scientific and cultural aspects. It features a spectacular 3D map of the world, which changes depending on the year you choose to start the game. It allows you to play with 250 different countries from all over the planet, existing at that time.

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Europa Universalis IV

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The fourth instalment in the Europa Universalis series. The aim of the game is to control a state during the Modern Age with the goal of creating an empire that will come to dominate the world. It surpasses Europa Universalis III in depth and historical accuracy, and gives the player greater freedom of movement. It is probably the best political simulator of Modernity.

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