Tinto Maps #10 - 12th of July 2024 - Syrian Levant & Egypt

[Pavía]

In the market map mode, why is Crete colored blue and say 'Venice' on top of it? Does this mean that something is forcing the island to be in the Venetian market?

As a subject of Venice, it has better market access to its market, than to any other.

 

[Pavía]

why are you so keen on adding these oasises and their desert routes to every game? No country in history has managed to transport rasonable armies through the wastelands of Sahara, no country in history has expanded through Sahara into the North Africa from Sahel, or vice versa

The AI will clearly not be able to utilize them in a way that can respond to the player's use of the provinces without losing it's entire army to the attrition there

so why add them?

The Almoravids and Saadi are a bit in disagreement with that. Also take into account that those routes are used for trading in our game, so we can portray Saharan trading routes being part of the economic system.

 

[Pavía]

what is syrian levant? syria and levant are different names to the same region and used interchangeably.

also hit x for doubt on yezidi religion. did it really exist widespread in 1337?

Why do you keep saying Syrian Levant rather than Syria or Sham or Levant? This is the first time I heard it

I decided to use it for the shake of clarity. Internally, we've usually used 'Levant', which is a more modern term favored instead of 'Syria', which is more traditional, but was mostly disregarded after the independence of the country of the same name.

So, to be entirely clear, 'Syrian Levant' is something that I made up specifically for this DD, because of this.

 

[Pavía]

ok got ya. i wouldve just called it levant/sham as the region has been majority arab speaking for a long time by then - and that is the name for levant in arabic.

also on the yezidis, what literature do you use to justify their existance as an organized religion in 1337?

edit: also if you are going to have a tag called "Syria" it should encompasse all of levant, not just todays syria or todays syria + lebanon. like before 20th century someone "syrian" would be anyone from the entire levant, be it jerusalem, damascus or aleppo.

I would have to check with the team the exact sources (it's Friday night already), but what speaks about them being considered a existing religion/confession in the 14th century?