As I began to play further I realized that I wasn't as successful as I thought the first time around. This time around I have been more careful with protecting my cities with my armies and staying away from many wars. I played the game with a better strategy and I was able to make more positive things happen to help my civilization. I found it easier to be able to trade with other civilization because I was able to obtain more resources. Like I mentioned in my first post recourses are very important in this game and I made sure that I did a better job in that direction. Along with the resources, I built more roads between the cities to make trade easier. Agricultural was also very important and I did a decent job with obtaining some success. I believe that agriculture could be a big part of my civilization down the road because farming and food surplus could benefit the society. Without success in agriculture it will be difficult for you to keep a healthy and populated civilization because people will be without food. I used many tools mentioned Diamond's book in which he mentions that producing grain and farms helps greatly to have more food production. So basically this second time around I did a better job with my military, my resources, and also realizing the importance of food surplus. Aside from some of the positive things I did, I also failed at creating enough cities and I didn't do a great job with animal production.
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i totally agree with your idea of trading. as you can see from our colander book and our class discussions, there is no way to have a greatly successful civilization trying to produce everything yourself or trying to mine all your resources by yourself. this just takes up too much of your workers, while they could be doing things that could greatly help your civilization by doing something else like building roads, which is highly necessary for defense and transportation reasons.
I agree with your idea of getting a food surplus and trading well, but there is more in the game you have to focus on. The first time I played I focused on food surplus, but I forgot about the military, and was conquered. You have to work on food surplus, but you have to balance it out with a strong military. Having a strong military will let you be able to go to war with those countries, and this will help you expand your civilization quickly, so get you rsurplus, but keep your military strong.
I think the key to the game is balance. Once you have the food surpluses and all of that, then you need to start building up a military to protect the growing cities. Once your military is big enough, then you can start expanding your empire because you can protect those new and weak cities. You said that you did a lot more with finding and producing resources. Now that you have them, try trading them for some items that you dont have. Trade greatly increases your empires productivity, growth and happiness.
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