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I dont know anything about mapuche but a nomadic meso civi does sound interesting from a TT perspective.all the current nomads are LC CA combos.
WHAT DOES TT MEAN???
Also “meso” means “middle” and we’re talking about South America, not mesoamerica.
Tech tree.All the american factions use the meso buildings so the term is used for all most of the time.
Where were Robert Bruce’s Woad Raiders again?
Yup, and in the thread that demands accurate architecture sets, the Inca are touched upon. We should start by using the correct Greek prefixes.
mapuche weren’t nomadic to begin with (?). Absolutely no idea why one’d think they don’t fit the game other than some vague arguments of them only being notable in the 16th century.
Edit: They also definitely weren’t a tribe lmao, they were a confederation of hundreds of tribes at the lowest estimate lmao.
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That’s the keyword: tribes. In a game named “Age of Tribes” they would fit. And they were semi-nomads if you will.
Werent mongols a bunch of united tribes
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Dunno how to break it to you but most if not every civ in the game can be labelled as “tribes” up to and including Rome and Japanese.
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I already explained that NOMADIC CIVS ARE OKAY IN THIS GAME if they did something of significant impact to world history. That’s Huns and Mongols.
No, man, just no; stop twisting the meaning of words.
Again a few months ago you said you didnt even like this game.
Also Mapuche were like the first Americans to master horses
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You started. Mapuche can only be labelled as tribes if you use as vague a definition as that.
Because mapuche, as it is, is already an extremely wide and overarching term used to define people who spoke a vaguely related language and who lived all the way from North-Central Chile up to the Argentine Pampas and to the Fjords at the mouth of the Patagonia.
Yes, they banded together to fight the Spanish during colonial times, but those were, and I repeat, hundreds of thousands of people, saying they were “tribes” is kinda funny in and on itself.
A central identity of “mapuche” people didn’t really come together until the end of the 19th century.
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What does that have to do with anything? Besides, I like this game very much; I only hate it because I’m terrible at it.
I doubt it; quite a few years passed between Cortés arrival in Mexico and the Spanish expeditions in South America.
This is all very good, but they still lived in mud huts and didn’t conquer anyone.
They didn’t live in mud huts you silly. They’d completely fall apart with the first rain. You sure you actually live in the homeland of the mapuche?
Like, sure, they didn’t conquer anyone, but here’s the thing. No one conquered them either. Not the Inca, not the Spanish, just nobody. That’s what made them notable, they accomplished something no one in Europe could do, bested the strongest army of their period in their own game.
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Who knows but Mapuche are too late to add. There was one group of North Americans Mr. Szaladon once proposed that I’d agree to (Mississippians?). And Szaly I am waiting for that bet to be fulfilled 
Either Mississipians or Cahokians I’d suppose.
The real issue with including civs from north America is that their current day names are really dumb. (Poverty Point, seriously?)
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Funny I found records and even google search result number one places them as having origins in 600… BCE
Eh, it’s still debated whether Pitren culture and the Mapuche from La Araucana’s time are one and the same.
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Burgundians and the different lowland townsteads arent the same and yet…