The theme of military and protection became very important while playing civilization. One of the first aspects you need to consider when building a city and later and empire is the type of protection that you are going to use. I learned there is a variety of ways to protect your civilization, and as time progress methods that were successful before no longer are, thus it requires the constant development of technology in metals to be able to keep up. Of course to be able to develop steel, iron and copper one needs to establish a food surplus. According to Heilbroner “In premarket societies, wealth tended to follow power” (Heilbroner 21). Therefore in order to be able to protect yourself and be powerful you need to have wealth. Wealth in a premarket economy parallels the amount of surplus of food you have. As time progressed to basic warrior would no longer survive when fighting an opponent. Therefore all my attention was focused at developing military and later naval forces. Including swordsmen, gunpowder, developing chemistry, engineering and later ships that would fight offshore including the galleon. I quickly learned that even if I was not going to be fighting wars, my military capabilities reflected the ways in which other civilizations interacted with me, The stronger military power I had, the more civil out interactions were and the more seriously they took me as a leader of the empire.

Works Cited:
Heilbroner, Robert L and William Milberg. The Making of Economic Society. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 1998.