Tower

August 26, 2001, 11:44

I was wondering what the tower was. Is it a wonder or a palace or an improvement or what?? I am speaking about the tower on the left of civ3.com's logo. Anyone know what it is??

K.J.H. · August 26, 2001, 11:56

The Tower of Babylon
I heard rumours about being it a wonder.
But I'm not sure ...

Inverse Icarus · August 26, 2001, 12:18

its the tower of BABEL, not babylon.

its conceptually the art civ3 was based on. i don't think its in the game itself, except in the start screen.

civ3site: never got back to me

General Ludd · August 26, 2001, 12:33

Here is a larger and clearer picture of it:

http://civ3.com/images/themes/TOB_1024.jpg

Although it looks like the Tower of Babel at first glance, it's just a fictional structure with architecture from all of the different eras in it.

Inverse Icarus · August 26, 2001, 13:20

so i guess the file name TOB (tower of babel) happens to be a coincidence. oh well.

heres the startup screen, with what i thought was the tower of babel on it.

http://www.civ3.com/images/screenshots/title.jpg

K.J.H. · August 26, 2001, 15:47

Sorry.
That's correct.
I didn't know that Babel-word was english too.
I guessed it was only a dutch word.
wrong guess.

jerkwaterbox · August 26, 2001, 22:57

the screen is of a tower of babel like building being built. now i remember that it was said that wonder movies were out but there is some new animations for the wonders. perhaps the tower of babel is really a wonder and one of the animations of it is it being built. if so this could mean that we would see the wonders as they are being built.

jerkwaterbox · August 26, 2001, 22:58

the screen is of a tower of babel like building being built. now i remember that it was said that wonder movies were out but there is some new animations for the wonders. perhaps the tower of babel is really a wonder and one of the animations of it is it being built. if so this could mean that we would see the wonders as they are being built.

just a theory

jerkwaterbox · August 26, 2001, 22:59

double post, sorry, i accidentally hit stop as it was sending....

Fiil · August 27, 2001, 02:16

Babel is the hebrew word for Babylon!

The tower was a really big building in the city. This is a fact I think!

It's said that the story of the tower originated from the hebrews who saw the building when they went to Babylon as fugitives. They simply made up the story as an explanation on why such a big tower had been constructed. This is only a theory.

K.J.H. · August 27, 2001, 02:39

The Tower of Babylon = The Tower of Babel
I was just a little bit right

August 27, 2001, 12:38

Quote:

Originally posted by Fiil
Babel is the hebrew word for Babylon!

It's said that the story of the tower originated from the hebrews who saw the building when they went to Babylon as fugitives. They simply made up the story as an explanation on why such a big tower had been constructed. This is only a theory.

According to the Bible; The descendants of Noah, having wandered for many years in the lands of the east, settled eventually on a wide plain in Shinar. Centuries had passed since the Flood, and now there were a great number of people, all speaking the same language. They decided between them to build a city out of brick, with a tower so tall its top would touch the clouds. This would give them a home, they thought, from which no one could drive them out. More important, it would make them envied throughout the world.
And so they began to build, baking the bricks hard and using tar for mortar.
The Lord looked at the city that was taking shape, at the streets and the houses and the tower already rising up into the sky, and God said, "These people are growing vain. Soon there will be no limit to what they will want. I will confuse their speech, change the very words in their mouths, so that no one will understand what is said"
And so it was: soon everone found that the words spoken by one person meant nothing to their neighbor.
This caused complete confusion. The building of the city, which was now called Babel because of the babble of the voices within it, came to a stop. The people left the plain of Shinar and were scattered all over the world.
And in every part of the world from that time on both men and women spoke in different languages.
You can chose to believed the story or not to believe the story, that is your choise.
Ref: The Children's Illustrated Bible.

Fiil · August 27, 2001, 13:44

Yes of cause this is the story I was refering to.

I was only giving you an altenative explanation, because I though everybody knew the traditional one! Which is true, I don't know.

But thank you for the 'civilopedia'

I really like those old stories.