Civilization IV Wonder: Great Library

[TheWye]

this building must have been filled with great geeks

[Antspray1]

@TheWye i see what you did there and it wasnt funny :\ 

[HistoryLover1550]

I would've loved to have worked there!

[woodwyrm]

in CivII this was incredibly op!

[HudBR1930]

I wonder what they kept in that Great LIBRARY.....

huuuuuuumm.....i think i have a guess.....

[SwitchbladeVids]

Yay for the shitty D grade market stalls right outside!

[OttomanTotalWar]

it never existed it is a myth or it was very insignificant.

[Vildasnaga]

@OttomanTotalWar If you actually bothered to read books you'd know that it is in fact not a myth, and that its loss was a monumental blow to western civilization.

[AqworldsWiki]

@OttomanTotalWar I am surprised you are so ignorant. The library was not insignificant. That would be a insult to Ptolemy I, to Ptolemic Egypt, to the Roman Republic, to the Roman Empire, to the Eastern Roman Empire and the middle Byzantine Empire.

It was destroyed according to sources, by the emir that captured the city during the Islamic conquests. It was because the building contained many "false" stories on religion and the Caliph ordered the library to be destroyed. Read some books okay?

[OttomanTotalWar]

@AqworldsWiki No the destruction is a myth because according to all history books the Muslims and Arabs were very interested in ancient books and they translated them from greek and syriac into Arabic and later Europeans translated these arabic books to Latin. So its ridiculous to assume they would do such thing.

And besides there is no evidence at all that such a building existed or was destroyed by muslims they are only stories. Btw there were many fires,earthquakes, wars before Muslimscame

[AqworldsWiki]

@OttomanTotalWar Actually, the earthquake of Alexandria destroyed the Lighthouse. The fire burned down a portion of the library, but not all of it.

There are many sources that describe the destruction of the library the caliph, Umar. You and many before you are too biased to Islam to accept the truth.

[OttomanTotalWar]

@AqworldsWiki there are arabic sources which tell that muslims destroyed the library, but these are unreliable and have been writting 4-5 centuries after the conquest of Egypt., In reality Muslim Arabs translated ancient greek and Syriac texts and books into Arabic and later Europe translated these Arabic texts in to Latin, Europeans learned about Ancient Greeks by reading Arabic books, read something about this subject.

And btw its ur own prejudice to blame a fictive event on Muslims.

[AqworldsWiki]

@OttomanTotalWar Actaully, thaere are many Arabic and Muslim contemporaries that have published their own works. However, I admit after reviewing my previous statement that I have been a bit too sharp and I apologize.

"Oh, please don't take me prejudice"

[KrakenRouge]

@OttomanTotalWar Thats true, the Christians did a lot more damage to classical writing and knowledge because they considered it heretical, wheras the Muslims as you said were very smart and went through a renaissance of sorts by translating the works and applying them. It wasn't until Christians invaded the Levant that they 'took back' a great deal of classical knowledge to Europe, and science wouldn't even have developed had they not done so. The Christians did a lot of damage...

[morrisz2]

If this wonder hadn´t been lost in the past we now might have known the true purpose of the ancient wonders of the world

[sunlightguy75]

Give me a time machine, a membership card for the library and a few weeks time ...hell, who knows what immense knowledge had been stored there?

[AqworldsWiki]

@sunlightguy75 You would most certainly be more enlightened than anyone else. The library even contained manuscripts and blueprints for the first steam engines! Now think how useful that would have been. We wouldn't have to wait c 2000 years for the Industrial Revolution.

[meleeandbrawllord]

At first these videos were a nightmare because my computer was to slow to run them and it ruined the game. But my new computer runs them beautifully and there incredible movies! Thanks for getting them up!

[LeopardFixJeopardy]

I agree it should have atleast have the a bouns of regualr library even after it gets obslete and it no longer have the bouns. I agree that it shall loses its bouns but if a civilization can keep it intact it would have som value in knowledge.

[5dude30]

how can this place be obslete with scitenfic method i mean honestly

[Mina1914onMapleStory]

This wonder pwns the most in CIV 2

[MrFilmInc]

If the Library were still to exist today it would be one of the worlds greatest relics. ( Including in Civ IV )

[llHyRaXll]

u make these videos yeself?

[seahen1337]

Interesting how the clip doesn't show a single book.

[Xenodamus]

@seahen1337 papyrus scrolls.

[Ljethan]

@seahen1337 Becaurse they did not have books back then. They used pagaments made by Papyrus, or tablets made by clay.

[aljoshabre]

@Ljethan It's called pergaments and they probably had clay tablets. Later on they organized scrolls into something called codex which is predecessor of modern day books.

[moksheebs]

@seahen1337 papyrus scrolls...

[inamerica55585]

@seahen1337 The book as we know it wasn't invented until the 1100s. The information in Alexandria was probably written on clay tablets or papyrus scrolls.

[AqworldsWiki]

@inamerica55585 Read my post to hjpop

[hjpop]

@seahen1337 because when this library existed, there were no "books". Everything was kept on scrolls and tablets.

[daelohmen]

@hjpop i thought we were the books !!!

[AqworldsWiki]

@hjpop Books did exist back then. Plato, the Art of War, the Iliad were all books. Believe you, scrolls, papyrus, and bamboo did exist. However, books also did exist. Ex. The Codex.

[daelohmen]

@seahen1337 we are the books !!!

[GFedFan]

@seahen1337 This library didn't have books, it had scrolls.

[desaster56]

i've always wondered where is this library located? no i don't want to read i'm just wondering.

[noventar]

It's the Great Library of Alexandria, in Egypt. The city is named after Alexander the great.

[moffbombadil]

The Great Library was in Alexandria, but it was burned down 2000 years ago. It does not exist anymore.

[S201676]

Actually the two best dates we have for its destruction are 391 and 642. If the first, by a Christian mob trying to remove all the pagan temples and facilities from their city. If the latter, the armies of Islam in their conquest of Egypt.

[Dontbeanidiot01]

Some speculate that it was in Alexandria. However others beleive that it was never created. Many more beleive that it was going to be built but the construction was stopped.

[TomBombadil37]

The burning occurred during the Roman invasion. A fire started in the harbor of Alexandria and spread throughout the city, destroying a good portion of the library.

[Doza130]

@TomBombadil37 This!

[AqworldsWiki]

@TomBombadil37 But the majority of it still survied. Fortunately. =D