Common Myths about Human History

Or, What Sid Meier's Civilization taught me about the allure of linear thinking

When I was a kid, video games weren’t allowed in my household—not until an uncle bought a GameBoy for my youngest sibling, the only male child of four, who was thereafter the sole exception to this rule.

But the rest of us had workarounds, and one of them was PC gaming, so long as it could be viewed as “educational”. Somehow Sid Meier’s Civilization seri…