So far they've announced the 'well, duh' civs as being:
*British (to North American colonies, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Pacific Island groups, Papua-New Guinea, Burma, India, Ceylon, East Central & Southern Africa, the Carribean--various islands to include Jamaica, Trinidard & most of the Windward & Leeward Lesser Antilles, British Guiana, Belize, Bermuda, Bahamas, Mauritius, Hong Kong) *French (to Canada & the Mississippi Valley, North Central & West Africa--Sub Saharan, the Carribean--Haiti & various islands including Guadalupe and Martinique, French Guiana, French Oceana & New Caledonia, Cochin China-Indochina, Reunion)*Spanish (to South America except Brazil, Central America except Belize, Mexico to include Texas & California (also the areas of Nevada, Utah, Colorado & part of Wyoming), Florida, the Carribean--various islands including Cuba, Hispanola & Puerto Rico, The Phillipines, Marianas & Guam, Northwest African ports & Western Sahara, Canary Islands)Looking a bit more at world history then I see two more that cannot be ignored:*Dutch (to Dutch East Indies--Indonesia, New Amsterdam-Long Island, South Africa (Boers), the Carribean--Netherlands Antilles, Suriname-Dutch Guiana)*Portuguese (to Brazil, Southern Africa--Angola, Mozambique, Madagascar, India-Goa et al, Macao, Portuguese Timor, Cape Verde Islands, Madeira Islands, The Azores)And thinking on it just a tad more for their expannsion to the east:
*Russians (east to Siberia then on east across the Bering Sea to Alaska then down the 'west coast' to Northern California north of San Francisco)Now, that'd be 6, all BIG players during the time-frame... and I'm doggoned if not hard-pressed to be thinking what the others might be.
Other possible candidates (it seems to me) might be King Leopold's Belgium, Germany (but der Kaiser came kinda late) ?
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