The kingdoms are generally short on population, and the core cast seems disproportionately important, considering that they are largely teenagers.
The uniting of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England to form the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 is one of the most important moments in the island's story.
There is no shortage of deceptions in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The story of El Dorado is explored further in the Lost Kingdoms of South America, a series for BBC Four starting on Monday 14January at 21:00 GMT and the British Museum Digital Exhibition.
Man battled the elements in Mesopotamia, and the desert and its ways of plunder and raiding pushed against urban life, but the land gave rise to powerful kingdoms: the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Sumerians, the Abbasids.
And because of this complexity, the senior managers back at headquarters lost track of what was being done in the various corners of their kingdoms, and the risks associated with those actions.
Through centuries of warfare and the shifting borders of regional kingdoms, gold was the safest currency.
The game was Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, meant to be a World of Warcraft style sword and sorcery MMO.
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The other day, I criticized Kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning, saying that despite capable gameplay, a well-built world, and easy RPG mechanics, it had no style.
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Now that the expensive land grab is over, the companies are catching their breath, surveying their kingdoms and comparing the spoils of battle.
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After criticizing George of Bush the 2nd for starting wars with two enemy kingdoms, he used the same advisors and continued to waste the scare resources of the kingdom in faraway lands where victory was a word with no meaning.
Several Christian kingdoms pushed the Arabs south, finally reconquering the last remnant of the Caliphate of Al-Andalus in 1492.
Legends of kingdoms in the centre of the earth, ruled by dwarfs, abounded in England and Germany in the same period.
It means that some of the lowliest creatures in the plant and animal kingdoms, such as slime and amoeba, may not be as primitive as once thought.
But as it was in the days of the courts of King Henry VIII, executives are going to depend ever more on trusted human agents, dispatched to the far corners of kingdoms to carry sensitive messages, learn sensitive information, negotiate and close deals.
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Now Schilling is being sued with the charge that he knew that Kingdoms would fail and he was purposefully asking for more money which he knew could never turn the game or company around.
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Players that put into the original Saga system will find their Saga Kingdoms accounts reimbursed with credits equal to every cent spent on the original title.
Often the stories of precious ornaments ran alongside the rise and fall of kingdoms.
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Primarily, Stark posits, because religion was decreed and rigidly enforced from the top in those two kingdoms, while elsewhere there was a relatively looser, more tolerant atmosphere.
This was the period when the city of Angkor in present-day Cambodia went into rapid decline, a fact that some historians have blamed on invasions by the rival Siamese and Champa kingdoms.
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While many games are beginning to offer some sort of mobile experience to complement the lead title, Saga Kingdoms will feature what is essentially an entirely different game for mobile users to explore.
The Diablo-esque adventure found in the mobile game will allow players to use and permanently enhance their characters from Saga Kingdoms in various ways while on the go.
On paper, Kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning, and The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, look almost identical.
There is no shortage of honorifics in Malaysia, vestiges of the days of sultanates and princely kingdoms.
The power struggle sprawls across seven kingdoms and is driven by fractious family dynasties, deep grudges and greed.
The new move was to make a console RPG out of Kingdoms of Amalur whose sales would be so fantastic that they would drive funding of the eventual MMO.
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"It has to do with the fact that these are relatively modern kingdoms, " says Mr Van Bree.
They evangelized much of Asia in the 16th century, acting as emissaries to the Emperor of China, among other kingdoms.
The saddest aspect of this story is that Kingdoms of Amalur was not a bad game.
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Perhaps the only bright spot in all this is Kingdoms of Amalur itself.
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