A Brief History Behind AoE2 Civ Emblems!

I love the AoE2 civilisation emblems, and decided to do a bit of a look into the symbolism/history behind each of them.

Please do not take this information as gospel! I did my best to research this topic; some of the emblems have very little information on them and more often than not, Wikipedia had the most information on these symbols.

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[ShadowCrystallux]

Which Age of Empires 2 emblem is your favourite? 🙂

[Popepaladin]

Regarding the Italian emblem, it is also very similar to the flag/coat of arms of Genoa. The Italian civ seems the be modeled heavily after the Republic of Genoa, since they have genoese crossbowmen and bonuses to trade and ships.

[Mamenber]

The reason for Bohemians having black in the bottom half is that red and black together are symbolic of revolution, and the Bohemian civ is based on the Hussite wars.

[MantisAoECivilisationConcepts]

I love this video! I myself spend a lot of time with civ emblem designs and this shows how much research went into the game!

[Gealad]

becasue you ddi not find much about the malians, i figured i give my 2 cents:
1st I agree with what you said that it is at least partially based on a shield with troubled patterns. But i think multiple things were incorporateed here.
3) The stripes at the top and circles on the side could be a note to decorations commonly found on clothing by the mandika people today, a people which lived in the mali empire. However this combination (if intended or not) makes the shield look somewhat like a Maasai shield to me.

[AnimeBoy-csem]

That was a great explanation of what do these emblems mean.

[gamerisdc]

Nice research on the references, I especially liked that you quoted very specific years to reflect the period that the civilisations were based off on

[voiceofreason]

Goddamn I gotta pay attention to understand ur drawl you got a FIERCE accent sounding like the real crocodile Dundee big respect to you

[JKierbel]

Excellent video! I was looking for something exactly like this, thanks

[johannesschmidt]

Great effort for finding such good matches and explanations

[AqilDaiyan]

I was looking for this video to be made! Thanks <3
May I suggest lowering the volume of the music so it doesn't compete with your voice, please

[Slashixuz]

Thank you very much for the video, my suggestion for making it even better - next time lower the volume of music a bit a speak a little slower, or more attention to articulation as sometimes I had troubles recognizing words. Ty ✌️

[denizumut]

cuman mask can also be noticed on steppe lancer, if you take a closer look

[Kaaxe]

all the crosses on the ethiopian shield is surely a reference to how the empire/kingdom of Ethiopia (Aksum) was a uniquely christian nation in a part of the world that is otherwise almost entirely muslim and it being potentially the first nation to adopt christianity as a state religion. It was also therefore early users of cross symbols like on their currency

[PhoenixAlaris]

With the AOE1 civs coming in Rise of Rome, think you might wanna give looking into their emblems symbolism a try?

[mahatmaniggandhi]

0:31 it's actually "nahuatl" not natuatl 😅
pronounced as nawatl