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The Appendix Table the Most of Examinees Are Playing Strategies The appendix table The most of examinees are playing strategies (RTS and History), Fantasy Role Play (FRP), simulations, adventures, RPG adventures, race, shooter, and some of them also play memory games. 1. Table: The results from questionnaire which came to life in practice between pupils from high schools in Petnica Science Center, Valjevo, and undergraduate students from first to third year and on the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade’s, Department of History, section for Medieval National studies. What do you think about education throw games? 17,65% Bad material for studying, with lot of mistakes and misleads; and with no or little validity of historical data. 82,35% It could be useful, for firsthand experience, the idea is not bad, one must think about that time, the strategies are good because you can see and think in the same time, one can easily put himself in a particular time, it could be good if you could have adequate program for learning, it is possible to use games like supplement, but not like a main source of information. Did you learn The realistic outlook of army units, about military formations and their something strategy, few things about architecture, ideology systems, about Hellenisms from the states, and also Islamic in medieval period, about medieval Spain, about games and treaties and conquests in period 1936–1948, about functioning Rome’s from which administration, Fredric I Barbarossa, about struggles in medieval England, ones? relationships between Poland and Lithuania, some maps are very good, the history of aviation in the First World War. Good games Bridge too far, Stronghold, Knights of Honor, Age of Empires II, Cossacks, for education Rome Total War, Medieval Total War, Hearts of Iron II, Caesar II, Spartan, (but also with American Conquest, Europa Universalis, Civilization, Red Baron, Close some Combat, and Shogun: Total War. mistakes): Give some The Atlantis civilization exists in the same time while The Trojan War went examples from on; many characters are mixed from different mythological heroes. (Age of relation: Mythology) historical fact- Leaders which you can choose aren’t necessary the historical persons, the mistake in the provinces are not on their historical positions on maps. (Knights of Honor) game. Some historical characters from different periods live in the same time. (Age of Empires) The towns are not on their geographical positions; the Latin’s names are incorrect, Marian’s reforms are hundred years earlier, in second part of III century B.C. (Rome Total War) Lot of chronological mistakes, the Byzantine tsar Konstantin XI live in XIII century, and some others sovereigns like Konstantin XIII didn’t exist. (Medieval Total War) Archeological placers are result of imagination. (Tomb Raider) There is a maize culture in the age of Rome, and church St. Sophia is mosque on the map before Christ. (Caesar III) The maps are imaginary. (Civilization) The Plato's dialog about Atlantis is preserved. (Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis) The French have a problem to find allies. (Europa Univeralis II) The technology and industry of all countries are worst than German. (Hearts of Iron II) Mistakes Macedonia has a Spartan’s heraldry symbol, the letter “λ”. (Rome Total War) which were Bosnia is catholic country in the early period of its history. (Knights of Honor) made in On the way of Fridrih I Barbarossa to Carigrad, there are no Serbia and its relation with ruler (zupan) Stefan Nemanja. (Age of Empire II) Yugoslav or Generally the names of Serbian and Croatian sovereigns, for example, son of Serbian tsar Stefan Dusan is Boril, and the tsar of Bulgaria is Sisman. (Crusader history: Kings) Vukan is tsar of Serbia, and in the time of tsar Stefan Dusan, Serbia is territory of rebels. (Medieval Total War) The military leaders of Serbia in the time of game (timeline: 1419-1820) are Zoran Djindjic and Vuk Draskovic. (Europa Universalis II) The rebellion in Yugoslavia happens at the end of the Second World war, and the names of generals and commandants of Yugoslavian army are wrong. (Hearts of Iron II) general the time line in chronology sense, wrong data, wrong names for military units, mistakes: there is no singularity of development (e.g. the Greek mythology is adaptation on others communities), language mistakes (e.g. Germans or Russian talk English, or worse Old Romans talk English slang such as party, or show time using terminus which didn’t exist), some tanks and weapons have better characteristics, names of sovereigns, whether data (It was snow in September, when Hitler attack the Poland). Contemporary Role of some countries is exaggerated, especially for those from Western political Europe or American continent, and on the other side some achievements of influences: others, like Chinese are ignored. It is necessary Because games are constructed by programmers, which are laic in a field of to employ history, and large number of children already play games and have problems persons for on historical classes. historical research. Which period From European history: Migration of nations, Crusaders wars, Turkish /character do conquests, Wars of the roses, the time of the inquisition, Hundred Years’ War, you like to Civil war in England, The World War I. play in some From Byzantine history: Tsar Manojlo I Komnen, the fall of Carigrad 1204, new game 1453, tsar Konstantin XI Dragas. (from From Serbian history: The state of Nemanjic dinasty, conflicts between kings medieval Milutin and Dragutin, the battle of Velbuzd 1330, tsar Stefan Dusan and his history, or empire, the battle of Marica, reign of grand zupan Nikoal Altomanovic, the some other battle of Kosovo 1389, king Marko Kraljevic, knez Lazar, Vuk Brankovic, the period)? battle of Angora 1402, despot Stefan Lazarevic1, the time of Despotovina, “tsar” Jovan Nenada the Black, the First and Second Serbian uprising, king Petar I. From Bosnian history: Stefan Vukcic Kosaca. From Croatian history: Dubrovnik and his trade. From Bulgarian history: Samuel’s (Samuilovo) Empire, the time of Asparuh, tsar Simeon the Great and the early Bulgarian Empire, the Krdzalija invasion on Bulgaria. From Irish history: The period of tribe kings, the Vikings attacks on Ireland and Scotland, Saint Patrick, Christianization of Ireland, the Normans invasion, the relationship between Ireland and England, the Ireland under the Plantagenet dynasty, the struggles between IRA and England. 1 For the period of Despotovina (first part of XV century), already existed a graphical interactive base for the game, the program: Vitomir Jevremovic, programmer and Marko Popovic, archaeologist, Interactive XV century Belgrade, Digital Archaeology, http://www.online-archaeology.com/InteractiveBelgrade.htm, (Date of last access: 07.12.2005.). .
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