Which board game was developed first, Conspiracy or History of the World?
History of the World (board game) History of the World (often abbreviated HotW) is a board game designed by Ragnar Brothers and originally published in 1991. It is played by up to six different players in seven different epochs; each player playing a different empire in each epoch.
Rise of Nations Rise of Nations is a real-time strategy computer game, developed by Big Huge Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios on May 20, 2003. The development of the game was led by veteran game designer Brian Reynolds, of "Civilization II" and "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri". The game has taken several concepts from turn-based strategy games such as territories and attrition warfare. "Rise of Nations" features 18 civilizations, playable through eight ages of world history. It is consistently ranked and considered to be one of the greatest real-time strategy games of all time.