Во время разработки игры Age of Empires использовались следующие книги, рекомендуемые для дальнейшего чтения:
Brinton, Crane, John B. Christopher, Robert Lee Wolff, and Robin W. Winks. A History of Civilization: Prehistory to 1715. Volume 1. Sixth Edition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1984.
Casson, Lionel. Ships and Seafaring in Ancient Times. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Chisholm, Jane, ed. The Usborne Book of the Ancient World. London: Usborne, 1991.
Colcutt, Martin, Marius Jansen, and Isao Kumakura. Cultural Atlas of Japan. New York: Facts on File, 1988.
Drews, Robert. The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe Ca. 1200 BC. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Edey, Maitland A. The Sea Traders. New York: Time-Life Books, 1974.
Fairservis, Walter A., Jr. The Threshold of Civilization; An Experiment in Prehistory. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1975.
Ferrill, Arther. The Origins of War: From the Stone Age to Alexander the Great. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1986.
Fitzgerald, C. P. The Horizon History of China. New York: American Heritage, 1969.
Gowlett, John. Ascent to Civilization: The Archaeology of Early Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
Hawkes, Jacquetta. The Atlas of Early Man. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1976.
Hawkes, Jacquetta. Dawn of the Gods: Minoan and Mycenean Origins of Greece. New York: Random House, 1968.
Hicks, Jim. The Empire Builders. New York: Time-Life Books, 1974.
Hicks, Jim. The Persians. New York: Time-Life Books, 1975.
Johnson, Paul. A History of the Jews. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
Keppie, Lawrence. The Making of the Roman Army. Totowa: Barnes & Noble, 1984.
Lansing, Elizabeth. The Sumerians. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
Lee, Ki-Baik. A New History of Korea. Translated by Edward W. Wager with Edward J. Shultz. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Nahm, Andrew C. A Panorama of 5000 Years: Korean History. Elizabeth: Hollym International, 1983.
Oliphant, Margaret. The Atlas of the Ancient World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Rogerson, John. The Atlas of the Bible. New York: Facts on File, 1985.
Sansom, George. A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967.
Southworth, John Van Duyn. The Ancient Fleet: Naval Warfare under Oars. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1968.
Thomas, Hugh. A History of the World. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Yap, Yong, and Arthur Cotterell. The Early Civilization of China. New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1975.
Харальд конунг брал в свою дружину только тех, кто выделялся силой и храбростью и был во всем искусен. Только такие люди были на его корабле, и он мог набирать себе в дружинники лучших людей из каждого фюлька.— Сага о Харальде Прекрасноволосом, The Last Kingdom. Medieval II: Total War