I see you're a patriot...what's your opinion about President Trump?
Would you buy a game about him?

You do know there is theory that Muhammad was Jesus?
Technically true.

I did not miss details, you said: "Most historically significant figures", and as I understand English grammar, that means top of the top of historical significance. And there is no European there (well, maybe Aristotle if we want to split Christianity's achievement between him and Jesus, but I don't think he is so significant), Hebrew is still Semitic language as is Arabic, so I don't count either him or Muhammad as Europeans (though I do as "white").

And if you want explanation why I put Jesus, Muhammad and Genghis Khan: JezzyC - founder of Christianity, world's most widespread/powerful religion, religion which is the foundation of Western civilization; mr M. - founder of the world's second most powerful religion; Khaaaaaan!!! - founder of one the history's biggest empires, ancestor of the big percentage of world's population, (I believe) holder of world record of total population killed (measured in percentage).

Ups. My bad. I meant "most of", of course. Damn! One preposition changes the meaning completely.

But the point still stands. Jesus and Muhammad belong to Europid phenotype, so if you make a game (or other media piece) with characters based on them those characters they probably would be percieved "white" by the audience. And don't forget about possible religious controversy.

And as I've said Gengis Khan was quite a negative character, so making a character based on him could bring accusations of racism on your head. Heck, that's the very reason why Khan Nunien Singh in Star Trek into Darkness was played by british actor - not to offend non-whites!

Europid and European are two different things, and and I believe that racism is so widespread among all members of Europid population that nobody would be pleased in any case.

Negative character is meaningless in history, because negative and positive depends on your perspective and values. Europeans praised cultural achievements of Romans, and their civilization was built on conquest. From that perspective, they are no better than Romans. Same thing with Arabs and Western European powers, former's cultural peak came after conquest, latter built their cultural achievement by exploiting colonies. Looking from that perspective, it's pretty difficult to say they were better from Mongols.

I would but I decided not to. because politics just gives me stress when the left attack a sitting president for basically nothing.

* Mode Edit - i can't stress this anymore, please refrain from attacking people based on their political belief, that includes calling people 'nazis' 'libtards' etc

you certainly have good PR skills.... /sarc

In history? Yes. In media - not quite. Remember that we are trying to find why there are "too many white straight male heroes" in the media (including games). According to the "social justice" ideology it is because west culture is "inherently racist, sexist and homophobic". I argue that it is because west culture IS west culture. If you want media to propagate liberal views, human rights and other western culture values, you obviously have to use types of heroes who fight for those values. Thus prototypes of those heroes would be historical figures, who also fought for similar values.

So, tell me, who are better in reflecting western liberal values? Romans, who at least were trying to bring their commodities to the conquered nations, albite for a price of their resources? Or the Golden Horde, that basically just extorted money from the nations they defeated?

And yes, I know what you will say. Romans were no generous benefactors, they were corrupt, decadent and devious, scheming for grabing power to themselves only. You right, they were. And that's why Rome almost never shown in the media, and when it's shown - never in positive light. And if we have some Roman protagonist this protagonist is a commoner or even slave, rebel against the Rome. All fictional nations inspired by Rome were shown either outright hostile like Romulans in Star Trek, or society on the brink of collapse, like Republic in Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. And in freakin Asterix cartoon Ceasar is the main antagonist!

UPD. Fixed typos.

Excluse me, but history is directly related to politics. And the media.

Better there than in a place with no interesting people to talk to.

??? I've never heard about that.
Sounds like a really stupid theory, how would that be possible without time travel?

Monotheism is the science of herding sheep.