At one point there was an entire Philistine civilization, an entire Canaanite civilization, a Minoan civilization, I ended up making the Canaanite civilization a bunch of smaller city states for historical authenticity, so what was the Canaanite country is now Hazor, the Philistines came after the bronze age collapse, so I made them into Gaza, and made them Canaanite culture/religion, I just annexed Minoa into Mycenean Greece since thats what maps say who owned it at the time, I could make them independent and a vassal of Mycenae if that would be more interesting.
As far as other religions I was kind of going for a "one true" religion for the game, but I can definitely switch it up and make the "one true" god whichever the player picks at the start of the game, currently I'm working on a dungeon crawler mini game for some of the non-israelite temples, like a sacred ritual where you descend and are tested by the god of that civilization, but if you end up killing all 6 false gods, it would unlock an ending where you're called off the map by Yahweh and ascend into heaven.
