Assassin's Creed: Origins's Discovery Tour mode shows how great educational games could be

Do you know what a "Hippodamian Grid Plan" is? I didn't until I played Assassin's Creed: Origins's new Discovery Tour mode. Turns out Hippodamus of Miletus is known as "the father of European urban planning," a Greek born in 498 B.C.E. Most important: His ideas were adopted by Deinokrates, principle planner for the city of Alexandria. And the rest, as they say, is history.