CIVILIZATION VII

Aksum - Antiquity Age Civilization

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AKSUM

The African coast of the Red Sea was the domain of Aksum, named by the prophet Mani as one of the four key powers of the ancient world. For most of the first millennium CE, Aksumite merchants bore ivory, gold, spices and other goods from the African interior to India, Persia, and the Mediterranean. Yet these trade routes planted the seeds of Aksum’s fall – when the Arab caliphates took over the Silk Road, Aksum was isolated and fell into decline.

Unique Ability

Kingdom of Natural Wealth: Increased Gold on Resources in Settlements adjacent to Coast tiles. Increased Production towards constructing the Great Stele Wonder.

Attributes:

  • Cultural
  • Economic

Civic Trees

Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

  • Tier 1: Unlock the Hawelt Unique Improvement. Increased Resource Capacity in Settlements adjacent to Coast tiles. Unlocks Great Stele Wonder.
  • Tradition - Port of Nations: Increased Culture and Gold for every active Trade Route.
  • Tier 2: Increased Gold on Quarters adjacent to Coast tiles. Unlocks 'Port of Nations' Tradition.

Book of the Himyarites

  • Tier 1: Gain a Merchant. The Dhow Unique Naval Unit gets increased Movement and ignores Zones of Control. Unlocks 'May This Please the People' Tradition.
  • Tradition - May This Please the People: Increased Culture on Resources on or adjacent to Coast tiles.

Monumentum Adulitanum

  • Tier 1: Culture and Happiness Buildings gain increased Culture Adjacency from Hawilti. Unlocks 'Throne of my Fathers' Tradition.
  • Tradition - Throne of my Fathers: Increased Gold in Cities adjacent to Coast tiles.

Unique Infrastructure

Hawelt: Unique Improvement. Increased Gold. Increased Culture for adjacent Wonders and other Hawilti. Ageless. Does not remove Warehouse bonuses on a tile. Must be placed on an existing Improvement in Flat Terrain.

Unique Civilian Unit 

Tankwa: Unique Trade Ship. Cannot be pillaged. Increased Trade Route Range. Increased Gold from this Trade Route.

Unique Military Unit 

Dhow: Unique Naval Unit. Increased Combat Strength on Coast. Has a set number of charges to create a naval Trade Route.

Associated Wonder 

Great Stele: Increased Production. Gain a set amount of Gold per Age when you complete a Wonder, including this one. Must be built on a Flat tile.

Starting Biases:

  • Coastal
  • Rough

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