Technologies
Icon | Technology | Cost | Requires | Leads To | Units Enabled | Buildings Enabled | Special Abilities |
Agriculture | 60 | Pottery Animal Husbandry |
Can build Farms | ||||
Alphabet | 300 | Writing | Literature with Polytheism Drama |
Enables tech trading | |||
Animal Husbandry | 100 | Agriculture or Hunting |
Writing Horseback Riding |
Reveals Horse Can build Pastures |
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Archery | 60 | Hunting | Archer, Skirmisher, Longbowman, Crossbowman, Cho-Ko-Nu, Horse Archer, Keshik, Knight, Camel Archer | ||||
Artillery | 4000 | Physics, Steel, & Rifling | Rocketry | Artillery | |||
Assembly Line | 5000 | Corporation & Steam Power |
Fascism with Nationalism Industrialism with Electricity |
Infantry | Factory Coal Plant Pentagon |
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Astronomy | 2000 | Calendar & Optics | Scientific Method with Printing Press or Chemistry Physics with Scientific Method |
Galleon Frigate |
Observatory | Obsoletes Colossus Enables trade on Ocean |
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Banking | 700 | Currency & Guilds | Economics with Education Replacement Parts with Printing Press |
Bank | Enables Mercantilism | ||
Biology | 3600 | Chemistry & Scientific Method |
Medicine with Optics Ecology with Plastics or Fission Refrigeration with Electricity |
Can build farms w/o irrigation Farm produces +1 food |
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Bronze Working | 120 | Mining | Iron Working Metal Casting with Pottery |
Axeman | Reveals Copper Enables Slavery Can chop down forests |
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Calendar | 350 | Sailing & Mathematics | Astronomy with Optics | Can build Plantations Centers world map Obsoletes Stonehenge & Obelisk |
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Chemistry | 1800 | Engineering & Gunpowder | Scientific Method with Printing Press or Astronomy Biology with Scientific Method Steam Power with Replaceable Parts Steel with Iron Working |
Grenadier Frigate |
Workshops +1 production, Obsoletes Parthenon |
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Civil Service | 800 | Code of Laws or Feudalism | Paper Nationalism with Divine Right or Philosophy |
Maceman, Samurai | Farms spread irrigation Enables Bureaucracy |
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Code of Laws | 350 | Writing & Priesthood or Currency | Civil Service Philosophy with Meditation Constitution with Nationalism |
Courthouse Chichen Itza |
First to discover founds Confucianism. Enables Caste System |
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Combustion | 3600 | Railroad | Flight with Physics Plastics with Industrialism |
Transport, Destroyer, Submarine | Can build oil wells. Obsoletes whale |
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Communism | 2800 | Liberalism & Scientific Method | Spy | Scotland Yard Kremlin |
Enables permanent alliances Enables State Property |
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Compass | 400 | Sailing & Iron Working |
Optics with Machinery | Explorer | Harbor | ||
[Composites | Composites | 7500 | Plastics & Satellites | Future Tech with Genetics | Modern Armor, Jet Fighter, Stealth Bomber |
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Computers | 6500 | Radio | Genetics with Refrigeration Fiber Optics with Plastics or Satellites Robotics with Plastics |
Modern Armor | Laboratory | Obsoletes Angkor Wat & Spiral Minaret | |
Constitution | 2000 | Code of Laws & Nationalism | Democracy with Printing Press Corporation with Economics |
Jail | Enables Representation | ||
Construction | 350 | Masonry & Mathematics | Engineering with Machinery | War Elephant, Catapult | Colosseum | Enables bridge building | |
Corporation | 1600 | Constitution & Economics | Assembly Line with Steam Power | Wall Street | Obsoletes Great Lighthouse +1 trade route per city |
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Currency | 400 | Mathematics | Code of Laws with Writing Banking with Guilds |
Market Grocer |
Enables gold trading via diplomacy. +1 trade route per city |
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Democracy | 2800 | Constitution & Printing Press | Statue of Liberty | Enables Universal Suffrage & Emancipation | |||
Divine Right | 1200 | Theology & Monarchy | Nationalism with Civil Service | Versailles Spiral Minaret |
First to discover founds Islam | ||
Drama | 300 | Alphabet | Music with Mathematics Philosophy with Meditation |
Theater Globe Theater |
Can adjust culture rate | ||
Ecology | 5500 | Biology & Plastics or Fission | Recycling Center SS Life Support |
Can scrub Fallout | |||
Economics | 1400 | Banking & Education | Corporation with Constitution | First to discover receives a Great Merchant. Enables Free Market |
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Education | 1800 | Paper | Liberalism with Philosophy Economics with Banking Gunpowder |
University Oxford University |
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Electricity | 4500 | Physics | Fission Industrialism with Assembly Line Refrigeration with Biology Radio |
Bunker Bomb Shelter Broadway |
Windmills: +1 commerce Watermills: +2 commerce |
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Engineering | 1000 | Machinery & Construction | Chemistry with Gunpowder | Pikeman | Castle Hagia Sophia |
+1 road movement | |
Fascism | 2400 | Assembly Line & Nationalism | Mount Rushmore | Enables Police State Can negotiate permanent alliances |
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Feudalism | 700 | Writing & Monarchy | Civil Service Guilds with Machinery |
Longbowman | Enables Vassalage, Serfdom | ||
Fiber Optics | 7500 | Computers & Plastics or Satellites | Fusion with Fission | The Internet SS Cockpit |
Obsoletes Kremlin | ||
Fishing | 40 | Sailing Pottery with The Wheel |
Work Boat | Can work water tiles Can create Fishing Boats |
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Fission | 5500 | Electricity | Ecology with Biology Fusion with Fiber Optics |
ICBM | Nuclear Plant Manhattan Project |
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Flight | 5000 | Physics & Combustion | Rocketry with Rifling | Carrier, Fighter, Bomber, Gunship, Jet Fighter, Stealth Bomber | Airport | ||
Fusion | 8000 | Fission & Fiber Optics | SS Engine | First to discover receives a Great Engineer | |||
Future Tech | 10000 | Composites & Genetics | +1 health & +1 happy face in all cities | ||||
Genetics | 7000 | Computers & Refrigeration | Future Tech with Composites | SS Stasis Chamber | +3 health in all cities | ||
Guilds | 1000 | Feudalism & Machinery | Banking with Currency Gunpowder |
Knight, Camel Archer, Conquistador | Grocer | Workshop: +1 Hammer | |
Gunpowder | 1200 | Guilds or Education | Chemistry with Engineering Rifling with Replaceable Parts |
Musketman, Musketeer, Cavalry, Cossack | |||
Horseback Riding | 250 | Animal Husbandry | Horse Archer, Keshik, Knight, Camel Archer, Conquistador, Cavalry, Cossack | ||||
Hunting | 40 | Archery, Animal Husbandry | Scout, Spearman, Phalanx | Can build Camps | |||
Industrialism | 6500 | Electricity & Assembly Line | Plastics with Combustion | Marine, Navy SEAL, Tank, Panzer, Battleship | Reveals Aluminum Obsoletes Ivory |
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Iron Working | 200 | Bronze Working | Compass with Sailing Steel with Chemistry |
Swordsman, Jaguar, Praetorian | Reveals Iron Can remove Jungle |
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Liberalism | 1400 | Philosophy & Education | Communism with Scientific Method | First to discover receives a free tech. Enables Free Speech & Free Religion |
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Literature | 200 | Polytheism & Alphabet | Music with Mathematics | Heroic Epic National Epic Great Library |
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Machinery | 700 | Metal Casting | Guilds with Feudalism Printing Press with Paper Engineering with Construction Optics with Compass |
Crossbowman, Cho-Ko-Nu, Maceman, Samurai | Can build windmill & watermill | ||
Masonry | 80 | Mining or Mysticism | Monotheism with Polytheism Construction with Mathematics |
City Walls Aqueduct Pyramids Great Lighthouse |
Can build quarry | ||
Mass Media | 3600 | Radio | Broadcast Tower Hollywood United Nations |
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Mathematics | 250 | Writing | Music with Literature or Drama Calendar with Sailing Construction with Masonry Currency |
Aqueduct Hanging Gardens |
Can build fort. Workers produces 50% more hammers from chopping |
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Medicine | 4500 | Optics & Biology | Hospital Red Cross |
Enables Environmentalism | |||
Meditation | 80 | Mysticism | Priesthood Philosophy with Code of Laws or Drama |
Monastery | First to discover founds Buddhism | ||
Metal Casting | 450 | Pottery & Bronze Working | Machinery | Forge Colossus |
Can build workshop | ||
Military Tradition | 2000 | Music & Nationalism | Cavalry, Cossack | West Point | Enables defensive pacts | ||
Mining | 50 | Masonry, Bronze Working | Can build mines | ||||
Monarchy | 300 | Priesthood or Monotheism | Feudalism with Writing Divine Right with Theology |
Enables Hereditary Rule Can build wineries |
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Monotheism | 120 | Masonry & Polytheism | Theology with Writing Monarchy |
Enables Organized Religion First to discover founds Judaism |
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Music | 600 | Mathematics & Literature or Drama | Military Tradition with Nationalism | Cathedral Notre Dame |
First to discover receives a Great Artist | ||
Mysticism | 50 | Meditation, Polytheism, Masonry | Obelisk Stonehenge |
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Nationalism | 1800 | Civil Service & Philosophy or Divine Right | Military Tradition with Music Constitution with Code of Laws Fascism with Assembly Line |
Hermitage Taj Mahal |
Enables Nationhood | ||
Optics | 600 | Compass & Machinery | Astronomy with Calendar Medicine with Biology |
Caravel | +1 sight across water Can create whaling boats |
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Paper | 600 | Theology or Civil Service | Education Printing Press with Machinery |
Enables map trading | |||
Philosophy | 800 | Meditation & Drama or Code of Laws |
Nationalism with Civil Service Liberalism with Education |
Angkor Wat | First to discover founds Taoism Enables Pacifism |
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Physics | 4000 | Astronomy & Scientific Method | Electricity Flight with Combustion Artillery with Steel and Rifling |
Reveals Uranium First to discover receives a Great Scientist |
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Plastics | 7000 | Combustion & Industrialism | Ecology with Biology Composites with Satellites Fiber Optics with Computers Robotics with Computers |
Hydro Plant Three Gorges Dam |
Obsoletes Fur Can create Offshore Platform |
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Polytheism | 100 | Mysticism | Priesthood, Monotheism with Masonry Literature with Alphabet |
Parthenon | First to discover founds Hinduism | ||
Pottery | 80 | The Wheel & Agriculture or Fishing | Writing Metal Casting with Bronze Working |
Granary | Can build cottages | ||
Priesthood | 60 | Meditation or Polytheism | Monarchy Code of Laws with Writing Writing |
Temple Oracle |
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Printing Press | 1600 | Machinery & Paper | Democracy with Constitution Scientific Method with Chemistry or Astronomy Replaceable Parts with Banking |
Villages & towns produce +1 commerce | |||
Radio | 6000 | Electricity | Mass Media, Computers Satellites with Rocketry |
Submarine, Bomber | Eiffel Tower Rock N Roll |
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Railroad | 4500 | Steam Power & Steel Combustion | Machine Gun | Can build railroads | |||
Refrigeration | 4000 | Biology & Electricity | Genetics with Computers | Supermarket | +1 extra move for water units | ||
Replaceable Parts | 1800 | Banking & Printing Press | Rifling with Gunpowder Steam Power with Chemistry |
Can build lumbermills. Windmills & watermills +1 hammer |
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Rifling | 2400 | Gunpowder & Replaceable Parts | Artillery with Physics and Steel Rocketry with Flight or Artillery |
Rifleman, Redcoat, Infantry, Marine, Navy SEAL, Mech. Infantry, Tank, Panzer | Obsoletes Chichen Itza | ||
Robotics | 8000 | Plastics & Computers | Mech. Infantry, Stealth Bomber | SS Docking Bay Space Elevator |
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Rocketry | 5000 | Rifling & Flight or Artillery | Satellites with Radio | SAM Infantry, Gunship, ICBM | SS Casing Apollo Program |
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Sailing | 100 | Fishing | Calendar with Mathematics Compass with Iron Working |
Galley | Lighthouse | Enables trade on coasts | |
Satellites | 6000 | Radio & Rocketry | Composites with Plastics Fiber Optics with Computers |
SDI SS Thrusters |
Reveals world map | ||
Scientific Method | 2400 | Printing Press & Chemistry or Astronomy | Communism with Liberalism Physics Astronomy Biology with Chemistry |
Reveals Oil Obsolete Great Library & Monastery |
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Steam Power | 3200 | Chemistry & Replaceable Parts | Assembly Line with Corporation Railroad with Steel |
Ironclad | Reveals Coal Workers build improvements +50% faster Obsoletes Hagia Sophia |
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Steel | 2800 | Iron Working & Chemistry | Railroad with Steam Power Artillery with Physics and Rifling) |
Cannon, //Ironclad | Drydock Ironworks |
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The Wheel | 60 | Pottery with Agriculture or Fishing | Chariot, War Chariot, Immortal | Can build roads | |||
Theology | 500 | Writing & Monotheism | Divine Right with Monarchy Paper |
Sistine Chapel | First to discover founds Christianity Enables Theocracy |
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Writing | 120 | Priesthood or Animal Husbandry or Pottery |
Code of Laws with Priesthood or Currency Feudalism with Monarchy Theology with Monotheism Mathematics Alphabet |
Library | Enables Open Borders |
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