Movea unit!\nClick on a unit > Click on a destination > Click the arrow popup =
Founda city!\nSelect the Settler (flag unit) > Click on 'Found city' (bottom-left corner) =
Enterthe city screen!\nClick the city button twice =
Picka technology to research!\nClick on the tech button (greenish, top left) > \n select technology > click 'Research' (bottom right) =
Picka construction!\nEnter city screen > Click on a unit or building (left side) =
Passa turn!\nCycle through units with 'Next unit' > Click 'Next turn' =
Reassignworked tiles!\nEnter city screen > click the assigned (green) tile to unassign > \n click an unassigned tile to assign population =
Meetanother civilization!\nExplore the map until you encounter another civilization! =
Openthe options table!\nClick the menu button (top left) > click 'Options' =
Constructan improvement!\nConstruct a Worker unit > Move to a Plains or Grassland tile > \n Choose 'Create improvement' > Choose the farm > \n Leave the worker there until it's finished =
Createa trade route!\nConstruct roads between your capital and another city\nOr, automate your worker and let him get to that eventually =
Conquera city!\nBring an enemy city down to low health > \nEnter the city with a melee unit =
Movean air unit!\nSelect an air unit > select another city withing range > \nMove the unit to the other city =
Seeyour stats breakdown!\nEnter the Overview screen (top right corner) >\nClick on 'Stats' =
'Timecrumbles things; everything grows old and is forgotten under the power of time' - Aristotle =
Library=
+1Science Per 2 Population =
PaperMaker =
TheGreat Library =
FreeTechnology =
'Librariesare as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and all that without delusion or imposture are preserved and reposed.' - Sir Francis Bacon =
Circus=
Walls=
Wallsof Babylon =
ThePyramids =
'O,let not the pains of death which come upon thee enter into my body. I am the god Tem, and I am the foremost part of the sky, and the power which protecteth me is that which is with all the gods forever.' - The Book of the Dead, translated by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge =
Workerconstruction increased 25% =
Provides2 free workers =
Barracks=
Krepost=
Cultureand Gold costs of acquiring new tiles reduced by 25% in this city =
Colossus=
'Whyman, he doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves.' - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar =
+1gold from worked water tiles in city =
Temple=
BurialTomb =
TheOracle =
'Theancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing' - Socrates =
FreeSocial Policy =
NationalCollege =
ManhattanProject =
ChichenItza =
'Thekatun is established at Chichen Itza. The settlement of the Itza shall take place there. The quetzal shall come, the green bird shall come. Ah Kantenal shall come. It is the word of God. The Itza shall come.' - The Books of Chilam Balam =
GoldenAge length increases +50% =
Enablesnuclear weapon =
Lighthouse=
Canonly be built in coastal cities =
+1food from Ocean and Coast tiles =
TheGreat Lighthouse =
'Theythat go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.' - The Bible, Psalms 107:23-24 =
Allmilitary naval units receive +1 movement and +1 sight =
Courthouse=
Removeextra unhappiness from annexed cities =
Canonly be built in annexed cities =
Stable=
+15%Production when building Mounted Units in this city =
CircusMaximus =
HangingGardens =
'Ithink that if ever a mortal heard the word of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.' - F. Frankfort Moore =
Colosseum=
TerracottaArmy =
'Regardyour soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.' - Sun Tzu =
Market=
Bazaar=
Provides1 extra copy of each improved luxury resource near this City =
+2Gold for each source of Oil and oasis =
Monastery=
NotreDame =
'Architecturehas recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.' - Victor Hugo =
HagiaSophia =
'Forit soars to a height to match the sky, and as if surging up from among the other buildings it stands on high and looks down upon the remainder of the city, adorning it, because it is a part of it, but glorying in its own beauty' - Procopius, De Aedificis =
+33%great person generation in all cities =
Mint=
MachuPicchu =
'Fewromances can ever surpass that of the granite citadel on top of the beetling precipices of Machu Picchu, the crown of Inca Land.' - Hiram Bingham =
Goldfrom all trade routes +25% =
Aqueduct=
40%of food is carried over after a new citizen is born =
GreatWall =
'Theart of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.' - Sun Tzu =
Enemyland units must spend 1 extra movement point when inside your territory (obsolete upon Dynamite) =
Workshop=
Longhouse=
+1Production from each worked Forest tile =
Forge=
Harbor=
+1production from all sea resources worked by the city =
Connectstrade routes over water =
University=
+2Science from each worked Jungle tile =
Wat=
OxfordUniversity =
Castle=
MughalFort =
Alhambra=
'Justiceis an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.' - Joseph Addison =
Allnewly-trained melee, mounted, and armored units in this city receive the Drill I promotion =
AngkorWat =
'Thetemple is like no other building in the world. It has towers and decoration and all the refinements which the human genius can conceive of.' - Antonio da Magdalena =
Costof acquiring new tiles reduced by 25% =
PorcelainTower =
'Thingsalways seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.' - James Russell Lowell =
Freegreat scientist appears =
Ironworks=
Armory=
Observatory=
OperaHouse =
SistineChapel =
'Ilive and love in God's peculiar light.' - Michelangelo Buonarroti =
Culturein all cities increased by 25% =
Bank=
Hanse=
+5%Production for every Trade Route with a City-State in the empire =
Satrap'sCourt =
ForbiddenPalace =
'Mostof us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison' - John Lubbock =
Unhappinessfrom population decreased by 10% =
Theatre=
LeaningTower of Pisa =
'Don'tclap too hard - it's a very old building.' - John Osbourne =
FreeGreat Person =
Choosea free great person =
Get=
HimejiCastle =
'Bushidois realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.' - Yamamoto Tsunetomo =
+15%combat strength for units fighting in friendly territory =
TajMahal =
'TheTaj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.' - Rabindranath Tagore =
Empireenters golden age =
Windmill=
Mustnot be on hill =
Museum=
Hermitage=
TheLouvre =
'Everygenuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun' - Ralph Waldo Emerson =
FreeGreat Artist Appears =
Seaport=
+1production and gold from all sea resources worked by the city =
+15%production of naval units =
PublicSchool =
Hospital=
25%of food is carried over after a new citizen is born =
Factory=
StockExchange =
BigBen =
'Toachieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.' - Leonard Bernstein =
-15%to purchasing items in cities =
CristoRedentor =
'Cometo me, all who labor and are heavy burdened, and I will give you rest.' - New Testament, Matthew 11:28 =
Culturecost of adopting new Policies reduced by 10% =
Kremlin=
'TheLaw is a fortress on a hill that armies cannot take or floods wash away.' –- The Prophet Muhammed =
Defensivebuildings in all cities are 25% more effective =
Neuschwanstein=
'...thelocation is one of the most beautiful to be found, holy and unapproachable, a worthy temple for the divine friend who has brought salvation and true blessing to the world.' - King Ludwig II of Bavaria =
+1happiness, +2 culture and +3 gold from every Castle =
MilitaryAcademy =
BrandenburgGate =
FreeGreat General appears near the Capital =
'PaleDeath beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.' - Horace =
BroadcastTower =
EiffelTower =
'Welive only to discover beauty, all else is a form of waiting' - Kahlil Gibran =
Provides1 happiness per social policy =
Statueof Liberty =
'Giveme your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!' - Emma Lazarus =
+1Production from specialists =
MedicalLab =
ResearchLab =
HydroPlant =
Stadium=
SolarPlant =
Mustbe next to desert =
Mustbe next to mountain =
SydneyOpera House =
'Thosewho lose dreaming are lost.' - Australian Aboriginal saying =
+1population in each city =
+1happiness in each city =
Pentagon=
'Inpreparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.' - Dwight D. Eisenhower =
Goldcost of upgrading military units reduced by 33% =
ApolloProgram =
Enablesconstruction of Spaceship parts =
NuclearPlant =
SpaceshipFactory =
Increasesproduction of spaceship parts by 50% =
Spaceshippart =
HubbleSpace Telescope =
'Thewonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.' - Anatole France =
Receivefree Great Scientist when you discover Writing, Earn Great Scientists 50% faster =
NebuchadnezzarII =
Greece=
Alexander=
City-StateInfluence degrades at half and recovers at twice the normal rate =
China=
WuZetian =
Greatgeneral provides double combat bonus, and spawns 50% faster =
Egypt=
RamessesII =
+20%production towards Wonder construction =
England=
Elizabeth=
+2movement for all naval units =
France=
Napoleon=
+2Culture per turn from cities before discovering Steam Power =
Russia=
Catherine=
StrategicResources provide +1 Production, and Horses, Iron and Uranium Resources provide double quantity =
Rome=
AugustusCaesar =
+25%Production towards any buildings that already exist in the Capital =
Arabia=
Harunal-Rashid =
+1Gold from each Trade Route, Oil resources provide double quantity =
America=
GeorgeWashington =
Allland military units have +1 sight, 50% discount when purchasing tiles =
Japan=
OdaNobunaga =
Unitsfight as though they were at full strength even when damaged =
Germany=
Ottovon Bismark =
67%chance to earn 25 Gold and recruit a Barbarian unit from a conquered encampment, -25% land units maintenance. =
India=
Gandhi=
Unhappinessfrom number of Cities doubled, Unhappiness from number of Citizens halved. =
TheOttomans =
SuleimanI =
Payonly one third the usual cost for naval unit maintenance. Melee naval units have a 1/3 chance to capture defeated naval units. =
Korea=
Sejong=
+2Science for all specialists and Great Person tile improvements =
Iroquois=
Hiawatha=
Allunits move through Forest and Jungle Tiles in friendly territory as if they have roads. These tiles can be used to establish City Connections upon researching the Wheel. =
Persia=
DariusI =
GoldenAges last 50% longer. During a Golden Age, units receive +1 Movement and +10% Strength =
Polynesia=
KamehamehaI =
Canembark and move over Coasts and Oceans immediately. +1 Sight when embarked. +10% Combat Strength bonus if within 2 tiles of a Moai. =
Siam=
Ramkhamhaeng=
Foodand Culture from Friendly City-States are increased by 50% =
Songhai=
Askia=
Receivetriple Gold from Barbarian encampments and pillaging Cities. Embarked units can defend themselves. =
Tocreate a multiplayer game, check the 'multiplayer' toggle in the New Game screen, and for each human player insert that player's user ID. =
Youcan assign your own user ID there easily, and other players can copy their user IDs here and send them to you for you to include them in the game. =
Onceyou've created your game, enter this screen again to copy the Game ID and send it to the other players. =
Playerscan enter your game by copying the game ID to the clipboard, and clicking on the Join Game button =
GameSpeed =
Quick=
Standard=
Epic=
Marathon=
StartingEra =
Itlooks like we can't make a map with the parameters you requested! =
Maybeyou put too many players into too small a map? =
Youhave achieved victory through the awesome power of your Culture. Your civilization's greatness - the magnificence of its monuments and the power of its artists - have astounded the world! Poets will honor you as long as beauty brings gladness to a weary heart. =
Theworld has been convulsed by war. Many great and powerful civilizations have fallen, but you have survived - and emerged victorious! The world will long remember your glorious triumph! =
Youhave achieved victory through mastery of Science! You have conquered the mysteries of nature and led your people on a voyage to a brave new world! Your triumph will be remembered as long as the stars burn in the night sky! =
Youhave been defeated. Your civilization has been overwhelmed by its many foes. But your people do not despair, for they know that one day you shall return - and lead them forward to victory! =
Onemore turn...! =
BuiltApollo Program =
Destroy[civName] =
Ourstatus =
Globalstatus =
Spaceshipparts remaining =
Branchescompleted =
Undefeatedcivs =
Whatwould you like to do with the city? =
Annex=
Annexedcities become part of your regular empire. =
Theircitizens generate 2x the unhappiness, unless you build a courthouse. =
Puppet=
Puppetedcities do not increase your tech or policy cost, but their citizens generate 1.5x the regular unhappiness. =
Youhave no control over the the production of puppeted cities. =
Puppetedcities also generate 25% less Gold and Science. =
Apuppeted city can be annexed at any time. =
Liberate=
Liberatinga city returns it to its original owner, giving you a massive relationship boost with them! =
Raze=
Razingthe city annexes it, and starts razing the city to the ground. =
Thepopulation will gradually dwindle until the city is destroyed. =
Destroy=
Destroyingthe city instantly razes the city to the ground. =
'Wheretillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.' - Daniel Webster =
Pottery=
'Shallthe clay say to him that fashioneth it, what makest thou?' - Bible Isaiah 45:9 =
AnimalHusbandry =
'Thoushalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.' - Bible Deuteronomy 25:4 =
Archery=
'Thehaft of the arrow has been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes, we often give our enemies the means of our own destruction' - Aesop =
Mining=
'Themeek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.' - J. Paul Getty =
Sailing=
'Hewho commands the sea has command of everything.' - Themistocles =
Calendar=
'Soteach us to number our days, so that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.' - Bible Psalms 90:12 =
Writing=
'Hewho destroys a good book kills reason itself.' - John Milton =
Trapping=
'Evenbrute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.' - Saint Jerome =
TheWheel =
'Wisdomand virtue are like the two wheels of a cart.' - Japanese proverb =
Masonry=
'Howhappy are those whose walls already rise!' - Virgil =
BronzeWorking =
'HereHector entered, with a spear eleven cubits long in his hand; the bronze point gleamed in front of him, and was fastened to the shaft of the spear by a ring of gold.' - Homer =
Optics=
'Hemade an instrument to know if the moon shine at full or no.' - Samuel Butler =
HorsebackRiding =
'AHorse! A Horse! My kingdom for a horse!' - Shakespeare (Richard III) =
Mathematics=
'Mathematicsis the gate and key to the sciences.' - Roger Bacon =
'Threethings are to be looked to in a building: that it stands on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.' - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe =
'Thereis only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.' - Socrates =
Currency=
'Betteris bread with a happy heart than wealth with vexation.' - Amenemope =
Engineering=
'Instrumentalor mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful.' - Leonardo da Vinci =
IronWorking =
'Donot wait to strike til the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.' - William Butler Yeats =
Theology=
'Threethings are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do' - St. Thomas Aquinas =
CivilService =
'Theonly thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is it inefficiency' - Eugene McCarthy =
EnablesOpen Borders agreements =
Guilds=
'Themerchants and the traders have come; their profits are pre-ordained...' - Sri Guru Granth Sahib =
Physics=
'Measurewhat is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.' - Galileo Galilei =
MetalCasting =
'Whenpieces of bronze or gold or iron break, the metal-smith welds them together again in the fire, and the bond is established.' - Sri Guru Granth Sahib =
Steel=
'JohnHenry said to his Captain, / 'A man ain't nothin' but a man, / And before I'll let your steam drill beat me down, / I'll die with the hammer in my hand.'' - Anonymous: The Ballad of John Henry, the Steel-Drivin' Man =
Compass=
'Ifind the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.' - Oliver Wendell Holmes =
Education=
'Educationis the best provision for old age.' - Aristotle =
Chivalry=
'Whosopulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England.' - Malory =
Machinery=
'Thepress is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being.' - Thomas Jefferson =
Astronomy=
'Joyfullyto the breeze royal Odysseus spread his sail, and with his rudder skillfully he steered.' - Homer =
Acoustics=
'Theirrising all at once was as the sound of thunder heard remote' - Milton =
Banking=
'Happiness:a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion' - Jean Jacques Rousseau =
PrintingPress =
'Itis a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.' - The Chicago Times =
Gunpowder=
'Theday when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.' - Alfred Nobel =
Navigation=
'Thewinds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.' - Edward Gibbon =
Architecture=
'Architecturebegins where engineering ends.' - Walter Gropius =
Economics=
'Compoundinterest is the most powerful force in the universe.' - Albert Einstein =
Metallurgy=
'Therenever was a good knife made of bad steel.' - Benjamin Franklin =
Chemistry=
'Whereverwe look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.' - Calvin Coolidge =
ScientificTheory =
'Everygreat advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.' - John Dewey =
Archaeology=
'Thosewho cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' - George Santayana =
Industrialization=
'Industrializationbased on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.' - Emily Greene Balch =
Rifling=
'Itis well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.' - Robert E. Lee =
MilitaryScience =
'Warsmay be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.' - George S. Patton =
Fertilizer=
'Thenation that destroys its soil destroys itself.' - Franklin Delano Roosevelt =
Biology=
'Ifthe brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.' - Lyall Watson =
Electricity=
'Isit a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?' - Nathaniel Hawthorne =
SteamPower =
'Thenations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.' - Townsend Harris =
Dynamite=
'Assoon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.' - Christopher Dawson =
Refrigeration=
'Andhomeless near a thousand homes I stood, and near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.' - William Wordsworth =
ReplaceableParts =
'Nothingis particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.' - Henry Ford =
Radio=
'Thewhole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.' - Woody Allen =
Combustion=
'Anyman who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.' - Albert Einstein =
Plastics=
'Ben,I want to say one word to you, just one word: plastics.' - Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, The Graduate =
Electronics=
'There'sa basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.' - Trip Hawkins =
Ballistics=
'Men,like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.' - Jean Paul =
MassMedia =
Flight=
'Aeronauticswas neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.' - Igor Sikorsky =
'Theintroduction of so powerful an agent as steam to a carriage on wheels will make a great change in the situation of man.' - Thomas Jefferson =
Pharmaceuticals=
'Innothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.' - Cicero =
Radar=
'Visionis the art of seeing things invisible.' - Jonathan Swift =
AtomicTheory =
'Theunleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophes.' - Albert Einstein =
Computers=
'Computersare like Old Testament gods: lots of rules and no mercy.' - Joseph Campbell =
MobileTactics =
'Allmen can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.' - Sun Tzu =
CombinedArms =
'Theroot of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.' - Ludwig von Mises =
NuclearFission =
'Iam become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' - J. Robert Oppenheimer =
Ecology=
'Onlywithin the moment of time represented by the present century has one species, man, acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.' - Rachel Carson =
Rocketry=
'Agood rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode.' - Astronautics Magazine, 1937 =
Robotics=
'1.A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except when such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.' - Isaac Asimov =
Lasers=
'Thenight is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.' - The Holy Bible: Romans, 13:12 =
Nanotechnology=
'Theimpact of nanotechnology is expected to exceed the impact that the electronics revolution has had on our lives.' - Richard Schwartz =
Satellites=
'Now,somehow, in some new way, the sky seemed almost alien.' - Lyndon B. Johnson =
ParticlePhysics =
'Everyparticle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.' - Isaac Newton =
FutureTech =
'Ithink we agree, the past is over.' - George W. Bush =
