Age research
- "As you put on fresh new clothes and take off those you've worn,
You'll replace your body with a fresh one, newly born." —Bhagavad-Gita (Cap II)
- "As you put on fresh new clothes and take off those you've worn,
RESEARCH LEVEL | NAME | GRANTS ACCESS TO |
Colonial Era |
"The State of Virtue is a state of war." —Rousseau
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Mercantile Era(Mercantile Governance) |
"What power has law where only money rules?" —Titus Petronius, Classical Roman author
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Imperial Era(Reform Movement) |
"Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!"
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Industrial Era(Industrialisation) |
"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 | |
Mechanisation Era(Modernisation) |
"In the machine man abolishes his own formal activity and makes it work for him. But this deception, which he perpetrates upon nature takes vengeance on him." —Hegel |
Commerce research
"The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness." — David Hume
Commerce research will cost you Timber and Knowledge at the Library. When you complete Commerce research, your Commerce Cap goes up for all Resources you gather: Food, Timber, Metal, and Wealth. You can gather more of them only up to the Commerce Cap; surpass the cap and any excess is simply lost to you. Commerce research along with Civics research is also required to gain access to a variety of military units as well.
RESEARCH LEVEL | NAME | GRANTS ACCESS TO |
Canal Networks |
"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered." —William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Act 4 scene iii)
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Pacioli System |
"Some falsified printed accounts, artfully cooked up, on purpose to mislead and deceive."
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Economic Theory |
"A penny saved is a penny to squander."
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Steam Power |
"When they touch, is it the water which hisses and roars, or is it the fire?"
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Corporate Law |
"The “holding system” not only serves enormously to increase the power of the monopolists; but also enables them to resort with impunity to all sorts of shady and dirty tricks." —Lenin
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Assembly Line |
"Man is an automaton — well fed, well clad, but without any ultimate concern for that which is his peculiarly human quality and function."
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Protectionism |
"In the restraints upon the importation of all foreign commodities, the interest of the home consumer is evidently sacrificed to that of the producer." —Adam Smith
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Science research
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." — Arthur C Clarke
Science research increases line of sight for many of your units (including buildings), makes new Resource technologies available so you can increase gather rate, permits construction of new types of buildings, and decreases the cost of all other technology research incrementally.
RESEARCH LEVEL | NAME | GRANTS ACCESS TO |
Archaeology |
"If thou canst, seek an opening into the earth and bring them a sign!" —the Qur'an (6:35)
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Calculus |
"I see nothing but scientific extravagance in all these calculations."
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Thermodynamics |
"Heat is not a substance."
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Positivism |
"Man is conscious of himself. His ego is nearer to his heart than to his feet."
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Evolutionary Theory |
"Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes." —Nietzsche
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Physics |
"To understand is hard. But once one understands, then action is easy."
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Electricity |
"One can prophesy with a Daniel's confidence that skilled electricians will settle the battles of the near future." —Nikola Tesla
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Civics research
"My subjects are rats in a basket. If I do not keep shaking the basket, they will gnaw their way through."
—Moulay Ismail the Warrior, 17th century sultan of Morocco
Civics research allows you to build one new city with each completed round, and increases your national borders. If your borders abut other nations' borders, then you'll gain strength in the pushing match. If you don't touch territories yet, the diameter of space around your Cities simply expands. Civics research is also vital for...
RESEARCH LEVEL | NAME | GRANTS ACCESS TO |
Authority |
"Look at me! I have 400 million people dependent on my judgment!" —Empress Dowager Cixi of China
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Political Parties |
"I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire." —Winston Churchill
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Utilitarianism |
"Ye seek for happiness—alas, the day!"
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Constitution |
"How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?" —Charles de Gaulle, 20th century French statesman
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Federalism |
"We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." —Ben Franklin
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Great Power |
"Empire is the art of putting men in their place." —Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French statesman
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Rights of Man |
"The very first birthright of a people is national dignity." —Camilio Benso di Cavour, 19th century Italian statesman
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Military research
"Ultima ratio regum." — Motto on French cannon cast by Louis XIV
Completing Military research increases your population cap and also allows you to start upgrading your units at your military structures. Additionally, the cost of units and unit upgrades is lowered with each successive level researched.
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Supply Reform |
"See to it that your walls are builded high, and your stores are stocked with rations." —Zhu Sheng, 14th century Chinese stateman
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National Academy |
"I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
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Signalatory Corps |
"What guns, sir? Where and what to do?" | ||
Levee en Masse |
"Dear to friends and food for powder / soldiers marching on to die." —Alfred Edward Housman, On the Idle hill of Summer
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National Defence |
"It is a sweet and pleasant thing..." —Horace, Roman poet
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Infiltration Assault Doctrine |
"March slowly, attack at dawn and eat up the red soldiers."
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Deep Operations Theory |
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist." —Queen Victoria
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