by Firaxis Games / 2K

Command a civilization through the ages — from a humble settlement on the banks of a river to a global empire whose name echoes through history. Forge alliances, declare wars, and decide whether your legacy will be built on culture, conquest, science, or faith.

33 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Alexander the Great — The young king of Macedon who conquered the known world before his thirtieth birthday, driven by an insatiable hunger for glory and knowledge.
• Cleopatra VII — The last active pharaoh of Egypt, a brilliant diplomat and strategist who built Egypt's wealth through trade and alliance.
• Elizabeth I — The Virgin Queen of England, who transformed a small island nation into a global naval power through shrewd politics and fearless vision.
• Genghis Khan — The unifier of the Mongol tribes and founder of the largest contiguous land empire in history, a genius of mobile warfare and psychological terror.
• Gilgamesh — The legendary king of Uruk, hero of the world's oldest epic, who built the first great city and searched the ends of the earth for the secret of immor
• Julius Caesar — Rome's greatest general and statesman, who transformed a republic into the foundation of an empire through military genius and political cunning.
• Mahatma Gandhi — The spiritual and political leader of India, champion of nonviolent resistance and cultural advancement.
• Montezuma II — The ninth tlatoani of the Aztec Empire, a powerful and devout ruler who built Tenochtitlan into the greatest city of the ancient Americas.
• Napoleon Bonaparte — The Emperor of France whose military genius and revolutionary ideals reshaped Europe and sent shockwaves through every civilization on earth.
• Peter the Great — The transformative Tsar of Russia who dragged his civilization into the modern era through sheer willpower and a compulsive hunger for European knowle
• The Military Advisor — Your civilization's top general and strategic military counselor, responsible for army composition, defense planning, and threat assessment.
• The Science Advisor — Your civilization's chief scientist and technological strategist, responsible for directing research and managing the Great Library.
• Theodora — Empress of Byzantium and co-ruler alongside Justinian I, a woman of humble origins who became the most powerful person in the Eastern Roman Empire.
• Wu Zetian — The only woman in Chinese history to assume the title of Empress Regnant, a brilliant and ruthless ruler who elevated China to unmatched heights of cu

Locations

• Alexandria — Egypt's great Mediterranean port city, home to the Library of Alexandria and the crossroads of the ancient world's most important trade routes.
• Athens — The cradle of democracy, philosophy, and Western civilization, a city-state perched on a rocky plateau crowned by the Parthenon.
• Beijing — The imperial capital of China, a city of palaces and bureaucrats where Wu Zetian rules the most populous civilization on earth.
• Constantinople — The jewel of the Byzantine Empire, a city built between two worlds — Europe and Asia — that served as the crossroads of civilization for a thousand ye
• Delhi — The ancient capital of India, a city of layered history, sacred temples, and bustling trade routes stretching to every corner of the subcontinent.
• Karakorum — The capital of the Mongol Empire, a city of felt tents and permanent palaces at the crossroads of the ancient Silk Road.
• London — England's capital on the Thames, a city of merchants and mariners that grew into the center of the world's greatest maritime trading network.
• Paris — The City of Light, France's magnificent capital on the Seine, where Napoleon turned revolution's chaos into imperial grandeur.
• Rome — The Eternal City, center of the Roman world, built on seven hills and connected to every corner of the empire by its famous roads.
• Saint Petersburg — Peter the Great's masterpiece — a European-style city built in a Russian swamp as a declaration that Russia had joined the modern world.
• Tenochtitlan — The island capital of the Aztec Empire, built in the middle of Lake Texcoco, a city of causeways and pyramids and the beating heart of Mesoamerican ci
• Uruk — The world's first great city, built in ancient Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where writing, law, and civilization itself were i
• Your Capital City — The founding city of your civilization — a river-bend settlement that will grow into the heart of an empire.

Items

• The Great Library of Alexandria — The ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge, containing hundreds of thousands of scrolls from every civilization on earth.
• The Hagia Sophia — The cathedral of divine wisdom in Constantinople, whose massive dome seemed to float on rays of light and whose beauty left ambassadors speechless for
• The Louvre — France's greatest palace turned museum, a monument to cultural dominance that Napoleon filled with the finest art his armies could liberate from acros
• The Pyramids of Giza — The greatest monuments of the ancient world — three massive stone pyramids on the Nile's west bank that have stood for millennia and will stand for mi
• The Roman Colosseum — Rome's great amphitheater, a feat of engineering that seats fifty thousand and hosts spectacles designed to keep the Roman populace entertained and lo
• The Templo Mayor — The great twin pyramid of Tenochtitlan, the spiritual heart of the Aztec Empire, where the gods receive their tribute and the sun is kept alive.

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