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Units
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Great People
Technologies
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Religions
Terrains and Features
Resources
Improvements and Routes

Introduction

Wonders

Alhambra

Angkor Wat

Apadana

Big Ben

Biosphère

Bolshoi Theatre

Broadway

Chichen Itza

Colosseum

Colossus

Cristo Redentor

Eiffel Tower

Estádio do Maracanã

Etemenanki

Forbidden City

Great Library

Great Lighthouse

Great Zimbabwe

Hagia Sophia

Hanging Gardens

Hermitage

Huey Teocalli

Jebel Barkal

Mahabodhi Temple

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

Mont St. Michel

Oracle

Oxford University

Petra

Potala Palace

Pyramids

Ruhr Valley

Statue of Zeus

Stonehenge

Sydney Opera House

Terracotta Army

Torre de Belém

Venetian Arsenal

Projects

Great Lighthouse
Description
+1 Movement for all naval units

Must be built on the Coast, and adjacent to land and a Harbor district with a Lighthouse.
Historical Context
The Great Lighthouse of Alexandria (one of the seventeen cities the egotistical young general named after himself), known to the ancients as the Pharos, was reputed to stand between 393 and 450 feet high – making it one of the tallest structures in civilization for many centuries. Begun in 280 BC by Ptolemy Sotor, one of Alexander’s Macedonian generals and successors, on a small island to help guide trade ships into the harbor of the thriving city, the Lighthouse was not completed until 247 at the phenomenal cost of 800 talents. Its light at the top of the massive tower was produced by a furnace reputedly made of solid blocks of limestone, and was visible for one hundred miles. Although badly damaged by three earthquakes between 956 and 1323 AD, it did not topple over – making it the third-longest surviving of the ancient wonders. Finally, the sultan of Egypt quarried the remaining stone (some had fallen into the harbor) to build the Citadel of Qaitbay in 1480 to protect Alexandria against the Ottoman Turks (didn’t work).
PortraitSquare
icon_building_great_lighthouse
“This Lighthouse was the cynosure of all eyes.”
– Henry David Thoreau

Traits

Removed if game started after
Renaissance Era
+3 Gold
+1 Great Admiral point per turn.
+1000 Tourism from Rock Concerts.

Requirements

Technology
icon_tech_celestial_navigation
Celestial Navigation
Building
icon_building_lighthouse
Lighthouse
Adjacency
icon_district_harbor
Harbor
Placement
Cannot be built on a lake
Must be built on coast
Production Cost
Base Cost: 290 Production
PortraitSquare
icon_building_great_lighthouse
Description
+1 Movement for all naval units

Must be built on the Coast, and adjacent to land and a Harbor district with a Lighthouse.
Historical Context
The Great Lighthouse of Alexandria (one of the seventeen cities the egotistical young general named after himself), known to the ancients as the Pharos, was reputed to stand between 393 and 450 feet high – making it one of the tallest structures in civilization for many centuries. Begun in 280 BC by Ptolemy Sotor, one of Alexander’s Macedonian generals and successors, on a small island to help guide trade ships into the harbor of the thriving city, the Lighthouse was not completed until 247 at the phenomenal cost of 800 talents. Its light at the top of the massive tower was produced by a furnace reputedly made of solid blocks of limestone, and was visible for one hundred miles. Although badly damaged by three earthquakes between 956 and 1323 AD, it did not topple over – making it the third-longest surviving of the ancient wonders. Finally, the sultan of Egypt quarried the remaining stone (some had fallen into the harbor) to build the Citadel of Qaitbay in 1480 to protect Alexandria against the Ottoman Turks (didn’t work).
“This Lighthouse was the cynosure of all eyes.”
– Henry David Thoreau

Traits

Removed if game started after
Renaissance Era
+3 Gold
+1 Great Admiral point per turn.
+1000 Tourism from Rock Concerts.

Requirements

Technology
icon_tech_celestial_navigation
Celestial Navigation
Building
icon_building_lighthouse
Lighthouse
Adjacency
icon_district_harbor
Harbor
Placement
Cannot be built on a lake
Must be built on coast
Production Cost
Base Cost: 290 Production
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