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Antiquity Civilizations
Aksum
The African coast of the Red Sea was the domain of Aksum, named by the prophet Mani as one of the four key powers of the ancient world. For most of the first millennium CE, Aksumite merchants bore ivory, gold, spices and other goods from the African interior to India, Persia, and the Mediterranean. Yet these trade routes planted the seeds of Aksum’s fall – when the Arab caliphates took over the Silk Road, Aksum was isolated and fell into decline.
Egypt
Kemet, the fertile band of the Nile floodplain, is the heart of ancient Egypt. Its over five thousand years of history have been sustained by the river and the life-giving silt that it leaves, building layers of trade, conquest, and the monuments to immortality that were its wonders. Its riches were legendary – and tempting. Egypt fell to Persia in 525 BCE, but the Nile still flows.
Greece
The city-states of Hellas were a constellation of powers, each with a rich history – militaristic Sparta, intellectual Athens, wealthy Corinth, far-off Syracuse. Fractious in their alliances, they were briefly united only once. Though subsumed into the Roman Empire, the Greek cities influenced Roman religion and thought, the math and science of the Islamic Golden Age, and even the founding ideas of American democracy.
Maurya
The Maurya arose from a land of incredible cultural diversity, but one reeling from war. From Chandragupta’s conquests of Alexander the Great’s successors, the dynasty reached its height under Ashoka, who embraced nonviolence and tolerance. Balancing open-mindedness with military might, the Maurya built an empire that was as wise as it was glorious—until its fall to an assassin’s blade.
Maya
In the Central American jungles grew a series of city-states bound by alliances and a common culture—the Maya. They transformed a seemingly inhospitable landscape into a paradise of plazas, ball courts, and pyramids that rose out of the jungle to greet the open sky. But struck by climate and political crises, the Maya declined, and the land was once more covered by forest.
Rome
When most people think of the classical world, they imagine Rome. From humble beginnings, it grew to span three continents, assimilating the wealth and cultures of those it conquered. During the Republic, ad-hoc statecraft and meritocracy spawned fierce competition, spurring the professionalization of military and bureaucracy of the Empire. But cracks turned to chasms, and a foundering economy and repeated invasions brought Rome to collapse.
Exploration Age
Mongolia
Mongolia is confirmed!
Normans
Discuss the Normans with us in this thread.
Shawnee
An Algonquian-speaking people originally from what is now the eastern United States, the Shawnee fought hard to keep their land and traditions. Their fiercest battles were with the United States, as the new nation pushed westward. Seeking to build a coalition of indigenous people to form a united front, the Shawnee established a settlement at Prophetstown, but the US Army loomed on the horizon.
Shawnee civilization is part of the Tecumseh and Shawnee Pack DLC. The Tecumseh and Shawnee Pack is included in the Deluxe and Founders Editions of Civilization VII.
Songhai
The Songhai are a Western African empire.
Modern Age
Buganda
Buganda is confirmed!
Japan
Japan is a confirmed Modern Age civilization.
Unconfirmed Age, Confirmed Peoples
Some of these may not be full-fledged civilizations, but at least feature in the game.
- Mixtec
- Slavs
- Soninke
Leaders
Confirmed leaders:
- Amina
- Ashoka (Maurya)
- Augustus Caesar
- Benjamin Franklin
- Confucius
- Hatshepsut (Egypt)
- Napoleon
- Tecumseh (Shawnee)