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Wonders

Wonders are special buildings which can each be completed by only one player each game and which often enhance their entire civilization. Here all the wonders are listed, in order of increasing technology. Note the asymmetry that, while you must personally achieve the advance required by each wonder to build it, it will be disabled when any player achieves the obsoleting advance.

Colossus
Cost:200
Requires Bronze Working
Obsoleted by Flight
Squares around its city produce an additional trade point.
Great Wall
Cost:300
Requires Masonry
Obsoleted by Metallurgy
Grants the benefits of city walls to each of your cities.
Hanging Gardens
Cost:200
Requires Pottery
Obsoleted by Railroad
Makes a content citizen happy in each of your cities and three citizens happy in its own city, or at least makes unhappy citizens content.
Pyramids
Cost:200
Requires Masonry
Grants the benefits of a granary to each of your cities.
Lighthouse
Cost:200
Requires Map Making
Obsoleted by Magnetism
Gives your sea units an additional movement point, prevents your triremes from being lost at sea, and your cities build veteran sea units.
Oracle
Cost:300
Requires Mysticism
Obsoleted by Theology
Doubles the effect of each of your temples.
Great Library
Cost:300
Requires Literacy
Obsoleted by Electricity
You receive every advancement when two other civilizations have discovered it.
Marco Polo's Embassy
Cost:200
Requires Trade
Obsoleted by Communism
Grants you an embassy in every other nation.
Copernicus' Observatory
Cost:300
Requires Astronomy
Increases the research output of its city to 1.5× normal.
Sun Tzu's War Academy
Cost:300
Requires Feudalism
Obsoleted by Mobile Warfare
Grants the benefits of barracks to each of your cities (of whichever sort match your level of technology), and guarantees your land units veteran status after their first combat.
King Richard's Crusade
Cost:300
Requires Engineering
Obsoleted by Industrialization
Adds one production point to every square around its city.
Magellan's Expedition
Cost:400
Requires Navigation
Gives all your sea units +2 movement points.
Michelangelo's Chapel
Cost:400
Requires Monotheism
Grants the benefits of a cathedral to each of your cities.
Shakespeare's Theatre
Cost:300
Requires Medicine
Makes all unhappy citizens content in its own city.
Isaac Newton's College
Cost:400
Requires Theory of Gravity
Increases the research output of its city to 2× normal.
Leonardo's Workshop
Cost:400
Requires Invention
Obsoleted by Automobile
Each turn one of your obsolete units is upgraded for free, without having to return to a city.
J.S. Bach's Cathedral
Cost:400
Requires Theology
Makes two unhappy citizens content in each of your cities.
A.Smith's Trading Co.
Cost:400
Requires Economics
Pays the upkeep of all of your buildings that otherwise cost one gold per turn.
Statue of Liberty
Cost:400
Requires Democracy
All governments become available to you, and you can change without the transition through anarchy.
Darwin's Voyage
Cost:300
Requires Railroad
Immediately delivers two free advances.
Women's Suffrage
Cost:600
Requires Industrialization
Grants the benefits of a police station to each of your cities.
United Nations
Cost:600
Requires Communism
All of your units regain two extra hit points per turn.
Cure For Cancer
Cost:600
Requires Genetic Engineering
Makes an unhappy citizen content in all of your cities.
Hoover Dam
Cost:600
Requires Electronics
Grants the benefits of a hydro plant to each of your cities.
Manhattan Project
Cost:600
Requires Nuclear Fission
Gives all players with rocketry the ability to build nuclear weapons.
SETI Program
Cost:600
Requires Computers
Grants the benefits of a research lab to each of your cities. Cities must have a library to benefit.
Apollo Program
Cost:600
Requires Space Flight
All cities in the world become visible to owner. Necessary for any players to construct spaceship elements.
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Overview Terrain Cities Economy Units Combat Government Technology Wonders Index