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Prehistoric Age, Stone Age, Copper Age, Bronze Age, Dark Age, Middle Age, Renaissance Age, Imperial Age, Industrial Age, Atomic Age, Digital Age, Nano Age
Prehistoric Age: 500,000 to 50,000 B.C.Nothing is known for sure about the time before recorded history. Learning the secret of fire, however, was certainly a tremendous leap forward for early humans. Fire provided light and heat, cooked food and kept predators at bay. Later fire was used to clear land for agriculture, make pottery and forge metal. Though dependable techniques for making fire were not available until around 7,000 B.C. unearthed remains of simple hearths provide unquestionable evidence that controlled fire was in use at least 500,000 years ago.
Primitive town centers were little more than fire pits where members of a nomadic tribe would gather socially, perhaps to celebrate a successful hunt. Food meant survival, so when hunters returned with a kill it was a cause of rejoicing.
Given the immense importance of obtaining food, tribes must have come in to conflict with one another for control over fertile hunting grounds and foraging areas, especially in times of overall scarcity. These early struggles for survival were the likely precursors of the large scale battles and wars that have dodged our species throughout recorded history.
The earliest epoch that you can play in random map or something is this epoch here can you build barracks, settlements ( and upgrade to town centers if you populate the settlements) houses, temples and towers. And here can you build citizens, scout dog and finish the technologies in the capitols and Town Centers. Army units is Clubman and Rock Thrower can be made by Barracks.
Stone Age : 50,000 to 5,000 B.C.Many advances in stone working and tool making took place during the Stone Age. One particularly important innovation was `hafting' - the attachment of a handle to an existing tool, such as a stone blade. The first hafted implements were spears. Tipped with a fine stone point or `microlith' the resulting weapon was sharp, durable, and deadly. It was used primary for fishing and bringing down large game, but spearmen surely employed them against human enemies as well.
Religious practices also evolved during this epoch, becoming increasingly complex and sophisticated. People's awareness of their own mortality - humans in the Stone Age lived on average less than 30 years - brought about the practices of ancestor worship and ritual burial. Early holy men, known as shamans were believed to have the power to commune with spirits. Rock and cave paintings from this period suggest that these religious figures may have practiced rituals akin to magic, helping to ensure a successful hunt or favourable weather.
The presence of such individuals implies that human societies were diversifying, with different people filling different roles. As societies grew in complexity, the need for organised leadership increased. By the close of the Stone Age hierarchical social structures were leading to centralised authority and the organisation of government. Evidence of this trend has been inferred from ancient settlement patterns found in Greece and on the Iberian Peninsula.
This age can you build Archery and Dock. In dock can you build Fishing Raft, Transport Raft and War Raft ( It's a Frigate in later ages.) In the barracks can you find 2 new units, Spearman and Sampsons. In Archery can you build slingers.
Copper Age : 5,000 to 2,000 B.C.Copper was one of the first metals widely used by humans, owing to its malleability and durability. Like gold and silver, copper could be easily fashioned into many shaped, but it proved to have greater strength. Consequently, copper was prized by early metalworkers for making tools and weapons. Copper-headed maces were first cast in Mesopotamia in the 3rd Millennium BC. Iron also began to find limited use around this time, due mainly to its great abundance though many centuries passed it clamed its place as the preferred material for tools. Yet, despite the availability of these materials, not all weapons made from immediate transition from stone to metal. Bowmen, for example, continued to use stone arrowheads throughout the Copper Age because they were sufficiently lethal and much easier to produce.
By the start of the Copper Age the Egyptians were already constructing warships of bundles of reeds. Such vessels were accentually rafts, suited for duty only on the relatively calm waters of the Nile. By 2,000 BC, both Egypt and Crete had wooden ships capable of navigating the choppy, wind swept waters of the Mediterranean. For propulsion, these warships use a combination of a square sail (for speed) and ores (for manoeuvrability.)
Another defining phenomenon of this epoch was the explosion of agriculture. The ability to farm enabled people to settle in one area - a necessary condition for the emerge of civilization. The earliest known civilization arose in summer, in southern Mesopotamia, during the 5th millennium BC. In addition to growing crops like barley, wheat and grapes, the Sumerians domesticated animals for meat and other materials, and to provide power for the plows and carts. List of commodities, including the line ages of horses, were recorded on clay tables using cuneiform, the first system of writing. By the end of the Copper Age, agriculture had spread from the Middle East through all of Europe.
This epoch can you build lots of buildings, units and heros are also avalible. Buildings like: Hospital,Stables,Granary,University and Walls.Hospital will heal units near the hospital.
University it protects against coversion in range. Granary can you collect the point for farm crops so it will give you food.Stables can you build cavarly units, like Horsemen.
Barracks can you upgrade Clubman to Mace Man. Dock can you upgrade Transport Raft to Transport-Copper and War Raft to Frigate-Copper and you can build 2 new sea units Battleship and Galley. Archery can you upgrade Slinger to Simple Bowman. Technologies you can research is:
Farm- Irrigation(+15% Farming)
Hospital- Herbal Medicines(+70% Citizens/Dog HP & +3 Citizens Attack)
University- Oil Lamp(1+ Building LOS)
Temple- Mythology(+1 Priest Speed)
Polythelsm(+1 Priest Range)
Capitol- Fine-Edged Tools(+15% Hunting/Foragning)
Hand Axe(+15% Wood Gathering)
Bronze Age : 2,000 B.C. to 0 A.D.The production of bronze commended when separate ores containing copper and tin were first melted together. This innovation may have been accidental, but the value of the stronger metal was not lost on ancient armourers. In time, the best proportion of tin copper was found. This discovery was an early triumph in metallurgy.
The Bronze Age marks the appearance of both the sword - the first weapon not to have the secondary use as a tool - and the Phalanx. The Phalanx was a block formation of armoured infantrymen who each carried a long, bronze-tipped spear called a sarissa. Both Philip II Of Macedon and his son and successor, Alexander The Great, used the Phalanx to devastating effect in their campaigns.
In an effort to protect their cities, fortification methods were improved during the Bronze Age. Siege equipment therefore involved as well. The Assyrians pioneered the use of covered rams and the Greeks made use of Stone Throwers and Siege Towers. During the attack of Rhodes, The Macedonians made a Siege Tower so large that more than 3,000 men were required to move it up to the city walls.
Medicine, as well, made a considerable progress in the Bronze Age. The code of Hammurabi, which encapsulated the legal system of Ancient Babylon, included laws that dealt with the practice of medicine. Egyptian papyri describing folk remedies and surgical techniques also date from this period. Later, in Greece the role of supernatural in medicine was down-played until by the time of Hippocrates in the 5th Centaury BC, disease was being regarded as a bodily affection with natural causes. Around 300 BC, the Greeks established a medical school in Alexandria, which continued to be a centre of learning throughout the Roman era.
Formal education of the young can trace its roots back to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, but it was the Greeks who standardized and expanded its role. Whereas earlier schools were devoted to training scribes or teaching religion, schools in Greece talk physical education, literacy, good conduct and other subjects. Higher education also developed in Greece, open to all who had both spare time and money. The most famous example of the day was the academy, founded by Plato Circa 387 BC.
This Epoch can you build 1 new building and lots of units!In Barracks can you build only 2 units,you can upgrade Mace Man to Short Sword and Spearman to Phalax.Archery can you build lots of arrow units, 3 new units now in archery. It is Javelin Thrower,Chariot Archer and Elephant Archer. Stables 2 new units can you build, its Bronze Cavarly and War Elephant. Dock all the units in dock will be "Name-Bronze".The new building is Seige Factory that will you find cannons,artillery pieces and seige weapons but now can you build Stone Thrower,(is good vs massed units)Seige Tower,Catapult (Anti-Buildings) and Ram (another very Anti-Building).
Technologies you can research are:
Granary:Hippocratic (Hospital Range & Rate)
University:Pulley (+50% Buildings HP) and Philosophy (1+ University Range)
Temple: Oracle (+1 Prophet speed) and Monotheism ( 1+ Temple Range)
Capitol: Metal Casting (+15% Gold Gathering) and Hardened Chisel (+15% Iron Gathering
Dark Age : 0 A.D. to 900 A.D.Not long after iron superseded bronze, early civilization reached its peak with the incomparable Roman Empire. When the Empire finally collapsed, it brought about what has been called the Dark Ages. There are numerous reasons for the decline of the fall of Rome, chief among them military defeats at the hands of the so-called barbarian tribes. In 378 AD gothic horsemen trounced the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople, foreshadowing the dominance of Calvary that was to come. The Visigoths sacked the city of Rome itself in 401 AD.
After Rome's collapse, pockets of civilization continued to exits, most notably in the Byzantine or `Eastern Roman' Empire. It's Capital at Constantinople was established in 330 AD by Roman Emperor Constantine, who also legitimised Christianity in the Roman world. The Eastern Roman Empire continued on for some 1,000 years after the fall of its Western counterpart, becoming a power in it's own right. Byzantine Warships were formidable vessels that made use of the latest rigging and armament technologies, such as the lateen sail and ballistae capable of hearing missiles hundreds of yards. On land, the core of Byzantine army after the 8th Centaury was the Cataphract, a heavily armed and armoured Cavalryman.
Emperors in Constantinople wanted - and even tried - to regain full control of the splintered Western Empire. But widening religion differences led the Roman Catholic Church to resist reunification. In 800 AD, after Charlemagne, the Frankish King, had taken over Western Europe, Pope Leo III Crowned him the new Roman Emperor mainly to protect Rome from the Byzantines. The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches remain separate to this day.
This Epochs will you upgrade and new units will be made by Barracks ,Stable, Archery and Dock. In Barracks can you build 4 units, Short Sword,Phalax and 2 new units, The Viking (Invisible at the enemy, good vs ranged units) and The Barbarian (Can walk in the forest). In Stable will you build Bronze Cavarly, War Elephant and 2 new units, The Cataphract (upgrade by Horsemen, and very good armor) and Persian Cavarly (Pierce attack,good vs all cavarly and Shock= Sword armed). In Archery will you find 2 regular and 3 new units, Chariot Archer , War Elephant, Pilum (upgrade by Javelin Thrower),Crossbow (One hit kill vs all infantry) and Composite Bow (Better than Simple Bowman and upgrade by Bowman). Dock Frigate-,Galley and Battleship-Byzantine.
And new technologies you can research are :
Hospital: Comparative Anatomy (+42% Citizens/Dog HP & +2 Citizens attack) and Pharmacy (+1 Citizens Attack) and Sanitation ( +5 Pop Cap).
University: Commercial Law ( -50% Tribute Cost) and Cofferdam ( +100% Dock Repiar)
Temple: Saint Hood (+1 Prophet Range) and Prophecy (+40% Prophets HP) and Excommunation (+1 Priest Range)
Capitol: Falconry (+15% Hunting/Foraging) and Iron Saw (+15% Wood Gathering.
Middle Ages : 900 A.D. to 1,300 A.D.The Middle Ages saw the steady re-emergence of centralized authority and technological progress. The rising feudal system re-established a semblance of government authority in Europe, albeit at a localised level. A local lord ruled over his own property, often from a central castle outside a village, which was protected by walls. Serfs farmed the surrounding land. Mounted knights commonly made up lord's armed retinue, riding out to defend the town when necessary.
For a time, castled were the ultimate defensive siege weaponry slowly advanced in response to them. The definitive siege engine prior to gunpowder was the trebuchet. Trebuchets used a counterweight to generate a force that could hurdle a 300 pound projectile over 300 yards. Some of these machines were enormous, with counterweights excess of 10 tons. Once properly aimed they could make short work of any target.
The longbow - the pre-eminent weapon of this time - was used to extensively in siege warfare on both sides of the castle wall, especially in Britain. Longbow men were selected and trained from childhood, and the investment was worthwhile. Men skilled in its use could fell even heavy armoured knights from a distance up to 300 yards.
Castles were not the only the largest building being constructed at this time. Advances in architecture, such as the invention of the flying buttress, allowed huge cathedrals with vaulted ceilings and magnificent stained glass windows to be built. Christianity was spreading, as was the power of the Roman Catholic Church. Eight major crusaders were organised and launched from Europe in effort to regain Muslim-controlled territory in the Holy Land. Though the crusaders managed to retake a few Holy sites, including the city of Jerusalem, they were eventually driven out again. At home, meanwhile, the first papal inquisitions were instituted to deal with suspected heretics.
Renaissance Age :1,300 A.D. to 1,500 A.D.
Imperial Age : 1,500 A.D. to 1,700 A.D.
Industrial Age : 1,700 A.D. to 1,900 A.D.
Atomic Age : 1,900 A.D. to 2,000 A.D.
Digital Age : 2,025 A.D. to 2,200 A.D.
Nano Age : 2,200 A.D. Onwards
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