Tech Tree
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Techs (short for "technologies") are empire upgrades that cost science and provide various benefits and make additional techs and some laws and events available.
Tier 1 (80 Science)
Technology | Prerequisites | Leads To | Effects |
---|---|---|---|
Ironworking | None | Warrior | |
Stonecutting | None | Fort, Quarry | |
Trapping | None | Slinger, Camp | |
Divination | None | Shrine | |
Administration | None | Rhetoric, Free Worker | Treasury, Granary |
Tier 2 (120 Science)
Technology | Prerequisites | Leads To | Effects |
---|---|---|---|
Labor Force | Ironworking | ||
Husbandry | Ironworking | ||
Drama | Stonecutting | ||
Polis | Stonecutting, Trapping | ||
Military Drill | Trapping | ||
Aristocracy | Divination | Border Boost, Sovereignty (with Rhetoric), Monasticism | Ambassador, Centralization / Vassalage |
Rhetoric | Administration |
Border Boost - All Cities +6 Border Tiles
Tier 3 (200 Science)
Technology | Prerequisites | Leads To | Effects |
---|---|---|---|
Navigation | Labor Force | ||
Phalanx | Labor Force | ||
Spoked Wheel | Husbandry | ||
Forestry | Polis | ||
Steel | Military Drill, Ironworking | ||
Sovereignty | Aristocracy, Rhetoric | ||
Metaphysics | Rhetoric |
Tier 4 (400 Science)
Technology | Prerequisites | Leads To | Effects |
---|---|---|---|
Coinage | Navigation | Money Boost, Lateen Sail (with Cartography) | Market, Pacify City, Automate Workers |
Citizenship | Phalanx | Scholarship, Stirrups (with Spoked Wheel), Free Court Minister | Courthouse, Divine Rule / Legal Code |
Portcullis | Drama | ||
Land Consolidation | Forestry | ||
Composite Bow | Military Drill | Manor (with Land Consolidation), Free Akkadian Archer, Free Archer, Free Palton Cavalry | Archer, Range |
Monasticism | Aristocracy | ||
Machinery | Sovereignty |
Tier 5 (600 Science)
Technology | Prerequisites | Leads To | Effects |
---|---|---|---|
Scholarship | Citizenship | ||
Stirrups | Spoked Wheel, Citizenship | ||
Architecture | Portcullis | Vaulting, Free Siege Tower | Bath, Philosophy / Engineering |
Manor | Land Consolidation, Composite Bow | ||
Battle Line | Steel, Phalanax | Barding (with Martial Code), Cohorts (with Land Consolidation), Free Court Soldier | Maceman |
Doctrine | Monasticism | ||
Torsion | Machinery | ||
Cartography | Metaphysics, Navigation | Lateen Sail (with Coinage), Ballistics (with Hydraulics) | Trireme, Harbor, Steal Research |
Tier 6 (800 Science)
Technology | Prerequisites | Leads To | Effects |
---|---|---|---|
Hydraulics | Coinage | ||
Jurisprudence | Scholarship | ||
Martial Code | Stirrups | ||
Vaulting | Architecture | ||
Bodkin Arrow | Manor | Infantry Square, Free Longbowman, Free Cimmerian Archer | Longbowman |
Cohorts | Land Consolidation, Battle Line | Military Prestige (with Barding and Infantry Square), Free Legionary | Swordsman |
Windlass | Torsion |
Tier 7 (1000 Science)
Technology | Prerequisites | Leads To | Effects |
---|---|---|---|
Lateen Sail | Hydraulics | ||
Fiscal Policy | Jurisprudence | ||
Barding | Steel, Martial Code | Military Prestige (with Infantry Square and Cohorts) | Cataphract |
Infantry Square | Bodkin Arrow | ||
Chain Drive | Windlass | Industrial Progress (with Ballistics) | Polybolos |
Ballistics | Hydraulics, Cartography | Industrial Progress (with Chain Drive) | Mangonel |
Tier 8 (1200 Science)
Technology | Prerequisites | Leads To | Effects |
---|---|---|---|
Economic Reform | Lateen Sail, Fiscal Policy | ||
Military Prestige | Barding, Infantry Square, Cohorts | ||
Industrial Progress | Chain Drive, Ballistics |