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Advances in Alphabetical Order

Technology Cost Requires Leads To Units & Buildings Enabled Special
Agriculture 60   Animal Husbandry
Pottery
  Can Build Farm
Alphabet 300 Writing Literature
Drama
  Enables Technology Trading
Animal Husbandry 100 Hunting
Agriculture
Horseback Riding
Writing
  Reveals Horse
Can Build Pasture
Archery 60 Hunting   Archer
Skirmisher
Longbowman
Crossbowman
Cho-Ko-Nu
Horse Archer
Keshik
Camel Archer
 
Artillery 4000 Rifling
Steel
Physics
Rocketry Artillery  
Assembly Line 5000 Corporation
Steam Power
Fascism
Industrialism
Infantry
Factory
Coal Plant
The Pentagon
 
Astronomy 2000 Calendar
Optics
Physics
Scientific Method
Galleon
Frigate
Observatory
Obsoletes Colossus
Enables traderoutes on ocean
Banking 700 Currency
Guilds
Economics
Replaceable Parts
Bank Civic: Mercantilism
Biology 3600 Chemistry
Scientific Method
Refrigeration
Medicine

Ecology
  Can build farms w/out irrigation
Farm: +1 food
Bronze Working 120 Mining Iron Working
Metal Casting
Axeman
Can chop forest
Reveals Copper
Civic: Slavery
Calendar 350 Sailing
Mathematics
Astronomy   Can Build Plantation
Obsoletes Obelisk
Obsoletes Stonehenge
Centers World Map
Chemistry 1800 Engineering
Gunpowder
Steel
Steam Power
Biology

Scientific Method
Grenadier
Frigate
Obsoletes The Parthenon
Workshop: +1 Production
Civil Service 800 Code of Laws
Feudalism
Nationalism
Paper
Maceman
Samurai
Civic: Bureaucracy
Farms spread irrigation
Code of Laws 350 Writing
Priesthood
Currency
Constitution
Civil Service
Philosophy
Courthouse
Chichen Itza
Enables Caste System
First to discover founds Confucianism
Combustion 3600 Railroad Flight
Plastics
Transport
Destroyer
Submarine
Can Build Oil Well
Obsoletes Whale
Communism 2800 Liberalism
Scientific Method
  Spy
Scotland Yard
Kremlin
Enables Permanent Alliances
Civic: State Property
Compass 400 Sailing
Iron Working
Optics Explorer
Harbor
 
Composites 7500 Satellites
Plastics
Future Technology Modern Armor
Jet Fighter
Stealth Bomber
 
Computers 6500 Radio Genetics
Fiber Optics
Robotics
Modern Armor
Laboratory
Obsoletes Angkor Wat
Obsoletes Spiral Minaret
Constitution 2000 Code of Laws
Nationalism
Corporation
Democracy
Jail Civic: Representation
Construction 350 Masonry
Mathematics
Engineering War Elephant
Catapult
Colloseum
Enables Bridge Building
Corporation 1600 Economics
Constitution
Assembly Line Wall Street Obsoletes Great Lighthouse
+1 trade route per city
Currency 400 Mathematics Banking
Code of Laws
Market
Grocer
Enables Gold Trading
+1 trade route per city
Democracy 2800 Printing Press
Constitution
  The Statue of Liberty Civic: Universal Suffrage
Civic: Emancipation
Divine Right 1200 Monarchy
Theology
Nationalism Versailles
The Spiral Minaret
First to discover founds Islam
Drama 300 Alphabet Music
Philosophy
Theatre
Globe Theatre
Can adjust culture rate
Ecology 5500 Biology
Fission
Plastics
  Recycling Center
SS Life Support
Can Scrub Fallout
Economics 1400 Banking
Education
Corporation   First to discover recieves a Great Merchant
Civic: Free Market
Education 1800 Paper Liberalism
Economics
Gunpowder
University
Oxford University
 
Electricity 4500 Physics Refrigeration
Fission
Radio
Industrialism
Bunker
Bomb Shelter
Broadway
Windmill: +1 commerce
Watermill: +1 commerce
Engineering 1000 Construction
Machinery
Chemistry Pikeman
Castle
The Hagia Sophia
+1 road movement
Fascism 2400 Nationalism
Assembly Line
  Mt. Rushmore Civic: Police State
Enables Permanent Alliances
Feudalism 700 Writing
Monarchy
Guilds
Civil Service
Longbowman Civic: Vassalage
Civic: Serfdom
Fiber Optics 7500 Computers
Satellites
Plastics
Fusion The Internet
SS Cockpit
Obsoletes Kremlin
Fishing 40   Sailing
Pottery
Work Boat Can work water tiles
Can create fishing boats
Fission 5500 Electricity Fusion
Ecology
ICBM
Nuclear Plant
Manhattan Project
 
Flight 5000 Combustion
Physics
Rocketry Carrier
Fighter
Bomber
Gunship
Jet Fighter
Stealth Bomber
Airport
 
Fusion 8000 Fission
Fiber Optics
  SS Engine First to discover recieves a Great Engineer
Genetics 7000 Refrigeration
Computers
Future Technology SS Statis Chamber +3 health in all cities
Guilds 1000 Feudalism
Machinery
Banking
Gunpowder
Knight
Camel Archer
Conquistador
Grocer
Workshop: +1 hammer
Gunpowder 1200 Guilds
Education
Chemistry
Rifling
Musketman
Musketeer
Cavalry
Cossack
 
Horseback Riding 250 Animal Husbandry   Horse Archer
Keshik
Knight
Camel Archer
Conquistador

Cavalry
Cossack
 
Hunting 40   Archery
Animal Husbandry
Scout
Spearman
Phalanx
Can build Camps
Industrialism 6500 Electricity
Assembly Line
Plastics Marine
Navy Seal
Tank
Panzer
Battleship
Reveals Aluminum
Obsoletes Ivory
Iron Working 200 Bronze Working Compass
Steel
Swordsman
Jaguar
Praetorian
Reveals Iron
Can remove Jungle
Liberalism 1400 Philosophy
Education
Communism   First to discover recieves a free technology
Civic: Free Speech
Civic: Free Religion
Literature 200 Polytheism
Alphabet
Music Heroic Epic
National Epic
Great Library
 
Machinery 700 Metal Casting Optics
Guilds
Engineering
Printing Press
Crossbowman
Cho-Ko-Nu
Maceman
Samurai
Can build windmill
Can build watermill
Masonry 80 Mining
Mysticism
Monotheism
Construction
Walls
Aquaduct
The Pyramids
The Great Lighthouse
Can build quarry
Mass Media 3600 Radio   Broadcast Tower
Hollywood
United Nations
 
Mathematics 250 Writing Calendar
Construction
Currency
Music
Aquaduct
Hanging Gardens
Can build fort
+50% hammers from chopping
Medicine 4500 Optics
Biology
  Hospital
Red Cross
Civic: Environmentalism
Meditation 80 Mysticism Philosophy
Priesthood
Monastery First to discover founds Buddhism
Metal Casting 450 Pottery
Bronze Working
Machinery Forge
Colossus
Can build Workshop
Military Tradition 2000 Music
Nationalism
  Cavalry
Cossack
West Point
Enables Defensive Pact
Mining 50   Bronze Working
Masonry
  Can build mine
Monarchy 300 Priesthood
Monotheism
Feudalism
Divine Right
  Can build winery
Civic: Hereditary Rule
Monotheism 120 Masonry
Polytheism
Theology
Monarchy
  First to discover founds Judaism
Civic: Organized Religion
Music 600 Mathematics
Literature
Drama
Military Tradition Cathedral
Notre Dame
First to discover recieves a great artist
Mysticism 50   Meditation
Polytheism
Masonry
Obelisk
Stonehenge
 
Nationalism 1800 Civil Service
Philosophy
Divine Right
Music
Constitution
Fascism
Hermitage
The Taj Mahal
Civic: Nationhood
Optics 600 Compass
Machinery
Astronomy
Medicine
Caravel +1 sight accross water
can create whaling boats
Paper 600 Theology
Civil Service
Printing Press
Education
  Enables map trading
Philosophy 800 Meditation
Drama
Code of Laws
Liberalism
Nationalism
Angkor Wat First to discover founds Taoism
Civic: Pacifism
Physics 4000 Astronomy
Scientific Method
Artillery
Electricity
Flight
  Reveals Uranium
First to discover recieves a Great Scientist
Plastics 7000 Combustion
Industrialization
Composoties
Robotics
Ecology
Fiber Optics
Hydro Plant
Three Gorges Dam
Obsoletes Fur
Can create Offshore Platform
Polytheism 100 Mysticism Monotheism
Literature
Priesthood
Parthenon First to discover founds Hinduism
Pottery 80 The Wheel
Fishing
Agriculture
Metal Casting
Writing
Granary Can build Cottage
Priesthood 60 Meditation
Polytheism
Writing
Monarchy
Code of Laws
Temple
Oracle
 
Printing Press 1600 Paper
Machinery
Replaceable Parts
Scientific Method
Democracy
  Village: +1 commerce
Town: +1 commerce
Radio 6000 Electricity Mass Media
Satellites
Computers
Submarine
Bomber
The Eiffel Tower
Rock N Roll
 
Railroad 4500 Steel
Steam Power
Combustion Machine Gun Can build Railroad
Refrigeration 4000 Biology
Electricity
Genetics Supermarket +1 move for water units
Replaceable Parts 1800 Banking
Printing Press
Rifling
Steam Power
  Can build Lumbermill
Windmill: +1 hammer
Watermill: +1 hammer
Rifling 2400 Gunpowder
Replaceable Parts
Artillery
Rocketry
Rifleman
Redcoat
Infantry
Marine
Navy Seal
Mech. Infantry
Tank
Panzer
Obsolets Chichen Itza
Robotics 8000 Computers
Plastics
  Mech. Infantry
Stealth Bomber
SS Docking Bay
Space Elevator
 
Rocketry 5000 Rifling
Artillery
Flight
Satellites SAM Infantry
Gunship
ICBM
Apollo Program
SS Casing
 
Sailing 100 Fishing Calendar
Compass
Galley
Lighthouse
Enables trade routes on coasts
Satellites 6000 Rocketry
Radio
Composites
Fiber Optics
SDI
SS Thrusters
Reveals World Map
Scientific Method 2400 Printing Press
Chemistry
Astronomy
Communism
Biology
Physics
  Reveals Oil
Obsoletes The Great Library
Obsoletes Monastery
Steam Power 3200 Chemistry
Replaceable Parts
Railroad
Assembly Line
Ironclad Reveals Coal
Workers build 50% faster
Obsoletes The Hagia Sophia
Steel 2800 Iron Working
Chemistry
Artillery
Railroad
Cannon
Ironclad
Drydocks
Ironworks
 
Theology 500 Writing
Monotheism
Divine Right
Paper
The Sistine Chapel First to discover founds Christianity
Civic: Theocracy
The Wheel 60   Pottery Chariot
War Chariot
Immortal
Can build Road
Writing 120 Priesthood
Pottery
Animal Husbandry
Mathematics
Alphabet
Code of Laws
Theology
Feudalism
Library Enables Open Borders
Future Technology 10000 Genetics
Composites
    +1 health in all cities
+1 happiness in all cities


In the table all Advances are listed alphabetically. In the 'requires' column bold entries are mandatory, while normal faced entries are optional prerequisites - you only need one of them. Similarly, in the 'Leads To' column, bold entries signify that the tech is a mandatory prerequisite for the named technology (but it can still also need additional techs) while normal faced entries signify that the technology is an optional prereq.

This corresponds with the tech tree: Advances linked by lines represent optional prerequisites, whereas techs mentioned between brackets (or in screenshots, listed as icons) represent required ones. Of course, if a tech only has one optional prerequisite, then this prerequisite is effectively necessary -- the table reflects this. For example, in the case of Pottery this means that it requires The Wheel AND either Agriculture OR Fishing, and while you can't research Metal Casting without it, it is only one possible path to Writing (Priesthood and Animal Husbandry being the other ones).

In the 'Units and Buildings Granted' column, unique units are in italics. Note that many units and some buildings require additional technologies. Units and buildings are listed under each technology that is needed for them.



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