Advances

This new cards don’t substitute anyone of the originals. They are just an amendment to hellenice a little bit the game and to include some important historically events in ancient polis life. I include only a little modification to Public works card to add a constrain to drought calamity and I have changed the value of clothmaking to 60 instead 50 (because of the naval character of the map this card increases its importance). Let’s see new cards one by one :

		In Ancient Greece, colonies were sometimes founded by vanquished peoples, who left their homes to escape subjection at the hand of a foreign enemy, sometimes as a sequel to civil disorders, when the losers in internecine battles left to form a new city elsewhere, sometimes to get rid of surplus population, and thereby to avoid internal convulsions. But in most cases the object was to establish and facilitate relations of trade with foreign countries. There were two similar kinds of colonies, apoikiai and emporia. The first were city-states on their own; the second were Greek trading-colonies. The Greek city-states began establishing colonies around 800 BC.
		A term used to describe the donation of money and property in order to win favor. Their origins are in the Arcaic ages of ancient greece but the maximum apogee was during the Roman empire. Members of the aristocracy, used his generosity to attract the support of the people, paid for the building and renovation of public structures and sponsored government projects in order to enhance their social and political status.
		The Greek system of weights and measures was built mainly upon the Egyptian, and formed the basis of the later Roman system. Solon regulated weights and measures before the reach of the golden age of Athens. With the imperial expansion of Athens its weights and mesurement methods extended through all the empire.
		If we talk about The golden age of Greece we have to talk about the golden age of Athens. The Persian Wars ushered in a century of Athenian dominance of Greek affairs. Athens was the unchallenged master of the sea. The leading statesman of this time was Pericles. By the mid 5th century the wealth of Athens attracted talented people from all over Greece, and also created a wealthy leisured class who became patrons of the arts. The Athenian state also sponsored learning and the arts, particularly architecture. Athens became the centre of Greek literature, philosophy and the arts. Some of the greatest names of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, and Sophocles, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon, the poet Simonides and the sculptor Pheidias. The city became, in Pericles’s words, “the school of Hellas.”
		In classical Greece, the pre-eminent oracle, the Sibyl (or Pythia) operated at the temple of Apollo at Delphi. This oracle exerted considerable influence throughout Hellenic culture; the Greeks consulted her prior to all major undertakings: mainly wars but also the founding of colonies, and so forth. The semi-Hellenic countries around the Greek world, such as Macedonia, Lydia, Caria, and even Egypt also respected her. Croesus of Lydia consulted Delphi before attacking Persia, and according to Herodotus was told, “If you do, you will destroy a great empire.” Believing the response favorable, Croesus attacked, but it was his own empire that was ultimately destroyed by the Persians. Dodona became the second most important oracle in ancient Greece, dedicated to Zeus, Heracles and Dione.
		During ancient greek times naval improvements were essential for several reason, commerce, colonization or building empires. One of the most important improvements was the design of the trireme. According to Thucydides, the trireme was introduced by Ameinocles of Corinth in the late 8th century BC. However, we also know that triremes were not truly effectively used in naval combat until about 525 BC, in the early 5th century BC the Athenians were able to make sufficient improvements to the design to ensure their naval ascendancy for 60 years.
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