Love this game, playing since Civilization III. In this guide no Russia because they killed my relatives too in war, so it will be not fair. If it’s ok for you, you…
Erwin Schrödinger | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Maybe not as famous as that famous cat, Erwin Schrödinger was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist whose groundbreaking wave equation moved quantum theory from the margins to the…
Emilie Du Chatelet | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil was born in Paris in 1706 AD to a well-connected, noble family – her father the baron was a favorite of Louis…
Charles Darwin | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context After a five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle, followed by years of thought, Charles Darwin published ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’ in 1859…
Carl Sagan | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Carl Sagan was many things – astronomer, astrophysicist, astrobiologist – but it was his efforts as a popularizer of modern science that made him famous. Sagan, among other…
Aryabhata | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Born sometime around 476 AD, somewhere in central India, scholars are fairly certain (or not) that the mathematician Aryabhata (if that was his name) travelled to the city…
Alfred Nobel | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Alfred Nobel – whose fortune established the famed Nobel Prizes – held some 350 patents by the time of his death (mostly for things that blew other things…
Albert Einstein | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Considered the greatest genius of the 20th Century and the most influential theoretical physicist of all time, Albert Einstein had a passion for inquiry that eventually led him…
Alan Turing | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Alan Mathison Turing is today considered the “father” of both theoretical computer science and of artificial intelligence. His 1936 paper “On Computable Numbers” – proving that a universal…
Abu Al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Passive Effect Historical Context Around 936 AD, Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas al-Zahrawi was born in the town of El-Zahra, a few miles northwest of Cordoba, in Islamic al-Andalus. Under…
Abdus Salam | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Triggers the Eureka moment for all technologies from the Information era. Historical Context Born in Jhang in January 1926, Abdus Salam would become of the first Pakistani and the first…