Unique Ability Activate at a Holy Site district or Stonehenge. Historical Context Born around 125 AD in the city of Smyrna, unlike most of the early “church fathers” Irenaeus was brought up…
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Haji Huud | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Activate at a Holy Site district or Stonehenge. Historical Context Haji Huud was born into Islamic royalty – his father was the sultan of Samarkand – near Damascus, and by…
Francis of Assisi | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Activate at a Holy Site district or Stonehenge. Historical Context Another of those sorts who abandon a life of luxury for a life of faith, Francis was born to a…
Confucius | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Activate at a Holy Site district or Stonehenge. Historical Context A philosopher and teacher who inadvertently became a great prophet – he founded one of civilization’s great religions – Kong…
Bodhidharma | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Activate at a Holy Site district or Stonehenge. Historical Context Accounts of Bodhidharma’s life are largely apocryphal – as one might expect, given that he was a Buddhist monk who…
Adi Shankara | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Activate at a Holy Site district or Stonehenge. Historical Context Sivaguru and his wife were poor and childless (which amounts to the same thing in ancient India) in the village…
Omar Khayyam | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Known chiefly in the West for his ‘Rubáiyát,’ Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abu al-Fath ‘Umar ibn al-Nīshāpūrī al-Khayyām (Omar Khayyam these days) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer of renown…
Yatsuhashi Kengyo | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context The blind musician Yatsuhashi Kengyō is now considered the “father of modern koto” for, whereas before…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context No doubt a child prodigy, Mozart had mastered multiple instruments and given his first public recital…
Mykola Leontovych | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych was born in December 1877 AD in the Ukraine, fourth generation in a…