Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context “Master of the Macabre,” the American Edgar Allan Poe churned out atmospheric poems and tales of…
Bhasa | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Save for mention in the works of other writers such as Kālidāsa, the first great playwright…
Stephanie Kwolek | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Five times stronger by weight than steel, Kevlar – the para-aramid synthetic fiber of exceptional strength and stiffness better known (to chemists at least) as poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide –…
Mary Leakey | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Mary Leakey (along with her husband Louis, who died in 1972 AD) continued what Darwin had started: searching for the origin of the human species that we know…
Janaki Ammal | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Born in 1897 AD in Tellicherry in the British Raj, unlike other Indian girls at the time, her parents encouraged Janaki Ammal Edavale th Kakkat to pursue her…
James Young | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Scottish chemist James Young devised an improvement for Michael Faraday’s battery, proposed a method of combating potato blight, is responsible for advancements in rustproofing the Royal Navy’s fleet,…
Isaac Newton | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Born in Woolsthorpe to a farming family in 1643 AD, at the time of his death in 1727 Sir Isaac Newton had been living with a niece near…
Hildegard of Bingen | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context Declared by some “the greatest woman of her time,” Hildegard was a Benedictine abbess, philosopher, liturgical poet and composer, botanist and herbalist, polymath, mystic (she had visions of…
Galileo Galilei | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context In any history of science, Galileo Galilei plays a key part; he is a – if not the – central figure in the Scientific Revolution. His works on…
Euclid | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Historical Context All that can be said of Euclid’s life, all that is known with a certainty, is that – according to the Greek philosopher Proclus – he taught in…