Unique Ability Activate at a Holy Site district or Stonehenge. Historical Context Madhva Acharya was born near the town of Udupi in 1238 AD to an elderly but pious Brahmin. Educated by…
Laozi | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Activate at a Holy Site district or Stonehenge. Historical Context The reputed author of the ‘Tao Te Ching,’ and thus the “founder” of Taoism, Laozi was a native of the…
John the Baptist | Civilization VI
Unique Ability Activate at a Holy Site district or Stonehenge. Historical Context A central figure in three faiths – Judaism, Christianity and Islam (and even forgotten sects like Mandaeism) – John the…
Irenaeus | Civilization VI
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…
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…