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…
Ludwig van Beethoven | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Deaf but brilliant, cursed with an unhappy life and increasingly ill, Ludwig van Beethoven has been…
Liu Tianhua | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context When Chinese composer Liu Tianhua died in 1932 AD at the age of 37, he had…
Lili’uokalani | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot. Historical Context Born Lydia Lili’u Walania Wewehi Kamaka’eha in 1838 AD, when she came to the throne of…
Juventino Rosas | Civilization VI
Great Works Activate at a district or wonder with an available slot. Historical Context Enigmatic – mostly because he lived a short time and tended to be footloose – Juventino Rosas is…