Research
32 technologies and what they unlock
- Stonecutting
- Turning rough stone into dressed blocks.
- Bronze Working
- The first weapons from copper and tin alloy.
- Ironworking
- Blast furnace and casting; the metal that changed an age.
- Steel Weapons
- Damascus steel — master of the yatagan and the sword.
- Armoursmithing
- Mail and plate armour; the Cebeci's craft.
- Wooden Palanka
- A defensive line ringed with stakes.
- Stone Wall
- Mortared stone walls encircle the city.
- Moat System
- Water-filled ditches stop cavalry cold.
- Bastion Architecture
- Round bastions and projecting support towers.
- Fortress Planning
- Multi-layered walls and inner-keep design.
- Inner Citadel Doctrine
- A final stronghold at the heart of the city.
- Iron Gate
- A wrought-iron city gate that resists the battering ram.
- Boiling Oil Apparatus
- Oil poured from the walls burns the besieger.
- Archery Mastery
- Composite bows and Azap archers.
- Horse Breeding
- Swift Anatolian horses and raider cavalry.
- Sipahi Organisation
- Founding of the timariot cavalry class.
- Janissary Corps
- Elite infantry born of the devshirme system.
- Discovery of Gunpowder
- A mixture of saltpetre, charcoal and sulphur.
- Light Cannon Casting
- Bronze-cast field guns.
- Şahi Cannon
- Colossal wall-breaking siege gun — cast by Orban.
- Mine Warfare
- Tunnels beneath the walls and powder-fused demolition.
- Agricultural Revolution
- Ploughing and fallow rotation; abundant harvests.
- Deep Mining
- Vertical shafts and ore enrichment.
- Mint
- Coin striking and monetary union.
- Trade Routes
- Silk Road caravans and a network of caravanserais.
- Silk Road Privileges
- Right of passage by imperial edict; caravan travel time −10% per level.
- Caravan Guard
- A guard corps; caravan defence +15% per level.
- Naval Forces
- Galleys and bastardas; mastery of the Mediterranean.
- Madrasa System
- An organised education network that trains scholars.
- Waqf System
- Economic circulation through charitable foundations.
- Kanunname
- The legal corpus that standardised imperial governance.
- World Empire
- Grand strategy doctrine ruling three continents.
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