Source: Women’s Era, Bacchus Bread
Based on Sid Meier’s Civilization 6
Ancient Era
Great Bath
(Mohenjo-daro site)
“Despite my difficult and uncontainable body, I still hold the water of my love, and it is not lacking. Therefore, like India, I worship the sun and care for its followers despite religious errors. But I can’t know anymore.”
– William Shakespeare
Etemenanki
(Hammurabi site, also known as the Tower of Babel)
“Let’s build a tower that reaches heaven in the city so that we can make our name known.”
– Genesis 11:4
Temple of Artemis
(Greece)
“When I saw the abode of Artemis above the clouds, all other wonderful structures disappeared from my mind. I said, ‘There is no greater sight under the sun, except Olympus.'”
– Antipater of Sidon
Pyramids
(Egyptian Civilization)
“From atop these pyramids, four thousand years of history are looking down upon us.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Oracle
(Greece)
“I leaped up in the form of a dolphin on a swift ship, pray to me as Apollo Delphinios. The altar will also be called Delphinios, to be managed forever.”
– Homer
Classical Era
Machu Picchu
(Peru site)
“…The eagle soars. It seems to show off from the sky. Inspecting the collapsed, crumbled walls. There is not enough quiet rest in the fate of prey.”
– Samuel Prout Hill
Apadana
(Persian site, Hall of the Persepolis Palace)
“My ancestor Darius made this Apadana, but it was burned. By the grace of Ahura Mazda, Anahita, and Mithra, I rebuilt this Apadana.”
– Artaxerxes II
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
(Persian site)
“In Halicarnassus, there is a tomb of such enormous size that it is difficult to measure, filled with exquisite beauty that cannot be compared to any vanished old shadow.”
– Lucian of Samosata
Colosseum
(Roman site)
“As long as the Colosseum stands, Rome will stand. The day the Colosseum falls, Rome will fall, and the day Rome falls, the world will fall.”
– Saint Bede
Library of Alexandria
(Egyptian Civilization)
“Walking through the bursting numerous storerooms of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are gathered, we can recognize the warning that all we have collected could disappear if it is destroyed.”
– Alberto Manguel
Bodh Gaya Temple
(Indian site, Shrine of Sakyamuni)
“In a dusty and bustling corner of India’s Bihar state, there is a mysterious place considered the center of Buddhism.”
– Bodhgaya, Visitor’s Guide
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Middle Ages
University of Sankore
(Egyptian Civilization, Ancient Higher Education Institution)
“Scholars have left prophecy as a legacy of knowledge, not wealth, as successors to the prophets.”
– Musnad Al-Bazzar 10/68
Minakshi Temple
(Indian site, Temple of Goddess Minakshi)
“We welcome Devi Minakshi, who shines like millions of suns adorned with bracelets and crowns. She is venerable and valuable in existence. I am always thankful for the ocean-like compassion.”
– Adi Shankara
Mont Saint-Michel Abbey
(French site, Formerly a place to imprison criminals or rebels during the Hundred Years’ War)
“In Mont Saint-Michel, religion and state, soul and body, God and man become one. All we have to do is fight in our own way or protect each other.”
– Henry Adams
Angkor Wat
(Cambodian cultural heritage, 1000-year-old site)
“The temple is surrounded by a moat, and the only way in is a bridge guarded by two terrifying, majestic tiger statues that scare visitors.”
– Diogo do Couto
Kilwa Kisiwani
(City-state in East Africa)
“Kilwa is one of the most beautifully built cities in the world. The houses are all wooden buildings and the roofs are made of rooigrass, and the rain falls heavily.”
– Ibn Battuta
Kotoku-in
(Indian site)
“You who walk the narrow and dangerous path, from the flames of Tophet to Judgment Day, treat gently while the ‘heathen’ prays to the Buddha of Kamakura!”
– Rudyard Kipling
Great Zimbabwe
(South African site, city of the Shona tribe)
“Solomon gave the Queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for, besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country.”
– 1 Kings 10:13
Taj Mahal
(India)
“Have you ever built a castle in the air? This is a mystery that transcends time, a mystery that has been brought down from heaven and clung to the earth.”
– Bayard Taylor
Modern Era
Big Ben
(UK)
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. It’s about keeping on with your tasks like a clock.”
– Sam Levenson
Hungarian Parliament Building
(Hungary)
“Autonomy is freedom, and freedom is justice and patriotism.”
– Lajos Kossuth
Hermitage Museum
(Russia)
“The museum is fighting against evil on the front line of the fight for culture. It is fighting against the evil of banality and ignorance.”
– Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the Hermitage Museum
Statue of Liberty
(USA)
“A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, stands at the sunset gates of the sea.”
– Emma Lazarus
Atomic Age
Broadway
(USA)
“There’s no business like show business.”
– Irving Berlin, ‘Annie Get Your
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