Cinnamon is a special Luxury Resource in Civilization VI. It can be obtained only by attaining Suzerainty with the City-State of Zanzibar.
Strategy[]
Cinnamon is one of two luxury resources available exclusively from a city-state, and one of three (along with 
Cloves and 
Perfume) that supplies 6 
Amenities. Since it does not provide Montezuma's units with a 
Combat Strength bonus, it is most useful to the Scots (whose cities receive 
Science and 
Production bonuses when they are Happy or Ecstatic).
In the Gifts of the Nile scenario, Punt provides its Suzerain with Cinnamon.
Civilopedia entry[]
According to the Roman writer Pliny, a Roman pound (about 11.5 ounces) of cinnamon cost up to 300 denarii … ten months wages for a common laborer in the city. Cinnamon has been used since antiquity, as a medicine, aphrodisiac, and to flavor both sweet and savory foods. It was imported into Egypt as early as 2000 BC, and was so highly prized among the Greeks that small amounts were given as gifts to Apollo at his temple at Miletus. So valuable was the spice that traders kept the source (the bark of Cinnamomum trees found in Sri Lanka and on the Malabar coast of India) secret for centuries.
| Civilization VI Resources [edit] | |
|---|---|
| Luxury | Amber  • CinnamonS • Citrus • ClovesS • Cocoa • Coffee • CosmeticsG • Cotton • Diamonds • Dyes • Furs • Gold Ore3 • Gypsum • Honey1 • Incense • Ivory • Jade • JeansG • Marble • Mercury • Olives • Pearls • PerfumeG • Salt • Silk • Silver • Spices • Sugar • Tea • Tobacco • ToysG • Truffles • Turtles • Whales • Wine
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| Bonus | Bananas • Cattle • Copper • Crabs • Deer • Fish • Maize1 • Rice • Sheep • Stone • Wheat |
| Strategic | Aluminum • Coal • Horses • Iron • Niter • Oil • Uranium |
| Special | Antiquity Site • Ley Line2 • Shipwreck |
| G: Accessed by Great Merchant • S: Suzerainty with Zanzibar 1 Added in Maya & Gran Colombia Pack • 2 Secret Societies mode only • 3 Specific scenarios only  Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack. | |