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Gold is a 
Resource in Civilization VII.
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Gold is the sweat of the sun, according to the Inca. This soft metal is frequently found in its bright, elemental form. It has some industrial uses, but for most of recorded history, humans found value in its uselessness – its beauty. Gold is ductile, meaning it is easily shaped, and it does not corrode, making it an ideal substance for jewelry, coinage, and the like. However, gold's softness means it is unsuitable (not to mention too rare) for tools. Some of the earliest gold artifacts, crafted over six millennia ago, were discovered around the Black Sea, at Varna. These are bracelets and plates of gold that may have emerged from a newly established patriarchal, warlike culture. This was a troubling development for the burgeoning agricultural river valleys of the Near East, which would see history repeat itself over and over again as waves of Central Asian nomads emerged to take power over soft river cities, only to become soft themselves over generations.
Gold always held the dual role of being a source of beauty and an object of greed. Protestants and Muslims frowned on the over-use of gold. In Jewish folklore, the idolatrous calf that Moses discovered his followers worshipping was made of gold. The metal was also significant in the New World amongst Aztec and Inca societies, and especially the Muisca people of Colombia, whose sources of gold were legendary. As rumors of gold resources reached explorers such as Christopher Columbus, they sparked the rapacious expansion of colonial powers across that continent.
See also[]
- Gold in other games