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Isidore of Miletus is a Medieval Era Great Engineer in Civilization VI.

Unique ability[]

Grants 215 Production Production towards wonder construction (2 charges).

Strategy[]

Medieval Era Wonders cost 710 Production Production to make. 215 Production Production is a little more than a third of that. If you use Isidore twice on the same wonder, you only need 180 Production Production to complete it, a lot easier feat than the full price. Additionally, with the additional charge from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, he can finish it singlehandedly. This Great Engineer is worth it every time if you want to make wonder construction a priority.

Civilopedia entry[]

A renowned mathematician and engineer even before Justinian I commissioned him to build the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, the Greek Isidore of Miletus had a storied career. He taught at the universities of Alexandria and Constantinople, made the first comprehensive compilation of the writings of Archimedes, and designed baths and temples. But it is the big basilica he is remembered for in civilization.

The first basilica on the site had been completed in 360 AD, but had been badly damaged in the Nika Riots – along with most of the rest of the city. The Nika Riots in 532 – sparked by clashes between the Blues and the Greens, supporters of rival chariot racing teams in the Hippodrome – left half the city burned and some 30 thousand dead. Justinian, a holy man, wanted a church that couldn’t be burned down. He turned to Isidore and to Anthemius of Tralles.

Their design drew upon classical Roman architecture and modern (for the time) construction methods; the basilica was centered on a 250-by-230 foot great hall capped with a massive dome, making it the largest church in the Orthodox realm. The Hagia Sophia was completed in just five years, due to the thousands of “volunteer” laborers and loads of raw materials “donated” by the empire’s subjects. Isidore likely died before 558, for when the dome was damaged in an earthquake that year, it was his nephew Isidorus who oversaw the repairs.

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Ada LovelaceAlvar AaltoBi ShengCharles CorreaFilippo BrunelleschiGustave EiffelImhotep1Isidore of MiletusJames of St. GeorgeJames WattJane DrewJohn RoeblingJoseph PaxtonKenzo Tange1Leonardo da VinciMimar SinanNikola TeslaRobert GoddardSergei KorolevShah Jahān1Wernher von Braun
1 Requires DLC

R&F-Only Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.

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