List of civics in Civ6

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The following is a list of civics in Civilization VI and its expansions, sorted by era.

Ancient Era

Civic	Culture cost	Inspiration	Policy cards	Units, infrastructure, & governments	Other unlocks	Leads to
Code of Laws	20	None	Survey Discipline God King Urban Planning	Chiefdom		Craftsmanship Foreign Trade
Craftsmanship	40	Improve 3 Tiles.	Ilkum Agoge	Chemamull Sphinx		Military Tradition State Workforce
Foreign Trade	40	Discover a second Continent.	Caravansaries Maritime Industries	Qhapaq Ñan Trader	+1 Trade Route capacity. Diplomatic agreements Joint War and Join Ongoing War	Early Empire Mysticism
Military Tradition	50	Clear a Barbarian Encampment.	Maneuver Strategos		Grants Flanking and Support combat bonuses to all combat units.	Military Training
State Workforce	70	Build any district.	Corvée Conscription	Government Plaza	+1 Governor title.	Political Philosophy Games and Recreation
Early Empire	70	Grow your civilization to at least 6 Population.	Colonization Land Surveyors Limitanei	Pairidaeza	Closes the borders and allows granting of Open Borders. Casus Belli: War of Retribution +1 Governor title.	Political Philosophy Drama and Poetry
Mysticism	50	Found a Pantheon.	Inspiration Revelation	Oracle	+1 Envoy	Theology

Medieval Era

Civic	Culture cost	Inspiration	Policy cards	Units, infrastructure, & governments	Other unlocks	Leads to
Naval Tradition	200 220	Kill a unit with a Quadrireme.	Naval Infrastructure Navigation		+1 Envoy
Feudalism	275 300	Build 6 Farms.	Feudal Contract Serfdom	Samurai	Farms gain +1 Food per 2 adjacent farms +1 Faith to Stepwells. +1 Food on Plantations.	Mercenaries Medieval Faires Guilds
Civil Service	275 300	Grow a city to 10 Population.	Retainers (Vanilla only) Meritocracy Civil Prestige	Meenakshi Temple	Allows Alliances. +1 Production and +1 Housing to Mekewaps.	Divine Right Guilds
Mercenaries	290 340	Have 8 land combat units in your military.	Professional Army (Vanilla only) Sack Trade Confederation	Jong	+1 Envoy	Exploration
Medieval Faires	385 420	Maintain 4 Trade Routes.	Aesthetics Medina Quarter Merchant Confederation	Angkor Wat Barbary Corsair	+1 Governor title.	Humanism Exploration
Guilds	385 420	Build 2 Markets.	Craftsmen Town Charters Traveling Merchants	Chichen Itza Mbanza Outback Station Polder	+1 Governor title.	Humanism Diplomatic Service Reformed Church
Divine Right	290 340	Build 2 Temples.	Chivalry Gothic Architecture	Mont St. Michel Kotoku-in Monarchy Tagma		Reformed Church

Renaissance Era

Civic	Culture cost	Inspiration	Policy cards	Units, infrastructure, & governments	Other unlocks	Leads to
Exploration	400 440	Build 2 Caravels.	Press Gangs Native Conquest Colonial Offices	Merchant Republic
Humanism	540 600	Earn a Great Artist.	Frescoes Invention	Taj Mahal Archaeological Museum Art Museum Chateau	(Vanilla and only) +1 Culture to Colossal Heads	Mercantilism The Enlightenment
Diplomatic Service	540 600	Have an alliance with another civilization.	Machiavellianism Wisselbanken	Spy	Resident Embassies Casus Belli: Holy War, Liberation, Reconquest, Protectorate +1 Culture to Pairidaezas.	The Enlightenment
Reformed Church	400 440	Have 6 cities following your Religion.	Wars of Religion Religious Orders Simultaneum	St. Basil's Cathedral Golf Course Theocracy
Mercantilism	655 720	Earn a Great Merchant.	Logistics Triangular Trade	Winged Hussar Privateer Sea Dog	+1 Food and +1 Production on Camps	Colonialism Civil Engineering
The Enlightenment	655 720	Build 3 Great People.	Free Market Liberalism Rationalism		Religious Tourism effects halved	Nationalism Opera and Ballet

Industrial Era

Civic	Culture cost	Inspiration	Policy cards	Units, infrastructure, & governments	Other unlocks	Leads to
Colonialism	725 800	Research the Astronomy technology.	Colonial Taxes Raj	Ice Hockey Rink	+2 Envoys +1 Production to Fishing Boats.	Natural History
Civil Engineering	920 1010	Build 7 different specialty Districts.	Public Works Skyscrapers		Can build Farms on Grassland Hills (also Plains and Tundra Hills for Canada). +1 Governor title. +1 Production to Kampungs. +4 Gold to Polders.	Urbanization
Nationalism	920 1010	Declare war using a Casus Belli.	Grande Armée National Identity	Minas Geraes Open-Air Museum +1 Spy	Allows Corps and Fleets. Casus Belli: Colonial War +1 Governor title.	Urbanization Scorched Earth
Opera and Ballet	725 800	Build an Art Museum.	Grand Opera Symphonies	Bolshoi Theatre	+2 Envoys
Natural History	870 1050	Build an Archaeological Museum.		Archaeologist Hermitage Zoo Thermal Bath Ferris Wheel Aquarium Water Park Copacabana	Reveals Antiquity Sites. +2 Envoys +1 Culture to Sphinx and Ziggurats.	Conservation
Urbanization	1060 1210	Grow a city to 15 Population.	Military Research Public Transport	Neighborhood		Conservation Mass Media Mobilization
Scorched Earth	1060 1210	Build 2 Field Cannons.	Total War Expropriation Military Organization		+2 Envoys

Modern Era

Civic	Culture cost	Inspiration	Policy cards	Units, infrastructure, & governments	Other unlocks	Leads to
Conservation	1255 1540	Have a Neighborhood district with a Breathtaking Appeal.	Resource Management	Naturalist Mountie	Builder may plant Woods. Old (not planted) woods gain +1 Appeal. +3 Envoys	Cultural Heritage
Mass Media	1410 1540	Research Radio.	Propaganda	Broadway Cristo Redentor	+1 Governor title.	Ideology Capitalism
Mobilization	1410 1540	Have 3 Corps in your military.	Levée en Masse		Defensive Pacts Allows Armies and Armadas. Casus Belli: War of Territorial Expansion +1 Governor title.	Ideology
Capitalism	1560 1580	Build 3 ( 2) Stock Exchanges.	Market Economy Laissez-Faire	Shopping Mall	+3 Envoys
Ideology	660 1640	None	(Vanilla/) Police State Economic Union Five-Year Plan Gunboat Diplomacy Lightning Warfare	+1 Spy	Casus Belli: War of Territorial Expansion	Nuclear Program Cold War Professional Sports Suffrage Totalitarianism Class Struggle
Nuclear Program	1715	Build a Research Lab.	Nuclear Espionage Nobel Prize (Science Foundations)		+3 Envoys
Suffrage	1715 1640	Build 4 Sewers.	( ) Their Finest Hour (Vanilla/) Economic Union New Deal (Vanilla/) Arsenal of Democracy	Democracy
Totalitarianism	1715 1640	Build 3 Military Academies.	(Vanilla/) Lightning Warfare Martial Law Third Alternative (Vanilla/) Gunboat Diplomacy	Fascism
Class Struggle	1715 1640	Build 3 Factories.	( ) Defense of the Motherland (Vanilla/) Patriotic War Collectivization (Vanilla/) Five-Year Plan	Communism

Atomic Era

Civic	Culture cost	Inspiration	Policy cards	Units, infrastructure, & governments	Other unlocks	Leads to
Cultural Heritage	1955	Have a Themed Museum.	Heritage Tourism	Sydney Opera House	Reveals Shipwrecks. +3 Envoys +2 Science to Missions.	Environmentalism
Cold War	2185	Research Nuclear Fission.	International Waters Second Strike Capability Containment Cryptography	Amundsen-Scott Research Station () +1 Spy Rock Band		Rapid Deployment Space Race
Professional Sports	2185	Build 4 ( 2) Entertainment Complex Districts.	Sports Media	Estádio do Maracanã Stadium Aquatics Center Ski Resort	1 Food to Stepwells. +2 Food and +2 Production to the Ice Hockey Rink improvement.	Social Media
Rapid Deployment	2415	Build an Aerodrome or Airstrip on a foreign continent.	Military First After Action Reports	Amundsen-Scott Research Station ()	Allows transport of land units using Airports.	Globalization Environmentalism
Space Race	2415	Build a Spaceport district.	Integrated Space Cell Satellite Broadcasts			Globalization Social Media

Information Era

Civic	Culture cost	Inspiration	Policy cards	Units, infrastructure, & governments	Other unlocks	Leads to
Environmentalism	2880	Build 2 Solar Farms.			+25% Tourism across your empire.	Near Future Governance
Globalization	2880	Build 3 ( 2) Airports.	Strategic Air Force International Space Agency Ecommerce		+2 Gold on Plantations +1 Governor title.	Without : Future Civic With : Near Future Governance Venture Politics Distributed Sovereignty Optimization Imperative
Social Media	2880	Research Telecommunications.	Online Communities Collective Activism Communications Office		+1 Governor title.	Without : Future Civic With : Venture Politics Distributed Sovereignty Optimization Imperative
Near Future Governance	3100	Adopt a Government with 8 inherent policy slots			+3 Envoys +1 Governor title.	Future Era Civics. The progression of these last Civics is randomized every playthrough.
Venture Politics	3000	Build a Uranium Mine.		Corporate Libertarianism		Future Era Civics. The progression of these last Civics is randomized every playthrough.
Distributed Sovereignty	3000	Own a Rock Band.		Digital Democracy		Future Era Civics. The progression of these last Civics is randomized every playthrough.
Optimization Imperative	3000	Research Robotics.		Synthetic Technocracy		Future Era Civics. The progression of these last Civics is randomized every playthrough.
(Vanilla and ) Future Civic	3200	None			Score Victory points. +1 Governor title.	This civic can be researched indefinitely. It provides the effects every time it is finished.

Future Era

Note that the progression structure of these last civics is randomized every playthrough. Future Civic is always the last civic.

Civic	Culture cost	Inspiration	Policy cards	Units, infrastructure, & governments	Other unlocks	Leads to
Information Warfare	3200 or 3300	None	Integrated Attack Logistics Rabblerousing			Other Future Era Civics.
Global Warming Mitigation	3200 or 3300	None			Carbon Recapture +3 Envoys +1 Diplomatic Victory point.	Other Future Era Civics.
Cultural Hegemony	3200 or 3300	None	Hallyu Non-State Actors			Other Future Era Civics.
Smart Power Doctrine	3200 or 3300	None	Diplomatic Capital Global Coalition			Other Future Era Civics.
Exodus Imperative	3200 or 3300	None	Aerospace Contractors Space Tourism			Other Future Era Civics.
Future Civic	3500	None			Score Victory points. +1 Governor title. +50 Diplomatic Favor	This civic can be researched indefinitely. It provides the effects every time it is finished.

Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.

Added in the Gathering Storm expansion pack.

See also

• List of civics in other games