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Wonders benefit an entire empire. Civilization III added Small Wonders, which can be built once by every civilization. Small Wonders have, for the most part, a sociological requirement to construct them, as well as a technological requirement. Battlefield Medicine, for example, requires that five of the player's cities have Hospitals before building.
Many new technologies allow the player to build a new wonder. Some wonders can be made obsolete by certain technologies, but these technologies must be researched by the civilization that owns them - other civilizations cannot make wonders obsolete.
In each different age there are different wonders available. Below is a list of those wonders sorted by age (Ancient Times, Middle Ages, Industrial Ages, and Modern Times).
When a player captures a city with a Small Wonder, it is destroyed. If it has a Great Wonder, it doesn't get destroyed unless the player razes the city.
Great Wonders[]
Wonder | Era | Req. | Cost | Effects | Obsolete with |
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Copernicus' Observatory |
Middle Ages | Astronomy |
400 |
|
None |
Cure for Cancer |
Modern Times | Genetics |
1000 |
|
None |
Hoover Dam |
Industrial Ages | Electronics |
800 |
|
None |
JS Bach's Cathedral |
Middle Ages | Music Theory |
600 |
|
None |
Knights Templar[1] |
Middle Ages | Chivalry |
300 |
|
Steam Power |
Leonardo's Workshop |
Middle Ages | Invention |
600 |
|
None |
Longevity |
Modern Times | Genetics |
1000 |
|
None |
Magellan's Voyage |
Middle Ages | Navigation |
400 |
|
None |
Newton's University |
Middle Ages | Theory of Gravity |
400 |
|
None |
SETI program |
Modern Times | Computers |
1000 |
|
None |
Shakespeare's Theater |
Middle Ages | Free Artistry |
400 |
|
None |
Sistine Chapel |
Middle Ages | Theology |
600 |
|
None |
Smith's Trading Company |
Middle Ages | Economics |
600 |
|
None |
Sun Tzu's Art of War |
Middle Ages | Feudalism |
600 |
|
None |
The Great Library |
Ancient Times | Literature |
400 |
|
Education |
The Great Lighthouse |
Ancient Times | Map Making |
300 |
|
Magnetism |
The Great Wall |
Ancient Times | Construction |
300 |
|
Metallurgy |
The Hanging Gardens |
Ancient Times | Monarchy |
300 |
|
Steam Power |
The Internet[2] |
Modern Times | Miniaturization |
1000 |
|
None |
The Manhattan Project |
Modern Times | Fission |
800 Uranium |
|
None |
The Mausoleum of Mausollos[1] |
Ancient Times | Philosophy |
200 |
|
None |
The Oracle |
Ancient Times | Mysticism |
300 |
|
Theology |
The Pyramids |
Ancient Times | Masonry |
400 |
|
None |
The Statue of Zeus[1] |
Ancient Times | Mathematics |
200 Ivory |
|
Metallurgy |
The Temple of Artemis[1] |
Ancient Times | Polytheism |
500 |
|
Education |
The United Nations |
Modern Times | Fission |
1000 |
|
None |
Theory of Evolution |
Industrial Ages | Scientific Method |
600 |
|
None |
Universal Suffrage |
Industrial Ages | Industrialization |
800 |
|
None |
Small Wonders[]
See also[]
- List of wonders in other games
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