The Majapahit people represent the Majapahit Empire, an Exploration Age civilization in Civilization VII.
The Majapahit's civilization ability is Negara, which expands the 
Specialist Limit in all cities except the 
Capital during the Exploration Age. Their associated 
Wonder is Borobudur, and their unique assets are as follows:
| Asset | Description |
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 Cetbang
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+5  Combat Strength against  Naval Units.Can pillage within 2 tiles for 1  Movement.
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 Pedanda
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Receive +25  Culture and  Gold when converting a  Settlement for the first time.
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 Pura
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Receive 1  Relic when completed.+10% Gold towards converting a  Town into a City.
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 Meru
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+6  Happiness.+2 Happiness on  Natural Wonder tiles.+1 Happiness per adjacent Mountain or Wonder.
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 Candi Bentar
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+6 Culture. +1 Culture per adjacent Coastal, Navigable River or Wonder.
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 Wayang II
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+25%  Production towards overbuilding.
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| Aliran Kepercayaan II
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Pedanda provides an additional +25 Culture when converting a Settlement.
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 Nusantara
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Exploration Age Culture Buildings receive a +1 Happiness adjacency for Coast
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| Nusantara II
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Naval Units receive +5 Combat Strength against Land Units.
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| Gamelan
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+2 Culture on  Quarters.+1  Settlement Limit.
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 Panji
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+1 Culture from Specialists not in your Capital.
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| Negarakertagama
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+33%  Food towards maintaining Specialists.
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| Subak
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+1 Culture and +1 Production on  Marine Terrain in Cities.
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Intro[]
The Majapahit sail between a thousand islands, bringing with them their tales of heroes and gods. As the sun sets, weary sailors gather to hear the gamelan, and see their tales performed in shadow on the silken screen. Beauty is divine, claim the Majapahit poets, and divinity is power.
Tips and hints[]
The Majapahit benefit considerably from Specialists, which increase the adjacency of Buildings from the current Age by 50%. Use the Wayang Civic's boost to Overbuilding to construct those Buildings more quickly.
Strategy[]
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Civilopedia entry[]
In the beginning, kings were divine. Vishnu, Shiva, and all the other gods were intimately involved in human affairs. But as history progressed, this connection with the divine diminished, and later kings were a degree less impressive than former kings. History is a story of that steady journey away from the light towards a dark future – with a hope that one day the gods will return.
This notion of diminishing light also contains a spatial element. In what George Cœdès calls “the Indianized states of Southeast Asia,” divinity rests in the body of the monarch at the center of things, while peripheral locations are drawn to the center or split away. In such a state, ritual and charisma preserve its people, fetching tribute through labor and goods. Majapahit (and Khmer) were such states, and while the mainland states (e.g. Khmer, early Siam) focused on controlling land, island states aimed for the control of sea-based trade. Unfortunately, this was also the seed of their downfall.
Several great city-states existed before Majapahit. Srivijaya is one example. This kingdom arose near the present-day city of Palembang and controlled a vast amount of regional trade until it was invaded and destroyed by the Cholas of South India. The Shailendra kingdom arose next. In the eighth century CE, this Javanese Hindu-Buddhist kingdom built the monument at Borobudur and fought the Mongols. These kinds of kingdoms rose and fell along with their dynasty; new dynasties would often found a new capital and begin an entirely new empire.
This also happened to the Shailendras. They were in the process of halting the Mongol advance when a man – later known as Kertarajasa – sided with the Mongols and defeated the new usurper-king of the Shailendras. Kertarajasa then turned on the Mongols and drove them out. After defeating all rivals, he founded a capital in the place of the bitter maja fruit: Majapahit.
Kertarajasa began a process of consolidation, which was difficult as many provinces revolted against the new administration. This was made worse by his son, a notoriously immoral and lascivious man who sought to make his half-sisters his wives. Apparently, he also had plans for his physician’s wife, which, if we may give personal advice, is not a very good idea. He died undergoing surgery. His prime minister, Gajah Mada, murdered the physician in a rage (though this may have been an attempt to cover an assassination).
Gajah Mada began an expansion. The empire spread across Java, Sumatra, Bali, and other areas in the archipelago. This was a spreading of fame as much as soldiers. When a state such as Melayu sent a delegation to Ming China, offering tribute, Majapahit would also arrive and convince the Chinese that the Melayu delegation was untrustworthy – that Majapahit was sovereign.
By 1400, Majapahit began to decline. This was around the time of Zheng He, the Chinese naval explorer, who arrived and detailed the kingdom in a surviving account. Zheng He is significant for a few reasons; his presence alone highlighted the rising power of the Ming in the region (their empire had just formed after fighting against the remnants of the Mongols). Over the next century, increasingly strong former vassals and neighbors chipped away at Majapahit. Islam was also spreading in the region, and Muslim rulers immediately favored access to Western trade routes, again challenging Majapahit’s past-oriented stance. The declaration of independence by the Sultan of Demak, a former vassal of Majapahit, marked the real end of the kingdom and the capital was moved in 1527.
However, Majapahit lives on. The queen Gitarja established a Majapahit dynasty in Bali, and Balinese kings still assert descent from those old Javanese kings (though they were officially deposed by the Dutch). The type of Hinduism practiced in Majapahit has been preserved there – a blend of indigenous, animist beliefs with a very old version of Southeast Asian Hinduism, built around cultivating and preserving power in an epoch of steady decline. The end of Majapahit was the rise of a Muslim thalassocratic system in Southeast Asia. Islam fused with Hinduism in particular ways, making the unique character of Javanese practice.
Cities[]
Age Transition Quotes[]
When age progress reaches 100% or player gets eliminated/retires, one of these quotes will be read depending on the last legacy path completed:
- Culture: "Knowledge was power for the Majapahit. Through study, they celebrated the world, history, and themselves."
- Economic: "The greatest silk roads converged in Majapahit, bearing the gift of profit directly to its people."
- Military: "The Majapahit saw no borders, only the endless horizon of their own domain."
- Science: "Power sits in the mind. This the Majapahit knew, grasping seen and unseen worlds alike."
- Defeat: "The Majapahit's performance came to a quiet, unremarkable conclusion. But history is full of encores."
Trivia[]
- The Majapahit civilization's symbol is a representation of the Surya Majapahit, an emblem from the Majapahit era that depicted Hindu deities.
- The Majapahit civilization ability is an anglicized Javanese word (ꦤꦼꦒꦫ), meaning "city" or "state."
- The Majapahit background art if look at the center is there Candi Bentar and Meru unique buildings which form to Pura unique quarters and here we can also see a collection of Rumah Adat.
Soundtrack[]
| Original Track | № | Based on | Credits | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Majapahit (Exploration Age)" | 25 | Cacandran | Composed by Roland Rizzo Performed by Sandro Friedrich & Niccolo Seligman |
4:16 |
Gallery[]
.jpg "Majapahit city in-game (Civ7).jpg (6.59 MB)")
.png "Cetbang in-game (Civ7).png (781 KB)")
.png "Pedanda in-game (Civ7).png (821 KB)")
.png "Pura in-game (Civ7).png (919 KB)")
.png "Borobudur in-game (Civ7).png (3.86 MB)")
.png "Majapahit Background (Civ7).png (1.56 MB)")
Videos[]
See also[]
- Majapahit in other games
External links[]
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