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Mountainous, or Mountain(s), is a base terrain in Civilization VII. It can appear on any of the five land biomes, forming Mountainous Desert, Mountainous Tropical, Mountainous Tundra, Mountainous Plains and Mountainous Grassland.
There is a sub-type of Mountains, called Volcanoes (classified as a terrain feature on the Mountainous base terrain in game). Active volcanoes can erupt, damaging nearby infrastructure and units while fertilizing those tiles.
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As the plates of the Earth’s crust meet, they interact, pushing the land upwards, or causing it to buckle into folds and creases. These are mountains. Some mountain ranges are relatively old; the Appalachians, for instance, were begun over a billion years ago. Others are much newer and more dynamic, such as the Alps or Himalayas.
Mountains, too, alter the land in other ways. The Himalayas, for instance, push warm, moist air from the Indian Ocean upwards, where it cools and forms monsoon clouds. Behind them, where all the moisture has been condensed from the air, is the dry Gobi Desert and Tibetan Plateau.
For people, mountains represent a range of possibilities and challenges – they present a barrier to movement and a challenge to agriculture. For instance, the Himalayas and their spur in Southeast Asia neatly divide regions historically influenced by Indic civilizations on one side and Chinese civilizations on the other. Elsewhere, people have proved up to the challenge that the heights provide – the Inca built their empire high atop the Andes, becoming at home in the heights.
Volcano
Where mountains are being formed, there is always the risk of the earth’s magma bubbling upwards and breaching the surface – this is a volcano. Thus, we see volcanoes peppered across seismically active fault lines – Asia’s Ring of Fire, for instance, or the Great Rift Valley in Africa, or, notably, the great undersea mountain chains at the middle of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Volcanoes have been the source of fear (recall Pompeii’s fate), or veneration (as in the Hawai’ian goddess Pele… or both. They are sites of both creation and destruction, where the fundamental powers of the earth are laid bare, and humans can witness their awesome power.
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