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The Royal Exchange is a unique Gold building of the British civilization in Civilization VII.
- Base yields:
- +5
Gold.
- +5
- Adjacency:
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The British Empire was built upon the stock exchange; it was on the networks of commerce that British power radiated forth. The Royal Exchange was opened in 1571 by Queen Elizabeth I, who was later to give a royal charter to the East India Company. By the Victorian era, the networks of British trade were moving tea, spices, porcelain, and fine cloths from one corner of the world to the other, and in so doing reshaped not only the colonies, but also British middle-class life. And the Royal Exchange was the nerve center of this network – it is not a coincidence that proclamations such as the confirmation of a new monarch are announced to the public in front of the Exchange.
The building itself is not the same as Elizabeth’s. The Exchange twice burned down, and the current building was opened in 1844 by Queen Victoria. It is today, however, not a stock exchange, but a shopping mall – a statement, perhaps, on how things both change and remain constant.
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