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		Age of Shoguns Civilopedia

		Civilizations

			Chosokabe
			Minor tribe. Seafaring. Can build Curraghs. Aggression: 3 of 5. They do not build Great Wonders.
			Date
			Minor tribe. Agricultural. Can irrigate without adjacent water and build farming co-ops, allowing for large cities earlier in the game. Aggression: 2 of 5. They do not build Great Wonders.
			Hojo*
			Agricultural and Political. Starts with metal working, pottery, farming, and political ambition. Can irrigate without adjacent water and build farming co-ops, allowing for large cities earlier in the game. Can build the Imperial Retreat. Can negotiate trade embargoes, mutual protection pacts, and can reveal the map. Can build Ninjas and Ronin. Aggression: 3 of 5.
			Matsunaga
			Minor tribe. Commercial. Aggression: 3 of 5. They do not build Great Wonders.
			Miyoshi*
			Scientific and Commercial. Starts with alphabet, pottery, and code of laws. Aggression: 3 of 5.
			Mori*
			Seafaring and Political. Starts with alphabet, mathematics, and political ambition. Can build Curraghs, Elite Galleys, Elite Caravels, Sea Ninjas (instead of regular Ninjas), Sea Samurai (instead of Samurai Warriors), and Ronin. Can build the Imperial Retreat. Can negotiate trade embargoes, mutual protection pacts, and can reveal the map. Aggression: 3 of 5.
			Oda*
			Religious and Seafaring. Starts with alphabet and mysticism. Can build Curraghs, Elite Galleys, Elite Caravels, Shinto Masters, and Sea Samurai. Aggression: 3 of 5.
			Otomo*
			Industrial and Commercial. Starts with metal working and alphabet. Aggression: 3 of 5.
			Ryuzoji
			Minor tribe. Religious. Aggression: 2 of 5. They do not build Great Wonders.
			Saito
			Minor tribe. Scientific. Aggression: 2 of 5. They do not build Great Wonders.
			Takeda
			Minor tribe. Militaristic. Aggression: 4 of 5. They do not build Great Wonders.
			Tokugawa*
			Militaristic and Expansionist. Starts with metal working and sword-smithing. The only civilization that can build a Shogun-11. Can build Elite Samurai and Elite Samurai Armies. Aggression: 5 of 5.
			Uesugi
			Minor tribe. Political. Starts with political ambition. Can build the Imperial Retreat. Can negotiate trade embargoes, mutual protection pacts, and can reveal the map. Aggression: 2 of 5. They do not build Great Wonders.
			Urakami
			Minor tribe. Aggression: 2 of 5. They do not build Great Wonders.


		CIVILIZATION STRENGTHS
		Agricultural Agricultural city improvements (aqueduct, for instance) are easier to build, and the center city square and irrigated deserts produce one more food. Agricultural civs start with the Farming tech, an advance that can't be traded. Farming allows irrigation without adjacent water (wells and canals) and the building of Farming Co-ops, which allows city sizes over 15 fairly early in the game. Farming Co-ops also produce a peasant worker every 15 turns. Agricultural civs are able to grow bigger and faster and can generally support more armies.
		Commercial The center city squares of all cities and metros produce extra commerce and less corruption is experienced.
		Expansionist The civilization starts the game with a Horseman. Passive minor barbarians are friendlier, resulting in more gold and advances from goodie huts.
		Industrious Workers complete tasks faster and the center city square of all cities produces extra shields in cities and metros.
		Militaristic It is easier to build military improvements (dojo, for example), and combat experience is gained more quickly.
		Political Political Civs (Mori, Hojo, Uesugi) start with the Political Ambition tech, which along with Philosophy, allows Politics. Politics allows mutual protection pacts and trade embargoes. When a tribe achieves Politics, the entire map is revealed to them (and is also revealed to all other tribes). Tribes with Politics can also build the Den of Spies to carry out spy missions (non-political civs can't spy), and the Imperial Retreat (which serves as a 2nd Forbidden Palace). Shogun heirs are raised in these buildings, so generally a Political civilization will have more Shoguns.
		Religious Religious civilizations do not experience prolonged periods of anarchy during revolutions, and religious city improvements (Temples, for instance) are easier to build.
		Scientific Scientific city improvements (like Archives) are easier to build and the civilization receives a free Civilization Advance at the start of every era.
		Seafaring Each city built along the coast receives a commerce bonus in the center city square, and Seafaring city improvements (such as the Harbor) are easier to build. Ships move faster and are less likely to sink in the sea or ocean.


		GENERAL INFORMATION
		It is not known when humans first settled on the Japanese archipelago, but the Jomon people might be called proto-Japanese, and they were spread throughout the archipelago by 250 BC. The Yayoi culture that arose in Kyushu, while the Jomon culture was still evolving, spread gradually eastward, overwhelming the Jomon. Culturally, the Yayoi represents a notable advance and flourished for some five or six centuries, from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD. The unification of Japan under the Yamato court, with the tenno ("Emperor of Heaven") at its center, occurred around the mid-4th century. The 6th century reign of Kentai (507-531 AD) represents a decline of Yamato influence both at home and abroad; the period can be characterized by the growing accumulation of power by regional leaders and a weakening of royal influence. After the Onin War, the power of independent local leaders increased markedly, and in many instances deputies of great shugo houses usurped the domains of their superiors; a new type of feudal lord, the daimyo, took their place. This Sengoku ("Warring States") period was marked by constant conflict among many such lords. The Yamato court was resuscitated by efforts made within the royal family itself, primarily the reforms of Prince Shotoku, who drafted the Seventeen-Article Constitution of 604 AD. The death of Shotoku in 622 prevented his Confucian ideals of government from bearing full fruit when the Soga family, regaining its former power, executed Shotoku's son Yamashiro and all his family in 643. Two years later, princes Nakano and Nakatomi engineered a coup d'état within the palace, killing the Soga family and wiping out all forces opposed to the imperial family. They then set about establishing a system of centralized government with the emperor as absolute monarch that would last 1000 years. In the late Heian period, the more powerful of the {Samurai} gathered in or near the capital, where they served both the military needs of the emperor and also as bodyguards for the great noble houses. Emerging from provincial warrior bands, the aristocratic Samurai caste of the Kamakura period (1192-1333), with their military skills and deep pride in their stoicism, developed a disciplined culture distinct from the earlier, quiet refinement of the imperial court. During the Muromachi period (1338-1573) under the growing influence of Zen Buddhism, the samurai culture produced many uniquely Japanese arts that continue today. Eventually, from among these warring Samurai clans arose the able Tokugawa Takechiyo, founder of the Edo shogunate (1603-1867 AD), which ended the incessant conflicts and brought reform and peace to the islands. Although Spanish and Portuguese traders and missionaries had been in Japan since the mid-1500s, it was the arrival of a squadron of U.S. warships commanded by Commodore Matthew C. Perry in Uraga Bay in July 1853 that finally opened the nation to Western influence - and brought pressure for political reforms and a national identity. The Meiji government that followed the overthrow of the shogunate set about the task of westernization and the creation of a modern state, and moved Japan onto the world stage. Ironically, Japan's new, influential role - marked by the ensuing Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Japan's involvement in the First World War and in the Allied intervention in Siberia following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918 - led indirectly to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the horrors that followed. The summer of 1945 brought disaster for the Japanese: the Americans took Okinawa in a bloody invasion, in August the Soviet Union declared war and swept over Manchuria, and atomic bombs largely destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, respectively. The Pacific War came to an end on August 14, with the formal surrender signed on September 2 in Tokyo Bay aboard the battleship USS Missouri. With postwar American aid, from 1952 to 1973 Japan experienced accelerated economic growth and social change. By the 1990s, Japan was again a first-class power, the senior partner in the emerging Asian economic bloc.