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Gedemo Niya City-State

Niya

City-State Trait: Traders Units get +3 sight range.

City-State Type: Trade

History:
Niya was a small, landlocked yet cosmopolitan city-state where ancient Chinese peoples and cultures blended with those of India, Persia and Macedonia. The urban center was a major stop on the Silk Road, the long, overland trading route that linked the two great civilizations of Han China and the Roman Empire. Camel caravans carried Chinese silk, tea and porcelain west and brought European gold, glassware and silver east. Ideas and cultural traditions also flowed both ways. According to scholars, Niya's population included soldiers of Macedonia's Alexander the Great, known to have spread Hellenistic culture throughout much of the ancient world and to have reached the Pamir Mountains just west of Niya during the 4th century B.C. One of Alexander's expeditionary forces disappeared in the region, legend says. If Alexander's troops reached Niya, that might account for the Hellenistic style of furniture found there by British explorer Aurel Stein in 1901. Led by a local Uyghur camel driver, the Stein expedition was the first from modern Europe to find the place and reveal the multicultural nature of Niya. In a town centered on the Buddhist shrine, or stupa, a legacy of the spread of Buddhism from India to the southeast in the 1st century A.D. Stein pillaged Greek-style furniture from the houses. He found documents written on wooden tablets in the long-dead Kharoshthi language. On clay seals on the wooden covering of the tablets, Stein saw depictions of Greek gods, including Eros, Athena and Hercules. Since Stein's expedition, Niya's past has intrigued archaeologists worldwide. European and Japanese adventurers followed in his footsteps, gambling with their lives by braving torrid heat and sandstorms in the hope of unearthing more relics from the ancient kingdom.

Compatible with Rise and Fall and Gathering Storm.

Mod Support:

Ynaemp (Giant, Greatest, LargestEarthCustom, SouthEastAsia and Cordiform)
40sw4rm's "Old World"
English and french languages

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