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Gedemo Guapondelig City-State

Guapondelig (from TCS South American City-State Pack)

City-State Trait: Your Melee, Anti-Cavalry, and Civilian units gain faster Movement on Hill terrain.

City-State Type: Militaristic

History:
Guapondelig was a city founded by the Cañari where the present day city of Cuenca, Ecuador, sits. After being conquered by the Inca, Guapondelig was renamed to Tumebamba (or Tumepampa). The ethnic Cañari people had lived in this area for at least 500 years before the arrival of the Incas. The Inca emperor Topa Inca Yupanqui (ruled 1471-1493) incorporated this area into the empire after long and arduous campaigns against the Cañari. His son and successor, Huayna Capac, was probably born in Tumebamba and was responsible for most of the Inca construction in the city. Huayna Capac envisioned Tumebamba as the northern capital of the Inca Empire and modeled the construction on that of Cuzco, the Inca capital. Huayna Capac had a royal palace here. Spanish stories that Huanya Capac had building stones transported from Cuzco to Inca centers, including Tumebamba, in present-day Ecuador were confirmed in 2004. Archaeologists identified stone building blocks in Ecuador that had an origin in a quarry near Cuzco. The scholars found 450 stones, weighing up to 700 kilograms (1,500 lb) each, that had been transported more than 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) on Inca roads traversing the high and rugged Andes. The Incas lacked draft animals and wheeled vehicles so the transport was by manpower only, possibly by laborers conscripted by the Incas among the peoples who had opposed their rule. The monumental task of transporting the stones also indicates the priority Huayna Capac placed on making Tumebamba an alternative or secondary capital of the empire. In the words of a scholar, "These stones embodied the transfer of sanctity and power from the imperial capital to the city of Tomebamba in Ecuador, while their movement was a major public demonstration of state control over labor." The Inca also quarried building stones at Cojitambo, 18 kilometres (11 mi) in a straight line distance northeast. Huayna Capac and many other Incas died in an epidemic (probably of a European-introduced disease) about 1525 and his sons Huascar and Atahualpa contested the succession. Several battles in the civil war which followed were near Tumepampa and the Inca city was largely destroyed. The Cañari inhabitants had taken the side of Huascar and were severely treated by Atahualpa.

Compatible with Rise and Fall, Gathering Storm, NewFrontier.

Credits:

This is a TCS's Guapondelig (not included in Civitas CSE) compatible with the latest version of the game. Its original mod is "TCS South American City-State Pack" from Thecrazyscotsman, who gave me permission.

Mod Support:

Ynaemp (Giant,Greatest, LargestEarthCustom, and Cordiform)
Zobtzler_TheAmericas_Map
English, spanish and french languages

Notes:

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