Strudeler’s Civilizations: Judea (It’s a Hellenized Hanukkah | Celebrating 10 Historical Civilizations)
Play as the Basilissa and regent of Judea, Salome Alexandra; in Sid Meier’s Civilization VI.
Judea is named after Judah (both realms sharing a common area), but translated from the time of Persian occupation. The Persians used Aramaic as the administrative language of the Levant, in Aramaic the region was known as Yahudya, however the fall of the Achaemenid Empire saw Macedon, Ptolemaic Egypt, and the Seleucids enforce Greek culture, legalism, and syncretic religion in the region. The Greek Seleucids were victorious in the Diadochi Wars and slowly they encroached on the traditions of the Judahites (from this name, Jew is derived), eventually the final straw was Greek suppression of Jewish monotheism thus triggering the Maccabean Revolt which led to the Hasmonean dynasty leading the Israelite people (both the Jews of the south and the Samarians in the north). The Hasmoneans were effective conquerors and even force converted peoples such as the Idumeans, but ironically they used the Greek language and Greek legalism. It was under the Hasmoneans that the Sadducees and Pharisees became political rivals. Judea also fell to the Roman Republic and Roman Empire during the Hasmonean dynasty, resulting in a governing Idumean dynasty under Herod the Great, he was loyal to Rome.
Part of: Shahs of the Four Heavens Expansion
FEATURES
- Requires: RISE AND FALL and GATHERING STORM
LEADER: SALOME ALEXANDRA
- Trait – Rain Falls on the Sabbath: +1 Gold on Farms and Pastures. Producing a building earns Gold equal to 5% of its cost. Districts, improvements, and units do not take damage from flooding. Gain the Sabbath Day unique project.
- Agenda – Elevation of the Pharisees: Likes civilizations with a large military and tries to make alliances with them. Dislikes civilizations with a weak military.
LEADER PROJECT: Sabbath Day
- City-based project unique to Judea when Salome Alexandra is the leader. Provides Food, Faith, and +1 Amenity in the city every turn. Awards Great Prophet and Great Merchant points once finished. Cities that complete the project will gain +1 Food on Floodplains every time there is flooding. Can only be produced in a single city at once.
CIVILIZATION: JUDEA
- Trait – Israelite Ethnarch: +1 Faith per district in a city. +1 Great General point from the Library and Amphitheater.
- Spawn Bias – Tier 1 Desert Floodplains, Tier 2 Plains Floodplains/Desert Mountains, Tier 3 Grassland Floodplains.
CIVILIZATION UNIT: MACCABEE
- A unit unique to Judea. Must be purchased with Faith. Has a unique promotion tree. +5 Combat Strength when within 7 tiles of a Campus. Defeating an enemy unit spreads the civilization’s religion if within 7 tiles of a Holy Site.
PROMOTION TREE: MACCABEE
- Equipment Siphoning: +100% Experience from combat.
- Apostate Hunters: +5 Combat Strength against religious enemies.
- Guerrilla Campaign: Only adjacent enemy units can reveal this unit.
- Jewish Dissidents: Pillaging a tile costs 1 Movement point.
- Struggle for Judah: +7 Combat Strength when attacking.
- Struggle for Israel: +7 Combat Strength when defending.
- Hanukkah Celebration: +5 Combat Strength when within 7 tiles of a Holy Site and defeating enemy units within 7 tiles of a Campus spreads the civilization’s religion.
CIVILIZATION BUILDING: SANHEDRIN
- Unique to Judea, replaces the University. +1 Science and Faith. +2 Citizen slots. Citizen slots in the Campus gain +2 Science and Faith. +2 Housing. +2 Loyalty in the city. +1 Great Scientist and Great Prophet points per turn.
*Jerusalem city-state has not been touched (I have other plans).
Tags: Civilization, Judea, Judaea, Israel, Judah, Samaria, Classical, Antiquity, Seleucid, Seleukid, Macedon, Ptolemaic Egypt, Diadochi, Rome, Nabatea, Leader, Salome Alexandra, Hasmonean, Unit, Maccabee, Building, Sanhedrin, Great Sanhedrin, Lesser Sanhedrin, Septuagint, Torah, Judaism, Hellenism, Gold, Faith, Science, Science Victory, Religious Victory, Strudeler, Tart Society
Required DLC:
These DLC should be installed in order to use this item.
Sid Meier's Civilizationu00ae VI: Rise and Fall
Sid Meier's Civilizationu00ae VI: Gathering Storm
