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Farms

Feed your citizens with the construction of farms. These additions help support larger populations and also generate income. The more population you support, the quicker you can reach a new city level and better structures; the more income you generate, the sooner you can construct newly available buildings and the better support you can provide to your troops.

Building	City Level	Benefits
Land Clearance	Town	Improved farms and food production: +1.
Communal Farming	Large Town	Improved farms and food production: +2.
Crop Rotation	Minor City	Improved farms and food production: +3.
Irrigation	Large City	Improved farms and food production: +4.
Latifundia	Huge City	Improved farms and food production: +5.

Roads

Advanced roads increases the speed of troop movement through the province and also aids in trade income.

Improved roads allow your troops and your trade routes to move farther per turn. Better trade routes essentially means more income for your settlement; basically the trade route can move faster per turn, which means it can conduct more trade per turn as to increase your settlement’s trade income. Don’t hinder your trade operation with shoddy roads. Upgrade your roadwork as you upgrade your trade to keep the income flowing.

Building	City Level	Benefits
Roads	Town	Improved roads and trade.
Paved Roads	Large Town	Improved roads and trade.
Highways	Minor City	Improved roads and trade.

Mines

If you control a settlement in a province that contains a resource that can be mined then your settlement can build mines! Its construction is a no-brainer. Construct the mine in an available settlement to increase that settlement’s income.

Building	City Level	Benefits
Mines	Town	+200 to mining income.
Mines +1	Large Town	+350 to mining income.

Academies

Academies improves the bonuses applied to your named characters.

Construct an academy to increase the skills of present named characters in the particular settlement. For example, building an academy in a settlement will begin to give your governor better skills that increase his ability at management. The greater education also improves bonuses applied to your named characters as they add retinue and other traits.

Building	City Level	Prerequisite	Benefits
Academy	Minor City	Market	Improves skills of generals.
Scriptorium	Large City	Forum	Improves skills of generals.
Ludus Magna	Huge City	Great Forum	Improves skills of generals.

Amphitheatres

The amphitheatre structures increase your settlement’s public order due to happiness with the inclusion of gladiator games. You can increase game frequency to further boost happiness at some financial expense. Note that the amphitheatres also enable the training of samnite gladiators for each of the three Roman families.

Building	City Level	Prerequisite	Benefits
Arena	Minor City	Market	Public order bonus due to happiness: 5%; allows gladiatorial games to be held; enables training of samnite gladiators (Brutii)
Amphitheatre	Large City	Forum	Public order bonus due to happiness: 10%; allows gladiatorial games to be held; enables training of samnite gladiators (Julii)
Coliseum	Huge City	Great Forum	Public order bonus due to happiness: 15%; allows gladiatorial games to be held; enables training of samnite gladiators (Scipii)

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