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Academy
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| Age: |
Bronze |
| Prerequisites: |
Build Town
Center, build Barracks, build
Stable. |
| Upgrade Cost: |
- - - |
| Cost: |
200 wood |
| Hit Points: |
350 |
| Upgrade of: |
- - - |
| Special: |
- - - |
Description:
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| The Academy lets you
train elite infantry units, including the Hoplite, Phalanx,
and Centurion. |
| Researching Architecture
increases hit points and decreases construction time. |
History
The Academy was the Greek equivalent of a school. Students,
usually only free men and favored slaves, received an education
at the Academy. Subjects of study included the typical fare
of schools but also politics, athletics, and military training.
The most rigorous of the Greek Academies were those of Sparta
where boys were taken from their parents at an early age and
educated in a military environment. The Academy prepared the
individual for service to the state as a citizen and a soldier
in the phalanx. In one of the remarkable encounters of history,
the future Alexander the Great was educated at the Academy of
Aristotle. |
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