 Heaven’s Reference
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Market
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| Age: |
Tool |
| Prerequisites: |
Build Town
Center, build Granary. |
| Upgrade Cost: |
- - - |
| Cost: |
150 wood |
| Hit Points: |
350 |
| Upgrade of: |
- - - |
| Special: |
- - - |
Description:
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| The Market lets
you build the Farm and lets you research technologies
that improve your military units and the effectiveness
of your villagers, including Woodworking, Artisanship,
Craftsmanship, Stone Mining, Siegecraft, Gold Mining,
Coinage, Domestication, the Plow, Irrigation, and the
Wheel. You must build the Market before you can build
the Government Center or Temple. |
| Researching Architecture
increases hit points and decreases construction time. |
History
The specialization made possible by the development of
agriculture created the need for a place where craftsmen
could meet to barter their wares for those of others and
for food. The Market in each town and village was the
place where barter and exchange took place. The development
of the Market marked the change from the small hunting/foraging
group that shared its harvest to the much more complex
economy that rose with the rise of towns and cities. Specialization
resulted in efficiencies of scale and greater overall
production, but the Market was needed to allocate the
community’s production fairly among the food providers
and specialists. The profit motive spurred innovation
to increase production. The potter, for example, looked
for ways to make more and better pots for the same effort
to increase the amount of food that he could obtain by
trading pots.
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