Alright, we can build Culture (Zapotec) now, right? Huh? We can't? Weird.
It doesn't even show up on the list...
We found our third city! We are now the Jivaro Empire! The city is also named Mayapan, until someone invents a better name.
Wee need to get this city up and running. The founding of the city forced the barbarian Neanderthal outside our borders and automatically explored the village he was sitting on.
Might as well build sometime I've always wanted to build.
We upgrade the stone thrower to an Atlatlist and have him guard the new city.
We've got a bunch of Gathereres working to improve the surroundings of Bibracte.
Another animal that's great to capture when you don't have its associated resource already!
Is it just me, or is it really dry up north?
Constructing improvements is supposed to consume Gatherers, but in this case it doesn't. Odd.
Making our own fire turns out to be fairly simple once we put our minds to it.
This is the building that Captured Fire would have given us. It's alright, but I'm building it for the smoke signals.
This game does not support divergent evolution. Desert animals can spawn in any desert in the world, for example, and bamboo is found on all continents.
We probably won't reach this first, but I still want to try for it. I'm pretty sure it's easier to research techs that are in past eras, too, so it might speed up our tech rate.
Smoke Signals!
Our canoe engages a hammerhead shark! The canoe wins, by the way.
And our hunter proves that while he's nothing special, he can still take on barbarians.
We research Petroglyphs. Painting on rocks, basically.
Owch. Shark took a pretty big bite out of our canoe.
Still, we got something out of the fight.
Tales of the Sea can be used to build buildings that increase the experience of naval units, or to build myths. The prerequisite for most myths is the base Sea myth, but most sea myths go obsolete much later, at Marine Biology. I went with the myth option because SCIENCE!
Also, you can use practically any animal for a military standard. Including a pigeon.
Oh no, our hunter is surrounded!
He rips them a new one, in case you're wondering what happens next.
We also find something interesting. We're pretty damn far south, aren't we?
We invent a new sport: Not getting crushed to death by a herd of angry bison. It's fun!
We also invent basic arithmetic. We're freaking geniuses!
But we had better stop somewhere. The update, that is, not our scientific progress. So here's a world map:
Note how there's a mountain range between the wet south and the dry north.