Civilization Revolution (original) — Great People & Relics (raw capture)
Game: Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution (2008), the ORIGINAL (not CivRev2).
Source: CivFanatics CivRev civilopedia — Tier-1 community data, not binary-extracted.
Fetched: 2026-06-22 via WebFetch.
Provenance URLs:
- https://civfanatics.com/civrev/civilopedia/great-people/
- https://civfanatics.com/civrev/civilopedia/relics/
Companion file: civrev-civilopedia-tables.md (techs, wonders, units, buildings, civs).
Note: The CivRev civilopedia has exactly 7 sections — there is NO governments or terrain page
(those yields/effects must be sourced elsewhere, e.g. StrategyWiki, if needed).
Great People
Six types. Each can be used immediately (one-time, consumes the person) OR settled into a
city (permanent ongoing bonus). Each named person is tied to the tech whose discovery can spawn them.
(Acquisition channels elsewhere in the data: “Free Great Person” first-bonus on Monarchy & Invention;
civ bonuses — Greece/Rome “more Great People”, America “begin with a Great Person”; Relic “School of
Confucius”; wonders.)
| Type |
Immediate effect |
Settle effect |
| Great Artists/Thinkers |
Convert enemy cities |
+50% culture production |
| Great Builders |
Instantly complete any unit/building/wonder |
Halve cost of all future buildings in the city |
| Great Explorers/Industrialists |
Large one-time gold bonus |
+50% gold production |
| Great Humanitarians |
+1 population to ALL your cities |
+50% population growth rate |
| Great Leaders |
Upgrade all your units to veteran |
New units get +3 exp (free upgrade if city has Barracks) |
| Great Scientists |
Instantly finish current tech research |
+50% science |
Named people by type (name → spawning tech):
- Artists/Thinkers (8): Homer→Alphabet, Plato→Pottery, Aesop→Writing, Aristotle→University, J.S. Bach→Religion, Fyodor Dostoevsky→Industrialization, Karl Marx→Communism, Charles Babbage→Networking
- Builders (10): Gilgamesh→Horseback Riding, Imhotep→Ceremonial Burial, Cheops→Masonry, Nebuchadnezzar→Construction, Sophocles→Democracy, Leonardo da Vinci→Invention, James Watt→Steam Power, George Stephenson→Steel, Henry Ford→The Automobile, Leopold Stokowski→Superconductor
- Explorers/Industrialists (8): Sargon→Bronze Working, Marco Polo→Currency, Vasco Da Gama→Navigation, Christopher Columbus→Banking, Roald Amundsen→Combustion, Wilbur Wright→Advanced Flight, W.R. Hearst→Mass Media, Tippu Sultan→Space Flight
- Humanitarians (7): Lao Tzu→Irrigation, Thomas Becket→Feudalism, Florence Nightingale→Gunpowder, Johannes Gutenberg→Printing Press, Frederick Douglass→Railroad, Eli Whitney→Mass Production, Albert Schweitzer→Globalization
- Leaders (2): Agamemnon→Iron Working, David→Monarchy
- Scientists (11): Solomon→Code of Laws, Pythagoras→Mathematics, Confucius→Literacy, Archimedes→Engineering, Marie Curie→Metallurgy, Thomas Edison→Electricity, Alexander G. Bell→The Corporation, Albert Einstein→Atomic Theory, Otto Lilienthal→Flight, Guglielmo Marconi→Electronics, Enrico Fermi→Nuclear Power
Relics
Six artifacts, each found by exploring the map (reward to whoever locates it first).
| Relic |
Effect |
| Ark of the Covenant |
Builds a Temple in every city without one; cities that have Temples get Cathedrals instead |
| Seven Cities of Gold |
Large gold bonus to treasury |
| Angkor Wat |
Immediately builds a wonder in one of your cities |
| Lost City of Atlantis |
Immediately completes research on several new technologies |
| Knights Templar |
Gives you a powerful unit |
| School of Confucius |
Grants the discoverer access to a slew of Great People |