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--Resource tags--> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_TEA"> <Text>Tea</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_CIV5_RESOURCE_TEA_TEXT"> <Text>Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by p ouring boiling hot water over cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. The t erm also refers to the plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consume d beverage in the world. It has a cooling, slightly bitter, astringent flavour w hich many people enjoy.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_TEA_HELP"> <Text>Tea is only available through a Mercantile City-St ate.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_MANUSCRIPT"> <Text>Manuscripts</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_CIV5_RESOURCE_MANUSCRIPT_TEXT"> <Text>A Manuscript or Handwrit is written information th at has been manually created by one or more people, such as a hand-written lette r, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way. The term may also b e used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for exa mple inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched (the orig inal meaning of graffiti) as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a waxed tablet (the way Romans made notes), or are in cuneiform writing, impresse d with a pointed stylus in a flat tablet of unbaked clay.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_MANUSCRIPT_HELP"> <Text>Manuscripts are only available through a Mercantil e City-State.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_CHOCOLATE"> <Text>Chocolate</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_CIV5_RESOURCE_CHOCOLATE_TEXT"> <Text>Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest docume nted use is around 1100 BC. The majority of the Mesoamerican people made chocola te beverages, including the Aztecs, who made it into a beverage known as xocolat l, a Nahuatl word meaning "bitter water". The Europeans sweetened and fattened i t by adding refined sugar and milk, two ingredients unknown to the Mexicans. By contrast, the Europeans never infused it into their general diet, but have compa rtmentalized its use to sweets and desserts. In the 19th century, Briton John Ca dbury developed an emulsification process to make solid chocolate, creating the modern chocolate bar. Although cocoa is originally from the Americas, today West ern Africa produces almost two-thirds of the world's cocoa.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_CHOCOLATE_HELP"> <Text>Chocolate is only available through a Mercantile C ity-State.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_TOBACCO"> <Text>Tobacco</Text> </Row>

<Row Tag="TXT_KEY_CIV5_RESOURCE_TOBACCO_TEXT"> <Text>Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as a pesti cide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines. It is most c ommonly used as a drug, and is a valuable cash crop for countries such as Cuba, India, China, and the United States. Tobacco can be consumed or used in a number of ways, in consumption it most commonly appears in the forms of smoking, chewi ng, snuffing, or dipping tobacco.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_TOBACCO_HELP"> <Text>Tobacco is only available through a Mercantile Cit y-State.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_FURNITURE"> <Text>Furniture</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_CIV5_RESOURCE_FURNITURE_TEXT"> <Text>Furniture is an object that is intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping. Furniture is also used t o hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground), or to store things. Furniture can be a product of design and is consid ered a form of decorative art. In addition to furniture's functional role, it ca n serve a symbolic or religious purpose. Furniture can be made from many materia ls, including metal, plastic, and wood. Furniture can be made using a variety of woodworking joints which often reflect the local culture.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_FURNITURE_HELP"> <Text>Furniture is only available through a Mercantile C ity-State.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_GLASS"> <Text>Glass</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_CIV5_RESOURCE_GLASS_TEXT"> <Text>Glass is a solid material that is typically transp arent and brittle and has been used for centuries in windows and drinking vessel s. The history of creating glass can be traced back to 3500 BCE in Mesopotamia. The term glass developed in the late Roman Empire. It was in the Roman glassmaki ng center at Trier, now in modern Germany, that the late-Latin term glesum origi nated, probably from a Germanic word for a transparent, lustrous substance. The center for luxury glassmaking from the 14th century was the island of Murano, wh ich developed many new techniques and became the center of a lucrative export tr ade in dinnerware, mirrors, and other items. What made Venetian Murano glass sig nificantly different was that the local quartz pebbles were almost pure silica, and were ground into a fine clear sand that was combined with soda ash obtained from the Levant, for which the Venetians held the sole monopoly.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_GLASS_HELP"> <Text>Glass is only available through a Mercantile CityState.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_COFFEE"> <Text>Coffee</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_CIV5_RESOURCE_COFFEE_TEXT"> <Text>Coffee is a brewed beverage with a distinct aroma and flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffea plant. The beans are fo und in coffee "cherries", which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, p rimarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa. Gre en (unroasted) coffee is one of the most traded agricultural commodities. Coffee

is slightly acidic and can have a stimulating effect on humans due to its caffe ine content. Wild coffee's energizing effect was likely first discovered in the northeast region of Ethiopia. Coffee cultivation first took place in southern Ar abia; the earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking appears in the middle of the 15th century in the Sufi shrines of Yemen. From the Muslim world, coffee co nsumption and cultivation spread to India, to Italy, and on to the rest of Europ e, Indonesia and the Americas.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_COFFEE_HELP"> <Text>Coffee is only available through a Mercantile City -State.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_ARTIFACT"> <Text>Artifacts</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_CIV5_RESOURCE_ARTIFACT_TEXT"> <Text>Artifacts or artefacts (from Latin phrase arte fac tum, from ars skill + facere to make) are something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art, especially objects of archaeological interest. In archaeology, where the term is most commonly used, an artifact is an object r ecovered by some archaeological endeavor, which may have a cultural interest. Ex amples include stone tools such as projectile points, pottery vessels, metal obj ects such as guns, and items of personal adornment such as buttons, jewellery an d clothing. Other examples include bone that show signs of human modification, f ire cracked rocks from a hearth or plant material used for food.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_ARTIFACT_HELP"> <Text>Artifacts are only available through a Mercantile City-State.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_PAINTING"> <Text>Paintings</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_CIV5_RESOURCE_PAINTING_TEXT"> <Text>Paintings are compositions or images made as a res ult of the act of painting; the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or ot her medium to a surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the ba se with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describ es both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is also used out side of art as a common trade among craftsmen and builders. Paintings may have f or their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, cl ay, leaf, copper or concrete, and may incorporate multiple other materials inclu ding sand, clay, paper, gold leaf as well as objects.</Text> </Row> <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_RESOURCE_PAINTING_HELP"> <Text>Paintings are only available through a Mercantile City-State.</Text> </Row> </Language_en_US> </GameData>