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:For this building's equivalent under Alexander, see PyrtaneionFor this building's equivalent under The Southeastern Dragon, see Town Centre.
==Military research ==
The most important branch of research in any Rise of Nations game, Military Military research raises your Population Limit and the number of new units you can access. A successful game will require you to raise your population cap as far as possible, and to upgrade and access new units whereso possible.
RESEARCH LEVEL	NAME 	GRANTS ACCESS TO	COST	UNLOCKS	
1 	The Art of War 	
[War] is a subject of inquiry which on no account can be neglected.
:—Sun Zi, Chinese military strategist
*Access to ; 
*Increased Population Cap
*Units are cheaper to build and upgrade.	
*1,500
*1,500	 	
2 	Mercenaries 	
"What power has law where only money rules?"
:— Petronius
*Access to ; 
*Increased Population Cap
*Units are cheaper to build and upgrade.	
Resource cost:
*120
*50	 	
3 	Rapid Dominance Doctrine 	
"The storm is master."
:—Friedrich Schiller, 18th century German playwright, Wilhelm Tell
*Access to 
*Increased Population Cap
*Units are cheaper to build and upgrade.	 	 	
4 	Feudal Levies 	
“To win a boar’s head one must sacrifice the hounds.”
:—Wolfram von Eschenbach
*Replaced by Feudal Levies
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%	 	
*Warrior Hall
*Magistracy	
5 	Professional Corps 	
"An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep."
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS	 	
*Elite infantry	
6 	Heraldry and Code of Honour	
"See that you comeNot to woo honour, but to wed it."
:—William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well (Act 2 scene i)
*Greater Pop Cap.
*Unit upgrade cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%.	 	
*Elite heavy cavalry	
7 	Cantonment System 	
"Now is the time to set armies marching to subdue the cities and the countries of the empire." — Book of Changes (hex 15 line 6)
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS	 	
*Castle	
Note that unlike Swords of the Prophets’ base mod, Rise of Kings, population limits are set to vanilla levels, with each level of Military research providing only 25 Population, not 50.
==Administration research ==
Because of the absence of trunk technologies in Swords of the Prophets, Administration research often functions as the "Ages" of this mod. So, a lot of military buildings beyond the main vanilla ones just can't be accessed, unless corresponding buildings were also constructed too.
RESEARCH LEVEL	NAME 	GRANTS ACCESS TO	COST	UNLOCKS	
1 	Manorial System 	
"He made safe his castle that was upon a high hill, and he gathered in his flocks."
:—Ferdowsi, Shahnameh
*Increased City Limit city limit.
*Increased borders	
Resource cost:
*120
*50	
* 
* 	
2 	Public Service 	
"Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages."
:—Aristophanes
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS
*Is a prerequisite to access the following buildings: Noble Residence	 	
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*
*Granary
*Sawmill
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*Noble Residence	
3 	Legislature 	
"Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all."
:—Pericles
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Is a prerequisite to access the following buildings: Constabulary (upgrade for the Stable)	 	
*  	
4 	Multicultural Society	
River water should not interfere with well-water.
:—Chinese saying
*To be replaced by Bureaucracy.
*st cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Is a prerequisite for unlocking additional mercenaries, such as Dailamiyan for Arabs and Persians, or Turkic mercenaries for China	 	 	
5 	Magistracy 	
"To impose conditions of peace, to spare the lowly, and to overthrow the proud." —Virgil
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS.
*Unlocks the Magistracy, functions like Town Watch in that it can spot hidden units.	 	 	
6 	Jurisdiction 	
"They who do not mix their belief with injustice will have security, for they are rightly guided."
—The Qur'an (6:82)
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS
*Magistracy now trains the highest level units.	 	
* 
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7 	Sovereignty 	
"Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives."
— Genghis Khan
*Foundry
*Low-level crops and lumber upgrades in Granary and Sawmill.
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS
*Replace with Jurisdiction.	
*1,500
*1,500	 	
==Commerce research ==
RESEARCH LEVEL	NAME 	GRANTS ACCESS TO	COST	UNLOCKS	
1 	Barter 	
"In the state of nature, Profit is the measure of Right." - Thomas Hobbes, 17th century English philosopher
*Increased Caravan limit
*Increased commerce cap for all resources	
Resource cost:
*120
*50	 	
2 	Coinage 	
“A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.”
:— Revelations (6:6)
*Allows for resource trading at Market.
*Increased Caravan limit
*Increased commerce cap for all resources.	 	 	
3 	Land Development	
"He had buildings set up on Swanness, and had another house there.." —Egil's Saga (cap 29)
*Can trade with allies.
*Increased Caravan limit
*Increased commerce cap for all resources.	 	
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*
*Granary
*Sawmill
*
*Literacy	
4 	Autarky 	
"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." —Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 19th century German philosopher
*Increased Caravan limit
*Increased commerce cap for all resources.	 	 	
5 	Caravan Train 	
"A journey of many miles begins with a single step." —Taoist saying
*Can trade with allies.
*Increased Caravan limit
*Increased commerce cap for all resources.	 	
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*
*Granary
*Sawmill
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*Literacy	
6 	Infrastructure 	
"...The King of Kings; this mighty City shows / The wonders of my hand..." —Ozymandias
*Increased Caravan limit
*Increased commerce cap for all resources.	 	 	
7 	Cartography 	
"[He] has made the earth your couch, and the heavens your canopy."" —The Qur'an (2:22)
*Increased Caravan limit
*Increased commerce cap for all resources.	 	
Pedagogics with Heroic Age	
==Scientific research ==
While seemingly innocuous, Scientific research shouldn't be sniffed at. It will go a long way to unlocking new building and war machine types, while increasing the economic yields of your civilisation whist reducing the cost of research and upgrading.
The most common units requiring Science research usually tend to be siege machines, but even then they require auxiliary research in order to be unlocked.
RESEARCH LEVEL	NAME 	GRANTS ACCESS TO	COST	UNLOCKS	
1 	Logic 	Reason has an innate beauty of its own
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS	
*120 
*50 	 	
2 	Formal Education 	He who goes unpunished never learns. —Greek Proverb
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS to Scouts and other selected units.	 	
* 
* 	
3 	Classicism 	"A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent."
:—Niccolò Machiavelli
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS to Scouts and other selected units.	 	Sawmill	
4 	Patronage of the Arts	"Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.":—Winston Churchill
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS to Scouts and other selected units.	 	
*  	
5 	Archivists 	"If you understand writings, then it will be better for you than the professions which I have set before you." —Instructions of Dua-Khety
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS to Scouts and other selected units.	 	
*Sawmill	
6 	Mechanical Energy 	"[N]ature is a principle of motion and mutation."
:—Aristotle, Physics
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS to Scouts and other selected units.	 	
*  
* 	
7 	Natural Law 	"The vicar of the Almighty."
:—Geoffrey Chaucer
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS to Scouts and other selected units.	
*1,500 
*1,500	
*  	
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