Create and propagate religions

[guillaume-alvarez]

Religions are two-fold:

• it is a cultural feature than can propagate from its source
• it can be chosen by an empire as its official cult

When choosing a religion an empire can also change one of its parameters.

Religion parameters

Type:

• Animist
  • best stability
  • reduced growth
• Veneration of the dead (Shintoism)
  • better stability
  • low cultural assimilation
• Polytheist (Ancient Greece or Egypt or Rome...)
  • let choose a prefered gods trinity (for instance the Warrior, the Wife and the Trader) giving bonus depending on chosen gods
• Dualist (Manicheism)
  • better stability
• Monotheist (Judaism, Christianism, Islam)
  • greater propagation
  • Allow religious war

Attitude to other religions:

• Integration
• Tolerance
• Specific status
• Intolerance
• Inquisition

Values

• Hard work
• Spiritual life
• Wealth
• Family
• Victory in battle