Civilization Revolution has six different types of Great People that provide special abilities upon their appearance. The six types are Great Artist/Thinker, Great Builder, Great Humanitarian, Great Explorer/Industrialist, Great Leader, and Great Scientist.

Every type of great people can do two things. The first is a one-time immediate bonus, which will consume the great person. Some examples of one time bonuses are instant completion of a wonder and increase population of all your cities. The second use is settlement bonus, which provides the host city benefits such as reduced building cost, experience for newly created units, and culture/science bonus. Note that only the great people settled in cities count toward cultural victory.

You can earn Great People in following ways:

• Accumulation of Culture: You will receive great person as your civilization accumulates culture. Each successive great person costs more culture points.
• Economic Milestones: The 500 gold and 10,000 gold milestones both give you a great person.
• First to Discover Benefit: Discovering Invention or Monarchy tech first will give you a great person.
• Spies: You can kidnap great people from enemy cities using spies.
• School of Confucius: Discovering the School of Confucius relic will instantly give you a few great people.
• Conquest: You will gain control of any great people in the city when you capture a city.

Below is a complete list of all 46 Great People categorized by type. The associated tech for each great person is also included.

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