Tupi

Tupi
The Tupi Trading Post icon
Settlement information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Continent	South America
Units	Tupi Blackwood Archer
Technologies	Tupi Poison Arrow Frogs Tupi Forest Burning Tupi Animal Lore
Maps	Amazonia Pampas

The Tupi are a Native American tribe featured in Age of Empires III. Like all natives, they can be allied with by building a Trading Post at their Trading Post site.

Unit

Tupi Blackwood Archer: Long-range, accurate native archer. Good against infantry.

Technologies

Tupi technologies focus on increasing archers in combat, reducing building wood costs and training Cougars.

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect
	Tupi Poison Arrow Frogs	150 wood, 150 coin	Archers get +10% attack
	Tupi Forest Burning	175 food, 175 coin	Buildings cost -20% wood
	Tupi Animal Lore	75 wood, 75 coin	Town Centers can train Buttercup the Pet Cougars

In-game dialogue

The language spoken by the Tupi is either the extinct Old Tupi or the Modern Tupi (also known as Nheengatu).

• Ha
• Hee (Yes)
• Se guatavo (I will go)
• Tape (Path??)
• Inera (Attack)
• Nidivi (Attack)

History

“

When the Portuguese, French, and Dutch penetrated the interior of Brazil they encountered a number of warlike and aggressive tribes called the Tupi. The coastal Tupi lived mainly by agriculture, growing manioc, yams, tobacco, beans, squash, peppers, and other crops in forest clearings. When the soils were depleted, they would move to a new location, clear the trees, and replant. In the sixteenth century they became embroiled in the wars between Europeans fighting in Brazil, mainly the French and Portuguese, who both employed native allies. Many of the Tupi were forced to work on the plantations, but they fared poorly and died. They suffered from epidemics that swept through their villages, and were forcibly taken from their villages to be sold as slaves, often by enemy tribes. European encroachment spread as the trees were cleared, and sugar plantations were established. Devastated by the recurring wars, disease, and slavery, the remaining Tupi withdrew up the Amazon into interior lands the Europeans did not want.

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Gallery

A Tupi settlement

Alternate Tupi Trading Post icon, note the orange feathers and armband instead of the Blackwood Archer's blue feathers and armband

The Tupi's history portrait

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