Village (Age of Empires III)

Template:Infobox AoE3 Buildings The Village in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties serves as the Chinese counterpart of Houses and Livestock Pens.

Overview

While much more expensive than Houses, Villages provide 20 population (twice than that of the Houses), which can be boosted even further with Chinese Home City cards and improvements at the Village itself. Villages also can serve as Home City drop-off points for shipments, act as Livestock Pens, train Goats and muster defensive units.

Improvements

All of the improvements listed in the table below are available from the Discovery Age.

Improvement	Cost	Effect
Town Government	200 wood	Villages get +10% hit points and provides +5 population
County Government	200 wood	Villages get +10% hit points and provides +5 population; requires Town Government
Prefecture Government	200 wood	Villages get +10% hit points and provides +5 population; requires County Government
Provincial Government	200 wood	Villages get +10% hit points and provides +5 population; requires Prefecture Government
Selective Breeding	150 wood, 150 coin	Livestock fattens 25% faster

Home City shipments

As the Village is exclusive to the Chinese, only other civilizations' TEAM cards that affects them are listed here.

Click for a list of related Home City cards

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team

Europeans

Native Americans

Asians

Chinese

Card icon	Card name	Card description	Age	Home City level
	Nomadic Settlement	Ships 1 Village Rickshaw and Village build limit +1	1	0
	Nomadic Expansion	Ships 2 Village Rickshaws and Village build limit +1	2	0
	Water Buffalo Ranching	Villages can train Water Buffaloes	1	0
	TEAM Provincial Administration	Houses and Longhouses get +50% hit points and support +5 to +10 population; Villages, Shrines, and Manors get +33% hit points and support +5 to +20 population	1	0
	Village Defenses	Villages can attack when garrisoned and call small packs of Irregulars and Sentries	2	0
File:Improved buildings.png	Improved Buildings	Buildings get +40% hit points	1	10
	Confucius' Gift	Improvements research 99% faster (almost instantly) and Home City shipments arrive 75% faster	3	40
	Land Reforms	Villagers and Rickshaws construct buildings 50% faster and buildings give +100% XP when built	2	10
File:Land grab.png	Land Grab	Livestock Pens, Mills, Farms, Plantations, Rice Paddies, Sacred Fields and Villages are built 75% faster and cost -30% to -40%	1	25

History

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During the late fourteenth century, the time of the Ming Dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor began a new policy of distributing vast amounts of land to local farmers. A product of a rural upbringing, the Hongwu Emperor favored farmers, and parsed the land, giving it to young boys who had reached manhood. To prevent the seizure of this land by corrupt landlords, he established non-transferable land titles and did away with taxation. The response was overwhelmingly positive. In 1393, the amount of land being cultivated rose drastically, at speeds never equaled by a later dynasty.

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Realizing that water conservancy would play a crucial part in the success of Chinese agriculture, the Hongwu Emperor focused on irrigation. He dispatched student from the Kuo-tzu-chien, or Imperial College, to develop massive irrigation systems and develop more than 40,000 ponds and dikes. Because of his decisive actions China experienced an agricultural revolution during the latter half of the fourteenth century.

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