That Tech tree looks familiar
I’m going to just slap down some ideas and thought fodder for you guys. I’ve seen my Mozilla crash once with it all drafted out. I hope I can include the same detail again. These could be used as Techs, Wonders, Improvements and even may inspire certain units. Up to you how or if you use them. They all relate to the later period of the mod.
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Opium: ~ something, anything to do with Opium! Here are some later specifics you may find you want to focus on:
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‘The Canton Laws’ which directly led to the first Opium War. Wiki rightly says: “The Canton System served as a means for China to control trade within their own country. Despite Chinese efforts to keep European traders and citizens within the area of Macao, European trade spread throughout China and threatened to virtually take over the country through the practice of Sphere of Influence imperalism. The Canton System limited the ports to which the British traders could bring in goods to China. It also forbid any direct trading between British merchants and Chinese civilians; instead, the British merchants had to trade with the Chinese merchants, who then would sell those goods to the Chinese people”. Searches for commissioner
Lin Zexu and
Lord Napier will throw up good info.
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‘Opium Agents’. My term for the multitude of foreign ‘agents’ (illegal merchants basically) who plied the British / Indian opium trade into China. Indians and South East Asians were all involved.
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‘Treaty of Nanjing’ ~ (ending the first Opium War, 2nd August 1842).
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‘Unequal Treaties’ ~ That of Nanjing was the first of many which seriously affected China’s well fair.
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Satya Graha: ~ (literally ‘Truth Force’, basically ‘Self Rule’.) This phrase and idea was made most famous by Mahatma Gandhi, but it was growing before his time. In 1885, the Indian National Congress was formed. In 1906, the All India Muslim League was formed to promote feelings of loyalty to the British and advance Muslim political interests. In 1916, the Lucknow Pact was signed, uniting the Congress and the League in demanding for greater self-government. It is denied by the British. 1920-Gandhi launches a non-violent, non-cooperation movement, or Satyagraha, against the British for a free India. I have shed loads more on this if you want it.
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Terrorism ~ (or at least the ideology behind our terrorism today). It seems that, even in today’s world in which we are
supposed to crap our pants about terrorism, many seem to forget that it was in British India (and later British Egypt) that the heady mix of religion and terrorism came together. If you search for Maulana Maudoodi or Khilafat Movement you’ll get loads on this. He lived in the earlier part of the 20th century and was the one who really kick started the idea of faith being a powerful weapon in itself, at least in its modern context.
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Jizya ~ (poll tax): Imposed on non-Muslims in India under various rulers. Significant political device in Indian history through your period this one.
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‘The Peacock Throne’ ~ I know you don’t have the Mughals in but why not? Or something similar.
Thats funny, I like it 
