From the updated California Mod, an updated city list/leaders.
City:
Sacramento
Los Angeles
San Francisco
San Diego
San Jose
Long Beach
Fresno
Oakland
Santa Ana
Anaheim
Riverside
Stockton
Bakersfield
Fremont
Santa Barbara
Modesto
Glendale
Chula Vista
Huntington Beach
San Bernardino
Oxnard
Garden Grove
Oceanside
Ontario
Irvine
Santa Clarita
Pomona
Santa Rosa
Moreno Valley
Salinas
Rancho Cucamonga
Fontana
Hayward
Torrance
Pasadena
Corona
Escondido
Orange
Sunnyvale
Fullerton
Concord
Santa Cruz
Lancaster
Palmdale
Thousand Oaks
El Monte
Vallejo
Simi Valley
Inglewood
Costa Mesa
Downey
West Covina
Norwalk
Berkeley
San Buenaventura
Burbank
Palo Alto
Richmond
Fairfield
Daly City
Santa Clara
Antioch
South Gate
Arden-Arcade
Visalia
Rialto
Mission Viejo
Compton
El Cajon
Vacaville
Carson
San Mateo
Roseville
Vista
Westminster
Citrus Heights
Alhambra
Santa Monica
Carlsbad
Hawthorne
Petaluma
Redding
Whittier
Lakewood
San Leandro
Santa Maria
Buena Park
Newport Beach
Baldwin Park
Lake Forest
Livermore
Elk Grove
Napa
Bellflower
Clovis
Redwood City
Temecula
Alameda
Chino Hills
Lynwood
Upland
Victorville
Chino
Tustin
Chico
Redondo Beach
San Clemente
Cerritos
Santee
Cupertino
Leader: Governor Johnson
Military Leaders:
Frémont
Serra
Stockton
Connor
Kearny
Carleton
Stoneman
Science Leaders:
Jobs
Moore
Wozniak
Seaborg
Hewlett
Thompson
Packard
#RACE_CALIFORNIAN
^The Californians are $LINK<agricultural and commercial=GCON_Strengths>. They start the game with
$LINK<Pottery=TECH_Pottery> and $LINK<Alphabet=TECH_Alphabet> and build $LINK<Californios=PRTO_Californio> instead of
normal $LINK<musketmen=PRTO_Musketman>.
^
^California, state in the western United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The third largest state in the Union, California covers an area of great physical diversity in which uplands dominate the landscape. The mountains, hills, ridges, and peaks of California flank the coastline, rise to nearly 4,600 m (15,000 ft) in the towering Sierra Nevada, encircle the great fertile basin of the Central Valley, and separate the desert into innumerable basins. However, despite the physical dominance and economic value of the uplands, Californias urban areas and economic production are concentrated in the valleys and lowlands, such as in the huge metropolitan region centered on Los Angeles, the states largest and the nations second largest city. Manufacturing, agriculture, and related activities are the principal sources of income. They are based in large part on the states wealth of natural resources, its productive farmlands, its large and highly skilled labor force, and its ability to market its output both at home and abroad.
^The indigenous Americans who had the good fortune to live in what became California also enjoyed the region's natural abundance of fish, game and agriculture. "Tribes" like those typical in other regions of North America did not exist in California, primarily because the political unity required for survival elsewhere was largely irrelevant there.
Spaniard Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was the first European to visit what is now the state of California. He arrived in 1542. But more than 200 years passed before Spain moved to settle the region, finally establishing a presidio for its army in San Diego in 1769. Soon after, the first of California's 21 Franciscan missions was built in the city.
^The missions were established in part because Spain was worried about the territorial incursions of the Russians, who had settled along California's northern coast. But the end of Spain's hold on California came from a different direction: The citizenry of Mexico established an independent nation in 1821 and gained control of California and other Spanish holdings in North America.
#DESC_RACE_CALIFORNIAN
When Mexico's short reign began, Yankee traders were already prominent in California: U.S. citizens, many of whom had married into landholding Mexican families, dominated California's business sector. The idea of annexing California to the U.S. was very attractive by the early 1840s and part of the reason for the U.S.'s declaration of war against Mexico in 1846. When the U.S. defeated Mexico in 1848, a large section of western North America, including California, passed into the landholders' hands.
^That same year a crucial event shaped the region's destiny: Gold was discovered on a remote stretch of the American River in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The subsequent California Gold Rush of 1849 transformed nearby Sacramento into an overnight mining boomtown, and San Francisco mushroomed into a raucous and randy gold-crazed port city. Statehood soon followed (1850), and San Francisco continued to boom throughout the Gilded Age of the late 1800s.
^Starting in the second decade of the 20th century, folks began flooding to Southern California in pursuit of another sort of glittering prize: movie stardom. With the rise of the motion-picture industry, the Los Angeles area became the entertainment capital of the U.S. and, eventually, the world. But the state has proven attractive in plenty of other ways, as well: The state has been a land of promise for everyone from Dust Bowl farmers to immigrants from Mexico and Asia to New Age pilgrims to high-tech entrepreneurs.
It is necessary though.
