Religious and Science flavor city improvements

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Since Religious and Science city improvement generate culture and can't be captured, we can use this opportunity to enjoy different architecture styles. If you're happy with ancient and medieval religious and science city improvements not aging up, you could incorporate a large amount of different flavor versions for each civ.

I want the keep the releases in a trickle as it's quite a chore for me to compile a large pack and release at once.

Let's begin the thread with the Ottomans, whose architecture differs greatly from the rest of the Islamic world. Unfortunately most of our available materials are only of mosques with their signature pencil minarets. t'd be confusing to have the same mosque designs for everything. I wanted some Anatolian Seljuk and Ottoman flavored Academies and Universities. Age of Empires 4 just so happens to have them

The Academy is based on the Seljuk Twin Minaret madrasah in Erzurum.

 

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Here's another set of Ottoman Academy and University. This time it's made from Kyriakos' city graphics and his arab mosque. The style is that of the classical period instead of Seljuk and early Ottoman of the previous set. Here we can go ham with the pencil minaret aesthetics though in reality during that period minarets are usually reserved for mosques only. If you use unique improvements for the Ottomans like I do, you can have them age from the late medieval versions into the Classical version come Industrial Age.

The University can be used for a religious improvement as well as it's based on this mosque design:

 

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Here's a late medieval Ottoman cathedral and a Persianate one.

The Ottoman medieval Cathedral based on the Ulu Cami grand mosque in Bursa:

3D Warehouse

3D Warehouse is a website of searchable, pre-made 3D models that works seamlessly with SketchUp.

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If you use a unique Ottoman Cathedral you can have it age into the classical age version in the Industrial age.

The Persianate one is from Age of Empires 2. You can also give it to the Mongols to represent the central Asian Khanates, Golden Horde and the Timurid Empire.

 

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Here's an ancient Babylonian set of Shrines, Temples and Library.

The shrine is Kyriakos' ziggurat from the city graphics. The Temple and Library and from Age of Empires 1 DE.