
Use it wisely – don’t place it in City States, as you’ll never get allied with them anyways. You’ll get an extra spy, which will give you one more free tech somewhat between turn 60 and 80 (because that’s how long it takes to steal a tech in this scenario). Prologue: Byzantiums Unique Traits & Happinessīyzantium has relatively weak unique traits. Furthermore she expanded women’s rights in many fields of society. She had saved her husbands throne during the Nika riots and together they reformed Constantinople and made it the most prosperous city in the world at that time. You are playing as Theodora, the wife of Emperor Justinian I. There had been more than just one Theodora who were empresses of the Byzantine Empire. More on the latter in the Mehmet the Conqueror Steam Achievement Guide.


The Battle of Manzikert in 1071 allowed the Seljuk Turks to settle Anatolia, but it took another 400 years until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, which marks the end of the Middle Ages (leading Into the Renaissance). Eventually there was no comeback after a long period of decline. Being under heavy pressure from Arab dynasties the Byzantine Empire went through periods of decline and recovery and managed to survive for another 1.000 years.

Incorporating half of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity Byzantium survived the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and even managed to reclaim parts of the old empire. The history of the Eastern Roman Empire is as turbulent as the Roman Empire’s before it. Into the Renaissance – Byzantium Strategy (Deity)
