Civ VI BBG 6.1 Great People Abilities Description
Great General

Classical Era
Boudica
1
Creates a Military Engineer in your Capital.
Hannibal Barca
1
Grants 1 promotion level to a military land unit.
Sun Tzu
The Art of War
Trung Trac
1
Permanently reduces your empire's War Weariness by 25%.
Medieval Era
Æthelflæd
1
Instantly creates a Trebuchet unit with one promotion level.
El Cid
1
Forms a Corps out of a military land unit.
Timur
1
Grants 1 promotion level and +25% combat experience to a military land unit.
Renaissance Era
Amina
1
Gain 2 Envoys.
Gustavus Adolphus
1
Instantly creates a Bombard unit with 1 promotion level.
Jeanne d'Arc
1
Forms an Army out of a military land unit
Industrial Era
Dandara
1
Creates the most advanced Support unit you can build in your nearest city.
José de San Martín
1
Instantly creates a Tank unit with one promotion level. Grants 2 Oil per turn.
Napoleon Bonaparte
1
Instantly creates an Observation Balloon
Rani Lakshmibai
1
Instantly creates a Helicopter unit with one promotion level.
Modern Era
John Monash
1
Grants 1 promotion level and +75% combat experience to a military land unit.
Marina Raskova
1
District in this tile gains +1 air unit slots.
Samori Touré
1
Instantly creates a Spec Ops unit with 1 promotion level.
Tupac Amaru
1
Grants an Infantry in each of the target city's indefensible and undefended Districts.
Atomic Era
Douglas MacArthur
1
Instantly creates a Tank unit with one promotion level. Grants 2 Uranium per turn.
Dwight Eisenhower
1
+15% Production towards military units.
Georgy Zhukov
1
+50% flanking bonus for all land units.
Sudirman
1
Creates a Fighter unit with one promotion level. Grants 2 Aluminum per turn.
Information Era
Ahmad Shah Massoud
1
Instantly creates a Modern Anti-Tank unit with 1 promotion level.
Vijaya Wimalaratne
1
Grants 1 promotion level and +100% combat experience to a military land unit.
Great Admiral

Classical Era
Artemisia
1
Grants 1 promotion level to a military naval unit.
Gaius Duilius
1
Forms a Fleet out of a military naval unit.
Hanno the Navigator
1
Creates a naval melee unit with +2 Movement.
Themistocles
1
Instantly creates a Quadrireme unit. +20% Production towards units of the Naval Ranged promotion class.
Medieval Era
Himerios
1
Grants 1 promotion level and +25% combat experience to a military naval unit.
Leif Erikson
1
+1 sight range for all naval units. Allows all naval units to move over ocean tiles without the normal technology requirement.
Rajendra Chola
1
Grants 1 free copy of the Luxury resource on this tile to your Capital city. Gain 300
Gold (on Standard speed).
Zheng He
1
Grants a free Trader unit in this city, and increases Trade Route capacity by 1. Foreign
Trade Routes to this city provide +2
Gold to both cities.
Renaissance Era
Ferdinand Magellan
1
+3 Combat Strength for all naval units.
Francis Drake
1
Instantly creates a Privateer unit with 1 promotion level. Military units get +50% rewards for plundering sea Trade Routes. +25%
toward Naval Ranged and Naval Raider Units
Santa Cruz
1
Forms an Armada out of a military naval unit.
Yi Sun-sin
1
Instantly creates an Ironclad unit with 1 promotion level. Grants 1 Coal per Turn
Industrial Era
Ching Shih
1
Gain 500 Gold (on Standard speed). Military units get +60% rewards for plundering sea
Trade Routes.
Horatio Nelson
1
Instantly builds a Lighthouse and Shipyard in this district. +50% flanking bonus for all naval units.
Laskarina Bouboulina
1
Grants 1 promotion level and +50% combat experience to a military naval unit.
Modern Era
Franz von Hipper
1
Instantly creates a Battleship unit with 1 promotion level. Grants 1 Coal per Turn.
Joaquim Marques Lisboa
1
Accumulate 25% less war weariness than usual.
Matthew Perry
1
Grants enough Envoys to become Suzerain at this city-state. Then removes all other players'
Envoys.
Togo Heihachiro
1
Grants +6 Loyalty per turn for this city.
Atomic Era
Chester Nimitz
1
Instantly creates a Submarine unit with 1 promotion level. Grants 1 Oil per Turn. +20%
Production towards units of the Naval Raider promotion class.
Grace Hopper
1
Gain 2 randomly-chosen free technologies.
Sergei Gorshkov
1
Grants 1 promotion level and +100% combat experience to a military naval unit.
Information Era
Clancy Fernando
1
Grants 1 promotion level and +200% combat experience to a military naval unit.
Great Engineer

Medieval Era
Bi Sheng
1
Lets this city build one more district than the Population limit allows.
Triggers the Eureka moment for the Printing technology.
Imhotep
1
Grants 175 Production towards wonder construction, doubled if the wonder is from the Ancient or Classical Era.
Isidore of Miletus
2
Grants 215 Production towards wonder construction.
James of St. George
3
Instantly builds Ancient and Medieval Walls in this city.
Renaissance Era
Filippo Brunelleschi
2
Grants 315 Production towards wonder construction.
Leonardo da Vinci
1
Triggers the Eureka moment for 1 random technology from the Modern era.
Workshops provide +3 Culture.
Mimar Sinan
2
+1 Amenity for this city.
+1 Housing for this city.
Industrial Era
Ada Lovelace
1
Triggers the Eureka moment for the Computers technology.
Lets this city build one more district than the Population limit allows.
Gustave Eiffel
2
Grants 480 Production towards wonder construction.
James Watt
1
Instantly builds a Factory and Workshop in this district. Factories provide +2 Production.
Modern Era
Alvar Aalto
1
This city provides +1 Appeal to any tiles it owns. This city receives +2 Gold from each breathtaking tile.
Nikola Tesla
1
This district's regional buildings provide +2 Production.
This district's regional buildings reach 3 tiles farther.
Robert Goddard
1
Triggers the Eureka moment for the Rocketry technology.
+20% Production towards Space Race projects.
Shah Jahān
1
Purchase Production towards wonder construction at the rate of 2
Gold per 1
Production.
Atomic Era
Jane Drew
1
+3 Amenities for this city.
+4 Housing for this city.
John Roebling
2
+1 Amenity for this city.
+2 Housing for this city.
Sergei Korolev
1
Grants 1500 Production towards Space Race project construction.
Information Era
Charles Correa
1
This city provides +2 Appeal to any tiles it owns.
Joseph Paxton
1
This district's regional buildings provide +1 Amenity.
This district's regional buildings reach 3 tiles farther.
Kenzo Tange
1
Grants Tourism in each of this city's Districts equal to its adjacency bonus (halved for
Gold).
Wernher von Braun
1
+100% Production towards Space Race projects.
Great Merchant

Classical Era
Colaeus
1
Gain 100 Faith.
Grants 1 free copy of the Luxury resource on this tile to your Capital city.
Marcus Licinius Crassus
3
Gain 60 Gold.
Your nearest city annexes this tile into its territory.
Zhang Qian
1
Increases Trade Route capacity by 1. Foreign
Trade Routes to this city provide +2
Gold to both cities.
Medieval Era
Ibn Fadlan
1
Increases Trade Route capacity by 1. Your
Trade Routes to city-states now grant you +2
Faith.
Irene of Athens
1
Grant 1 Governor Title or recruit a new
Governor.
Marco Polo
1
Grants a free Trader unit in this city, and increases Trade Route capacity by 1. Foreign
Trade Routes to this city provide +2
Gold to both cities.
Piero de' Bardi
1
Gain 200 Gold.
Gain 1 Envoy.
Renaissance Era
Giovanni de' Medici
1
Instantly builds a Bank and Market in this district. The Bank gets 2 Great Work slots, which can hold anything.
Jakob Fugger
1
Gain 200 Gold.
Gain 2 Envoys.
Raja Todar Mal
1
Your Trade Routes to your own cities gain +1
Gold for each specialty district at the destination.
Gain 1 Envoy.
Zhou Daguan
1
Grants 3 Envoys at this city-state.
Industrial Era
Adam Smith
1
Gain 500 Gold.
Grant 1 Governor Title or recruit a new
Governor.
John Jacob Astor
1
Gain 500 Gold.
Gain 2 Envoys.
John Spilsbury
1
Grants 2 Toys, a uniquely manufactured Luxury resource which provides +4
Amenities.
Modern Era
John Rockefeller
1
Grants 3 Oil per Turn. Your
Trade Routes gain +2
Gold for each Strategic resource at the destination city.
Mary Katherine Goddard
1
+1 level of diplomatic visibility with all other civilizations.
Sarah Breedlove
1
Increases Trade Route capacity by 1.
+25% Tourism rate towards other civilizations you have a
Trade Route to.
Stamford Raffles
1
Absorbs this City-state into your empire. Grants you +10 Loyalty per turn in the city. Can be an enemy City-state.
Atomic Era
Helena Rubinstein
1
Grants 2 Cosmetics, a uniquely manufactured Luxury resource which provides +4
Amenities.
Levi Strauss
1
Grants 2 Jeans, a uniquely manufactured Luxury resource which provides +4
Amenities.
Melitta Bentz
1
Increases Trade Route capacity by 1.
+25% Tourism rate towards other civilizations you have a
Trade Route to.
Information Era
Estée Lauder
1
Grants 2 Perfume, a uniquely manufactured Luxury resource which provides +6
Amenities.
Jamsetji Tata
1
Campus districts provide +50 Tourism.
Masaru Ibuka
1
Industrial Zone districts provide +50 Tourism.
Great Prophet

Classical Era
Confucius
John the Baptist
Laozi
Siddhartha Gautama
Simon Peter
Zoroaster
Medieval Era
Adi Shankara
Bodhidharma
Irenaeus
O no Yasumaro
Songtsan Gampo
Renaissance Era
Francis of Assisi
Haji Huud
Madhva Acharya
Martin Luther
Thomas Aquinas
Great Scientist

Classical Era
Aryabhata
1
Triggers the Eureka moment for 3 random technologies from the Classical or Medieval era.
Euclid
1
Triggers the Eureka moment for Mathematics and 1 random technology from the Medieval era.
Hypatia
1
Libraries provide +1 Science.
Instantly builds a Library in this district.
Zhang Heng
1
Triggers Eureka for Celestial Navigation, Mathematics, and Engineering. If they are already triggered, instead completes the tech.
Medieval Era
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
1
Triggers the Eureka moment for 1 random technology from the Medieval or Renaissance era.
Wounded land units can heal +5 HP each turn.
Hildegard of Bingen
1
Gain 100 Faith.
This Holy Site district's Faith adjacency bonus provides
Science as well.
Omar Khayyam
1
Triggers the Eureka moment for 2 random technologies and the
Inspiration moment for 1 random civic from the Medieval or Renaissance era.
Renaissance Era
Emilie du Chatelet
1
Triggers the Eureka moment for 3 random technologies from the Renaissance or Industrial era.
Galileo Galilei
1
Gain 250 Science (on Standard speed) for each adjacent Mountain tile.
Ibn Khaldun
1
Chosen Campus gains 2 Housing and 1
Amenities. Increases non-
Food yield benefits of Happiness in your empire by 40%.
Isaac Newton
1
Instantly builds a University and Library in this district. Universities provide +2 Science.
Industrial Era
Charles Darwin
1
Gain 500 Science (on Standard speed) for each natural wonder tile here or adjacent.
Dmitri Mendeleev
1
Triggers the Eureka for Chemistry and 1 random technology from the Industrial era. +50%
Production towards Research Lab buildings.
James Young
1
Triggers the Eureka moment for 2 random technologies from the Industrial or Modern era.
Reveals Oil without the normal technology requirement.
Modern Era
Alan Turing
1
Triggers the Eureka for Computers and 1 random technology from the Modern era. If Computers technology is already triggered, instead completes Computers technology.
Albert Einstein
1
Triggers the Eureka moment for 1 random technology from the Modern or Atomic era.
Research Labs provide +4 Science.
Alfred Nobel
1
Triggers the Eureka moment for 1 random technology from the Modern or Atomic era.
Applies 100 free Great People points towards recruiting all current and future Great People. Grants 1 Diplomatic Victory Point.
Atomic Era
Erwin Schrödinger
1
Triggers the Eureka moment for 3 random technologies from the Atomic or Information era.
Janaki Ammal
1
Gain 400 Science for each Rainforest tile here or adjacent.
Margaret Mead
1
Grants 2000 Science and
Culture (on Standard speed). Must be activated on non-hostile foreign civilization or City-state's Campus.
Mary Leakey
1
Gain 350 Science for every
Artifact in this city.
Artifacts in all your cities generate 300% of their normal
Tourism.
Information Era
Abdus Salam
1
Triggers the Eureka moment for all technologies from the Information era.
Carl Sagan
1
Grants 3000 Production towards Space Race project construction.
Stephanie Kwolek
1
+100% Production towards Space Race projects.
Great Writer

Classical Era
Bhasa
The Madhyama Vyayoga
Pratima-nataka
Homer
Iliad
Odyssey
Ovid
Metamorphoses
Heroides
Qu Yuan
Chu Ci (Songs of Chu)
Lament for Ying
Valmiki
The Ramayana
Yoga Vasistha
Medieval Era
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Troilus and Criseyde
Li Bai
Drinking Alone by Moonlight
In the Mountains on a Summer Day
Murasaki Shikibu
The Diary of Lady Murasaki
The Tale of Genji
Rumi
Divani Shamsi Tabriz
Masnavi
Renaissance Era
Margaret Cavendish
The Blazing World
Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
Fair Goldilocks
The Dolphin
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote
Novelas Ejemplares (Exemplary Novels)
Niccolò Machiavelli
Discourses on Livy
The Prince
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Industrial Era
Alexander Pushkin
Eugene Onegin
Boris Godunov
Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Raven
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
The Last Man
Modern Era
Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tailor of Gloucester
Emily Dickinson
A Bird came down
Success is counted sweetest
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
The Beautiful and Damned
James Joyce
Ulysses
Dubliners
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Atomic Era
H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
The Time Machine
Rabindranath Tagore
The Home and the World
The Gardener
Information Era
Gabriela Mistral
Lecturas para mujeres (Books for Women)
Sonetos de la Muerte (Sonnets of Death)
Karel Capek
Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R.)
War with the Newts
Great Artist

Renaissance Era
Andrei Rublev
Annunciation
Saviour in Glory
Ascension
Donatello
St. Mark
Equestrian statue of Gattamelata
Judith Slaying Holofernes
Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Earthly Delights
The Last Judgement
The Haywain Triptych
Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād
Battleground of Timur and Egyptian King
Yusef and Zuleykha
Timur Granting Audience On The Occasion Of His Accession
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
David
Pietà
Industrial Era
El Greco
Adoration of the Magi
The Assumption of the Virgin
View of Toledo
Hasegawa Tōhaku
Pine Trees
Maple Tree
Birds and Flowers
Qiu Ying
Spring Morning in the Han Palace
Fishermen in Reclusion Among the Lotus Stream
Red Cliff
Rembrandt van Rijn
Andries de Graeff
Agatha Bas
Abraham and Isaac
Titian
Assunta
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
Equestrian Portrait of Charles V
Modern Era
Angelica Kauffman
Anna Maria Jenkins and Thomas Jenkins
Portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Sarah Harrop as a Muse
Jang Seung-eop
Samin munnyeondo
Rooster
Ssangma inmuldo
Katsushika Hokusai
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Lake Suwa in Shinano Province
Fine Wind, Clear Morning
Sofonisba Anguissola
Three Sisters Playing Chess
Philip II of Spain
A Monk
Atomic Era
Claude Monet
Water Lilies
Impression, Sunrise
Haystack at Giverny
Edmonia Lewis
The Death of Cleopatra
Marriage of Hiawatha and Minnehaha
Hagar
Marie-Anne Collot
Portrait of Pierre-Étienne Falconet
Portrait of Catherine II
Portrait of Marie Cathcart
Vincent van Gogh
Starry Night
Café Terrace at Night
The Night Café
Information Era
Amrita Sher-Gil
Three Girls
Bride's Toilet
Self Portrait
Boris Orlovsky
Mikhail Kutuzov
Alexander Column
Bust of Tsar Alexander
Gustav Klimt
The Kiss
Avenue in the Park of Schloss Kammer
Farm Garden with Sunflowers
Mary Cassatt
Lydia Leaning on Her Arms
The Child's Bath
The Cup of Tea
Wassily Kandinsky
Composition 8
Blue Rider
Red Square
Great Musician

Industrial Era
Antonio Vivaldi
Four Seasons: Winter
La Notte Concerto
Dimitrie Cantemir
Peşrev Adjem Yegiahi
Prince Of Moldavia
Uzzusule Beresvan
Johann Sebastian Bach
"Little" Fugue in G minor
Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ode to Joy (Symphony #9)
Symphony #3 (Eroica Symphony) Mvt. 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Symphony #40, Mvt. 1
Yatsuhashi Kengyo
Rokudan No Shirabe
Hachidan No Shirabe
Modern Era
Antônio Carlos Gomes
Fosca - Mvt. 1 (Abertura)
Alvorada
Franz Liszt
Transcendental Étude No. 9
Mephisto Waltz No. 1 "The Dance in the Village Inn"
Frederic Chopin
Nocturne in E flat Major
Valse Brillante Op. 18
Liu Tianhua
Liáng Xiāo
Kong Shan Niao Yu
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Dance of the Little Swans
Scott Joplin
The Entertainer
Maple Leaf Rag
The Easy Winners
Atomic Era
Antonin Dvorak
New World Symphony (no. 9) - Mvt. 4
Serenade for Strings, Op. 22 - Mvt. 2
Clara Schumann
Prelude and Fugue Op. 16, No. 3
Toccatina in A minor
Juventino Rosas
Sobre las olas
Vals Carmen
Lili'uokalani
Lili’uokalani’s Prayer
Sanoe
Information Era
Gauhar Jaan
Raga Khamaj Jogiya
Raga Bhairavi
Mykola Leontovych
Carol of the Bells
Prelude for Choir
Comandante General

José Antonio Páez
1
Grants +4 Combat Strength to Cavalry class units within 2 tiles.
Antonio José de Sucre
1
Instantly creates the strongest land combat unit you can build with 1 promotion level. Unit has no resource maintenance cost.
Gregor MacGregor
1
Grants 1 promotion level to a military land unit and Gold equal to 50% of the purchase cost of the unit.
Santiago Mariño
1
Grants +4 Combat Strength to Melee and Anti-Cavalry class units within 2 tiles.
Mariano Montilla
1
Land units within 2 tiles gain +4 Combat Strength when attacking districts.
Antonio Nariño
1
Increase Trade Route capacity by 1. Grants a Trader unit in the nearest city.
Francisco de Paula Santander
1
Grants 1 Governor Title.
Manuel Piar
1
Grants +7 Combat Strength to a land unit.
José Félix Ribas
1
Enemy units within 2 tiles lose 30 HP.
Rafael Urdaneta
1
All land combat units within 2 tiles regain all Movement and attack capability.