Welcome to Ancient Civilizations!

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Let's create a classroom code for your class!

Enter a name for your classroom: Generate a class code

Start a civilizationCreate another class code

If you have a classroom code, enter it now. This should be provided by your teacher.

Clasroom code: Submit

If you do not have a classroom code, you will not be able to trade with your classmates! Play without a classroom code.

If you are a teacher and need to create a classroom code, click here.

It's time to start creating your new civilization! Your goal is to grow your population to 100,000 civilians as quickly as you can.

First of all, your civilization is going to need a name.

Civilization name: Continue

Where is your civilization located?

next to an ocean
in the mountains
on an island
in the rainforest
next to a river
in the desert

Continue

Now it's time to decide what resources your civilization will begin with. Throughout this game, you may earn or lose some resources. If you entered a classroom code, you'll also be able to trade resources with your classmates.

We're going to start you out with 20 Resource Points to spend on animals, 20 Resource Points to spend on plants, and 10 Resource Points to spend on materials.

Below are the animals your civilization can begin with. You can spend all 20 Resource Points on one animal, or distribute those points across as many animals as you'd like.

camels

cats

chickens

cows

dogs

fish

horses

llamas

Resource Points remaining: 20

Continue

Great choices with those animals. Below are the plants your civilization can begin with. You can spend all 20 Resource Points on one plant, or distribute those points across as many plants as you'd like.

beans

corn

oranges

pine trees

potatoes

roses

wheat

Resource Points remaining: 20

Continue

Excellent plant choices. Below are the materials your civilization can begin with. You can spend all 10 Resource Points on one material, or distribute those points across as many materials as you'd like.

bronze

gold

iron

silk

stone

Resource Points remaining: 10

You've finished creating your civilization - let's start the game with some resource bonuses!

Begin game

Select a classmate to trade with! You can only have one active trade proposal per classmate. Trade with Create your offer by clicking on resources to trade from your classmate's civilization and from your own civilization. Once you submit your trade request, your classmate will get a notification to review and either accept or reject your offer. Propose trade Cancel trade This year, like most years in your civilization, many random events happen. Depending on your location and your resources, each event may or may not apply to you. Each of the months below has one event - choose three months to uncover by clicking on them: January February March April May June July August September October November December If you'd like to delete your civilization and start the game from scratch, click Delete. Continue

Animals Plants Materials