As the transportation bridge of the ancient great civilizations,sogdians has left great imprint in history! Expand your city-state, let the trade business network spread all oases in Central Asia, and use Chaakar - a fast raiding anti-spearman Cavalry - defend your wealth.
History
Sogdians (484 AD - 1388 AD)
The Sogdians are ancient peoples who is active among rich oasis in Central Asia , They are related to Persians by blood , The earliest records of them can be found in the Persian Achaemenid inscriptions dating from the 6th century BC .Alexander the Great (356 BC - 323 BC) conquered the Persian Empire and the Sogdians soon surrendered. In order to show his tolerance for multiculturalism, Alexander the Great spread get married the Sogdian princess Roxana in the largest city of sogdians , Samarkand, but Greek rule in Central Asia soon collapsed with the death of Alexander the Great.
The Sogdians who broke away from the rule of the Greeks and Persians is began to set up independent city-states one after another around Samarkand,The Sogdians have never formed a unified and powerful empire, and they have been attached to the great power for a lot of time in their history.Being at the center of the Silk Road that spanned the Old World,The Sogdians quickly used their strengths to become skilled merchants and mercenaries, using their strength to protect and profit from the operation of the Silk Road.Merchants from China and Persia brought their culture to a melting pot called Sogdiana, forming a unique Sogdian culture finally.
Although the powers around Sogdian have been experiencing ups and downs, the Sogdians can still maintain their own uniqueness in transoxiana with their own wisdom. During the period from the 3rd to the 8th century, the Sogdians continued to Nine relatively powerful city-state forces were formed in the region, forming the core part of the Sogdian state.and they are be called āThe Hu People of Nine Clansā In Chinese Historical records.
In the late 7th century AD, the Saracens and the Turks rose. Although the Sogdians were nominally under the rule of the Chinese Tang Dynasty during this time,but the religions and nomadic cultures from the emerging powers began to change The Sogdians themselves, the Chinese and the Persians gradually became less influential over the Sogdians, and instead the Sogdians began to Islamize and Turkicize, and over the course of two centuries, the unique city-state of Sogdian gradually disappeared during this process.
Turkic slave commander Anushtigin became the governor of Khwarizm(former city-states of Sogdians) in 1077 AD and began to break away from the control of the Turkic Seljuk Dynasty,The kingdom of Khwarazmia launched many expansion wars in the next hundred years and finally defeating the Ghurids Dynasty in the south and expanding its territory to the limit, In their heyday they ruled the whole of Persia. However, the Prosperity of Khwarazmia did not last for too many years. After the demise of the Western Liao Dynasty in 1218, Khwarazmia became the next target of the greedy Mongolians. After more than ten years of hard battles the dynasty still perished. There were many Khwarazmians attempts to revive the country, but they was finally completely destroyed by Timur in 1388. The last descendants of the Sogdians eventually integrated into surrounding countries, and no longer appeared in history as a distinct people.
Civilization Bonuses
- Caravan upgrades free
- Bloodline and husbandry can be upgraded instantly
- Trade cart replaced by Sogdian merchant
- Knight-line replaced by Sogdian cataphract
- Cavalry armor upgrades free
- Receive +2/+3/+4/ Sogdian merchant per age in original town center
Team bonus: Market supports 10 population and build 100% faster
Unique Units
Sogdian Merchant
w100 g50 t50s
Sogdianās unique trade units can affect the market price through every successful business activity
Detail :Every Sogdian Merchant move 100 blocks in trade activity , they are considered to have finishing a buy / sell operation, and the price of the global market will change accordingly.Which recources you want to buy/sell can be controlled by your market bottom.
Chaakar
f70 g20 t30s
Light Cavalry with Charge Attack Can Deal Bonus Damage to Spearman
atk:9 def:0/5
Charge Timeļ¼10s
Charge Bonus Damageļ¼+10 vs Spearman
+12 vs Spearman(Elite)
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The Sogdian Cataphract
f60 g60 t30s
atk:12 def:2/2
replaces Knight-line, which has a high pieces armor and an addition damage vs. archers, and elite upgraded unlock in the imperial age
Unique Tech
Sartapao : each different building within 30 squares within the influence range of the town center will slowly produce the corresponding gold
Ferghana horse : cavalry movement speed +5%, HP +10%; Sogdian Cataphract can slowly regenerate health
Unique Castle prototype : Kyzyl Kala
Wonder: Varkhsha Palace
AI players name
- Varkhuman, ikhshid of Samarkand, 650-670
- Tarkhun: ikhshid of Samarkand, 700-710
- Gurak/Ghurak: ikhshid of Samarkand, 710-738.
- Turgar/Thurgar: last ikhshid of Samarkand before the Arab conquest, 738-755
- Divashtich / Devashtich: king of panjikant, 706-722.
- Bidun of Bukhara, Bukhar Khudah (king of Bukhara), ?- 681.
- Tughshada, Bukhar khudah (King of Bukhara), 681-739.
- Nezak Tarkhan, Hepthalite ruler of Badghis, 651-709.
- An Lushan, general in the Tang dynasty and is primarily known for instigating the An Lushan Rebellion,703 ā 757
- Shi Sugan, General in the Tang dynasty and is primarily known for instigating the An Lushan Rebellion,703 ā 761
- Cao Yijin , Lord of Guiyi,?-942
- Shi Wansui, general in the Sui dynasty,549-600
- Mahmud of Khwarezmia, the Shah of the Khwarazmian Empire 1169- 1220
- Jalal din Minghurnu, the last Khwarazmshah of the Anushtegin dynasty,1199 ā1231
Tech tree:
Barrack
Full tech
Stable
Can be updated to hussa/heavy camel rider
Knight- linereplaced by Sogdian cataphract
Archery range
Can be update to crossbowman/elite skirmersher
No hand cannoner
Siege workshop
No siege onager and heavy scorpion, bombard cannon
Blacksmith
No Ring Archer Armor
University
No heated shoot, no keep, no siege engineer, no bombard tower
Castle
No sappers
Monastery
No redemption, no atonement, no illumination, no theocracy
market
Full tech
Dock
No shipwright, no cannon galleon
Economic technology
No Two-man saw, no Stone Shaft Mining
Campaign : Sogdian Cities
- The first level: Nezak tarkhan resisted Qutaybah ibn Muslim and was finally defeated.
- The second level: The siege of samarqan, Gurak of samarqan resisted Qutaybah (and finally negotiate and surrender).
- The third level : Day of Thirst: a battle fought in 724 between the Suluk Khan and the sogdian army and the Umayyad Caliphate on the banks of the Syr Darya river
- The fourth level : Battle of the Defile: fought in the Takhtakaracha Pass between a large army of the Umayyad Caliphate and the Suluk Khan and the sogdian army over three days in July 731 CE
- Fifth level: The Battle of Kharistan: fought between the forces of the Umayyad Caliphate and the Turkic TĆ¼rgesh in December 737 near the town of Kharistan in Juzjan, Suluk khan lose his sogdian ally and been defeated.
- Sixth level: An lushan Rebellion: including the siege of Changāan.