1. You will need to work with your fellow citizens. Each week, you will meet with your government and decide who will oversee important tasks for your city. 
2. Then, you will advise your leader on how you should assign your city’s wealth and population.
3. Finally, you will undertake a weekly Crisis, a task that requires your whole city to work as a team. Your success will determine if your city receives a bonus or a penalty to your tasks that week.
4. Your leader will submit your decisions for review.
5. You will be updated on the outcome of your turn and your resources will be updated at the end of each week. 

1. There are three resources you earn with weekly tasks: food, wealth, and culture.
2. Your food affects your population, which is a separate resource.
3. Each citizen generates Power by completing weekly assignments: usually the English assignment, the History Review, and the math sections. Your Power is determined by the number of points you earn on each.
4. The amount of a resource you generate is equal to your Power that week. 
5. You can use some resources to create Buildings in your city. These generate resources each week automatically. 
6. Culture can’t be destroyed and is probably the score that will win you the game.

1. In ancient Greece, wealth was measured in many ways. Wine, slaves, food, art, and coins were all ways people stored and traded value. 
2. Your city will earn wealth depending on which citizens are assigned to Craft.
3. You must protect your wealth! Excess wealth can be stolen by enemies.
4. Wealth is used to buy buildings in your city. 

1. You earn food by assigning citizens to Farm. Each citizen earns as much food as their Power that week.
2. For every 25 food your city stores, you gain 1 population per week. You can’t control this growth!
3. Each population in your city eats 1 food per week. This is done automatically.
4. If your food falls to 0, any unfed population starve or flee the city.

1. Culture represents myths, music, poems, art, and philosophy–all the intellectual products of your civilization.  
2. Culture is earned by assigning citizens to Think. 
3. Culture is never used directly, but it cannot be stolen or lost: once gained, it is yours forever.

1. Your population will rise when you have extra food and lower if you don’t. 
2. Population gives bonuses to Citizen Power on tasks! 
3. Each point of population can be assigned as a “bonus” to your citizens. If you have 10 population, you can assign them to your citizens to increase their power.
4. For example, if Bob is assigned to Craft, and he has a Power of 23 that week. If he is given 3 population, his Power is now 26. His city gains 26 wealth this turn.
5. You should make sure to assign your entire population each turn. Remember each point of population can only be assigned to one Citizen per week.
6. A higher population can be hard to feed but is helpful to build a powerful city.

1. Citizens assigned to Guard protect the city from raiders.
2. Citizens assigned to Raid target the city with the highest wealth score that is NOT allied to their city.
3. Multiple citizens can guard or raid: their Power is combined.
4. A city can only be the target of 1 other city’s raid per turn. If a city has been raided, the next raiders will attack the second-wealthiest city, then the third, etc.
5. If a city is attacked, the Power of the attacker is compared to the power of the Guards.
6. If the attacker’s Power is less than the Guard power, the attacker loses. The defending city gains culture equal to the difference between their Guard power and the attacker’s power. 
7. If the attacker’s Power is greater than the Guard Power, the attacker steals wealth and food equal to the difference between their attack power and the Guard power of the target.
8. Every city starts with an Acropolis that protects 50 of each resource from attackers.

1. Extra population can be sent out to form colonies. 
2. Populations used to build colonies permanently leave your city, but your city gains a colony on the Political Map. 
3. Citizen Power dedicated to colonies creates the colony’s Defense value against raiders. 
4. Population assigned to Colonize permanently leave the city! 
5. Your colony will send you Wealth and Culture every week equal to its population, and it requires no food. 
6. Colonies are best used if you think you might face starvation soon. 

1. Each turn you may order new construction in your city.
2. To construct, fill out the Construction page on your weekly Task chart. 
3. Buildings provide permanent bonuses but cost resources to build.

1. Every week, your city will face a Crisis. You should work with your team to resolve it. 
2. Your reaction to the Crisis could give bonuses or penalties to your Citizen Power, resources, and even buildings.

1. At the end of the game, a series of extreme Crises will destroy your world.
2. Only a strong city can survive.
3. The city with the highest combined culture, wealth, food, and population wins the game!

1. Every city can dedicate a temple to one of their patron gods. This costs gold and requires a Construction Project.
2. A temple gives permanent bonuses to your cities Culture and wealth, but requires huge amounts of wealth. 

3. Beyond wealth, the temple requires a Temple Project! A temple project requires a Google Slideshow of blueprints. (More info will be given…in time)