Advance

The Silk Road of Morea

moe_the_silk_road_of_morea_advance

The Peloponnesian silk industry, long a staple of the local economy, underwent a massive state-led expansion during the 17th century to fund the Despotate's growing military ambitions. By inviting Venetian master weavers and Genoese dyers to settle in the capital of Mystras, the Despots have broken the foreign monopoly on luxury textile processing, ensuring that the entire value chain, from mulberry cultivation to finished brocade, remained within Greek borders. This economic protectionism will turn the Morea into a vital 'Silk Hub' that will link the luxury demands of the European Enlightenment with the raw materials of the East. The resulting surge in custom duties and trade tolls will provide the treasury with the gold necessary to maintain a modern bureaucracy and a standing army without overtaxing the peasantry.

RequiresChamber of CommerceAdvancerequires

Conditions

Potential

Is or was Morea

Exact conditions

Advance tree

1. Scientific Revolution
2. Cartographic Mapping
3. Chamber of Commerce
4. The Silk Road of Morea

Modifiers

• Cloth Output+10%
• Fine Cloth Output+10%

Connections

Requires 2

Advances

• Chamber of CommerceAbsolutismRequires

Countries

• MoreaPotential

Belongs to 1

• AbsolutismAge

Definitionin_game/common/advances/culture_group_greek.txt:411

age = age_5_absolutism

icon = renaissance_development

▾potential = {

has_or_had_tag = MOE

}

global_cloth_output_modifier = 0.1

global_fine_cloth_output_modifier = 0.1

requires = merchant_power_from_maritime_absolutism_advance

History