How to Win a Religious Victory with Ethiopia

The Approach

Improve every resource tile you can reach — each one generates Faith per copy owned under Aksumite Legacy, and International Trade Routes add further Faith per resource in the origin city, so a wide, well-connected trade network doubles as a religious engine. The ability to purchase Archaeologists and Archaeological Museums with Faith also lets a strong religious economy fund a secondary Culture push almost for free.

Key Steps

• Improve resources aggressively rather than leaving marginal tiles undeveloped — Ethiopia's Faith output scales directly with how many improved resources you actually own.
• Establish International Trade Routes early and keep them running — the Faith-per-resource bonus on the origin city rewards a genuinely active trade network.
• Spend surplus Faith on Archaeologists once your religious game is stable — it's a low-cost way to open up a secondary Culture path without diverting Production.

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