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World History Institutions

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Alternative historiography mod. This mod replaces the vanilla eurocentric institutions with a new set that aims to tell a narrative based in world history.

EU4 is a fantastic, but very eurocentric game (it's even in the name!), with many of its mechanics either explicitly or implicitly having an understanding of history in which the rise of Europe is inevitable. This mod presents an alternative more appropriate world history reading.

The second goal is to make it for fun to play outside of Europe with the Institution mechanic. I despise the vanilla mechanic of developing an institution. You will always be ahead in institutions compared to your neighbors. This has been removed. Instead different institutions will spread from different regions on the map. Nations will only be able to embrace them once it reaches them.


The World History Institutions:


- Pax Mongolica, 1235 (present Eurasia, North- and East Africa at start)

- Tributary System, 1405 (present at start in Ming and will spread to tributaries and states visited by Zheng He)

- Columbian Exchange, 1492 (similar to Colonialism but with spread much faster)

- Farang Guns, 1550 (will appear in East Asia, European and Ottomans get for free)

- Global Trade, 1600 (will appear in biggest trade node, has various ways of spreading)

- Manufactories, 1650 (most likely to first appear in India, to represent Indian dominance in textile manufacturing)

- Empiricism, 1700 (for now a renamed but largely unchanged Enlightenment, will subject to more change in the future)

- Industrial Revolution, 1750 (unchanged from vanilla, but much bigger tech penalties)




This mod is not designed to be compatible with other mods.
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Joeri Dobbelaar  [author] May 15 @ 6:20am 
So I have been working on a bunch more age objectives. In the first place to make the age mechanic more interesting outside of Europe. But furthermore also in an attempt to create more regional narratives. I have always felt that EU4's interstate anarchy works best when it is tempered with some form of structure. The most successful ones in my opinion being the HRE and the MoH+tributaries.
Joeri Dobbelaar  [author] May 8 @ 7:25pm 
UPDATED to 1.37, also started making changes to the Age mechanic
Joeri Dobbelaar  [author] Apr 17 @ 3:02am 
UPDATE

Changes to China, Korea, tech and religions.
Joeri Dobbelaar  [author] Mar 27 @ 11:02pm 
Big UPDATE

If you are playing this mod and are already beyond the year 1600 please please read the Change Notes.
Joeri Dobbelaar  [author] Mar 25 @ 11:10pm 
Haha, thanks.
🙏BASED SURAEL🙏 Mar 25 @ 8:43pm 
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Great conversation by the way, randomly stumbling upon a nuanced, civil and intelligent argument between two steam users, and learning some new things from it was not something I expected to happen today.
sankara Mar 25 @ 4:03pm 
Neat ideia!
antoni.wisneiwski.1990 Mar 24 @ 9:56pm 
Yeah, you correct on that. I recall reading somewhere the term arose later when the concept of state was brought from Europe, but can not find that source now. Guess I was thinking of blue almonds.

We agree on the main point though.
Joeri Dobbelaar  [author] Mar 24 @ 9:04pm 
I mean the Northern Chinese in the 12th century would probably still see any invading Jürchen as a violent other.
Joeri Dobbelaar  [author] Mar 24 @ 9:03pm 
You are referring to the modern usage of 'guojia' (國家). Going back to the Zhou dynasty 'guo' (國) refers to the lands ruled by a 'Zhuhou' (諸侯). 'Jia' (家) refers to lands ruled by a 'Daifu' (大夫). The 'guo' being bigger estates or states and 'jia', being the smaller ones. 'Jia' also means family but not in this context.

Mencius has: "tianxia guojia" (天下國家) or in translation "the small and big states under heaven". So 'guojia' just means countries or country. The etymology of "Family Kingdom" is incorrect.