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The Black Sea Colonies bring a rich new gameplay flavour to ROME II through their unique traits, battlefield units and buildings, and hybrid unit-rosters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlack Sea Colonies Cultural traits:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreek Knowledge: +5% to research rate \u003cbr\u003eFar from Home: +2 cultural conversion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003eCimmeria\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBackground:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cimmerian Bosporus has been fought over for its resources and strategic importance for millennia. The adventurous Greeks of Miletus, in Asia Minor, formed several colonies around the Black Sea coast during the 6th and 7th centuries BC in order to exploit its resources for trade with the wider Greek world. By the beginning of the 5th century BC their government had gravitated from classical Greek democracy to control by a single family. The current ruler, Satyrus, conquered nearby Greek cities, heralding the birth of the Cimmerian Kingdom, and a dynasty of rulers that endures to this day. 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An ambitious lieutenant named Philetaerus acquired control over the fortress city and led Pergamon into a new golden age of culture and learning, building an impressive acropolis and a temple to Pergamon’s patron goddess, Athena. Not yet a kingdom in the truest sense, the time is right for expansion beyond its current borders.  There are also new threats to be faced from Galatia, the duplicitous Pontus and Cappadocia. 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