Market

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Age of Empires I

• Age: Tool Age

• Pre-requisites: Town Center, Granary

• Cost: 150 Wood

• Hit Points: 350

Upgrades

• Researching Architecture increases the hit points and decreases the construction time of this building.

Summary

• Available Units

The Market allows you to build the Farm

It also allows the research of the following:

• Domestication
• Wood-Working
• Gold Mining
• Stone Mining
• Artisanship
• Wheel
• Plough
• Craftsmanship
• Siegecraft
• Coinage
• Irrigation

See AoE Technologies for more information.

• Historical Context

"The specialization made possible by the development of agriculture created the need for a place where craftsmen could meet to barter their wares for those of others and for food. The market in each town and village was the place where barter and exchange took place. The development of the market marked the change from the small hunting/foraging group that shared its harvest to the much more complex economy that rose with the rise of towns and cities. Specialization resulted in efficiencies of scale and greater overall production, but the market was needed to allocate the community’s production fairly among the food providers and specialists. The profit motive spurred innovation to increase production. The potter, for example, looked for ways to make more and better pots for the same effort to increase the amount of food that he could obtain by trading pots."

[Quoted from Age of Empires Help File]